4 Color Mica Mokume Gane - Polymer Clay Central

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Supplies:

• 4 Different Colors of Polymer Clay (2 Light Colors, 2 Dark Colors)
• Pasta Machine
• Tissue Blade
• Shade Tex Texture Sheet
• Misting Bottle of Water

Step 1:Roll out all 4 colors of clay on the thickest setting of the pasta machine. Stack one of your light colored clays and one of your dark colored clays and run them through the pasta machine on the thickest setting.

Step 2:Stack the other light colored clay on top of the left over dark colored clay and run them through the pasta machine, again on the thickest setting.

Step 3: Place the first stack on top of the second stack so the the layers go light, dark, light, dark. You will have 4 layers of clay in this sheet. Run this combined stack through the pasta machine on the thickest setting.

Step 4: Cut the combined sheet in half, and then stack the two halves. You will now have 8 layers of clay in this stack. Run this stack through the pasta machine on the thickest setting.

Step 5: Cut the sheet in half again, and stack. You now have 16 layers of clay in the sheet. Run through pasta machine on the thickest setting.

Step 6: Mist your texture sheet with water, and put your layered sheet of clay on it.

Step 7: Run the texture sheet and clay through the pasta machine on the thickest setting. Let the textured clay rest for a while before moving on to the next step.

Step 8: Using a very sharp tissue blade, begin to slice off the raised bumps from the textured sheet of clay. Slightly curving your blade helps, and you can brush off those pesky little pieces of clay from the sheet with your fingertip. Don't slice too deeply!!