Alright… I’ve been making ornaments for months and just did my first holiday show of the season so that’s all I can plead when I put out a link to a fun holiday tutorial in October. This tutorial from Rachel of Lines Across is for little cursive candy cane letters. She uses the perfect, simple colours of candy canes to make package decorations and ornaments.
A nice gloss coating
gives them a fabulous candy gleam. You could add a tiny thin string of green to your mix (candy canes here often have red white and green). And, if you’d like a minty scent add a little mint extract or mint essential oil to your clay as you condition it. A tiny amount is all it needs. Both will soften your clay so take that into account. The clay with extract will firm back up as it evaporates but the clay with oil will stay soft until baking so bake it up soon after making it. The scent wears off eventually but it’s a nice fun touch.
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