UPDATE – Distress Crackle Paint on Polymer Clay

00:00:03 –> 00:00:08 Hi guys, its Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor, and today’s PcT Test Lab, we’re gonna

00:00:08 –> 00:00:14 do an update on using Distress Crackle Paint on Polymer Clay.

00:00:14 –> 00:00:25 Now, sometime ago I did a Test Lab video on using the Distress Crackle Paint by Ranger…and

00:00:25 –> 00:00:33 I’ve got a couple examples here, I’ve got the Clear Rock Candy and the Black Soot, and

00:00:33 –> 00:00:40 when I did that test…and I’ve got the old test chip here, I had some of the Rock

00:00:40 –> 00:00:44 Candy on…okay this was a baked piece of Premo!

00:00:44 –> 00:00:53 Polymer Clay, and then I put some of the Rock Candy on there and I put the Black Soot, and

00:00:53 –> 00:00:59 you can see there’s almost no Black Soot left, it flaked right off and you can still flake

00:00:59 –> 00:01:05 off and… like this paint here, and you can see it really didn’t stick and wasn’t compatible,

00:01:05 –> 00:01:09 when you use it on baked clay.

00:01:09 –> 00:01:14 But I have learned since then… and I’ve done some tutorials actually using the product,

00:01:14 –> 00:01:24 if you put the paint onto a raw piece of Polymer Clay, then let it dry like I have here, and

00:01:24 –> 00:01:31 you can see it’s all crackled, but you can also see that the clay isn’t baked yet, then

00:01:31 –> 00:01:40 you bake your piece, the crackle paint will bond to the Polymer Clay really, really well

00:01:40 –> 00:01:43 and stay permanent on there.

00:01:43 –> 00:01:50 Now, I’ll show you some of the examples where I used it, there’s a couple of examples here,

00:01:50 –> 00:01:57 the Black paint here that I stenciled on to one of these hearts from my…what was it

00:01:57 –> 00:01:58 called…

00:01:58 –> 00:02:07 Street Hearts Tutorial, is the Black crackle paint, and it was put onto the raw clay and

00:02:07 –> 00:02:12 baked, and you can see…and same with the Black in this area here, and I’ll just scrape

00:02:12 –> 00:02:18 it for you, and you cannot get it off, so it really bonds well as long as you put it

00:02:18 –> 00:02:25 on to the raw clay first and then bake it, isn’t that cool, so when I thought it wasn’t

00:02:25 –> 00:02:30 going to work, I see that it will…as long as it’s used that way.

00:02:30 –> 00:02:35 Now let me just show you what it looks like in the jar, you wanna shake it up the best

00:02:35 –> 00:02:42 you can, though it’s a very, very thick paint, and these little bottles come with

00:02:42 –> 00:02:48 a brush on the end, and it’s a very, very thick paint, and the size of the crackles

00:02:48 –> 00:02:53 will really depend on how thick you put it on, if you put it on really, really thin,

00:02:53 –> 00:03:00 the crackling will be fine, and if you put it on thick…like I did here, and this sample

00:03:00 –> 00:03:07 here where it’s dried already, the crackles will be quite thick and deep crackles…large

00:03:07 –> 00:03:12 crackles, I’ll show you the Black as well, ‘cause I have these two colors here, and

00:03:12 –> 00:03:17 you just wanna put it on however you’re gonna use it like in the other tutorial…the

00:03:17 –> 00:03:23 Street Hearts tutorial, we used it in a stencil and things.

00:03:23 –> 00:03:30 But the one thing is you want to make sure it dries first before you put it in the oven,

00:03:30 –> 00:03:38 if you put any paint in the oven when it’s wet still, what will happen is, the moisture

00:03:38 –> 00:03:44 that’s in the paint will bubble up while it’s baking, and will give you unsightly bubbles,

00:03:44 –> 00:03:52 unless of course that’s what you want, but I would always let your paint…whether it’s

00:03:52 –> 00:03:59 a crackle paint like this one or an acrylic paint, let it dry first before you bake it.

00:03:59 –> 00:04:06 Now with crackle paints, you also wanna let them air dry, you can…once they start crackling

00:04:06 –> 00:04:12 a little bit, you can speed it up a little bit with a blow dryer, but try not to speed

00:04:12 –> 00:04:18 it up at the beginning because it needs time to crackle out, otherwise it won’t get that

00:04:18 –> 00:04:21 really great crackle effect.

00:04:21 –> 00:04:25 So I hope that information was helpful for you, you should be able to do some really

00:04:25 –> 00:04:31 cool projects now with your Distress Crackle Paint on your Polymer Clay as long as you

00:04:31 –> 00:04:34 use it on raw clay and then cure it after.

00:04:34 –> 00:04:39 Alright, so I hope it was helpful, if it was, do let us know if you liked this video.

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00:05:00 –> 00:05:02 to your questions, alright?

00:05:02 –> 00:05:05 So we’ll see you next time and bye for now.

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