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To register or for more information, contact:

Joyce King, President
CMSPCG
1917 Vicklan Street
Vicksburg, MS 39180

(601) 638-4429

kingj@canufly.net

*Transfers, the good, the bad and the ugly... uhhhh make that the pretty.

The March meeting of the Central Mississippi Polymer Clay Guild will meet Saturday, March 20, 2010 at the Pearl Library beginning at 10:00 a.m. and running until 3:30 p.m. Our focus for this meeting with be using transfers in our polymer clay designs.

If you’ve done any research on this, you realize rather quickly that there are quite a few different ways to transfer a printed design or picture to polymer clay. Transfers are not a cut and dried, one size fits all technique and Joyce will walk us through several of these techniques while making it fun rather than confusing! Joyce will supply the copies for the meeting and we’ll talk about the different kinds of paper and what works best with which copies/printers. Many are toner based (laser) transfers but Joyce is also researching methods that work with inkjet printers, which is what most of us have at home. We’ll transfer on white clay and on black! We’ll be covering a lot of territory and will do as much hands-on as possible so come with conditioned clay (see below) and an open mind!

Joyce is still working on the supply list so be sure to check the email I’ll be sending out the week of the meeting to see if anything more has been added. You might want to bring change for the zerox machine should you want to make extra copies of any transfers with a toner based copier. The library has one!

Clay (preferably Premo -- conditioned)

• 1 Black
• 1 White
• 1 Translucent
• a light clay for transferring to (combination of white, pearl, ecru, beiges, for instance)
• liquid polymer clay

Supplies other than clay:

• Leafing of choice (gold, silver, copper, variegated, etc.)
• Small tile to bake or work on (like a 6x6)
• Regular pen to write on back of clay what you have done with it
• File cards- unlined if you have them
• Pencil – regular leaded school-type pencil

“Must have” Tools and Supplies:

• Be sure to bring your normal travel kit with a minimum of your pasta machine, roller, clay blade, ceramic tile or other work surface, baby wipes.
• A small spray bottle for water.

“If you have them” Supplies:

These are things that you can bring if you have them but we’ll have some available for you to use so don’t go buy them just for this meeting:

• A Bone folder
• Prisma color pencils
  
• Oil based colored pencils
• Acetone based nail polish remover
• Isopropyl alcohol
• Cheap gin
• Watercolor pencils
• A brown color oil paint

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If you would like to join us for this meeting as a guest, please send an email to the contact address in the sidebar* and one of our board members will get in touch with you to answer any questions you have. We love sharing our love of polymer clay with new clayers.



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Nametag

Roller of some sort, acrylic, hollow works well for adding slices of cane to

Blades- a flexible and a stiff blade

Clay- an extra 2 oz package of black, gold, translucent, white, pearl, and a range of colors that you enjoy is always good to have with you. We recommend Premo and Kato brands for most things.

Shape cutters, Kemper cutters, cookie cutters, or whatever brand you enjoy

Ruler

Exacto knife or sissors

Pasta machine with C clamp for any type table and handle, or motor

12x12 tile for work surface with non skid piece under it, or any work surface you enjoy that will allow the table surface to remain uncut

Cornstarch for non stick effects with brush

Small spray bottle of water

Clay tools you enjoy working with

Sharpie magic marker and pen or pencil

Something to make holes in clay for beads or item we are working on-needle tool, straw, or anything you prefer

Good baby wipes with added alcohol to them, the cheap ones will leave fibers on your hands and clays

Acrylic piece for making beads from scraps

Glad wrap or Ziplock bags for scraps and done projects (Glad wrap does not react with polymer clay)

Notebook for notes

Wire, 20 gauge, non tarnishing wire is good for adding a finding to a bead or item, 28 gauge for wiring beads and crystals into clay

Deli wraps to work on if in addition to tile

Patina paint- Liquitex Basic paints work well for this, a brown of choice and occasionally you will want other colors

Pieces of old sponge for creating patina along with old small paint brush-The cheap cloth sponges you can get from the dollar store work well

Small container to hold water

Texture plates, deeply etched stamps, or texture stamps

Foil leafing in colors of choice, gold, silver or copper are easily available

A sketch diary is nice to have

Something to carry your unbaked pieces home undamaged- I like to use a box top

Wet/Dry sandpaper in 400 and 600 for finishing your work