Sculpey Souffle Polymer Clay Product Review

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

00:00:08 –> 00:00:13 we’re doing a review of the new Sculpey Soufflé Polymer Clay.

00:00:13 –> 00:00:19 Now, a little while ago, I showed you that Polyform has come out with a whole bunch of

00:00:19 –> 00:00:24 new products for 2014, and one of them is a new line of Polymer clay called Sculpey

00:00:24 –> 00:00:33 Soufflé, and it comes in 22 colors…so far, anyways, and they’ve got them in the regular

00:00:33 –> 00:00:37 size packs as well as the multipacks.

00:00:37 –> 00:00:45 And it’s described as a lightweight very strong clay that won’t crack in large pieces,

00:00:45 –> 00:00:53 and…or, when you’re doing large pieces, and it’s got a suede like finish.

00:00:53 –> 00:00:55 When I first opened up the pack…

00:00:55 –> 00:01:03 I’ve got a couple of packs here that I opened up, the texture was soft and it reminded me

00:01:03 –> 00:01:10 very much of the clay that Sculpey used to carry…or Polyform used to do, called Studio

00:01:10 –> 00:01:16 by Sculpey, and it’s behavior is very, very similar, so I suspect, it’s quite a similar

00:01:16 –> 00:01:22 formula, but the colors are a little different, and packaged differently, they call it a lighter

00:01:22 –> 00:01:29 weight, and if you compare it to the Premo sized block, they’re identical sized blocks,

00:01:29 –> 00:01:39 but the weight on the package is 1.7oz or 48grams and for the Premo, it’s 2oz or 57grams,

00:01:39 –> 00:01:46 which makes it about 15%… the Soufflé 15% lighter, that isn’t a huge difference, but

00:01:46 –> 00:01:50 you may notice it on a really large piece.

00:01:50 –> 00:01:58 The colors are designer type colors, so they’re not based on an artist based pigment, so we’ll

00:01:58 –> 00:02:04 have to see how the colors mix together in general, but when I mixed these 2 colors…now

00:02:04 –> 00:02:09 the colors have such pretty names like; this one’s called Mai Tai, and this one’s called

00:02:09 –> 00:02:14 Blue Stone, and when I mixed them together, these are the results I got.

00:02:14 –> 00:02:22 I’ve got some raw clay here, and I did a 50/50 mix of the Mai Tai and the Blue Stone

00:02:22 –> 00:02:30 together, and I got this Purple-y color, and you can see that the colors are very equal

00:02:30 –> 00:02:34 in saturation, so it is pretty much a 50/50 mix, you can see it’s right in the middle,

00:02:34 –> 00:02:40 it’s not leaning toward the Blue or leaning towards the Mai Tai more, so I’m wondering

00:02:40 –> 00:02:45 if that is a typical result for the rest of the colors, kinda judging by the way they

00:02:45 –> 00:02:46 look.

00:02:46 –> 00:02:52 Also, when you bake them…this is the baked pieces here, they did not shift at all that

00:02:52 –> 00:02:57 I could see, at least these 3 colors didn’t, after baking, they are almost identical to

00:02:57 –> 00:03:03 the color mixed when raw, which is really nice, and makes it so it’s gonna be more

00:03:03 –> 00:03:10 predictable when you go to work on your projects, we’ll see if that also stands true for the

00:03:10 –> 00:03:14 rest of the colors, but I’m suspecting it probably will.

00:03:14 –> 00:03:23 Now, the thing about the Soufflé clay is that it has kind of a matte finish to it and

00:03:23 –> 00:03:30 it’s suitable for projects that you’re not planning on sanding, and I’ve got 2

00:03:30 –> 00:03:35 samples here…I’m not totally sure if the camera will pick up on it or not, but this

00:03:35 –> 00:03:44 is the unsanded piece here, and this is the sanded piece, it will sand to a shine…sand

00:03:44 –> 00:03:51 and buff to a shine, it’s got an interesting, almost…if you could see it blown up, there’s

00:03:51 –> 00:03:59 almost these little tiny white flecks in it, almost like as if there was little granules

00:03:59 –> 00:04:06 of cornstarch or something in it, but it’s what probably gives it that suede finish to

00:04:06 –> 00:04:12 it, and you can really tell when you feel the difference between the Soufflé clay and

00:04:12 –> 00:04:18 something else, there is a suede kind of feel to it and it does really look good with the

00:04:18 –> 00:04:20 matte.

00:04:20 –> 00:04:28 I think that we can use that to its advantage by combining some matte finish and some…the

00:04:28 –> 00:04:33 matte finish Soufflé with some Premo clay that gets a high shine on it, I think we could

00:04:33 –> 00:04:37 do some neat things with it, but we’ll do some more testing on that.

00:04:37 –> 00:04:44 As far as the overall strength and things…I’ve baked up some chips at different thicknesses…and

00:04:44 –> 00:04:51 we’ll do a Test Lab on it soon and compare it to the Studio by Sculpey, because I feel

00:04:51 –> 00:04:55 like it’s going to be very similar, and we’ll test out the strengths on that in

00:04:55 –> 00:04:56 another video.

00:04:56 –> 00:05:04 But overall, I think it’s quite an interesting clay, I think it will behave similar to the

00:05:04 –> 00:05:12 Studio by Sculpey, and actually that brings up a point, some time ago, I did some tutorials

00:05:12 –> 00:05:18 that I used the Studio by Sculpey in, and what…for any of you that have been with

00:05:18 –> 00:05:22 me for a long time, or if you’ve bought back issues that have that clay in it, I would

00:05:22 –> 00:05:28 go ahead and replace that with the Soufflé ‘cause I think it’s the same clay basically,

00:05:28 –> 00:05:31 and you can get the same results from it.

00:05:31 –> 00:05:35 So now, we have a…you know, for those of you…when it was discontinued, now we have

00:05:35 –> 00:05:39 a substitute that will be perfect for it.

00:05:39 –> 00:05:46 It’s gonna be interesting to see how this clay works in other projects, they suggest

00:05:46 –> 00:05:53 it’s good for Mokume gane and caning and things…I did a tiny little test cane…

00:05:53 –> 00:05:59 you know, just a typical jelly roll cane, I find it’s probably gonna be a little soft

00:05:59 –> 00:06:07 for caning, but when I sliced through it, the line stayed clean, so it may work in probably

00:06:07 –> 00:06:13 not too complicated designs I’m guessing, but it’s gonna be fun to play with it and

00:06:13 –> 00:06:14 see.

00:06:14 –> 00:06:20 It bakes at the same temperature as Premo, it’s at 275F and it…the packaging says

00:06:20 –> 00:06:26 30 minutes, with this test lab, I’ve tested both 30 minutes and 60 minutes, so we’ll

00:06:26 –> 00:06:33 see which one will benefit, with Premo we know that the 60 minutes is a better amount

00:06:33 –> 00:06:39 of time for strength and everything, but we’ll later find that out about the Soufflé.

00:06:39 –> 00:06:45 So, I hope you liked that, and I’d love you to go and get a pack and test it out and

00:06:45 –> 00:06:52 see what you think, see if it’s gonna suit your Polymer clay projects.

00:06:52 –> 00:06:56 Please leave a comment in the comment section below, and let me know if this is a product

00:06:56 –> 00:06:58 that you would like to try.

00:06:58 –> 00:07:04 And if you’ve got suggestions for future videos, Test Labs and all that kind of thing,

00:07:04 –> 00:07:07 leave those in the comment section as well too, alright?

00:07:07 –> 00:07:10 So we’ll see you next time and bye for now.

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