Americana Decor Chalky Finish Paint On Polymer Clay

00:00:03 –> 00:00:08 Hi guys, its Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor, and today’s PcT Product Demo, we’re

00:00:03 –> 00:00:07 Hi guys, its Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor, and today in the PcT Test Lab, we are

00:00:07 –> 00:00:14 going to talk about Americana Decor Chalky Finish Paint on Polymer Clay.

00:00:14 –> 00:00:19 Now as you know… or you may not know, I like to test different products on Polymer

00:00:19 –> 00:00:25 Clay to see if they are compatible, so that we can use them in future projects, and I

00:00:25 –> 00:00:31 wanted to test out this Americana Chalky Finish because chalk paint is super popular these

00:00:31 –> 00:00:33 days.

00:00:33 –> 00:00:42 And I did that, I put some onto this bead many, many months ago and it is very compatible,

00:00:42 –> 00:00:47 there’s no stickiness, there is no issues with it at all which is great.

00:00:47 –> 00:00:51 So I’ll just show you a little bit about the paint, and if you’re wondering what this is

00:00:51 –> 00:01:00 all about, this is actually a stamped bead and then I’ve put…or a Polymer Clay bead

00:01:00 –> 00:01:04 that I’ve put on to a hammered Copper bookmark, and actually that’s from a tutorial that we

00:01:04 –> 00:01:11 did a long, long time ago, and anyways, I’ll show you this paint.

00:01:11 –> 00:01:19 It is a very interesting paint, what it reminds me of is…if you’re familiar with art paints

00:01:19 –> 00:01:26 at all, if you’re familiar with a kind of a primer based paint called Gesso, it’s very

00:01:26 –> 00:01:38 much like Gesso, it is…if I could describe it, it would be acrylic paint mixed with drywall

00:01:38 –> 00:01:48 putty…in fact who knows, it could be that…that very same thing, it’s just a very chalky acrylic

00:01:48 –> 00:01:56 water based paint that is very, very thick and dries to a super matte finish, which…you

00:01:56 –> 00:02:02 know, where the chalkiness comes from, it’s quite durable and it’s just really a great

00:02:02 –> 00:02:05 look, it has a very antique look…finish to it.

00:02:05 –> 00:02:09 I grabbed a couple of baked samples of Polymer Clay…these are both Premo!

00:02:09 –> 00:02:16 Clay, I just grabbed them, I have a big bag of miscellaneous flat pieces of baked pieces,

00:02:16 –> 00:02:22 and I wanted to show you the difference in the opacity and things when it’s on either

00:02:22 –> 00:02:29 a light color or a dark color, and I’ll just show you how this looks.

00:02:29 –> 00:02:36 It goes on quite opaque and quite thick, you could use it…you know you could paint designs

00:02:36 –> 00:02:43 or cover a piece completely in it, on my bead sample, I used it as an antiquing medium,

00:02:43 –> 00:02:48 here it is on Black, and you can see it’s quite opaque, and on White.

00:02:48 –> 00:02:55 On something like this… like on one of these stamped rolled beads, if you’ve never made

00:02:55 –> 00:02:59 one of these kinda rolled beads before, it’s basically just a long strip of… they make

00:02:59 –> 00:03:04 them in paper all the time, but it’s just a long, triangular strip that you roll up

00:03:04 –> 00:03:09 from the wide end, and then you end up with this tapered bead and this one I pre-stamped

00:03:09 –> 00:03:15 before I cut it and rolled it, and so it has a lot of neat texture, well you can use a

00:03:15 –> 00:03:20 paint like this as an antiquing medium and in fact, it really changes the look of this

00:03:20 –> 00:03:27 whole bead, it makes it look a little bit more like ceramic, I’m just gonna paint it

00:03:27 –> 00:03:36 right in the whole… all the little crevices and then we’ll wipe it off in a sec here.

00:03:36 –> 00:03:42 They come in quite a few colors, I picked up this can at…or this little jug of it

00:03:42 –> 00:03:52 at Michaels, it’s probably all over the place, I’m guessing that pretty much all of the formulas

00:03:52 –> 00:03:57 that are out there will be compatible, but of course, you always wanna test first…

00:03:57 –> 00:04:04 so I’ll just clean up my brush, don’t want it to dry in there, and then, you just wanna

00:04:04 –> 00:04:10 wipe it off, you could use a damp cloth and just wipe it off, and then just let it sit

00:04:10 –> 00:04:11 in all the little crevices.

00:04:11 –> 00:04:20 And because it’s a matte finish, it will have a very… it’ll give it a lot of depth to

00:04:20 –> 00:04:26 the texture, and see how much… this was very bright, this is more muted and it has

00:04:26 –> 00:04:27 quite a cool look to it.

00:04:27 –> 00:04:32 And in fact I had found… the reason why I wanted to test it on one of these beads

00:04:32 –> 00:04:40 is I had found some, I believe this is Sesame Jade, and I found a little Sesame Jade bead

00:04:40 –> 00:04:46 and it was just the right color, it was sitting beside my new container of chalk paint and

00:04:46 –> 00:04:51 I thought this would make quite a nice little bookmark, so I did that.

00:04:51 –> 00:04:58 So I hope you enjoyed that information, if you did, you might wanna try out this paint

00:04:58 –> 00:05:05 sometime on your Polymer Clay, and if it was helpful for you, do let us know.

00:05:05 –> 00:05:09 And if you got any products you’d like me to test with Polymer Clay to know if it’s

00:05:09 –> 00:05:13 compatible or not, leave your suggestions in the comment section below.

00:05:13 –> 00:05:18 And don’t forget we have just absolutely tons of videos, we may have already tested the

00:05:18 –> 00:05:23 product that you like to know or tried the technique that you wanna learn about, so make

00:05:23 –> 00:05:26 sure to search through those videos.

00:05:26 –> 00:05:29 If there’s other things you’d like to learn, leave those in the comment section below,

00:05:29 –> 00:05:30 alright?

00:05:30 –> 00:05:31 We’ll see you next time and bye for now.

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