Sunday, January 8, 2012

craft fail: polymer clay bowl

It seemed simple enough, make a little polymer clay bowl.  They looked too cute in this blog post.  I rolled out my clay and cut a circle.  Stamped the word "change" for a change dish for my honey.  I found the perfect aluminum steel bowl to shape it on.  I decided to cook the clay on top of the bowl so it didn't lose its shape.

It seemed to smell a little funny while it was baking, but this was the first time I'd cooked clay in my new craft room.  Maybe the ventilation was different.  I didn't really think anything of it.  Until my bowl came out looking like this...



Yep, I burnt my first piece of clay.  The bowl was too tall and my clay was touching the top of the toaster oven.  I didn't realize it because the toaster oven was on the floor at the time (mid craft room move) and I just shoved my bowl in without looking.

By the way...burnt clay is really really stinky.

3 comments:

Full Circle Creations said...

Oh no...I beat it does smell stinky. It looked cute from the front. I hope the next one turns out for you.

Holly

Wendy said...

Oh no! Burnt clay is also toxic so I hope you didn't breathe in too much of it? You must have a very different kind of toaster oven to the ones we get over here - there's no way I could fit a bowl in mine, and it'd have to go in sideways.

Elsa said...

What about using a molded piece of tin foil? That might work. Great idea tho!

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