Signing your Polymer Clay Creations
Welcome to 2021, I hope it will be a good year for you all (or at least an improvement on the last one!
2020 was a strange year and I really didn’t make anything very much from polymer clay, I just didn’t feel like it. 2021 is a new year and I hope to get back to spending lots of time experimenting, learning and creating with polymer clay – I do still love it really!
I don’t do it every year but I do try to make a new signature cane to sign my work every few years. Last year I developed a couple of new logos including one with just my initials so I have made a cane to match it.
Here is my logo digitally on the left and the cane on the right.
And here is the signature cane in use on the back of a pendant. I’ve reduced it so it is about 1cm wide.
![Cara Jane Polymer Clay Pendant back showing signature cane 2021](https://carajane.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cara-jane-pendant-back-2020-sig-01-300x300.jpg)
When I made my first signature cane (back in 2011 see it pictured below) I realised that you really don’t need to make it that big. The cane I made was about 4.5cm square and I reduced the cane to a few different sizes for different size pieces of jewellery but the biggest was probably only 1cm across so my starting cane went on forever! This time I worked with a much smaller amount of clay so I can actually use it up I hope!
Here is my first signature cane from January 2011. I am pleased to see that both my canes and my photographs have improved over the last 10 years.
![Cara Jane first polymer clay signature cane made Jan 2011.](https://carajane.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_4569-300x167.jpg)
As making canes is my favourite thing to do with polymer clay it makes sense for me to make a signature cane but if you don’t like making canes then there are other ways to sign your creations. Another popular method is to make a custom stamp, or have a custom stamp made. I have a pinterest board (as I do for most things!) for inspiration and tutorials for signing your polymer clay work here.
I do have a custom stamp of the same logo design which I am trying out using on the edges of thicker double-sided pieces where I don’t want to place a cane on the back as there isn’t a back! Here I stamped into the side of the pendant and then filled the impression with white acrylic paint.
![Cara Jane Polymer Clay Pendant Signed with a stamp on the edge](https://carajane.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cara-jane-stamp-on-side-01-289x300.jpeg)
How do you sign your creations? If you have an interesting way do let me know in the comments or on social media.