Joan Tayler Design Rubber Stamps for 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

00:00:08 –> 00:00:11 talking about Joan Tayler Design rubber stamps.

00:00:11 –> 00:00:17 Now, a little while ago, we did a video and I introduced you to the Vancouver Polymer

00:00:17 –> 00:00:24 Clay Guild, and one of the artists there was Joan Tayler, and actually her blue fish, that

00:00:24 –> 00:00:29 you see at the beginning screen of the video is…well that’s hers, and her work is very

00:00:29 –> 00:00:30 beautiful.

00:00:30 –> 00:00:34 But one of the things that was happening during the meeting, she was sitting around sketching

00:00:34 –> 00:00:40 on a notepad, and I asked what she was doing, and apparently she was drawing her next rubber

00:00:40 –> 00:00:41 stamp.

00:00:41 –> 00:00:46 And that’s what’s really cool about what Joan’s designs are all about, now she handed

00:00:46 –> 00:00:51 me a package of just a sampling of some of the designs that she has.

00:00:51 –> 00:00:57 Now I think that… from what I can see on her Etsy store, she has just a few designs

00:00:57 –> 00:01:02 available, and then she’ll probably add more when she wants to or whatever, but what’s

00:01:02 –> 00:01:07 great about that is that you’re gonna end up with a design that’s quite unique and

00:01:07 –> 00:01:13 not just mass produced, and so when you do the art…if you make anything from her rubber

00:01:13 –> 00:01:18 stamps to sell, they’re gonna have a more original look than if you got something mass

00:01:18 –> 00:01:19 produced.

00:01:19 –> 00:01:25 Now, actually, before I go on and show you them, she did say on the back of her packaging…her

00:01:25 –> 00:01:31 packaging is simple here, but it says that, “Each of these picture and texture sheets

00:01:31 –> 00:01:36 are taken from the original drawings by Joan Tayler,” and that’s Tayler with an E,

00:01:36 –> 00:01:42 not an O, and then, “You’re welcome to create and sell art made with this stamp,

00:01:42 –> 00:01:45 but please do not copy the stamp for others to use.”

00:01:45 –> 00:01:50 So basically, if you use this stamp to make art with, you can sell it, but you can’t

00:01:50 –> 00:01:55 try to make more rubber stamps exactly like her design, so…but she’s got some really

00:01:55 –> 00:02:02 funky designs, the ones that I have are all sort of floral based and there’s some chameleons

00:02:02 –> 00:02:06 and things in here, but I’ll just show them to you.

00:02:06 –> 00:02:12 Some of them… and the ones I saw in Etsy right now are more in a larger format with…

00:02:12 –> 00:02:17 like a multiple design, a little bit like this where it’s got lots of different patterns

00:02:17 –> 00:02:21 going on, and then you could use a section of it, or just focus on one part.

00:02:21 –> 00:02:29 But let me just lay out…I’ve got a sheet of Soufflé clay rolled out here… it’s

00:02:29 –> 00:02:35 a nice one for rubber stamping into, and here’s a nice little leaf branch we can put on there

00:02:35 –> 00:02:42 and maybe one of her little chameleons, so that you can see what they look like, they’re

00:02:42 –> 00:02:48 unmounted rubber stamps, and you can cut them apart if you want to or you can leave them

00:02:48 –> 00:02:49 in a full sheet.

00:02:49 –> 00:02:56 I’m just gonna use a piece of acrylic to kinda get them pressed into the clay, now

00:02:56 –> 00:03:04 you could use a resist if you want, like water or cornstarch, this Soufflé clay doesn’t

00:03:04 –> 00:03:08 seem to be very sticky, so it seems good with these rubber stamps, so I didn’t really

00:03:08 –> 00:03:13 need it, but I’m just pressing…and they’re very deeply etched stamps, so they’re great

00:03:13 –> 00:03:20 for techniques like Mokume Gane and Mica shift and that kind of thing…so let’s see, did

00:03:20 –> 00:03:22 I get it in there well enough?

00:03:22 –> 00:03:29 Yeah, look at them, alright you can see there’s a really cute little chameleon, all hand drawn

00:03:29 –> 00:03:38 by her, and she’s got like a very organic kinda style, some of the other designs I’ve

00:03:38 –> 00:03:46 seen are sea based ones with fish and shells and things, saw one with teapots and stuff

00:03:46 –> 00:03:49 like that, and then some dragons.

00:03:49 –> 00:03:54 Another thing you can do with rubber stamps like this is…well she’s got a couple here,

00:03:54 –> 00:03:58 let me show you, I’ve got a couple here that’re round and they’d make great buttons,

00:03:58 –> 00:04:03 but I thought I’d show you this neat little trick with any rubber stamp, if you’ve got

00:04:03 –> 00:04:12 more than one, what you can do is you can just roll up a little piece of clay, grab

00:04:12 –> 00:04:22 a bead piercing needle…let’s make sure this is a decent shape here first, pierce

00:04:22 –> 00:04:30 it through the center, and then you can place it between two different stamps, or the same…these

00:04:30 –> 00:04:37 are pretty similar, and if you press them together, you can get a really great looking

00:04:37 –> 00:04:46 coin bead that’s got a design on both sides like that, or you can even take the same one,

00:04:46 –> 00:04:53 turn it sideways like that and do it again, and then you end up with a great textured,

00:04:53 –> 00:05:00 four sided bead that’s really beautiful, and you could highlight that with…oh I don’t

00:05:00 –> 00:05:07 know, Mica powders, or you could rub paint into the grooves, or use Gilders paste and

00:05:07 –> 00:05:13 all the wonderful things you can do with rubber stamps and Polymer clay.

00:05:13 –> 00:05:18 I also took one of the stamps and just put a little bit of paint on it and then pressed

00:05:18 –> 00:05:24 it into the clay, and then the paint went right into the grooves.

00:05:24 –> 00:05:29 And I’ve got lots of information about rubber stamps and using them with Polymer clay on

00:05:29 –> 00:05:36 our website, at polymerclaytutor.com But I just thought I’d show you these, and her

00:05:36 –> 00:05:44 delightful designs, and you can check her out at joantaylerdesigns on Etsy.

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