Trying Something New - Silk Screening on Polymer Clay
Looks like leather! I used chalk, guilder's paste and Golden's paint Silk screening on polymer clay seems to be a big topic of interest lately with lots of Facebook posts and tutorials. Guess it's time for me to try something new! Helen Breil has a great tutorial (free) to get us started. http://www.helenbreil.com/silk-screen-demo.html After watching Helen's tutorial as well as others, I decided that a rainy day would be perfect to start experimenting. I used to do silk screening on fabric in college and this is the same idea. I took my Kato white polymer scrap clay, conditioned it and put it through the widest setting on my pasta machine. I put it on a piece of paper to leach (that makes the clay stiffer and not so soft and squishy). My stencils are made of paper that I verathaned to keep them waterproof so they would last longer and one small metal stencil. I've ordered a couple of Helen Breil's stencils but I'm using mine until