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Back when I started I got into clay to make beads so stringing my tiles was just a matter of course. I made lots of notes for the swatches at the time but the formulas have all changed in the 20ish years since then so now I'd say they're more approximate. I have strings with larger, flatter, tiles for with their formulas written on them as well but the fun long strings are my favourite.

@@Tooaquarius Oh i also have color chips for those color recipes. I have the 20mm square pieces that are #2 pasta machine thickness, and on the backs i'll carve the names i give them then paint white around the words on the back and get black paint in the recesses of the carves because i found out that sticker labels are a no for polymer clay (the brand i use don't want to stick also some writing inks transfers to polymer clay when they touch, it's probably better to paint anyway). I'm also going to gloss varnish the backs to see what those colors look like with gloss varnish. Then while making those i also cut a much smaller piece from that color batch. The tinier ones won't be labeled i'm just going to dump them all in containers as a color randomizer for when i want to mix and match colors for spontaneous colored projects. I recently started working on translucent mix recipes too, like how much of a color goes into translucent clays, specifically colored polymer clay (i haven't used anything like alcohol inks yet), and each batch i also have 3 different thicknesses being #9,#3, and #1 and an extra ball-ish shaped one to see what those clays may look like if i made thicker rounder projects, those will also be on strings. I'm probably going to repeat the translucent color mixes again with another brand besides just Premo, like Pardo since it's one of the most translucent clays but since i mainly use Premo brand i want to do both. I may one day do the same with other accent clays like golds or silvers but since i haven't used them in any project, their recipe mixes are irrelevant right now. I'm not going to make a whole rainbow of colors though, i only use one color mixed with the accent clays, the color I've settle on for those is turquoise since it's a medium dark clay and has both blue and yellow in it.

Oh that sounds like fun! Once I went 'pro' with my clay I do so much less experimenting - I still do swatches and colour chips but not like the first few years.

@@Tooaquarius I don't really have much of a choice, the daylight wont work with me and i'm often indecisive with how much of any color i'm adding into my mixes thinking it's too juvenile of a color or too dusky grey, i'm over it, now i just want lines and lines of colors to choose from like when painters look at pantone colors in paint stores, then i can go in knowing what i want. When they eventually discontinue the colors i'll just look around for info or wing remaking those colors in premo, i'm good at replicating colors i just struggle with daytime lighting. As for the translucent, it's completely necessary because for some reason when i go in blind i always mix it wrong, most times on my own i make it too opaque, and i can't find any decent online tutorials showing how to mix certain amounts of opaque color clays into translucent clays, it's all alcohol inks and even those aren't that great of tutorials in my opinion because they usually have massive sheets of clay, i like to use how much i know i'll need per project and store the extras in plastic sheets flat in folders because i don't buy huge batches of clays, only certain colors i buy in bulk. Also the translucent tutorials also don't show anything on different thicknesses per amount of mix racio.

I love the plant too, went out and got myself one after seeing how the cane worked lol. I'm fine just having less free time to sit down and edit videos with other work commitments! Which means uploading kinda infrequently, sigh.

@@Tooaquarius I totally understand that! 😂

I use either an Atlas 150, older style one or a newer Atlas 150 'wellness' machine but the settings are similar - 0 or 1 are thickest setting.

Thanks! I have been at this for a while!

It came together in the end! I hope you have some fun with it!

Thanks!

Yeah I felt that way too! I should have probably done a few ahead instead of jumping right into filming. The next time I do it will probably be better yet!

Thanks :) I've been doing it so long that at least some designs seem pretty straightforward by this point

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it's my favourite rose colour combo!

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ha ha! i'm happy to hear it! Every video is a learning experience over here, too.

Thanks :) Flowers and leaves are some of the more forgiving canes to do!

Thank you! 😊

Thanks so much :)

Probably some good advice there!

Happy to hear it because I am stuck on them 😊

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These are always some of my favourites for shows!

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It's proportional but usually when I do this cane I go with one 2oz/56g pack of white clay to a similar amount of very light grey. If you don't need that large of a cane - it makes a lot of baseball - reduce by half across the board and make your red lines proportionately thinner..

Thank you so much!

Thank you!! 😊

he he... everyone's welcome to drop by the studio and grab a few handfuls but mailing from rural Canada is a pain!

@@Tooaquarius IKR especially with the rates. Thank God for the "if it fits, it ships" boxes😁

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Thanks so much 😊