Starlight Mints and Lemon Citrus Canes Tutorial

Supplies:
-Red polymer clay (Yellow for Lemons, Orange for Oranges, Lime green for Limes)
-White polymer clay
-Gloss sealer
-Paint brush
-Pasta Machine or something to evenly flatten clay
-Blade


How to Make a Starlight Mint Cane.

1. Knead your red and white clays.
2. Make a 1/4 inch disc of your red clay.
3. Put your white clay through the pasta machine to get a thin white slab.
4. Turn the red disc on its side on top of the thin whate slab.
Align one side as evenly as possible, Cut the excess white clay away from the width of
the red disc.
5. Remove the red disc from on top the white clay. Cut the red disc in half.
6. Place the cut side face down on top of the white slab.
Trim ends of excess white clay.


7. Sandwich the other half of the red disc together with the red and white pieces.
8. Cut the red and sandwich in half, the other other direction. and repeat Step 4.
Until you have a spoke wheel of red and white.
9. Ok- one more time, get some white clay, give it a quick pass through
the pasta machine on a thin setting.
10. Place the side of your red and white disc on top of the white slab.
Trim away any excess white.
11. Roll the thin white around the wheel, when the ends meet, trim with your blade.
12. Put red through the pasta machine and get a nice thin red slab.
13. Again put your wheel on its side on top of the slab. trim away excess thin red slab.
14. Roll the thin red slab around the wheel. When the ends meet, trim with your blade.

15. Gently push the completed wheel to make sure all its insides are sticking together.
16. Start rolling this wheel into one awesome snake!
17. Oh no! please don't be discouraged if the ends look like a mess.
Cut your ends -the good stuff is hiding in there- I promise!


18. Great! you found the goodies hiding in there.
Now you can start slicing your starlight mints from the cane.
19. Bake according to you clay brand's directions.
20. Allow the clay to cool - paint with gloss.

Tip: This cane takes a little bit of practice. But hang in there.
Canes will come to be an important part of making polymer clay embellishments.
Try using some oddball clay leftovers for interesting color schemes.
Opalescent glitter looks AMAZING on this pattern too!