Saturday February 27th
Program:

Stamp The Clay Fantastic!
by Priscilla

Translucent Polymer Clay —Consider what you are making and
how durable it needs to be as that may drive your choice of
clay.  If you want a really durable translucent finish that
isn’t as plaquey as pure Premo you might use ½ Sculpy III
and ½ Premo or perhaps a mix of Premo and Fimo soft. The
amount you bring depends upon your project and this project
would be a great opportunity to experiment with blends for
clearer translucent.   

Rubber Stamps –Size your stamps to the item you are
covering; for example don’t use a big collage stamp to cover
a small tool handle or bead, plan to use only part of the
collage stamp if there is texture or open design you like.  
You can also bring small stamps like tiny snowflakes or in
keeping with the season they could be fireworks stamps if
you don’t want to do Christmas in July.  

Permanent Ink Pads Multiple Colors
   StazOn works great as does Ancient Page

Base project to cover
Give some thought to what color the base project is as it
will show through the translucent sheet depending upon how
densely you stamp your sheet.  

Normal Clay Tools

Delipaper

Please help me remember to remind the oven monitor to set
the oven to the lowest temp for the type of clay everyone is
using so we won’t have any burning!  

I will be teaching a technique driven class rather than a
project so the base project is yours to choose.  I will
guide you in making a sheet to cover your project. You can
choose to do a big bead (I don’t recommend doing small to
medium beads as the design doesn’t show thru as well.), box
top, a PC tool that already has a base of clay baked onto it
or anything else you want to cover with the sheet we
create.  Hey, you could even do a Bottle of Hope!  O=)  

The point of this demo is to have fun and explore a new
technique, not to have to produce a project so creativity
and play rules the day.  =)

Stamp The Clay Fantastic!

Step 1:  Make sure you have your covered item baked and
ready to cover.  Condition clays and mix if necessary.

Step 2:  Roll out a sheet of translucent clay through
progressively thinner settings.  When you reach around #5-6
on the Atlas (depending upon your machine) you might need to
put your sheet of clay between sheets of Delipaper to get
the thinnest possible sheet without tearing.  

Step 3:  Separate your sheet very gently from the Delipaper
and place it on your work surface on a new sheet of
Delipaper.  (We want to give it a more slick surface to sit
on before we start pressing into it with the stamps)  

Step 4:  Consider your design idea briefly and you might
want to stamp it out onto scrap paper to envision how it
will look.  I suggest working from light to dark with your
inks as the clay will be flipped when the item is covered so
the light inks can tend to disappear behind the dark inks
UNLESS that’s how you want your design to look it’s all up
to you.  

Step 5:  Stamp/Ink Technique—verbal instruction

Step 6:  Set clay sheet aside carefully to dry.  Permanent
inks should dry fairly quickly.  Test a tiny corner of your
sheet for the ink being dry.    

Step 7:  Cover the item and bake at the recommended time and
temp for your clay or at the lower of the two.  The rule
when working with translucent is lower temperature and
longer time.  

Step 8: AT Home: Sand and finish as desired.  
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