Hey guys, so I'm still on the homemade embellishment kick today. We're going to make Some tiles or clay embellishments All a patty tolly-perish if you don't know who she is I'll link her channel in the description below She does a lot of collage type things with Tiles that she's made out of polymer clay and that's what we're going to try today. This is black Swirled with rose gold glitter and I think it's conditioned enough and ready to go but You know me and polymer clay have a love-hate relationship. So So, I don't know Let's just roll it one more time. This is sort of a I don't know for lack of a better term a clay rolling board And it has these guides in it that you can Put in either side the rolling pin fits across and that just helps you evenly roll out A piece of clay that's an even depth. I don't have a pasta machine. So for clay So I have a pasta machine, but it's actually for making pasta. I should say It's not for making clay. It's in the kitchen So if any of you want to send me a happy mail of the pasta machine for clay I mean, you know happy mail address is in the video description Anyway, so we're gonna roll this out This is I have the 1 8th inch guides in here. I don't want the tiles like too thick at all It's to stick to the rolling pin. I want to get that off.  I wasn't going to mix this until it was like completely incorporated, but I'm kind of liking how it's looking Swirled like that. It's almost like it's Distressed copper or something. I don't know So I kind of like the way that looks So we are going to do that then I'm going to take some of my rubber stamps I have a rubber stamp and stencil line in case you didn't know um This is set number 11 and I like this one because it has this handwriting stamp in it That we're going to Put on here, I think right in the middle Press it in kind of left to press and press it only thing is that you can't really press it twice. Let's try again I'm trying to get my head in the camera And what else? Let's see. I'm going to try this one This is one of the modern atomic sets. This is set number Oh, yeah, that's better. It's stamped better than the hand or anyone, but that's fine I just wanted to leave an impression and like texture in the tile. I Don't even know if you guys can see that on camera. Can you? Do I want to add anything else? Let's see maybe this little one from Modern atomic set number three.  Okay, that's pretty cool Now we're going to cut it apart with our straight edge Into rectangles or squares or something Something resembling something straight If I can without getting my head in the camera, that's like a trick. I think some days that's very challenging for me Okay, that's a little cookie sheet that fits inside my little toaster oven. I use up here in the art room So I have a bunch of clay, but I'm not going to make all of it into tiles at least not today But I do want to use up this This little bit of clay, so I'm going to re-scrunch it re-roll it stamp it and I'll be right back Okay, this is my little cookie sheet I got the handwriting stamped to impress in the clay. Can you see that I had to really lean on it? Probably if I conditioned the clay a little more and have to lean on it less, but it did work So again, I'm going to just keep cutting my clay until all the clay is used up and I'll be right back Okay, now that we've got our cookie sheet filled. I need to get out the toast I need to put all this away. I'm going to turn on the toaster oven and we're going to bake these Per the package instructions, which is going to be challenging. I don't have my reading glasses on 275 for 30 minutes per Quarter inch Yeah, that's what that says I do have primo. Are these both primo? I don't I tend to not think they are primo. One is scolpey and one is primo 275 for 15 minutes per quarter inch. So this one says 15. This one says 30 So maybe 20 I'll keep an eye on it at 15 and we'll see what happens. All right. I'm going to do that I'll be right back Okay, so I baked them for 20 minutes, which seems to be the right choice Um And I tried baking with this um sparkle clay in a different color by itself not long ago And I had a really hard time with it And I'm just it's just now donning me Donning on me looking at the two different kinds of clay in their baking times That maybe I was following the sparkle clay's package directions, but that was way too hot and way for too long So that's just like an idea. I thought um, so they're all cool now I put them on this, uh, my palette plate just to cool So we're going to take them and we're going to make the design in them stand out just a little bit Um By putting some metallic rub on them. I have a bunch of different kinds of metallic rub including these metallic lusters from deco art I have these treasure gold metallics, which are an oil-based non tarnishing wax Gilt, um, I can tell you they're oil based by the smell. Um, they work great, but they stink Um, I also have lots of metallic paints. I think today I want to try these I have a copper color It's called copper kettle and then I have brilliant turquoise I think those would look nice on here and I've got a couple of stippling brushes short fat Stiff bristled brushes that one for each color. So I think this will work We'll try it anyways. So where's it could happen? Let's get the baby out wipes out just in case Okay, so I'm going to