{"id":138,"date":"2008-07-03T16:28:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T23:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/jones-tones-foil-mona-lisa-leaf\/138\/"},"modified":"2016-09-22T16:39:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T23:39:31","slug":"jones-tones-foil-mona-lisa-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/jones-tones-foil-mona-lisa-leaf\/138\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones Tones Foil Paper, Mona Lisa Metal Leaf and Polymer Clay Beads"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vid #65: Craft foils and metal leafs used in poly clay projects produce similar affects… but these 2 metallic crafting materials are quite different from each other:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The metal foils such as the Jones Tones craft foils have a<\/span> unique<\/span> metally look, but they are actually made of plastic. On the other hand, leafing products such as the Mona Lisa Variegated Metal Leaf are in fact made of real metals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes cheaper alternative compositions of metals are used to imitate the more expensive ones in the leafing products. Aluminum as a substitute for Silver is a good example. These metallic compositions whether they are aluminum, silver or gold, are rolled into incredibly thin sheets (thinner than tissue paper), called metal leaf.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because these leaf sheets are metal based, they do not stretch very much. By applying the non-stretchy Mona Lisa Leaf to a sheet of polymer clay and then stretching out the clay with an acrylic roller, the metal layer splits and cracks quickly, leaving a very cool crackled effect.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, when you apply the plastic-based Jones Tones foil to a polymer clay sheet, the cracking is much finer and less dramatic. This is because plastic is much more stretchy than real metal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week I sent out a free video tutorial to everyone subscribed to my Email Guest List. In that video (Gold Leaf Polymer Clay vs Gold Foil<\/a>) I provided an introduction to the Jones Tones Foil and Mona Lisa Leaf products.<\/span><\/p>\n

This weeks free tutorial video will continue on the topic, showing you how to apply both of these products to polymer clay. Get on the Polymer Clay Tutor Guest List<\/a> so that you don’t miss out.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The full version of the “<\/strong><\/span>Metal Leafs-Foils<\/strong><\/span>“<\/strong> preview video shown above, is available for purchase at my Polymer Clay Bead Making Videos<\/a> Library in the Volume-004 Back Issue Package.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In this <\/span>“Using Metal Leafs & Foils” <\/strong><\/span>tutorial video I show:<\/span><\/p>\n