I have a painted and sealed piece I want to add clay too, is it safe? I used a spray on acrylic sealer

I was working on this figure with long eyelashes. I normally work with super sculpey, but I used cosclay for the eyelashes because I figured the sculpey would be too brittle when it was that thin. But after I'd baked it, I wiggled one of the lashes too much and it broke off.

On previous projects I'd used sheets of styrene, but it's a bit of a hassle cutting such little pieces, and I can't shape them as precisely as I'd like too.

I wondering if there's a very flexible clay I could use for very small, thin details like this, or perhaps another material that would suit it better. These lashes are only about 1mm thick so if I used wires under the clay I'd need extremely thin ones.

If you have a question for me go ahead and ask.

Thanks in advance.

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Has anyone used an air fryer/baker to bake their clays? I don’t have access to an oven and I’m not personally over the moon for air dry clays. Was wondering if this is at all possible.

Silly question I know. I put in the clay at 10 C too low, i noticed after 10 minutes and turned it up to the higher, intended temp. Will it cure properly or did I mess up some internal chemistry stuff that will forever make it underbaked without being noticeable from the outside?

I've been trying to use some new clay cutters to make some Minnie mouse head earring studs but I've been really struggling on how to get the small bows out of the cutter without squishing them. I've tried using a q-tip to softly but firmly poke them out but either cotton keeps getting stuck in the clay or I make a huge ugly dent in it. Any and all tips are appreciated! I'm still newer to polymer clay and am having a blast (Picture of some of my recently made earrings for attention :))

Part one of my new 3 part figure

I think I might change to hoop findings for these.

Hi all, I'm very new to polymer clay and painting, and did some paint tests today. I tried to lay a white base on baked super sculpey clay, using white acrylic paint and the shown brushes. However the brush stripes are very prominent, and I can hardly cover the clay, this is layer 4 and it's still quite translucent. I tried applying pure paint and also slightly watered down, but both give the same effect.

How should I go about painting clay? I'm aiming for a clean, even look and want to paint a design after laying down a white base.

Hey Guys, iam trying to sculpt Minis for our pen and paper Campagne. One of us hast tamed themselves a bear and i Kind of struggle to get it looking like a bear.😂

Hast Somebody tried this maybe and has some advice?

How it looks?

Beads have letters with Acronym for statement above

I have some old polymer clay. It’s dry and takes a long time to work it. I heard that Sculpey has a clay softener for this.

My main concern is that it’ll bake different and change the texture when sculpting (being too soft and leaving finger prints). I use chalk pastels for colouring before baking so I wonder if it’ll change anything

What are your experiences with Sculpey clay softener?

I‘m a beginner so this might be a dumb question:

What kind of glue do you use? How do you decide if you try modeling it to the "base structure" or just glue it?

Thanks for your help :)

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