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Tutorial: Octopus Ornament

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This project uses air dry clay – and she comments not to use oven bake – like Fimo Air. You absolutely COULD use oven bake clay to make this ornament if you were using a glass ornament or an oven safe plastic one. I’ve done hundreds of clay covered ornaments and quite a few have been sculpted, covered critter ones although no octopus yet.

For a slightly lighter weight polymer clay version you could use Soufflé or pluffy or any of the other lower density clays.

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  1. Thanks for your insights on baking a clay covered ornament. I just assumed that since I was covering the hole at the top it would crack. I added an update to the tutorial with your notes. Cheers!

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