If you do any amount of polymer clay… you end up with oodles of scrap clay. And scrap clay is useful for a ton of projects. Sometimes, though, you just want more clay to use and that’s what spurred my previous week’s project in my studio: to sort and turn my scrap clay stash back into good sheets of clay.
This project was a lot of grunt work for my studio assistant and I. You could do a smaller version of this by just picking a few blues and doing those, for example.
We’ve already turned a lot of that pile of fabulous new clay back into projects (and more scraps). Many of the colours are fabulous tones of favourite clay colours – there’s a whole range of blue-greens in the photo because I use a lot of turquoise and teal in my work – and it’s so useful to have these. A con is that almost all of the colours end up with a little sparkle or glitter since piles of mica containing clay get mixed into clay without those.
You can see other times I’ve blogged about scrap clay storage and sorting here and here.