Starting in Polymer Clay: Techniques, Tools & Projects

By Monica Resta

Here is all a crafter needs to know to get started with this marvelous material, from cutting it to decorating it to heating it safely. Fashion everything from jewelry to practical housewares to stunning decorative items and Christmas ornaments. "[A] good addition to crafts collections."- Library Journal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402709552
• ISBN13: 9781402709555
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.7" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

A fun book for beginners

I have many PC books, but I keep going back to this one because it's so much fun. Monica has many great ideas and the projects are simple and appealing, but I've deducted a star because her instructions for making a mold didn't work very well, and because her cane instructions could be better. She instructs you to fill in around the central figure of a cane with lots of little logs of PC. If you do that, you'll wind up with points coming out of your figure where the logs meet. It's better to wrap the figure first with a sheet of the background color, then fill in -- and why all those annoying little logs? Little things like that keep this book from being the best one out there for beginners, but the "fun" factor is definitely here, and I find inspiration just browsing through the pictures.