um first try the copper. I just want to grab just a little bit I do want to have my newsprint pad here close by Yeah, because I don't want too much paint On the brush And I'm just going to Very I'm barely touching the tile. Let me zoom in for you so you can see what I'm doing Now I know when patty perish does these she does them with pigment powders and things like that Um, if you use something more like this Then probably what's going to happen is once it dries And you clear coat it nothing should move She has trouble with things. Um, some of the metallic actually coming off Yeah, I like that with these two colors on there and then the sparkle clay sort of in the background Oops, where are we? There we are And you could um clear coat them After this rub dries or you could just leave it But you'll notice that you can kind of barely see the Stamped impression into the tile Until you put this rub on there and then you're like, oh wow, wait a minute There is There is a design or something on there Nothing like talking to the camera and like looking up and it's off because you ran out of battery It's a good thing. I've got a spare anyways As I was saying you could clear coat them After this dries and nothing should move I love the way they're looking. We're going to keep going while i'm chatting You probably could of course you can of course use them as a mix me embellishment Which is what I intend at the moment on using them For but you also could probably do a sculpture with them, which I know patty has done before You could of course add them to a cam mix media canvas or other wall kind of hanging You probably also could line a you know a wooden tray or a metal tray To use on your coffee table or in the kitchen or something You would probably want to cover the tiles once you've set them in the bottom of the tray with Like a food safe resin or something But how cool are these You know I've watched patty make these for years and I always thought you know I should try that one day And it finally dawned on me the other day. I caught one of her lives That was a little bit too much copper anyway I caught one of her lives By happenstance, which doesn't happen too often anymore. I'm too busy, but um I was watching her make tiles. I thought you know, I've got clay in everything upstairs. I need to just give that a shot So I finally had time today Now the sparkle play is difficult to work with It's hard to Condition it's really stiff tough clay I actually prefer the softer clays, but the sparkle clay is really pretty and I don't think it's I don't think they make it in the softer clays Um, not all our polymer clay is created equally um That being said this was as I said earlier mixing of two different brands of polymer clay It worked And as these are cooling they're getting really hard by the way very stiff Which is perfect. I'm going to finish these last two and then we'll get a close-up shot um, this deco art Metallic lusters working like a charm. Um, I haven't used it on too many things, but what I have used it on I've really liked Uh, I am in the deco art helping artists program in the interest of clarity Um, but that being said I would not tell you something about a product like that if I didn't genuinely like it Um, and I do like these metallic lusters. I like my metallic paints in general, but these are nice um alternative Waxy sort of burnishing kind of creamy paint to These which I do love but these stink. These don't smell. What does it say down there? wax metallic finish Relanguages that's what it says. So deco or metallic luster Um, anyway, it works great Here are our tiles Look at those Aren't they pretty? and then I'm gonna take my newsprint paper Just do that Wipe off My brushes and I've got another piece of paper. I still need to work on today's tag and paper clip. So Anyway, um polymer clay tiles think about trying it. It's another embellishment on its own or embellishment part if you're gonna, um add it to um hand painted papers copies of painted papers um fabric Cardboard, I mean it's it's another layer. It's an interesting another layer If you want to see what I would do with this kind of thing and more you can follow me on social media I'm on instagram twitter or facebook all of that stuff You can also find the facebook art groups I'm in and request to join and and follow me over there and show me over there what you're doing in the way of homemade embellishments or What channels or videos that you find that are inspiring you? Um on youtube or maybe their pages on the internet Uh, you can also find the places where you can support the free content here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups All of that is in the link tree list of links, which is in the description below Along with my happy mail address and a bunch of other stuff. So check it out And don't forget to like share and subscribe check out patty's channel. I'll link it in the description below also Um, she's really you know, she does some interesting wacky crazy far out things. This is one of them and it's you know I mean, how do you just that's pretty how do you not like that?  Um, you could just mix them all together Completely or you could marble them like I did did these two and then just make some tiles Anyway, that's it for today everybody go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys