Vol-061 Liquid Clay Transfers PcT Tutorial (Intro)
Video #392: Image transfer techniques using TLS or Kato Liquid Polyclay.
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** This post is an introduction to one of our paid tutorials.
If you ever have had any doubt about the creative potential of polymer clay… then today’s tutorial will forever change your mind!
I am constantly amazed by what you can do with this stuff! Just coming up with samples for this Liquid Polymer Clay Transfer Techniques Tutorial, left my mind spinning with the unlimited possibilities. Between the different possible paper sources and designs… the number of mediums you can combine with the transfers… and the ways you can use the altered transfers once they are created… there are literally thousands of projects you can do with the techniques that you’ll be learning in this Vol-061 video tutorial series.
I am very excited to see what you will do with the ideas when you get started using them. With your own unique style and your own choice of materials, your own projects will differ so much from mine, that you will hardly believe they came from the same tutorial!
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Fantastic tutorial, Cindy! The possibilities are endless. I so appreciate the step by step instructions you give.
Michele K
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This liquid polymer clay transfer method is something I never would have been able to figure out on my own. I own several instruction books and most of them assume that you already know certain things, very frustrating. Your videos are great, so clear and concise. For the price, it's even more amazing. Thank you!
Catherine E
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Wow, this liquid transfer video series literally blew my mind. My MS is causing a few visual symptoms, but all the neat new techniques and procedures have me glued to the screen. As a matter of fact, going back now for another full run through! Cindy I have so much admiration for your teaching style and voice.
Jocelyn C
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Some more transfer questions. In part 6, where you show your gorgeous green map page cover, is the top surface of the cover the surface of the transfer? I’m assuming the layers from the inside up are : polymer clay sheet
Gold leaf
Some sort of liquid clay
Transfer
Can you add the transfer to the metal leaf covered sheet before it has been baked, or do you bake it first and then add the transfer?
I have so many questions because I’m planning a special journal cover for a trip later on this year, and of course, I want it to be perfect!–VBG
Thanks again
Hi Susan, you need to bake the transfer first and remove the paper, then you can add whatever you want to the back, gold leaf on translucent or whatever, then bake again. The options are pretty much unlimited. You may need to play around a bit before you get the look you want, but you can keep adding layers until your hearts content. As long as that top transfer is pretty translucent you can see what you put on the back. Hopefully that makes sense. Good luck! Let us know how it goes!
Hi Cindy,
I did my first attempt at Liquid Polymer transfers and must say I’m hooked! I do have two questions:
1. I purchased my TLS from my local Michael’s ( a very small Michael’s) and had some problems smoothing it. I re-ran the tutorial and noticed that my TLS appears to be much thicker and less evenly consistent than yours. Is there something that I can add to thin it ever so slightly? I started with the TLS because you mention that Kato is more fluid and I didn’t want to sway one way or the other with my first try.
2. Have you tested samples made with the Kato liquid, but used later on with TLS? I really liked the Kato transfers and found Kato much easier to work with, but I think that there will be times that I’d prefer sheen to shine in the final product.
Hi Susan, you can thin out your TLS with Sculpey Clay Softener or a few drops of baby oil or mineral oil. Just be careful not to add too much. and for your second question… I am not totally sure what you mean, but if you mean, can you make a transfer with Kato and then add some more TLS after baking it? Then I think that should be no problem. Kato Polyclay plays pretty nicely with Sculpey products. You may need to play around with the temperatures to get a nice clear finish, but they are compatible. Hope that helps!
Thanks Cindy, Using the clay softener was just the trick! It made the TLS just as easy to use as the liquid Kato. I’m glad that Kato and Sculpey products play well together as it’s likely that I’ll do up transfers without knowing exactly what project I’ll be using them in.