Coup de coeur de la semaine 52
Les bulles c'est mieux dans l'eau que dans la pâte
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Pour éviter les bulles dans la pâte, il faut :
- Bien applatir la pâte lorsque vous la pliez -
- Mettre la partie pliée en premier dans la machine à pâte -
- Passer dans la machine à pâte au plus fin possible (sans que cela ne se déchire) -
- Regrouper le tout en évitant d'emprisonner de l'air -
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Et pour changer, j'attends vos astuces sur lilirousse@laposte.net.
Polymer clay engraving-perles gravées- English version
for our readers who do not understand French we will translate
some articles (tutorials)
Engrave beads
Materials:
Blocks of polymer clay (2 contrasted colors) here : brown and beige
Electric tool (like Dremel) with :
Carving accessories (a thin and a round)
Felt Wheel
Jeans Wheel
Acrylic paint (burnt umber)
Sandpaper
First step:
Make a monochrome bead in the color you want to be in the carvings.
Second step:
Wrap
around this bead with a very uniform and thin layer of the color you
want to be outside. If the layer is not uniform, the carvings won’t be
regular.
Third step:
Bake like usual. Then, draw lines with
the thin accessory. Mark slightly first and then more deeply to make
the underlying color visible. In this case, I made the lines with the
thin accessory and the holes with the round one.
Fourth step:
Now
the look of the bead can be better. Take the felt wheel and pull
lightly to soften the carvings. It enlarges and smoothes them in the
same time.
Fifth step (optional)
Mess the bead with the acrylic paint to patine it. Let the paint dry naturally or put the beads in the oven some minutes.
Then sand the beads to take the paint away and found the color back.
Remark:
In this case, I’ve put too much paint, be prudent!!
Last step:
Shine the bead with the jeans wheel.
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un grand merci à Fabienne pour sa traduction
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