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Bead Rollers for the Bead Maker in You

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Jan 162012

If you want to express the artist in you and have not found the medium to do so, you may try bead making. At Poly-Tools online store, they sell everything you need to get started. Their products include primary bead rollers, pro bead rollers, tube bead and teardrop bead rollers, clay blades, clay cutters, and other polymer clay craft supplies. To guide you as you start, they also have online tutorials you can avail.

Poly-Tools offer a number of bead rollers to help you form consistent shapes and sizes of polymer clay beads as you begin the process of bead making. Their tools will help you make attractive beads quickly as well. These bead rollers will shape round, oval, bi-cone, tube, teardrop beads and many more!

One featured product is the Pro Bead Roller. This set rolls five small round beads ranging from four millimeter to eight millimeters in diameter. Many individual who are into jewelry designs use these bead sizes oftentimes. Beads can be pierced through while they are still in the roller. Pins are also available at Poly Tools. You can toss the Pro Bead Rack to your cart as well to hold the bead piercing pins for curing or finish coating the beads. This is a must have for those serious bead makers.

At poly-tools.com, polymer clay is the clay they primarily used. But to those bead makers who have a different clay preference, the good news is that any clay mediums can be used successfully with their bead rollers. They have your satisfaction in mind as they are making their products.

Create Polymer Clay Designs with Safety

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Nov 082011

Generally, all art forms are fun to do because they all give us an outlet to express what we feel and think about in a non verbal way. It is up to each of us to choose the medium we prefer in expressing our artistic talents. Sculpting is in fact one of the popular forms of art chosen by people and this is probably the reason why creating jewelries out of polymer clay has become popular as well.

If you are among those who want to try this as a hobby, it will be helpful for you to know how to use this clay safely:

* Do not use your kitchen tables and counters. Use a special table for you to create your polymer clay designs and keep all types of food away from them at all times.

* There are kitchen tools which are used in creating polymer jewelries, like knives and spatulas. Use separate tools for your art and for cooking. To be safe, put labels on them so they are easily recognizable in case they are accidentally mixed with your kitchen utensils.

* Just like your kitchen tools, the oven or other heating machines you are to use for your polymer clay are never again to be used to heat or cook your food.

* Position the oven in a well ventilated space. To prevent the release of toxic fumes into the air, be on monitor during firing and be sure not to let the heat to go above 300 degrees Fahrenheit.

* Wash your hands thoroughly when done. Since plain soap and water is not enough to completely remove polymer clay from the skin, use the aid of a pumice stone. You may also try using hand creams, or even cooking oil, to remove sticking clay materials from your hands.

* It is best not to allow children play with it unless they are old enough to fully understand and follow these safety guidelines.