Ten Tips for getting the best results when baking your clay creations!
- It’s safe to bake your polymer clay in your home oven or toaster oven!
- Always use an oven thermometer when baking polymer clay.
- Always pre-heat your oven prior to baking polymer clay.
- To keep the back of your clay from being shiny, bake on a piece of copy paper or an index card.
- Baking surfaces include metal plans, glass, ceramic tiles, index cards & batting.
- To prevent brown spots from oven spikes, tent your work with aluminum foil pans or an index card.
- To avoid flat spots on beads, bake them on quilt batting or a bead baking rack.
- You CAN bake your polymer clay more than once! This is a common practice for intricate pieces. You can attach raw clay to baked clay and bake again!
- NEVER microwave your polymer clay.
- Always bake polymer clay at the temperature and time recommended on the packaging. If you are mixing two brands of clay, use the higher time and temperature of the two.
