Home baked leaf
What you need:
Polymer Clay (known as Fimo, Sculpey or our own NZ Du-kit), colour of your choice, black sets off the metallic powder, lighter colours show the acrylic paint best) a set of playing cards a roller (a glass bottle will do too!) baking paper (pieces of ~15x 15cm) craft knife a sharp tool or darning needle as hole poker cookie cutters (the cake decorator’s shop is a great source for small cutters) fresh leaves with protruding veins (berry leaves, fig, sage, geranium etc) mica powder acrylic paint and fine paintbrush tissue paper an old cloth and a cup with water