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Materials:
- 1/2 package
each: (makes about 4 flags!) Sculpey III or Premo! Sculpey polymer
clay
- Red 083
or Cadmium RedHue
5382
- White 001
or White 5001
- Blue 063
or Ultramarine Blue 5562
- Pasta machine
(artist used an ATLAS brand)
- Sculpey Super
Slicer clay blade or tissue blade for cutting cane slices
- Kemper star
cutter: size of choice
- Kemper square
cutter size of choice
- Oven set to
bake reliably at 275 degrees Fahrenheit
- Clean old
baking pan, cookie pan, or doubled foil sheet, lined with index
cards
- Pin back
- Super glue
Directions:
- Run 1/2 piece
of red and 1/2 piece of white clay separately through the number
2 setting of an Atlas pasta machine several times to condition the
clay. When rolling through the last time, roll into an elongated
rectangle. Stack the white on top of the red clay, and use a small
brayer to roll the clay stack eliminating any bubbles.
- Trim the clay
stack with the clay blade until you have a long rectangle.
- Cut the rectangle
in half width-ways, and stack them on top of one another, creating
a thick slab of red and white striped clay. Repeat the process,
and trim any uneven edges with the clay blade. Slice a 1/4 inch
thick piece of one of the short ends of the stacked slab.
- Notch one
short end into an inverted "V" shape using the clay blade.
- Thin a piece
of blue clay on setting number 5 on the Atlas pasta machine. Use
the square Kemper cutter to cut a piece from the blue clay.
- Press the
blue diamond on top of the red and white striped ribbon.
- Use the clay
blade to trim the top edges even with the blue diamond.
- Thin a piece
of white clay to setting 6. Use the star Kemper cutter to cut a
single star. Press it in the center of the blue diamond.
- If desired,
add a backing piece of either red or blue clay (flattened in Atlas
at setting 5). Cut around the banner shape with clay tool approximately
1/8 inch to the outside. Make several if you wish, and bake on the
baking sheet at 275 for 30 minutes, remove to cool, add pin back
using super glue.
For Old Glory
Ribbon Pin:
Follow all
directions above, except:
- Cut two thin
ribbons of the red and white striped clay by dividing them in half
lengthwise. Stack one of the ribbons on top of the other, press
to adhere the two ribbons of clay well together.
- Notch each
end of the two ribbons using the pointed end of the square Kemper
tool.
- Mount on blue
or red backing. Bake as directed above, add pin back once cooled
using super glue.
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