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Vol-073-1: Video #526: Introduction: In this 6 part video tutorial series, you will learn how to create my original Happy Camper Polymer Clay Cane design. Included are many tips, tricks and techniques that you can can use to create this cool cane in the colors and style I suggest, or your own, to make truly one-of-a-kind polymer clay projects. These adorable and funky looking complex canes, can be used to create cute bracelets, earrings, pendants, and other jewelry pieces. Plus the design is great for making crafty fridge magnets and buttons too. This project will appeal to all ages, as it makes you smile, dreaming about the happy times, hitting the road in a cute little camper.
Vol-073-2: Video #527: Polka Dot Cane: In this video, I demonstrate how to make a retro looking polka dot cane using an extruder tool and one of the disks from Cynthia Tinapple’s new extruder disk set. I also show you how to make the polka dot cane by hand, just in case you aren’t able to pick up Cynthia’s new product at this time. The polka dot pattern is not only a great design element for today’s Happy camper cane, but it also works with many other jewelry projects as well. Of course if you prefer to not have a polka dot section on your Happy Camper Cane… that is totally up to you!
Vol-073-3: Video #528: Planning Building Trailer Design: In this video, you will use the polka dot cane from the second video to create the top portion of your trailer design. I will show you how to tweak your design; How to add an element such as a pinstripe; How to add the bottom section; and How to map out the rest of your cane design. These techniques can be used in future canes of your own design, and can be adapted to your own personal taste. Once you have made this cane once, you will understand how all complex cane patterns are just a series of parts… much like putting together the pieces of a puzzle.
Vol-073-4: Video #529: Cutting Out The Window And Door: In this lesson, you will learn some unique techniques for spacing the components of your cane design, such as the window and door. The tips and techniques you learn here can be transferred to other cane projects that you may create in the future. I will show you how the careful removal of excess clay is critical to avoiding distortion and broken or wiggly lines in your cane design. Things that are not that noticeable before reduction of the cane, can look very off when compressed smaller. It’s all in the details!
Vol-073-5: Video #530: Window Door Tire Doorknob: In this video, you will learn about important information about the proper way to make and add several of the smaller cane elements that need to be incorporated into the main design of your cane (i.e. the windows, door, tire and doorknob elements). Although the overall cane project may seem complex, once broken down into it’s individual components, you will find that the parts are quite simple to make. There are some cool tricks to getting the pieces to all fit together properly that I think you will really appreciate.
Vol-073-6: Video #531: Completing The Cane: In this video, the cane really starts to come together! The tire and doorknob are added, and the overall cane is wrapped and reduced to a usable size. I will give you pointers for reducing the cane successfully, but for more in depth info you can refer to this Free Video Tutorial: Reducing Square Polymer Clay Canes. You can use this cane for making tons of funking polymer clay projects, such as earring, pendants, beads, bracelets, buttons, magnets and so much more. This tutorial is a technique tutorial and not a project one. So if you need more help with how to actually use your Happy Camper Cane, do a search here on my Polymer Clay Tutor blog for more info about baking, sanding, polishing and creating jewelry projects. I think you are going to love making this adorable Happy Camper Cane and will be itching to create all kinds of cute trailer designs of your own, once you’re done making this cutie!
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1-A: Blue Dragonfly 2-A: Twilight 3-A: Tilled Earth 4-A: Rushes . . . . |
Blue Dragonfly is the Soft purple blue found in the tail of this magnificent creature. Twilight is the soft purple shade on the tail and the color of the sky as it turns from day to night. Tilled Earth is the rich warm brown on the head of the dragonfly, and the color of the freshly tilled soil of the garden he flies through in the evening. And Rushes is a soft greenish tan found on the insects thorax… so similar to the rushes that grow along the ponds edge.
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Customer Reviews: Happy Camper Cane (6 Videos):
- This bracelet looks so pretty and fun to wear, how could you not feel like a “Happy Camper” ! I really enjoy your tutorials, Thanks so much. ~Liz-A
- Wow – Cindy, you did such a wonderful job showing how to cut sections apart. That is an important part of a good cane. We camped with our 3 kids, and 3 of their friends. Yep, six kids. We did that for years. What fun. A pickup camper, with a small catamaran strapped to the top. We looked like we were invading the campsite. LOL. But we All had a great ole time. The grown kids still talk about out trips!! What a fun reminder this can will be!! TY for all your time and effort !!! Grin… ~Patt-W
- Wow! This is cute. It so reminds me of our trailer when I was young. We took it out camping only once! My mom thought it was too much work with four kids and not enough “fun” for her! So, my dad sold it :( Now, maybe a little campfire cane to go with it!! :) ~Catalina-L
- So many memories of going camping as a little kid came rushing back with this tutorial – and for that I thank you guys. Totally happy moment happening right now! just ordered my very own polka dot die set from Cynthia Tinapple’s site. ~Tante-S
- What an adorable concept for a cane! We lived just down the road from a major campsite in the sixties, and enjoyed watching all manners and shapes of campers cruising down Route 1 to the site. They all made me smile then, and watching the instructions and variations kept a big grin on my face through the whole tute. Predict that objects made from this cane will be a big seller this summer. It screams vintage. Cannot wait to try it. Thank you Cindy and Doug for bringing such a happy memory back into my life! ~Jocelyn-C
- Cindy, this is a darling cane for a camper. It gives one a good idea as to how these types are taken apart and put back together. An excellent beginning project for anyone who wants to learn this process including me. ~DixieAnn-S
