PYM II Polymer Clay Safe Spray Finish

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 –> 00:00:14 talking about the product called Preserve Your Memories II or also known as PYM II.

00:00:14 –> 00:00:20 And it is an acrylic protective sealant that you can use for all kinds of scrapbooking

00:00:20 –> 00:00:28 and lots of stuff, but it is one of the only sprays that you can use on Polymer Clay.

00:00:28 –> 00:00:34 It’s Polymer Clay safe, it works with lots of other materials, it was actually developed

00:00:34 –> 00:00:39 for the scrapbooking industry and that’s why it’s named Preserve Your Memories because

00:00:39 –> 00:00:46 you can actually spray it on photographs and newspapers and different things.

00:00:46 –> 00:00:52 What’s really neat about it is that it doesn’t react with a lot of things, so you can use

00:00:52 –> 00:00:58 it on Polymer Clay beautifully whereas most of the sprays out there… the spray finishes

00:00:58 –> 00:01:05 have some sort of chemical in it, I’m not sure if it’s propellant or what it is that’s

00:01:05 –> 00:01:11 in it, but most of them will react if you spray them onto Polymer Clay, the chemicals

00:01:11 –> 00:01:17 in it will make them sticky over time, they may seem fine at first but they will react

00:01:17 –> 00:01:18 over time.

00:01:18 –> 00:01:26 So just recently I talked about when you might want to use a sealer on your Polymer Clay,

00:01:26 –> 00:01:36 and whenever you’re using something like…now here’s an Orchid, a Polymer Clay Orchid with

00:01:36 –> 00:01:44 a whole bunch of different materials on it, like chalk pastels, acrylic paints, PearlEx

00:01:44 –> 00:01:50 powders, with something like this, you definitely need to seal it and so you’re gonna wanna

00:01:50 –> 00:01:53 use a Polymer Clay safe sealer.

00:01:53 –> 00:01:59 And a spray like the PYM II is perfect for it because you don’t have to… you can just

00:01:59 –> 00:02:03 spray it over these dimensional pieces, you don’t have to worry about smudging anything,

00:02:03 –> 00:02:11 it will just seal the chalks right in, I also used it on this necklace here, I’ll show you

00:02:11 –> 00:02:14 how to use the actual product in a second.

00:02:14 –> 00:02:24 But this project here is a Faux Raku Polymer Clay beads, and then it’s got Copper wire

00:02:24 –> 00:02:32 chain on it, and I can use this PYM to seal the Polymer Clay, and also, to spray right

00:02:32 –> 00:02:37 onto the metal, it’s a perfect product for sealing metals so that it won’t patina, so

00:02:37 –> 00:02:45 if your skin goes Green when you wear Copper, the PYM II is perfect for sealing that, and

00:02:45 –> 00:02:50 so what you would do in a case like this, you would just make the bracelet or the necklace

00:02:50 –> 00:02:56 or whatever project you’re doing first and then you can spray it all at once.

00:02:56 –> 00:03:06 Another neat use for this spray is to spray it on a project like this, this is a…this

00:03:06 –> 00:03:11 is a hemp…you know like a Macramé hemp bracelet, and it’s got some gemstone beads

00:03:11 –> 00:03:17 on it and some Polymer Clay beads, these beads here are actually from my…oh which one is

00:03:17 –> 00:03:22 it, the Arizona beads tutorial, they’re a fun bead to make, but one of the things that

00:03:22 –> 00:03:29 happens to hemp when it gets wet, it smells like a wet dog, I really do not like the smell

00:03:29 –> 00:03:34 of hemp and a lot of the other cordings when they get wet, and when you wear a bracelet,

00:03:34 –> 00:03:38 you know, you’re washing your hands and stuff, it tends to get wet, so you can spray the

00:03:38 –> 00:03:44 whole bracelet with…and the hemp with the PYM II, and it will seal it and make it waterproof,

00:03:44 –> 00:03:46 which is a really neat thing.

00:03:46 –> 00:03:54 Now, I have another thing that I’ve used it on, now this is just a sample, this is from

00:03:54 –> 00:04:01 a tutorial I did where I put ink onto lace and pressed it into Polymer Clay and then

00:04:01 –> 00:04:08 baked it, but the neat thing about this spray is that it’s perfect for textured pieces,

00:04:08 –> 00:04:15 now I have sprayed only this half and not this half, so that you can see the difference

00:04:15 –> 00:04:21 between the two when it’s sprayed, it has a sheen to it, it’s not super high gloss,

00:04:21 –> 00:04:29 but because this is a spray, you’re not…it’s not pooling and puddling into all of the little

00:04:29 –> 00:04:36 crevices and things, so it is perfect for this type of textured piece and it just gives

00:04:36 –> 00:04:42 it a nice dimension, it protects that ink, I can show you the back side here.

