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		<title>Polymer Clay Mishap</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Schar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on an Altered Shrine and needed some flourishes for the side made out of polymer clay. Because of the slight bend in the wood, I had to bake the polymer directly on the wood in the oven and this is what happened. I&#8217;m not sure if it was the wood varnish already on the wood [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m working on an Altered Shrine and needed some flourishes for the side made out of polymer clay. Because of the slight bend in the wood, I had to bake the polymer directly on the wood in the oven and this is what happened. I&#8217;m not sure if it was the wood varnish already on the wood piece, the polymer clay reacting to the wood, the epoxy resin I used to fix the top arch a few days ago or the acrylic paints I used to touch up the small &#8220;dings&#8221; here and there but it bubbled up and left a brown tinge to the rest of the polymer clay creations I had baking in the oven at the same time. Whatever it was I couldn&#8217;t repeat it if I tried, lol&#8230; and it gave the wood a great distressed look to it. Read below for some of the other things I made in Polymer today&#8230; so love that stuff!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.creativescraps.net/wp-content/uploads/090818-RS-AlteredShrineMishap-OT.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-47" style="border: black 1px solid;" title="AlteredShrine-Mishap" src="http://www.creativescraps.net/wp-content/uploads/090818-RS-AlteredShrineMishap-OT-300x252.jpg" alt="AlteredShrine-Mishap" width="300" height="252" /></a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the flourishes I made for the sides (funny THEY didn&#8217;t turn brown and were baked on the wood itself while everything else did turn brown that I had on the parchent paper, hmmm) a neat leaf and a few round doo-dads I can use on other future projects.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.creativescraps.net/wp-content/uploads/090818-RS-PolymerFlourishes-PC.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-49" style="border: black 1px solid;" title="Polymer Flourishes" src="http://www.creativescraps.net/wp-content/uploads/090818-RS-PolymerFlourishes-PC-300x176.jpg" alt="Polymer Flourishes" width="300" height="176" /></a></p>
<p>I saw the cutest buttons on another blog website this morning&#8230; so wish I had pretty vintage buttons and not all the ugly, plain ones in my collection. So polymer to the rescue&#8230; they still have to be painted but with some pearlescent and metallic paints they&#8217;ll be a knockout.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.creativescraps.net/wp-content/uploads/090818-RS-PolymerClayButtons-PC.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-50" style="border: black 1px solid;" title="Polymer Clay Buttons" src="http://www.creativescraps.net/wp-content/uploads/090818-RS-PolymerClayButtons-PC-300x277.jpg" alt="Polymer Clay Buttons" width="300" height="277" /></a></p>
<p>I ran some polymer through my paper crinkle hand tool thing and it made some neat textures! The polymer stuck to it like white rice on paper but the effect&#8217;s pretty cool. I think I&#8217;ll save these for a mixed media canvas I&#8217;m thinking about.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.creativescraps.net/wp-content/uploads/090818-RS-PolymerBumpMaterial-PC.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-51" style="border: black 1px solid;" title="Polymer Bump Material" src="http://www.creativescraps.net/wp-content/uploads/090818-RS-PolymerBumpMaterial-PC-246x300.jpg" alt="Polymer Bump Material" width="246" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been dying to make atc&#8217;s out of polymer so I made a base sized at 2.5 x 3.5 inches. What I do with it I have no idea, but that&#8217;s for another day. I also made a few small square pieces to use on other projects and too neat&#8230; I ran my sheet of prepared polymer into a &#8220;stamp&#8221; shape punch-stamp and it worked! The impression came out beautifully. The second one didn&#8217;t align to the edges correctly and I only got 1/2 a stamp out of it, but it looks old and torn which is more than perfect.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.creativescraps.net/wp-content/uploads/090818-RS-PolymerATCStamps-PC.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-52" style="border: black 1px solid;" title="Polymer ATC Stamps" src="http://www.creativescraps.net/wp-content/uploads/090818-RS-PolymerATCStamps-PC-300x173.jpg" alt="Polymer ATC Stamps" width="300" height="173" /></a></p>
<p>That&#8217;s it for my polymer creations&#8230;. have to get back to my Altered Shrine and see what to do next!</p>
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