Polymer Clay Pens

I LOVE going to the store and buying new pens. Seriously, back to school shopping is my love. Everything about it is amazing. But mostly the pens. You can never have too many cute and fun pens. Now, we come to the part where I love to be different. Standing out is awesome. So here we have a dilemma. There are only so many pens in the world and you will most likely run in to someone with them as well. That whole rant has brought me to this tutorial. Polymer Clay Pens. You can make them look however you want and it is almost a 100% guarantee yours will stand out from all the rest.

The materials for this are quite simple:

• Polymer clay-- like Sculpey, you can find this at Michael's or even Walmart.
• Pens with the plastic barrel that you can remove the ink from like so.... Make sure to pick your favorite kind :)

First begin by removing the ink from the barrel. You should just have a plastic barrel, empty of all ink. Wrap the clay around the empty barrel in a design however you would like. I'll be honest, this was my first polymer clay project so I didn't do anything crazy. I used a couple colors and rolled them together to create a tye dye effect. I also did some polka dots and some zebra stripes.

For the tye dye-- pick a couple colors and roll each into a long snake. Then, put all your snakes together and roll them into a snake. Basically, you want the colors to still be identifiable and not mixed into one. Take sections at a time and cover your barrel. You want this to be pretty thin so the pen is still comfortable in your hand, but don't make it too thin.

For the polka dot or zebra stripes-- pick one base color and cover the barrel with that. The polka dots were really simple, I just took small little balls and pressed them out so they were flat like pancakes. For the zebra print I carefully cut out the stripes and then laid them on the barrel carefully so that they looked like a zebra.

Put all your pens onto a baking sheet. Bake them in a 275 degree oven for 15 minutes. Don't worry about the plastic melting, the oven isn't hot enough and the plastic is thick... I'm sure there is a better explanation for it, but that's mine.

Now you have some incrediblely awesome pens that are all yours :) tell me what you think!!!

 

P.S. I am sorry my descriptions are so terrible, I haven't worked with polymer before and I'm sure there is probably a better way to do it but I tried! Leave comments with any tips or tricks, I'd love for some help with it!

 

Lovelovelove.