{"id":89,"date":"2008-05-16T14:33:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T21:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/rubber-stamping-polymer-clay\/89\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T15:52:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T22:52:35","slug":"rubber-stamping-polymer-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/rubber-stamping-polymer-clay\/89\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubber Stamping Polymer Clay &#8211; A Popular Topic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rubber Stamping Polymer Clay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2008-05\/16-rubber-stamped-beads.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Just yesterday, I received yet another question about rubber stamping techniques for polymer clay:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">One of my email subscribers said, <i>&#8220;One thing I am really interested in, is stamping onto the<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i> polymer clay.&#8221;<\/i> <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For everyone else that&#8217;s also interested in this topic, here was my response to her <i>(plus a bit more info as well)<\/i>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Stamping into clay is actually quite easy if you use a release of some kind so the clay doesn&#8217;t stick to the stamp. There are a few ways to do this.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can spray water on your stamp as a release.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can ink your stamp first, then press it into the clay.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can rub mica powder (pearl-x, eye shadow, etc.) on the stamp or on the clay, then stamp.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can put a fine dusting of cornstarch on the clay, then stamp.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This info also goes for un-mounted rubber stamps, texture sheets, buttons or anything else you would like to press into your clay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Some of things you can make by rubber stamping polymer clay, are pendants, beads, tiles and stamped sheets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The beads I have pictured above were quite easy to make. The round pendant was first a ball of ivory colored clay, where I pressed a rose stamp, misted with water into it, to flatten it out. I liked how the edges looked ruffled like a rose so I didn&#8217;t bother to trim it. After baking I rubbed an Ochre acrylic paint into the surface to antique it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The rolled beads were made with the same clay and stamp, but this time I made a flat sheet of clay first and stamped into that. Then triangles were cut using a template and the beads were rolled wide end first, onto a mandrel. They were also antiqued to match the pendant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Another way to create stamped beads is to skewer a ball of clay on a bead pin and holding on to the pin as a handle, press the ball between two rubber stamps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This makes an image on both sides of the bead at the same time. Then if you want you can turn the bead 1\/4 turn and press again. This makes 4 sides of the bead stamped with images.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">With the bead pin already in place you don&#8217;t have to worry about distorting the bead while trying to pierce it or getting finger prints all over it. You can hang it directly on the bead rack to bake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You see it is worth it to ask&#8230; I&#8217;ll respond! That is what I am here for. So tell me&#8230; what else do you want to know?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday, I received yet another question about rubber stamping techniques for polymer clay: One of my email subscribers said, &#8220;One thing I&#8230;&nbsp;<span class=\"cmtcnt\">9<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,21,18],"tags":[514,2602,92,1948,975,2776,1761,1162,2740],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bead-projects","category-techniques","category-tools","tag-buttons","tag-faux-ceramics-pottery-glass-surfaces","tag-fingerprints","tag-inks-dyes-pigments-powders-pearlex","tag-necklaces-pendants-lanyards-accessories","tag-painting-coloring-distressed","tag-releases-cornstarch-baking-soda-water","tag-molds-stamps-stencils","tag-polymer-clay-tools-supplies-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}