Eings are such lovely things and there are many tutorials out there on the
internet for different ways of making wings for different sorts of projects. I
needed wings for a fairy and came up with a way that I think is rather unique.
Hi there, Sandy here, welcome to another polymer clay video at keepsakecrafts.net.
So quite a while ago I bought this rubber stamp from Barbara McGuire's shop
on Etsy it's called Art Source. I'll have a link to it at my blog. Unfortunately
right now I can only see the larger version it's like an 8 by 10 version,
about four times the size of this, available in her shop, but perhaps you
can inquire and see if she's going to have the smaller one. But this was
actually perfect for the project I wanted to do. I had in mind to make some wings
for a fairy. This is a little fairy doll that I made,
you might wonder why she looks rather sad and unhappy, well there's a good
reason for it. She's part of a larger sculptural piece.
Finishing her wings is actually part of finishing the sculpture so once that's
completed I'll post that on my Instagram. What I realized as I was looking at this
stamp was that I actually needed the reverse of what I had. This is an outtie,
so to speak. All of the pieces are coming out from the stamp, and what I wanted to
do was make an innie or a mold, and for that what better to use than molding
putty. It's a two-part molding putty, if you want to know more about it I've done
a Friday findings video on it, I use it in a lot of things. You mix up equal
amounts of Part A and Part B and and then they start to set and you can make
yourself molds and texture sheets. I used about a golf-ball size of each of the
compounds, it was a fair amount because I wanted this to have some thickness so I
could make sure and press on it and have some depth to it. So be sure
when you're mixing up your a compound that you do it carefully and don't
introduce air bubbles I did have a few and that gave me... like I don't know if
you can see here, kind of an uneven spot and some voids and this may have been
also, that well that's an air bubble, there's a couple of areas that are air
bubbles and maybe I didn't press down well enough. So do take care when you
make your mold from your texture sheet that you do it nice and even. Follow the
manufacturer's instructions and let this compound set up. Yeah, in fact you can see
all the bubbles I got in there, not good. Try be a little bit more careful than I was.
Now you have a mold made from your texture sheet and now we can do some
really cool things with it. You could just fill this with regular polymer clay
but the tricky thing about that is you don't have the flattest surface out here
to level them out. So what I decided to use was liquid clay. I figured that would
be the best way to fill them. The first thing I did was half clear liquid clay
and half pearl because I wanted my wings to have a bit of shimmer. What I found
though is that the clear is actually very thin which is nice because it will
fill in the voids in your mold but the colored clay like the pearl is a lot
thicker. So my first try was 50% of each
but now I I decided to thin it way down, besides I'm going to paint these so I
didn't need a lot of pearl. In fact you could probably skip the pearl altogether
but I sort of liked the idea. So I put just a small amount, like maybe a tenth
of what I put in for the clear. If you watched my video a couple weeks ago I put
up a short like 2 minute video showing you my first mixture of these two that
were mixed in one of these containers and I had mixed it and then hadn't
gotten back to it as soon as I had expected to and the problem is
that this is the type of plastic... it's a number six plastic and it doesn't
react well to polymer clay. If you want to see what happens when you leave
liquid clay in a cup like this for a couple weeks you can go watch that video.
I'll link to it, it was kind of amusing. So that's why today I have it in a
little ceramic dish. So if I have leftover I can just leave it in here and
not worry about it eating through the plastic. You need far less than you might
expect to fill one of these wings Well let's
fill this one, start with maybe a quarter teaspoon, aim to slightly under fill it
it will make things easier for you later and I'll show you why. I'm using an awl
here because what I want to do is guide this liquid clay into all the corners
and the crevices and into all the detail and as you let it sit it'll settle. You
do want to make sure that you let all the bubbles rise to the top. So I'm just
coaxing that along and getting as much mileage out of it as I can.
I might just need another teeny tiny drop, just what I can drop off the corner
of the tool. So a toothpick will work here too, I just love using my awl, and you
just guide it in until you have a very thin layer of the liquid clay, and try to
keep it off the edges as much as possible because that is clay you're
going to have to trim away later.
You may see some bubbles and the best thing for getting rid of the bubbles
is time, just let it sit and the bubbles will all rise to the surface and
they should pop on their own. You can kind of give it a few taps. You can see
why I wanted to make sure and have a thinner liquid clay rather than
something thicker so that these would all be filled in well. So I hope that you
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continue making these. Then you can make as many of those as you want and then
bake them. One thing to notice is that the liquid clay actually bakes at a
slightly higher temperature than the solid clay, the directions on the bottle
say to bake it between 300 and 325 degrees Fahrenheit. So I promised you in
the title of this video that I would show you how to make these wings
3-dimensional. Here are two that I baked already and you might notice that there
is some trimming that needs to be done around the edges. This is actually very
important at this point, you just want to get a sharp little pair of scissors and
trim all that. You know I think it's called flash. I actually spent way too long
looking it up online. Isn't that what it's called like in ceramics when you
have that or in mold-making when you have that
extra bit around the edge isn't that called flash? There are a lot of meanings
to the word "flash" just go look at Thesaurus.com... or dont. But what you need to do
is to trim all of this excess and even a little bit if you want of the very edge
of your shape because you're going to want it to fit nicely on top of the
other side of the shape to make it three-dimensional. And what I mean by that
is one like this where I have the impression of the wings on both sides.
