{"id":20407,"date":"2016-07-18T07:45:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=20407"},"modified":"2016-07-18T06:46:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T13:46:24","slug":"alcohol-inks-tint-liquid-polymer-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/alcohol-inks-tint-liquid-polymer-clay\/20407\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Alcohol Inks To Tint Liquid Polymer Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tinting<\/a>Video #743:<\/span> Pinata Alcohol Inks mixed with Sculpey Liquid Bakeable Clay, Kato Liquid Polyclay, Fimo Liquid Gel and TLS.<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n

Today in the PcT Test Lab, I’m going to show you how to tint liquid polymer clay with alcohol inks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason I thought to do this testing is that Sculpey recently sent my a sample of their newest Sculpey Liquid Bakeable Clay – Pearl, which is one of their new products for 2016. You may be familiar with the Gold and Silver version of liquid Sculpey that came out last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I was thinking… since they have Gold and Silver, I thought it would be fun to have a bunch of different colors in the Pearly clay, so I experimented by mixing alcohol inks into the Sculpey Liquid Pearl.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I compared those mixes with the other brands of liquid polymer clay.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the video, I show baked examples of Pinata Alcohol ink in the colors Senorita Magenta, Sapphire Blue and Sunbright Yellow… mixed into each of the following brands\/types of liquid polymer clay… Kato Liquid Polyclay (Clear), Fimo Liquid Gel, Translucent Liquid Sculpey (TLS), Sculpey Liquid Bakeable Clay (Pearl), Sculpey Liquid Bakeable Clay (Silver) and Sculpey Liquid Bakeable Clay (Gold).<\/span><\/p>\n

The samples were made using a pea sized ball of liquid clay and one drop of alcohol ink, that were mixed thoroughly and spread as thin as possible onto a glass tile to bake. Make sure to mix the liquid clay and alcohol ink before the ink dries, or the clay will look speckled.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each sample was baked at 275F (135C) for 1 hour. Note that the label suggests Fimo Liquid Gel should be baked at 265F (130C), but that it will be more translucent at a higher temperature. So I baked it at 275F with the rest of the samples and saw no adverse affect.<\/span><\/p>\n

From my tests, all the different brands tinted beautifully, though I noticed that the Kato Liquid Polyclay and the Senorita Magenta seemed to darken quite a bit. The colors with the biggest difference were the colors mixed with the Sculpey Liquid Gold, which makes sense, because the Gold particles in the clay added to the color tint. The Magenta turned it Coral, the Blue turned it teal and the Yellow made it very bright Gold.<\/span><\/p>\n

The baked liquid clay kept it’s clarity and strength. Other than the color tinting the properties stayed the same as it was before tinting.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also did some samples where I mixed the Yellow and the Blue together in the liquid clay’s… which basically shows that the color mixing possibilities are endless, when you start combining colors.<\/span><\/p>\n

So go ahead and mix up a rainbow of Liquid Polymer Clay in clear or the new Pearly colors. You’re not limited to plain old translucent liquid clay anymore!.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n