Can I make it up as I go along? Can you? Of course! We all can and have fun as we do. This is the Ad Hoc cane, and I had no idea at the start how it was going to turn out. All you have to do is sit back, relax, and watch as I show and talk you through the process. Then create some lovely pieces of your own.

Let me know any designs you’d like me to have a go at, and I’ll see what I can do, just add a comment below.

The music from the video is English Country Garden by Aaron Kenny and is available from the YouTube Free Audio Library.

The veneers for sale, along with other tutorials, are available from my Etsy shop, PolyOriginals https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/PolyOrig...

I also have a video tutorial here http://polyoriginals.thinkific.com/co...

If you like my work, then please do have a look at my website, http://www.fionaabelsmith.co.uk/ and follow me on Facebook   / fiona.abelsmith  , Instagram.   / fionaabelsmith.artist   and TikTok –   / fionaabelsmith  

The British Polymer Clay Guild has a variety of groups who meet around the UK – https://www.bpcg.org.uk

Here is the link to my conditioning Polymer Clay video    • Conditioning Polymer Clay Quickly  s...  
Here is the link to the Skinner Blend Tutorial –    • Basic Skinner Blend Tutorial from Pol...  

The following 2 tutorials show how to put the full/large veneer together Fantastical Kaleidoscopes Video –    • Fantastical Kaleidoscopes from Old Po...   Polymer Clay Bowls with Hexagon Designs Video    • Polymer Clay Bowls with Hexagon Designs  

Polymer Clay is oven baked, always follow the manufacturer’s instructions for the brand of clay you are using. The amounts and colours of clay I use are listed within the video itself, I used FIMO Soft, but all recognised brands of polymer clay will work well for this project.

I used a Pasta Machine dedicated to Polymer Clay use to create blends/thin sheets and condition the clay. My Pasta Machine is an Atlas 180, and it has setting 0 as its thickest and 9 as its thinnest. There is a standard way of calculating the thickness of clay required, by using stacked playing cards. On my machine the thickness are as follows: Setting 0 = 8 playing cards, setting 1 = 7, setting 2 = 6, setting 3 = 5, setting 4 = 4, setting 5 = 3, setting 6 and 7 = 2, setting 8 and 9 = 1 card.
I hope you enjoyed the video, and have fun with these techniques. Thank you so much for watching, and a special thank you to those of you who subscribe, I really appreciate it.