Covering ceramic eggs

I have a question about covering ceramic eggs with polymer clay. I am
useless at real eggs... they break so easily because I shake badly. I
would like to cover a ceramic egg that I came across. Do I need to put a
layer of clay on it before applying canes or can I put a sheet of canes on
it?

I hope that this is clear. I know what I mean to say, but it does not
always come through. LOL

Roni

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I dont know about ceramic eggs, sorry. Im wondering tho if you are
trying to work directly on blown eggshells. Once I was doing a class
showing kids how to cover eggs and first covered the shells with a thin,
baked and sanded shell of polymer and gave them that to cover. It cut
down on the breakage dramatically. I made thin sheets of clay with the
pasta machine then did a bit of draping and cutting to get the new shell
fairly smooth. It was a good way to use up mud, too.
HTH
Diana

ozana wrote:
I have a question about covering ceramic eggs with polymer clay. I am
useless at real eggs... they break so easily because I shake badly. I
would like to cover a ceramic egg that I came across. Do I need to put a
layer of clay on it before applying canes or can I put a sheet of canes on
it?

I hope that this is clear. I know what I mean to say, but it does not
always come through. LOL

Roni

-- My minis:
http://community.webshots.com/user/theozana

you can bake on ceramic eggs. However, I like to bake real eggshells with a
layer or two of the liquid clays for strength. Here's two pages....
http:/www.polyclay.com/eggs.htm
http:/www.polyclay.com/BB2PCG.htm

Sarajane

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I have a question about covering ceramic eggs with polymer clay. I am
useless at real eggs... they break so easily because I shake badly. I
would like to cover a ceramic egg that I came across. Do I need to put a
layer of clay on it before applying canes or can I put a sheet of canes on
it?

I hope that this is clear. I know what I mean to say, but it does not
always come through. LOL

Roni

-- My minis:
http://community.webshots.com/user/theozana