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How to make a vase with a seashell design

How to make a vase with a seashell design

 

Summer is the time for beautiful sea souvenirs and decorations made of seashells. In the following lines, we offer you an idea how to make a beautiful polymer clay vase with an exquisite seashell design.

 

Required materials

Staedtler Fimo Modeling Tools

FIMO polymer clay SOFT 56g - sahara

FIMO polymer clay SOFT 56g - white

 

Two blocks of FIMO polymer clay are required for the design we offer you. If you want the vase to have a color gradient, choose two desired colors of your choice - for example, white and desert colors.

 

 

To make the color transition, cut half a block of each color of polymer clay you will be working with and roll with an acrylic rolling pin into a piece about 3mm thick. Cut into triangular pieces. Then place the triangles of the two colors next to each other so that you form a rectangle again. Fold the clay so that the corresponding colors touch each other and roll again. Fold and roll until you achieve a smooth transition between shades. Print a seashell design and cut from the paper - this will be your template to shape the vase. Place on the already rolled clay and cut along the contour with a model knife.

 

 

After you have removed the excess clay, repeat the contours of the seashell with a professional clay tool - as a last resort, a toothpick, forming the relief of the seashell with light pressure. Remove the paper template. Sculpt the relief of the clam shell with a little more pressure on the tool. Repeat the same steps on the second sheet of rolled polymer clay.

 

 

Rinse and clean a regular glass jar well. Carefully place the two clamshells parallel to each other around the glass. Press the two ends of the clam together. Harden your mussel vase in the home oven at a temperature of 110 degrees for half an hour.

 

 

Let everything cool well. You can now fill your vase with beautiful flowers.

 

 

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