![Garden Blooms Polymer Clay Slab](https://keepsakecrafts.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Garden-Blooms-Polymer-Clay-Slab-inta-black-795x385.jpg)
I was so blessed by the flowers in my garden this past summer, something about the combination of colors and shapes gave me great joy, and I wanted to sculpt it to keep with me always.
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This polymer clay slab is made in a rather different way: first you bake the flowers separately, then arrange them on your background slab.
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You have much more creative freedom doing it this way, as you can arrange, re-arrange and even try out a variety of backgrounds before committing to a design.
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Tools and Materials:
Polymer clay, colors for background, flowers and greens for stems
A few of the colors I used:
- Cernit Translucent
- Premo Orange
- Premo Fuchsia
- Sculpey Soufflé Canary
- Embossing powders, optional
- Kemper 3/16 inch cutter set
- Deli paper
- Clay blade
- Bent needle tool
- Acrylic roller and/or pasta machine
- Toothpick
- Craft knife
- Clay shape cutters or templates
- Acrylic block
- Single edge razor blade
- Dotting tools, 1mm and similar
- Ceramic tiles
- Liquid clay
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Helpful links:
- Sculpted Polymer Clay Flowers playlist
- How to Make a Polymer Clay Skinner Blend
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- More of my tutorials available in my Etsy shop
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Watch the Garden Blooms Polymer Clay Slab video on YouTube.