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Published: 2007-06-17 00:07:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 33605; Favourites: 460; Downloads: 449
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Here's how I color my clays since I only buy beige, white, and translucent. Why do I do that? It saves me monies because I hate spending the dough on a deep royal purple, only to use about as much as it takes to make one teeny tiny grape.
I'm cheap, but not lazy. xP lol
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I never would have thought of this technique! Thanks for sharing!
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I totally feel you one wasting that money. I made the mistake of buying terra cotta colored clay cause it was the cheapest at the time and i didnt have much money 
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really thank you, because my budget is not so high
xx from the netherlands
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Wow ty! I was going to buy some color clay, but I have sculpey white already, and pastels...just never thought of mixing them... Would be much easier than painting them after baking!! You have made my life easier lol! <3
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This was very helpful. I'm thinking of starting this and I was wondering what to buy in terms of colours. This just saved me loads of trial and error and money!
Thank you very much!
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Hey, I used your tutorial and it's awesome~~!! 
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You can buy them at any craft or art store.
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I'm going to be starting up making clay charms, and this has seriously just saved me $50 in clays alone. This is a brilliant technique and I will be using it first off in my new endeavor to make cute little clay charms!
Thank you for sharing this with the world!
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Wow......I was wondering how to make colors without wasting money......NOW I SHALL BUY SOME WHITE CLAY
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You have no idea how much I appreciate this tutorial !!! I just started working with Polymer clay (as in... I just bought the clay and tried it last night lol) and this is definitely going to save me a lot of money!!! <3 Thank you thank you thank you!
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Awesome tutorial! Thanks for making it!!!
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that is very clever. X3 i shall keep that in mind. :3
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omg, thankyou thankyou thankyou for making this! ive had to buy white, make my clay model and bake it, then paint it. it took AAAGGGEEESSS to paint it all, because i didnt have the money to buy all the different coloured clays, this is really good, thanks!
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This sounds like a great method! It kills me to have leftover clay in colors I will basically NEVER use again XD.
I'm just cautious about the toxicity (or not) of baking pastels o__o
Call me paranoid, but I'd rather be safe than sorry XD.
I'll take a gander at what I can find on the web, but if you already have the answer I'd love to know (I checked the FAQs and didn't see anything about toxicity but then again if it was there, I probably missed it 
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^_^ it doesn't add any toxicity to the clay whatsoever and the heat won't make it evaporate into deadly fumes, so don't worry!
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Great idea! I wanna try it... if only i had some pastels..
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What is the best type/brand of pastel to use? I tried this with some oil pastels I had from a bit ago, but I guess either they were too old or too hard because when I shaved the stick and put it in the clay, it just stays in shavings and doesn't blend :'( Any suggestions??
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I don't want to sound mean, but please read the FAQs first and let me know if you have anymore questions!
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oh gooddness...I'm so sorry :-/ I didn't realize I asked such a silly question. Thank you tho!!
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lol, i got a free art kit full of soft pastels.. i was like, "Oh brother, what good are these for??" LOL i now have the perfect answer!
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is it ok to use oil pastels or is that a no no?
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it's perfectly fine.
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yay! lol thats all I have
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wow I started doing figures and other wacky items with clay and I noticed that it costs a lot for colors I won't use to much and when I saw this I was really happy to see that I can do that with pastels and I looks really pretty in the end. Thanks this really will save me a lot of money. This is an instant
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awesome, thanks!
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Cool, ill try this, polymer clay is kinda .. expensive, well, i don't know if in other countries its cheap. 1 question, does the pastel/ color fall off? Just making sure so i can close my mind about it. Reply please!
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if you mix it in well, there's no reason for the pastel to fall off
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This is such a great idea! I was going to go to Michael's to pick up some new colored clay, but now I know I only need some translucent (since I have a huge 1lb box of white, haha). Thanks for this tutorial!
Also, I was wondering: This method of coloring the clay doesn't make for any discoloration after firing, will it? Does the color fade or darken?
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sometimes it does. it depends on the quality of your pastels, i would assume. i usually have that problem with the reds fading a lot. it's different for each of us.
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I tried mixing it with oil pastels and it worked perfectly on its own!!
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great tut,very easy to follow,
but help!
i just bought some Studio Sculpey and i've softened it all i can,and when i put the shavings it,the whole ball of clay goes all vodfnvjkd and falls apart.
*confusionvortex*
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D: ohnoes!
i've been having problems with the sculpey doing that as well. i'm not sure what it is that causes it, but it's mainly a problem with the original sculpey and those that come in large blocks. they seem to want to crumble a lot quicker than other kinds of clay! try adding a bit of TLS to it because it might be because the clay became too dry... or letting it sit a while. Sometimes it helps me, but I still have to figure out what in the world is going on when it happens like that, y'know?
so far, the smaller blocks of sculpey III hold up fine for this technique... as well as any fimo soft or kato clay. i have problems with the regular sculpey and the larger blocks (like the 1 lb blocks) of white sculpey.
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oh,you have the sameproblem?
i thought that clay just hated me >:
TLS isn't available here.
i'm just lucky we have sculpey here.
maybe it's not in room tempreature?
it becomes hard as rock if you don't play with it for an hour.
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that's pretty much how all clay is... it just gets that way because the clay gets to rest and goes back to the original consistency.
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Genius!
I feel incredibly stupid for almost spending $2 for a block of clay I'd never use. xD
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xD and that is why i worked on finding a cheaper alternative! hehe
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this is an awesome idea ! i only have air drying clay, cause i canΒ΄t find normal clay here in germany.. only fimo -_-' but i'll just try this out ! Thanks !!!
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no problem! i believe air-dry clay can be mixed with some water if it dries out while you're working with it, so you might want to use water to mix the pastels into the clay? i've never tried it myself, but i'm sure it'll work fine.
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