Female 1: Today in Polymer Clay TV we’re going to show you a couple of transferring techniques. And out on the table here we have some pendants and things that have been made with different kinds of transfers, and for this you’re going to need your transfers that are already on a transfer paper.
This is a pre-printed design that I have colored in with press my color of pencils and I’ve got my little bunch of pencils here and the black was already printed on the paper and I decided that I want it to look kind of like of a burning fire kind of a thing, so I colored it in with orange and red and yellow colored pencil. And I’m going to show you how easy it is to transfer these onto a piece of clay and here are two that I’ve already been done. This is was just a color pencil drawing and so is this. And this one is left in the mat surface that it comes out after baking. This is a cured piece. This one I coded with some liquid clay and get made it shiny, so it’s got a shiny surface to it. So with this type of transfer paper you have a choice to leave your surface knot or to seal it with something shiny.
Female 2: Alright, so only bone folder for this or something that you can rub like a Popsicle stick. You don’t have to have a bone folder.
Female 1: Right.
Female: But something kike that that you can really rub it on to the clay because you want to make sure that your design adheres to the clay and really grabs on to. You grab that clay really grabs to excuse me.
Female 1: Right. So I’m using my work surface here, so that I can peel it off because I’m going to varnish this. And I don’t want to use my blade I don’t have luck with getting my blade to take the things off there table top, so I used a work surface. So you’re just going to varnish this onto the clay which my base here is primo translucent makes with primo pearl.
Female 2: Here it’s best to do it on a lighter it just shows a better?
Female 1: Yes, I mean if you try to transfer this onto like alter marine blue.
Female 2: Right.
Female 1: Or something probably wouldn’t turn out that also my suggestion would be if you wanted your whole piece to be like a dark color that you just varnish your design unto a really thin piece of whatever like a light color that you can stick to your darker color piece later.
Female 2: Right, and we can always add some angst to it or anything that change the color.
Female 1: Right. You think that’s enough?
Female 2: I think that’s enough.
Female 1: Okay this paper is really magical and it doesn’t take a whole lot of time to get your image stock on there. So now what we’re going to do since we’re doing it on camera is we‘re going to improvise with the bucket of water. The direction son this paper says, to use running water. It doesn’t really matter either way when I first did it at home I used a dish and what you’re going to do is actually dissolve this paper right off the image by slashing it around. And you’ll see as you slash in here the paper actually disappear. And once the paper has disappeared off the clay you can pull the piece out. And there it is.
Female 2: You’ve got a perfect transfer.
Female 1: It’s perfectly transferred onto your clay.
Female 2: Is that easy?
Female 1: Very, very easy and I just try off and I would suggest that you allow this to air dry before putting it in the oven. It’s better I think if you let the water evaporate off of the transfer rather than trying to pat it try. You don’t want to smudge it or move it or anything, so just allow that set it off to the side let it air dry and then pop it in the oven, and or what I was going to go with this one once I had actually set up this design so it would fit inside this little rectangular cookie cutter. So cut out my design, and then bake it. And you’re done. It’s that easy, that quick where there is no stop motion camera.
Female 2: Right, and I’m going to show another cut of paper which is called the Laser Trend and you can find it in Lasertrends.com and basically we’ve already put the image right on to the clay and we’re going to do it the same way and we’re going to bring our water in. It’s best to do this under a running water, but sometimes you just don’t have and what’s going to happen with this one is once it gets wet it’s kind of peel off and I think you can start to see this and you’ve got yourself a gorgeous image and there’s the paper. That is how easy it is. The laser trim let me tell you the difference between the laser trim and then paper that we have on our shop. Laser trend gives a more glossy finish whereas, the other paper gives more mat finish, depending on what your project is you want to decide if you want to use a Laser Trend or you want to use this paper. The difference is away. So the Laser Trend is basically it’s light the paper sides off and then our transfer paper it dissolves, so see what you like best and play along with it. Thanks for joining us.
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