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I hope everyone had a good weekend! I was going to say today I'm off to the post office to mail jewelry orders, but it's Presidents Day - hence POs closed and kids off school.
I have the desire to work with poly clay to make jewelry with images of my artwork, so this weekend was experimenting, using inkjet transfers on parchment paper (too light) using lazer copies and partially baking (too light) using wet water technique - which at first ruined a few samples (luckily poly clay on sale not expensive) until I figured out by leaving the images on the clay overnight, with a bit of weight on them, then removing a portion of the paper with water (but before rubbing off any detail) I could bake for 15 min, then when cool, scrub the remaining paper off the tiles without taking off any detail.
I also tried liquid poly clay to make what amounts to a decal, but you really need a heat gun to cure those, because you stop baking when it becomes clear, and I don't really care for the domed appearance of the decal, or else I'd be making glass domed or resin coated images.
When the image transfers onto the clay and becomes part of it, it has almost the texture and appearance of frescos, which I like. I covered a sample with the glossy finish, I might try the satin finish later.
I also figured out if I bake the clay pieces on a big ceramic tile (from hardware store) and cover with a big turkey baking bag, I don't get all the fumes, and I don't have to clean the over after, always a win.
In other jewelry adventures, I'm picking up things to make new shapes of bead, flat rounds, round balls, even egg shapes for spring style jewelry, I also found some beautiful glass pearls in a coral colour, I have to use those for something. Thanks to my twin who purchased me a gift cert to Fire Mountain Gems, that's where it went, It's our birthday on thursday.
And drawing and writing, I want to do that tooooo, I should really have a clone. Twin does not count, we are fraternal and don't even look related, haha.
Have a good beginning week yall!
I have the desire to work with poly clay to make jewelry with images of my artwork, so this weekend was experimenting, using inkjet transfers on parchment paper (too light) using lazer copies and partially baking (too light) using wet water technique - which at first ruined a few samples (luckily poly clay on sale not expensive) until I figured out by leaving the images on the clay overnight, with a bit of weight on them, then removing a portion of the paper with water (but before rubbing off any detail) I could bake for 15 min, then when cool, scrub the remaining paper off the tiles without taking off any detail.
I also tried liquid poly clay to make what amounts to a decal, but you really need a heat gun to cure those, because you stop baking when it becomes clear, and I don't really care for the domed appearance of the decal, or else I'd be making glass domed or resin coated images.
When the image transfers onto the clay and becomes part of it, it has almost the texture and appearance of frescos, which I like. I covered a sample with the glossy finish, I might try the satin finish later.
I also figured out if I bake the clay pieces on a big ceramic tile (from hardware store) and cover with a big turkey baking bag, I don't get all the fumes, and I don't have to clean the over after, always a win.
In other jewelry adventures, I'm picking up things to make new shapes of bead, flat rounds, round balls, even egg shapes for spring style jewelry, I also found some beautiful glass pearls in a coral colour, I have to use those for something. Thanks to my twin who purchased me a gift cert to Fire Mountain Gems, that's where it went, It's our birthday on thursday.
And drawing and writing, I want to do that tooooo, I should really have a clone. Twin does not count, we are fraternal and don't even look related, haha.
Have a good beginning week yall!
