Hi guys, it's Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay
Tutor. In today's PcT Product Demo, I'm
going to show you these cool Mandala
Stamps by Haskins Design Studio.
Now, these are laser-cut acrylic stamps
that are unlike anything I have used before
with polymer clay. You can use them with
all kinds of different mediums, you can
use them with polymer clay, paper clay
air dry clay, ceramic clay, even things
like fondant and candle-making and
soap-making, and all kinds of stuff. And
even just thought of one today,
using them for pencil rubbings. So all
kinds of cool things that you could do
with these acrylic stamps. Let me just
show you what they are all about, ok?
Now I've got a bunch of different
designs here. Tina Haskins is an
architect who also loves to work with
polymer clay, and she designed over a
hundred and fifty different designs of
these Mandalas. Now I'm going to show
them all to you in a second but they may
or may not arrive to you with this paper
coating on it, and before you can start
to use them, you need to soak them in
water, soapy water. And the reason why I'm
telling you this right now is we'll throw
it into the bowl and let it soak while
we're talking here. I've got some soapy
water and we'll just let it soak and
then I'll show you how to remove that
paper. Now we can go back to these. Now, why don't I first show you what I
made with the stamps. I made... OK, let me
see, we took... I took this stamp here, this
acrylic stamp, and made these two
different patterns which look completely
different. They're both made with the
same stamp and the same Premo Sunset
Pearl clay but they've been handled in
completely different ways. This one here
is a technique called Mica Shift. Now I
have a video on doing Mica Shift so
you can check that out if you've never
done it before. But basically it is a
perfectly smooth technique that looks
like it's three-dimensional, and that's
because you pushed the particles in the
pearl clay around, and these acrylic
stamps work beautifully for it. This one
here, I've used it in its dimensional
form so I pushed the clay into the stamp,
I domed it, so this is kind of a domed half
here. And I put a little bit of Mica
Powders on the raised areas, and it has a
completely different look to it. And you
can use these stamps for lots of
different types of polymer clay
techniques. I have done... I've made... taken
one of these Mica Shift tech... discs, and
made it into a pair of earrings. Well
actually not a pair, just a single one
I'm going to make this one after. But I
want to show you that you could also
take two disc pieces, put them together,
and make yourself like a lentil bead, a
hollow lentil bead. I have tutorials on
how to make Hollow Lentil Beads too, but I
thought it would point that out because
it's very cool. Now, these, like I said,
are laser-cut acrylics, so they're made
of acrylic plastic type material, and
there is a little bit of a special care
that you need to do with it. It's rigid
so it's going to act differently than
any of your flexible molds like
rubber stamps or silicone molds or
anything like that. And the designs are
crazy detailed, let me show you one for
example that's just super super detailed here.
It's got all kinds of super fine
lines and that's the only thing... you can
only get that with laser, as far as
I know, to get those sharp sharp details.
She has lots of different designs, these
are all one and a half inch circles,
and let me just show you the different
patterns. I'll go through them. This
one is from... this is number
20. So this is what that pattern looks
like and you can see that tiny little
detail that it picks up, because of the
being in the laser etched acrylic, is just so much
more crisper than any rubber stamp
detail that you're going to get.
The next one I'll show you here is design number 13,
and sometimes what you think
it's going to look like, how it looks
like here, looks quite different in its
3D form because of course it's opposite,
right? You're filling in the spaces, the
negative space is what ends up showing up.
This design here is 60... this one's
called 61, this is the one that I did a
little sneak peek on so some of you were
wondering what it was that I was showing
you, and this is the design here. And you
can see, well I don't know if Doug will be
able to pick it up, but on here even just
a little etched backgrounds from the
acrylic stamp are showing up on the clay,
which just shows you how much detail you
can get from these types of stamps. This
number here is number 5, it's very
pretty and like I said, she's got... or
maybe I didn't say, but she's got
150 different designs
and you can buy them in sets of five or ten.
I have ten here, there's this pattern, the
one that I made the earrings with
and the other domed piece.
This is design number 1, I'm really just going through
these so that you can really get a good
idea how different they all look and how
cool they are.
You can also use these types of stampings for
Faux Enamel-typed projects, you could fill those little
crevices in there with liquid... tinted
liquid clay, all kinds of cool stuff you
could do. Oh sorry that's number 60, pattern 60.
This one has a completely
different look, this is number 7R...
just a sec here, 7R, I think this
one would look a lot like a dreamcatcher.
If you wanted to hang some feathers
underneath it or something like that,
it's really cool-looking.
The next one is number 59,
and this one has a lot less fine details but still really tiny
little geometric type pattern on there,
really cool looking. Alright, so that's
those ones. Let's check out this one here,
the paper's starting to get soaked and
you can usually just peel off the large
pieces really quite easily. You want to
take... when you're taking care of these,
cleaning them, never use rubbing alcohol
on them. Rubbing alcohol is really hard
on acrylic so that goes for your
acrylic roller and that kind of thing
too. So you can just scrape it off if you
need to, you can scrub it with a stiff
toothbrush, you may need to let it sit a
little bit longer. This one looks like it
needs to sit a little bit longer or
maybe with a little hotter water but
it'll come off nice and clean. Soapy
water will do it, and you'll get a really
cool pattern. This pattern here is the
number 64 but you're not going to be
able to see it because I don't have time
to peel it all off right now. Alright so
there's that. Let me just quickly show
you how to use these stamps.
I will pick, which one should I pick? I'll pick this
one here, you're going to want to...
you need a release for these stamps,
otherwise the clay is going to get
caught in there. Now, this one's nice and
open but it does have a lot of super
fine detail in the center so use
something like either cornstarch, in some
countries they call it corn flour,
or you can use Mica Powder.
Corn flour is easy to use,
you want to make sure it's in there but
you don't want it so caked in that it's
getting stuck on your clay or you're
losing any of the details.
Water isn't going to be your best especially with
some of the brands like Fimo where water
kind of just makes it sticky, so just use...
corn starch is perfect. Then you
just take your clay, this happens to be a
sheet of Premo Sunset Pearl, it's a really
pretty color, and you put it on top and
you start pressing it in. I like to press
it in from the back. I found that if I
tried to use like an Acrylic Brayer or
something, it would skip a little bit
and kind of leave a double impression. And
you don't want that. So you want to make
sure that you've got it pressed in all
the way around, and that you haven't
missed any of the detail. You can see
through it so you can kind of see if
you've missed any areas.
And then I like to go from... I'd like to peel it back but
I like to peel it back kind of from all
the spots towards the center, from the
outside to the center is what I'm trying to say here.
Then you lift it out... isn't that so cool?
Now, I found that they sort of came
out domed, they're kind of scooped out by
the time you peel them out. You could
just leave it domed like that, even if
you didn't have a domed cookie sheet or
one of these Sculpey Hollow Bead Makers,
you could... you could still probably... it'd
probably stay domed if you just baked it
flat like that. But I'm going to cut it
out, I use... I have a 1 1/2 inch
round cookie cutter or a clay cutter,
just going to look over from the top, try
to get it as centered as possible, cut it
out. And now I have this beautiful little
domed piece. Isn't that cool? Now you can bake it on
here like I said or you could... or if you
want to, you can flatten them back out
again just by you know, just pressing it
back down flat. So you could
layer these, there's all sorts of really
cool things that you can do with it.
Make sure that if you do get any clay stuck
inside there, that you just scrub it out
with some soapy water and try to get it
out. You may use like a toothpick or
something to pick at it, but try not to
get it stuck in there. Make sure to use the
cornstarch and you will be good to go. So
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