You don’t need to use Bake and Bond or any of the liquids if you are adhering to metal jewelry findings such as ear posts or pin bars. You can use silicone glue like E-6000 or Goop to glue baked polymer directly to metal. Likewise, you don’t always need to use liquid clay to adhere unbaked to baked polymer clays, but you can for added security. Each application can be quite unique and through experience you can figure out which way is best. If you are adhering baked liquid clay to unbaked polymer clay, no additional liquid is needed because baked liquid pieces love to stick to unbaked oven bake clays.

It is a matter of preference :)

Yes! You can bake the silicone mold loaded with Liquid Sculpey or oven bake clays right in your home oven. www.sculpey.com/sculpey-silicone-bakeable-mold-whimsy this is a link to be able to purchase it directly from Sculpey.

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The oven temperature to bake the clay is very low, lower than baking cookies! It's not hot enough to catch the paper on fire.

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It could be that your clay/room is a bit warm. You could try cooling it if you like, or make sure you have a nice smooth surface as well, like glass or tile.

It may depend on what kind of clay you are using. I understand that some of the off-brands are much more brittle when baked. It also may depend on how thick your clay is, and how much you are trying to bend it. I work with Premo, and it maintains some flexibility after baking, but if you really try bending it a lot, it's still going to snap. I've seen demonstrations that leather-effect clay maintains more flexibility after baking, and there are clays that are specifically designed to be flexible, like Sculpey Bake & Bend. So if the project you are doing needs to be flexible, I'd select a clay specifically made for that.

@@DianeGraft hi there. I am using Premo, same as you. To be clear, I don't need my creations to bend. I was only bending to see if they would snap. I am going to be selling these so I don't want them breaking on customers. When attempting to bend, there is zero bend, it just instantly snaps and snaps very easily. I am making little tiki men that are about an inch and a half long, half an inch wide. His feet area is about 1/4 thick but his torso and head are about 3/8 thick. I tried the recommended baking time of about 20 min, then 30, then and hour. I was diligently watching the thermometer inside and it always stayed between 260 to 280.... the oven did fluctuate quote a bit and I had to turn the dial up and down to accommodate the change.

@@Kelly-lo6cz At 3/8 inch thick, I would not expect a lot of flexibility. You'd find more of that in thinner pieces. I would definitely bake them for a full hour at that thickness. and then cool them all the way before testing. If they are for jewelry, I'd test wear some of the pieces, to see how they hold up under normal wear and tear. I have not found Premo to be especially fragile, but perhaps you should test Fimo or Cernit to see if they work out better for you.

@@DianeGraft they will be glued onto a hair flower to add a little extra ornament. Do you think they need to be baked for even longer than an hour? And are they supposed to be able to be broken easily at that thickness? Thanks again

@@Kelly-lo6cz Sounds like they won't be getting that much wear and tear for that use. At 3/8" thick, they shouldn't flex or break easily. I'm wearing a piece now that's about 1/8" think, and it doesn't bend at all. (It's also been resined, which probably makes a difference.) The Premo package says to bake 1/2 hour for each quarter-inch thickness, and I'll sometimes double that, so baking for more than an hour should help. But also make sure that your pieces are all the way cool before you test them, because I've found that pieces can be somewhat brittle right out of the oven.