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In this step-by-step tutorial I am going to show you how to make lifelike

polymer clay flowers Snowdrop Beads.
Skill level: beginner to intermediate.
This 9 page tutorial includes:

List of materials and tools needed to finish the project

19 step-by-step instructions from start to finish
Colorful pictures in front of the each step instruction
Useful suggestions

Lets begin!

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MATERIALS AND TOOLS

Polymer Clay, your favorite brand

Ball Modeling Tool
Craft Knife
Tooth Pick
Needle
Sandpaper 180 grit (optional)
Acrylic varnish / Glaze
Brush
Oven

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1. CENTER
Knead the green clay
between your fingers to
soften it and make one tiny
ball

2. Use the base of your

palm and roll the ball into a
teardrop

3. Take a small amount of

white clay and make about
1/8 inch ball

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4. Flatten it

5. Put it on the larger

end of the green
teardrop

6. With a needle tool

make a little hole in the
center of the white part

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7. Slightly widen the hole

8. Take your craft knife

and make tiny cuts
around the center

9. PETALS
Take a small amount of
white clay and make a
small ball (the same size
you made the green
one)

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10. Roll the ball into a

teardrop

11. Slightly flatten it

12. Slightly thin the center

of the petal

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13. It will look like this.

Repeat steps 9-12 and
make more two petals

14. Take the green center

of the flower and attach
first petal on it. Leave a
little green tail

15. Attach more two

petals

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16. Take a needle tool and

make a hole. Do not run
trough straight, slowly roll
the needle out

17. Take a craft knife and

form the green part even

18. Put the flower into the

oven.
Be sure about the right
temperature of your oven.
The built-in thermometers
mostly do not show the
right temperature.
After curing let the flower
cool down completely!

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BAKE FOR
30 min
or according the manufacturers
instructions

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19. With a piece of

sandpaper sand out any
imperfection so the bead
is smooth.
Finish the bead with a
polymer clay friendly
glaze.
Let the bead dry for 24h
after finishing
Congratulations, youve done! Tiny Snowdrop Bead now is ready for
your creative projects.

USEFUL SUGGESTIONS
If you do not have a ball tool, you can make one yourself! Take a
bead (6cm or 8cm) and glue it on a toothpick
Make a Snowdrop bud attach all three petals and after slightly
pinch them together
The oven baking clay is used in this project, but air dry clay will
work too
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No part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any format or by any means without written
permission from the copyright owner.

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