I love the way it comes out of the box soft enough to roll into a ball and start working. It comes in flat “air mattress” shaped slabs which I roll through my pasta machine just one time and fold over to a double thickness ready to make tiles. For added strength, I mount them on 4"x4" ceramic tiles from the home improvement or tile store (or make my own from Cre8it Bisque Tiles). The double deck effect adds interest as well as strength.
The clay is easy to impress with rubber stamps or any other textured surface (see our Cre8it Texture Pack) and very lightweight after baking. I have taken advantage of that fact to make medallions and small tiles for cards, journals, and the fronts of glass bottles, collage and doll elements and even jewelry. When mounted on a support material, the clay’s lesser strength becomes a non-issue.
What still was an issue was the lack of color. Though recently released in Terra Cotta, Sculpey previously came only in white. I wanted a sophisticated finish and could not get it with any of the acrylic paints I tried. Watercolors beaded up on the “plastic” surface, and acrylic glazes dried sticky. My other problem was the plastic surface itself - it looked like plastic - not like clay.
The “solution” was a long time coming. I experimented with every colorant and every medium in my studio and that’s a lot! Finally, I discovered a mix of several ingredients that gave me just what I was looking for - a transparent, permanent matte finish that would add subtle color to enhance the impressions in the clay, and trade that “plastic” look for the soft feeling of porcelain bisque (no wonder it took awhile - that was a tall order!!).
We love this glaze and think that you will too.
Although this paint can be used on any surface, it is intended for a very specific purpose: to put a matte “glaze” finish on textured non-pourous surfaces, turning the look of “plastic” into the look of natural clay or bisque porcelain. It is most effective on polymer clay and debossed shrink plastic.
Available in four muted pastels (infinitely mixable), it settles into the debossed areas of a surface for emphasis and “glazes” over the smoother, raised areas.
Set of All Four Colors
With 4oz of White Sculpey and Texture Edger (2oz. bottles) $20.00 Buy it!
4oz of White Sculpey and Texture Edger
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All swatch samples are white Sculpey textured with pieces from our Cre8it Texture Pack
Adobe Dust
A golden natural tone based on the architecture of high desert Santa Fe.
Bottle (2oz) $4.95 Buy It!
Chamisa Sage
Chamisa, which grows wild in the high desert and makes everybody sneeze, is not a relative of the sage plant, but does exhibit a beautiful cool sage color in its foliage.
Bottle (2oz) $4.95 Buy It!
Blue Corn Mist
Blue Corn is a beautiful, deep slate blue. This glaze is the color you would get if you “misted” it over a white background.
Bottle (2oz) $4.95 Buy It!
Morning Mauve
In the mountains, the sunsets are rivaled only by the sunrises. This is the color I see stretched across the mountain tops when I walk outside every morning.
Bottle (2oz) $4.95 Buy It!
