The technique is simple: you need Fimo, Sculpey or Cernit clay, then silkscreen screens specially designed for polymer clay. These are called silkscreens. Easy to use, this type of stencil can be used to screen-print motifs on a substrate to personalize costume jewelry, decorative objects or accessories.
Once you know which stencil you're going to use, choose your acrylic paint color. Note that some paints have difficulty drying on raw paste, while others will dry quickly. We recommend deco cream acrylic paints. All you have to do is lay the silkscreen on the Fimo clay and paint over it to sublimate your creation. How simple is that?
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Prepare a white plate in the middle notch of the dough machine with about 3 or 4 bars of your dough loaf. Place the silkscreen on your plate, but make sure it's upside down, i.e. the lighter color of the screen is facing you.
Roll over the entire surface to ensure that the silkscreen adheres well to the paste. Place a strip of paint directly on the edge of a card, and run the card over the stencil, ensuring that there is no excess paint in any area. Immediately remove and wash your silkscreen under soapy water.
Using a cookie cutter, remove 2 3 cm rounds from the plate. Cut your circles roughly in 2 with a blade. We don't keep the top part of the circles.
Prepare a small red plate, and run it through the pastry machine at the same notch as for the white plate. Using the same round cookie cutter, cut out two other pieces. Cut them to keep only the top part.
Bake your polymer pieces at 120 degrees for 30 minutes. Color the edges of the half-rounds with the patterns by pressing the edges of the pieces onto the black inking block.
Designs made with acrylic on polymer must be protected with either varnish, uv or epoxyresin, or translucent polymer paste. We've chosen to protect them with spray varnish. If you only apply one coat, your creation will be protected but will not shine, which is what we've done. You can apply a second coat of spray varnish for extra shine.
Drill your pieces with a hand chuck or drill about 2 mm from the edge, but be careful not to drill too close to break the edges. You'll need 3 holes for the red part and 2 for the patterns.
Pass your rings through the 2 holes to connect your 2 half-rings. Open the loop of your ear hook, pass it through the top hole of the red piece and close the loop with pliers.
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