Once you get your shape trimmed now you can pop it right into the mold down on
top of the liquid clay and if you've trimmed it well it should fit in there
very nicely. Take your time, don't press too hard you don't want the liquid clay
to ooze up over the edges but press it down so that there aren't any voids or
air bubbles and it should just snap, pop right in there nicely, and here's one, the
one I didn't trim, and I can feel it, you probably can't see it on camera but I
can feel that that's not... I can feel this edge sticking up here, it's just not
fitting down as nicely. I need to pull it out clean it off. Yeah, this isn't the way
to do it. So clean it off and then trim it really nicely and even if you just
trim a little bit tiny, bit just trim small amounts, you can always go back and
trim more but don't take too much off. Trim i,t pop it in and then bake it again.
Here's my mold with some of the pieces out of the oven. As you can see some of
them are the first time around and some are the second. Even being very careful
sometimes there are a few voids in the, in the
clay. Do be as careful as you possibly can when you're filling your mold to
make sure that you don't have any of these empty spaces. Here's an example of
one that I did not line up very well. Un fact you can see it, I don't know how I
missed it, but you can see that that isn't lined up. I might not even bother
using this, I might, it would depend on the project, but this is pretty poorly
lined up. These ones are better, you can really see the thin spots are very thin
through both layers, and once they come out of the oven you'll have to do
another trimming job to make them all nice and neat and tidy. Now this is the
first pair that I made. I'm going to show you how to paint them in a moment, but I
wanted to point out a few things. This was the one using the 50 pearl and the 50
clear mix and the liquid clay was obviously so thick that it didn't even
get down into some of these areas, so you really do want to make sure that it's
fairly thin. You could use just all clear that would be fine. But there are a lot
of voids and I honestly didn't notice them until I started trying to paint it
and then they became really apparent. Another thing I did was I let them cool
after the second bake, they were on an index card and I just propped that index
card up against something and let them cool like that so that they have a nice
curved shape. And you can put some wire in here, you can do whatever you want, use
them any way you like. They could be butterfly wings, add them to a fairy like
this little gal, although I'm going to give her a nicer pair that doesn't
have all the voids. You can paint these anyway you want there's all sorts of
things, anything that you could use to paint polymer clay you could use to
paint these. What I did for this was I used Inka Gold
because I think it's just fascinating stuff and it's fairly new to me.
InKa Gold is actually water-soluble so get yourself just a tiny bit of water
and a cup, and I've got a little itty bitty brush here. I'm gonna wet the
brush and then rub it in the Inka gold and make a nice thick paint. What's great
about these is you can thin it down as much as you want and have a different
consistency for a paint. So like maybe I want this thinner and I want this paint
to go down into all those crevices.
By the way I found after painting that this Inka gold sort of rubbed off so
what I did was I put these back in the oven the I think at 300 degrees, the
manufacturer's recommended temperature, for another 20 minutes and you can see
I'm rubbing, it it's not coming off. So that just will heat set it for you.
There we go.
So you can paint these however you like. So if you're gonna use something like
the Inka golds that already have a mica shimmer you might not even worry about
using the pearl clay because you're going to get your sparkle from your
paint. Okay, I cleaned my brush, got some fresh water and now I've got a different
color here. And these will dry out, like this blue you can probably see it's kind
of cracked around the edges, just add some water and that will refresh it just
beautifully. It looks like this purple one it's starting to get dry. I love this
little sampler pack. I'll have a link to this at my blog post. You can buy them
individually at Amazon but I got this little sample tower I think it's called
from PolyClayPlay and I've been really happy with it because, let's face it, in
polymer clay, the kind of work I do anyways, I'm probably not going to use more than
what is in here in a lifetime so it was nice to get five different colors for
like $15. So you get the idea, you can go over that just like with any coloring
medium you can usually layer them. I'm gonna use my finger here, it's kind of
messy. but this is creamy enough that I can go back over that with the... oh,
that's not dry yet. So you do want to let it dry in between. I'll show you on this
side. What I mean though is that you can go over the top with your finger or an applicator.
Here we go, let's see. Yeah, see how that's still wet? Oh
there we go. Ooooo, that's fun.
So anyways you get the idea, you can play with these endlessly, add color, layer
color, you don't have to use Inka gold you can use any colorants you want. Oh,
that's pretty, if you just left them clear and went over with a color. So I
hope you that you take this idea and run with it.
Think of things besides wings that perhaps you have rubber stamps for. There
are so many different possibilities. I know you're going to have a whole lot of
fun with them. If you're interested in the supplies I used be sure to click on
the "i" in the upper right or the link in the description box to go to my blog
post where I always have a complete supply list and links to products, and if
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my new videos. Happy creating, bye bye.
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