August Meeting Notes

The August meeting of the Central Mississippi Polymer Clay Guild will be on Saturday, August 20th, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. at the Pearl Library, Pearl, Mississippi.  This meeting will be fun filled with making Molds and Texturing Tools!!!  We’ll have many options to play and create little hand held texture stamp on a stubs, various texturing wheels, texturing ball and texture plates.  The sky is the limit, so think about what works best for you, your work space and which texturing tools you’ll want to make. Plan ahead with your supplies, if you need to order online, and come prepared to make as much as you can on Aug. 20th.  You don’t need to go out and buy all of the following; you probably have most of these. So bring them along.

  

Items to bring:

Texture Wheels: bring a rod or knitting needle

Texture plates: Bring Bake Bend clay

There will be many objects to choose from to create, but bring your favorites rubber stamps, buttons, charms etc. that you might want to share with other.

Supplies:                 

•          Sculpey  Mold Maker- will make a rigid mild, needs baking
•          Sculpey Bake & Bend- flexible, needs baking
•         Air Dry Clays- each brand works a little different
•        Model Air Dry Modeling Clays- takes long time to dry, temporary rigid molds, no release, soft and easy to work with, no shrinkage
•        Crayola Air dry brand does not stand up to molding
•        Silicone Putty- Easy Mold Silicone Mold Putty for Casting and Jewelry Making, no shrinkage, cures in 25 minutes,2 part
•        Two 4x4 glass tiles or acrylic for pressing pieces into clay

Bring at least one piece one small glass for pressing. Your large hollow roller would be good to bring. You want to be able to see your items you are pressing into the mold.

Other Supplies

Lots and lots of scrap clay !!!!!

Non stick surface- Teflon crafting sheet works well or deli sheets

Resists: cornstarch and brush, amoral, spray bottle of water- bring them all

Large hollow roller – a small jar may do too

Buttons for sticks-must hold up to baking

Carving tools if you have them

Lace- available

Sea shells

Rubber stamps

Acrylic Brayer

Graph paper- available

Hot glue gun, hot glue sticks and balsa wood if you would like to try something new

Dried pastas

Small bowl you can lay clay in and bake

Light color clay of choice for your bowl

Color method of choice such as pearl ex with applicators

Baking tiles-recommend one for bottom and one for top to keep them flat—BRING MORE THAN ONE SET

 PROJECT:

Impression Bowl