New Sculpey Flexible Texture Sheets for 2013

00:00:04 –> 00:00:09 Hi guys, its Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor, and today’s PCT Product Demo, I’m going

00:00:09 –> 00:00:14 to be showing you the Sculpey Flexible Texture sheets.

00:00:14 –> 00:00:22 Now a little while ago, I got a box of all the new products from Polyform for 2013, and

00:00:22 –> 00:00:27 I got in there all kinds of neat things, I’ve shown you some of them already, but what was

00:00:27 –> 00:00:34 in there was their new texture plates or texture sheets, they’re calling them, and they’ve

00:00:34 –> 00:00:40 got 2 different sets now and they’re quite cool, and I’ll show you how they work in a

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00:00:41 –> 00:00:49 The first set is called Edgy and it’s got 2 plates in there, one with small sections

00:00:49 –> 00:00:54 on it; there’s 6 designs on here, and then one larger one.

00:00:54 –> 00:01:00 The Edgy set has some kind of neat things like the Snake Skin and on this one here it’s

00:01:00 –> 00:01:05 got like a road ramp section and different neat patterns.

00:01:05 –> 00:01:14 And then they’ve got the Landscape set, and this one has the same sorta idea with the

00:01:14 –> 00:01:21 6 smaller patterns, and there’s things like dandelion fluffs and bark and honeycomb and

00:01:21 –> 00:01:27 things, and then on the other one…it has a large one as well, and it has roses and

00:01:27 –> 00:01:31 things, so it’s all kind of floral based.

00:01:31 –> 00:01:33 Now these are a lot different…oh, just a sec.

00:01:33 –> 00:01:37 I put ‘em over here, they’re quite a bit different than…or not a lot different but

00:01:37 –> 00:01:40 a little bit different than what they used to carry as texture sheets.

00:01:40 –> 00:01:46 These are the old texture sheets that Sculpey used to carry, as you can see, the new ones

00:01:46 –> 00:01:52 are quite a bit bigger, and they also are designed… they’re the right thickness and

00:01:52 –> 00:01:57 the right width to fit into your pasta machine which is kind of a neat thing, you can use

00:01:57 –> 00:02:02 it for that, and I’ll quickly show you how they work.

00:02:02 –> 00:02:14 Now I’ve used the texture pattern with the street view on the back of this Micro Mosaic

00:02:14 –> 00:02:22 pin from one of my tutorials, and it has a great look to it, kind of an…I don’t know,

00:02:22 –> 00:02:24 an industrial sort of look to it.

00:02:24 –> 00:02:30 And then I used this pattern here on the back, it’s a diamond type pattern on the back of

00:02:30 –> 00:02:39 this crown pin, and it’s also a Micro Mosaic pin.

00:02:39 –> 00:02:43 And I just…so I just wanted to show you that so that you can see how they were being

00:02:43 –> 00:02:44 used once they’re baked.

00:02:44 –> 00:02:49 And I’ll just grab one of these texture plates here, there’s a couple of different ways that

00:02:49 –> 00:02:55 you can use them, you can use them with clay and just roll on the top of the surface…

00:02:55 –> 00:02:58 put your clay on top and use an acrylic roller.

00:02:58 –> 00:03:04 But I wanted to show you a neat little trick that you can do, because the way these are

00:03:04 –> 00:03:13 quite… they’re deep embossed, you can actually use something like ink here, so I’ve got some

00:03:13 –> 00:03:22 Brilliance, fast drying pigment ink and I’m just going to ink up the surface here of this

00:03:22 –> 00:03:27 stamp, and there’s just so many different things you can do with texture plates, but

00:03:27 –> 00:03:33 I just thought I’d show this one, ‘cause you might not have thought of it, then we

00:03:33 –> 00:03:39 can take our piece of clay and we can set it on top and just…now you’ve…actually

00:03:39 –> 00:03:43 we’re gonna do it the other way around, we’re gonna put it and press into it so we can see

00:03:43 –> 00:03:50 it without smudging it around, I’m gonna lay it down on top, press it into the clay,

00:03:50 –> 00:03:58 now you can use a roller like this on top, and the nice thing about the way these plates

00:03:58 –> 00:04:03 are designed…or sheets, is that you can really see through it, so you can see how

00:04:03 –> 00:04:08 well the image is embossing.

00:04:08 –> 00:04:11 If the color of the clay is showing really well, then that means that you’re getting

00:04:11 –> 00:04:18 a good impression, and if it’s all milky looking then it’s not good enough, so there we go,

00:04:18 –> 00:04:20 see, isn’t that neat?

00:04:20 –> 00:04:28 So we’ve got… you’ve got the…you’ve got the ink right down into the pattern, like

00:04:28 –> 00:04:34 that, and then you can cut it out, you could cut it into a pendant or whatever you like,

00:04:34 –> 00:04:37 so that’s one neat way of using it besides just your regular way.

00:04:37 –> 00:04:43 And then to put it through the pasta machine, what you’re gonna wanna do… here I would

00:04:43 –> 00:04:50 just wipe that off first, you wanna use a little bit of water on your texture plate,

00:04:50 –> 00:04:54 or you can put it on the clay, it doesn’t really matter which way and we’re just gonna

00:04:54 –> 00:05:01 make sure that it’s misted on there well, and it keeps the clay from sticking in there

00:05:01 –> 00:05:04 too much, the ink worked that way too.

00:05:04 –> 00:05:07 Now I’ve rolled out a sheet at the thickest setting, but I’m gonna roll it a little bit

00:05:07 –> 00:05:15 thinner because once you get it…once you have your texture plate added as well and

00:05:15 –> 00:05:21 everything, you’re gonna have it too bulky if it’s at the thickest setting, so I’m gonna

00:05:21 –> 00:05:28 roll it down a couple of settings, maybe 2 or 3, it’s up to you, but a few would be best.

00:05:28 –> 00:05:36 Then what we’re gonna do is I’m just going to set this here kind of to rest, and hold

00:05:36 –> 00:05:41 this where I’m gonna put it, and if you kinda hold it away from there, I find it works a

00:05:41 –> 00:05:46 little easier, and then you’ll always need to open up the machine to the biggest setting

00:05:46 –> 00:05:49 again, ‘cause you need everything to fit through.

00:05:49 –> 00:05:57 So now what I’m gonna do is just start running this through, now I find it catches down here

00:05:57 –> 00:06:07 a little bit, but we’ll just pop that through, it’ll just roll right on, and then you get

00:06:07 –> 00:06:14 this beautiful, deep texture that looks absolutely fantastic, then your whole sheet is also the

00:06:14 –> 00:06:19 same thickness, so being able to run it through the pasta machine is really, really nice.

00:06:19 –> 00:06:24 Now you can…you always wanna blot off your water first before you do too much with it,

00:06:24 –> 00:06:28 you can do things like…you know, leave it as is, you can put paint in there, you can

00:06:28 –> 00:06:37 rub inks on the top, you can just bake it and then because it’s such a nice deep texture,

00:06:37 –> 00:06:43 you can still sand and polish it on the top, like I did on the pins, and get a nice finish

00:06:43 –> 00:06:45 without losing the texture on there.

00:06:45 –> 00:06:52 So I hope you enjoyed that, and you might wanna go check them out the next time you

00:06:52 –> 00:06:54 see them.

00:06:54 –> 00:06:59 If you did like that, make sure to click that like button, I really appreciate it.

00:06:59 –> 00:07:06 And my question for you today is, have you seen these Sculpey Texture Plates or Texture

00:07:06 –> 00:07:11 Sheets out there yet, and are you gonna go try them.

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