- I really enjoyed the happy camper lesson! Good to see such a complex cane done. LOVED how you made the polka dot cane with the new extruder disks! I had been wondering about a way to make a dot cane and this is way better than anything I’d come up with! ~Julia-G
- Thank you so much Cindy for showing us Cynthia’s extruder discs. I’m especially delighted with the tiny square as I’d had trouble reducing the dog’s tooth cane without distorting. I think I wrote to you about this just a few weeks ago saying how a tiny square would be a real boon and here you are demonstrating it! I shall be ordering it straight away! Can I also thank you and Doug for a fantastic website, with so much information at our finger tips, lists of categories, search functions and so much more! It’s just incredible. As a website writer myself I am in awe. ~Marion-R
- Hi there Cindy, I wanted to say how much I truly enjoy your video series, they’re wonderful, you explain everything so well and have such a beautiful speaking voice and your husband’s great filming ability, well, let’s just say that you two make a very successful team! I have been working with polymer clay for a very long time, I’ve taken a lot of classes and have a fully equipped studio, which I love, I know most methods, but like to brush up and love your tutorials! I am excited about the “Happy camper” video that is so cute! I look forward to a lovely, long exchange between us! It’s going to be just great! Be well. ~Joy-D
- Cindy you have a way of explaining things that have helped me understand. Thank you for that. I have searched the web over and you have been my most favorite to go to! ~Stephanie-S
- Hi Cindy. Just wanted to say thank you for the wonderful video tutorials. I have been glued to my computer for the last few days after becoming a member and have been able to get so many wonderful tutorials. My only problem is that I can’t buy them all right now!!! It is very difficult to decide which ones to get now and which ones to wait on. At any rate, thank you again for being such a generous teacher and sharing your fabulous ideas with us. I am very grateful to have found your web site and have already learned so much from your videos. Thanks again. A very happy camper… LOL. ~Pat-H
- Wow that is so cool! Impressive! ~Sandra-J
- I am very excited about these new disks and how Cynthia Tinapple designed them to work with each other to produce some wonderful designs. Thank you so much for showing us all the possibilities with this new set, I can’t wait to get mine and try them out. ~DixieAnn-S
- Hi Cindy, I am at a loss of words to let you know that I just love your tutorials and wish I could meet you in person some day… I am unable to articulate, but would want to tell you that your tutorials are just superb and lucid, and very easy to understand, even for a beginner like me. I wish you could come to Mumbai (India) and share your great work with art and craft lovers here. Amen! ~Nadini-N
- Hi Team Lietz! I had to come (belatedly) comment on this tutorial. These pieces are absolutely beautiful! Another gem of a design you’ve given us. I was in the middle of moving half way across the country back in May and am catching up on a lot I missed. Again, oh the possibilities!! ~Dawn-B
Customer Reviews: Dragon Fly A-Series Color Palette (4 Recipe Cards):
- More beautiful colors, Cindy. Looking forward to working with them. Nature is truly awesome and it is so wonderful to have you tuned in and sharing all the splendor. Thanks. ~Joyce-M
- Hi I have been doing polymer clay for awhile now and have seen a few color charts but I think your recipes are the best I have seen. Not only the yellows, green and blues of this article but also the purples you had June 14th. I found that really useful as I was doing violets at the time. I was having a hard time figuring out how to get the purple I wanted and then I seen your blog. A friend of mine had sent me the link to your videos and I have enjoyed every one of them so far. Thanks for being such a great person. ~Linda-G
- I am very new to polymer clay and one of the scariest things to me was mixing my own colors. Your recipes have really spelled it out for me… and makes me less intimidated to try it, now I have the gusto to give it a go and I am really enthused about it. My husband wants to know if you give cooking lessons too… since I am so excited about clay recipes now, he wants me to be this excited about being in the kitchen. Hugs. ~Lisa-G
- Thank you very much for the recipes. I save them in a special folder for inspiration. I love experimenting with colors and also making flower canes. These color recipes help me to get started. ~Marijke
- Color mixing is one of my biggest challenges. Your recipes are fantastic and I print them all out and keep them in a binder for future reference. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and experience. Hugs. ~Sue-C
- I’m new at polymer clay but after encouragement from Cindy on my blog I got up enough courage to start playing. Color has been fascinating for me. After doing some color mixing experiments that went horribly wrong, I am excited to start using the color recipe cards! ~Judith-R
- I love how you take inspiration for color palettes from your environment! It’s so much more fun than just looking at color swatches. ~Karen-B
- Your recipes for different colors are priceless and such a time saver. I took index cards, printed the color and recipe on them then glued a baked sample on the card. Now when I need that just so color I can just find it on my index card and whip it up with out the waste and mistakes of finding just what one I need. Fantastic!! Thanks. ~Yvonne-B
- Thanks for posting some recipes for all of us to share. For those of use who really don’t have an easy time figuring out how to arrive at just the right color yet, these recipes are a real helper! ~Cynister
- Though I am literally brand new at the P.C. bead making, I have already gotten a ‘different eye’ in my surroundings for looking at color. I was actually in my bathroom the other day, for my morning sit down and noticed my shower curtain. It is in rich browns, golds and tans. I’m thinking what great colors and textures it would be use to as a polymer clay tube bead. Also, I got a catalog from a well known flower company and just looking through it, at the color spectrum available in nature, I see ‘treasure’ now in even my junk mail! Thanks for helping me to be inspired with the idea of color in nature, mail and yes, even my bathroom curtain. ~Karen-O
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