00:04:42 –> 00:04:46 This is the side that was sprayed, I just put a piece of tape over and sprayed only

00:04:46 –> 00:04:50 one half on the front and the back, so that you could see the difference and it does…

00:04:50 –> 00:05:00 the spray does give it a nice color and nice depth to it, but it’s not super high sheen.

00:05:00 –> 00:05:05 Now, I will show you how to use it and then I will just show you another little thing

00:05:05 –> 00:05:07 that I use it for.

00:05:07 –> 00:05:13 Okay, so you would just put your piece into a shallow tray like this…you wanna use it

00:05:13 –> 00:05:19 in a ventilated area, and I would have the window open right now, but you’ll hear the

00:05:19 –> 00:05:22 road noise, so I’ll have to just open the windows up after I do the video.

00:05:22 –> 00:05:28 But you just give it a shake and spray the piece, it dries super, super quick…just

00:05:28 –> 00:05:34 let me lay this out a little bit better, and you just spray it right on, and you try not

00:05:34 –> 00:05:43 to get it dripping or anything, and it dries…and then it dries really, really fast, it’s actually

00:05:43 –> 00:05:44 dry to the touch right now.

00:05:44 –> 00:05:49 And then I would flip it over and continue to spray it, you always wanna turn the bottle

00:05:49 –> 00:05:55 upside down and spray it, so that you clean the nozzle out, I’m not gonna do that ‘cause

00:05:55 –> 00:06:00 I wanna finish spraying that up in a few minutes after the video, so I’m not taking up all

00:06:00 –> 00:06:02 your time, so that’s how you do that.

00:06:02 –> 00:06:05 You do the same thing if you were gonna do the hemp one, you just spray the whole thing

00:06:05 –> 00:06:07 right down.

00:06:07 –> 00:06:14 Now a neat little side thing… it’s got nothing to do with Polymer Clay, but I use these chalkboards

00:06:14 –> 00:06:22 all the time and I picked up some small chalkboards the other day at Michaels, and I’ll just show

00:06:22 –> 00:06:28 you, this is a chalkboard that you normally get and then I sprayed it with PYM II, and

00:06:28 –> 00:06:32 you can see the difference kinda in the sheen there, and the reason why you would do that

00:06:32 –> 00:06:40 is that I’ve noticed when you use the chalkboard markers…oh and they’re off to the side,

00:06:40 –> 00:06:46 I don’t have one here, like I did here, when you use chalkboard markers on a chalkboard,

00:06:46 –> 00:06:52 they tend to ghost a lot…and I just wanted to show you what I mean by that, so this board

00:06:52 –> 00:07:03 was not treated and this board was, and when I wipe it down, you can see…you can see

00:07:03 –> 00:07:15 that it gets on the edge here…there is… the edge of the wording, and you really notice

00:07:15 –> 00:07:20 it after you start using it or if the ink sits on there for any time, you can see the

00:07:20 –> 00:07:27 words on there and they stay for a long time, and when you treat it with the PYM II, it

00:07:27 –> 00:07:32 just comes off really, really clean, so it makes it less porous.

00:07:32 –> 00:07:39 I’ve done that to this one here because I’m using it all the time, and it just starts

00:07:39 –> 00:07:43 ghosting, you can see all the previous stuff on there if it’s not treated, so I just thought

00:07:43 –> 00:07:46 I would tell you that neat little trick.

00:07:46 –> 00:08:00 And its… you can get it at… if you go to pymii.com, so for PYMII, you can get a

00:08:00 –> 00:08:05 list of all the retailers that there are, it’s not in your regular stores like Michaels,

00:08:05 –> 00:08:12 but there are a lot of distributors now worldwide, they now have a European distributor, the

00:08:12 –> 00:08:17 Canadian one here is shadesofclay.com and then there’s, you know, lots of distributors

00:08:17 –> 00:08:22 in the States and I think Australia as well, so you’ll wanna check that out if you wanna

00:08:22 –> 00:08:28 pick up this neat product, and I really love it, it works beautifully with Polymer Clay,

00:08:28 –> 00:08:32 and as you can see, lots of other things in my studio as well, alrighty?

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00:08:59 –> 00:09:01 So we’ll see you next time and bye for now.

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