{"id":19016,"date":"2014-09-18T03:05:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T10:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=19016"},"modified":"2014-09-11T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T01:46:07","slug":"columbia-river-oregon-glittery-sparkly-black-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/columbia-river-oregon-glittery-sparkly-black-sand\/19016\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia River Oregon &#8211; Glittery Sparkly Black Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=19016#video\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2014-09\/18-90570-black-sand-columbia-river-oregon-rt-03.jpg\" alt=\"Columbia River Black Sand - Polymer Clay Tutor\" width=\"255\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Video #570: Roadtrip #3-02 (OR):<\/span> <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Bring something home from your travels to work into a polymer clay project&#8230; creating memories.<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080; font-size: large;\"><strong>Topics Covered In This Video:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On the spit, Fort Stevens State Park, Oregon at the mouth of the mighty Columbia River.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Columbia River is the dividing line between the State of Oregon on the South bank and Washington to the North.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Just had a picnic on the beach and found some cool inspiration along the shoreline \/ river bank.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Pitch black sand on the beach in ripples and patches alongside regular tan colored sand.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">With some later research I discovered that this type of black sand is actually a combination of minerals from placer deposits that are heavy, glossy and partly magnetic. This partial kind of black sand often contains minerals such as rare earth elements, thorium, titanium, tungsten, zirconium and gemstones like garnet, topaz, ruby, sapphire and diamond. Hence the magnetic qualities and the gorgeous sparkle! Because it is heavier than regular silica sand, it only gets thrown up into the beach in heavy waves and then stays behind as the water retreats. That was why it was collected in little pockets and in ripples on the beach. How cool is that!?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can mix sand into translucent clay as an inclusion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This black sand would look cool on the outside of a polymer clay bead.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It could be mixed with liquid polymer clay (TLS) to make a realistic grout for Micro Mosaic Polymer Pins. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Would be great added to the paint in the Faux Turquoise Technique.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">When you are out on a vacation or enjoying yourself out there in the world, see if you can bring back something from the trip to use in your polymer clay creations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Driftwood, sand, pebbles, beach glass, are great mementos and additions to your polymer clay projects.<a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GAwxuNPNMIc?rel=0\" width=\"575\" height=\"323\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=19013#video\">Fort Stevens State Park Rustic Texture Inpiration<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=17344#video\">Micro Mosaic Pins Polymer Clay Tutorial<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=1822#video\">Polymer Clay Tutorial Faux Turquoise Beads<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=3978#video\">Polymer Clay Faux Pebble Beads and Beach Jewelry Projects<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Do you have any suggestions for videos on tips, techniques or products you would like to learn more about? Let me know in the comments section below!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">My goal is to help you to learn quicker and easier ways to bring up the professionalism in your polymer clay art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808080;\">Oh and don&#8217;t forget to give these videos a<em> Thumbs Up<\/em> click at YouTube if you are enjoying them. The more <em>Likes<\/em> a video gets, the higher it rises in the searches. And that means even more people will be able to join in on this polymer clay journey of a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Also, by subscribing to our YouTube Channel directly, you will receive notifications as soon as new videos are uploaded. To subscribe, click here&#8230; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GAwxuNPNMIc\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Polymer Clay Ideas &#8211; Columbia River Black Sand (Oregon)<\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> &#8230; the Subscribe Button is right near the top of that YouTube page.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Looking forward to hearing from you!<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 575px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px;\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video #570: Roadtrip #3-02 (OR): Bring something home from your travels to work into a polymer clay project&#8230; creating memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2435],"tags":[2709,2607,2760,2702],"class_list":["post-19016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-roadtrips","tag-water-scenes-inspiration","tag-faux-rocks-metals","tag-glitter-bling-sparkles","tag-mixed-media-scrapbooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}