I’ve played with metal clay and love the versatility of it. I want to add classes with metal clay at my studio and you may know that the focus of my studio is glass…so I went searching the internets a bit to find a tutorial on using glass with metal clay. And dichroic glass too. Yay!! Now I’m sharing it with you guys. The site that has kindly provided this tutorial is ugotglass.com. In this tutorial they’re using PMC3, which is a low fire clay. This is so that it can be done with glass. They provide two different options for working with glass and firing schedules. Metal clay opening up all kinds of design opportunities for those that aren’t necessarily silversmiths. And it’s fun to work with. Once I’ve made a few pieces with glass and metal clay I’ll post some pictures. If you make something send me a picture I can post here.
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Create Stunning Cards with Solar Paste
Solar Paste created by Simon Hurly for Ranger Ink is a paste that looks very unassuming at first. It’s an almost white, light color with a creamy consistency that’s subtle on white cardstock but it really comes alive when applied to dark cardstocks. It comes in 6 different colors that each have a cool metallic shift.
Kristina decided to try it out and created three cards with different techniques with some amazing results. For one card she used the Solar Paste with a stencil, for another she created her own simple background with different colors of the paste and lastly she designed some flowers and leaves, all on dark black cardstock. She mounted the panels on white bases and added white heat embossed sentiments to complete each card idea. She’s sharing a video tutorial on making these cards with some tips for using the Solar Paste.
Visit the K. Werner blog to check it out.
-Heather
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