Hi there, Sandy here.
Welcome to another polymer clay video at KeepsakeCrafts.net.
Today we're going to try a little bit of polymer clay embroidery.
This is a fun technique that's been around for a while.
I've seen many gorgeous examples of it and it's actually a lot easier than you may think.
I have seen so many examples online of polymer clay faux embroidery, it's called, it goes
by a lot of names.
Now you can do it on beads, but I'm going to do today's project in a purchased bezel.
I'm sure you can find something similar and you can also do this on a bead.
You could make a flat cabochon.
It's good to have a domed surface though as it helps you get the technique right.
So the first thing you want to do is grab a scrap of paper and take your bezel and a
pencil and just trace out your bezel so you have a place to start planning your design.
You can just start sketching in what do you want.
Flowers, vines.
Because this is such a small scale it really helps to have this worked out first.
You don't have to follow this exactly, but it gives you an idea of where you're going.
And I've actually already done this on this side.
I sketched out three.
This one with flowers and a butterfly, this one that's very symmetrical, which I actually
don't love and then this one, which you can see I did here.
So we're going to work on this one, but you'll learn the techniques you can apply them to
anything you want really.
First thing you need to do is choose your background color.
I mixed up I think one part Wasabi with maybe a little bit more than one part White to get
this kind of soft bright spring green.
And you just want to roll your clay.
You want to grab a little bit more than you think will fit in the bezel and roll it into
a nice smooth ball getting rid of any creases and then just kind of start to generally shape
it so that it will fit into the bezel.
And then just kind of mash it in there and then it really depends on the shape you have,
just what you're going to do to get that nice rounded form.
One thing I'm doing is I'm taking my blade and kind of pushing the clay away from the
edges of the bezel.
I want to see those in the end.
And then just smooth it all.
This is deli paper.
It's used when you're making hamburgers to freeze.
It's really great stuff.
You can use this to smooth and burnish.
So take a little bit of time and get your top really nice and beautifully smooth.
It does take a little bit of time, but be patient.
That was one of the things I noticed when I was looking at all of the polymer clay faux
embroidery online was that they all had this gorgeous pristine smooth base.
So that really enhances the look.
Now I'm going to just move on here, but on my other ones, my finished ones, I took a
bit more time.
I really got it nice and rounded.
Now if you're using a light colored clay, you may see some schmutz on your clay and
you can actually take that off by using rubbing alcohol and if you can find it, the 91% is
great.
It works fantastic and you don't need much.
Like the smallest possible amount you can splash into a little container.
It's like half a teaspoon, if that.
Now what this actually does is it actually dissolves the clay and it will help get you
a nice beautiful smooth finish.
I have a little bit of tissue here.
I take my brush and I'm just going to let the excess drip off the side and then start
wiping down and if you have little bits of fuzz, you'll see those dissolve and come off
and when they do, wipe your brush off on the tissue.
You can see there's the clay, the green smear.
That means you really are dissolving some of the clay, but you want to wipe it off here
and then dip it back in.
Otherwise you may re-deposit those little bits of fiber and whatever they are that so
like to hang out on our clay.
So you just keep doing this until you have, oops.
I keep doing that.
I keep forgetting, dabbing it back in the container.
You really want to wipe it off on the tissue first, then dab it back into the container.
And if you have to use a lot and it gets on the edge, you can just wipe that off.
And again, like with the shaping, take your time and really get it nice and beautiful
and smooth.
This will help wipe away fingerprints.
You can just smooth out small blemishes.
Again I'm not going to take the time right now.
I did it on my other pieces, but you really want to take your time with this and make
it very nice.
And because that's alcohol, it won't take long at all to evaporate and you can move
on to decorating.
So to help you with your decorating, grab your pattern and another piece of tracing
paper or deli paper or whatever and just lay it over your sketch and go ahead and trace
the outline and then just trace the major elements.
Like there's the center of the butterfly.
I'm going to have a stalk of like lavender here.
Here's a flower and another one and another one and that's all I'm going to trace.
If you're using a bezel, you're going to cut it out a little bit inside the line so that
you're cutting off what would effectually be the bezel because that's not going to be
part of your design.
I can lay this on here and you may find you have to adjust a little because things will
actually be positioned slightly differently because of the curve.
And I'm just going to gently make some really tiny marks.
I don't want to make many and I don't want to make them big because you're going to have
to cover them up.
I'll mark that line and mark where the flowers go and that just leaves you some guidelines.
So you want to start with your stems or like for this one, I started with these vine-y
things and the easiest way to do that is to take your clay and this is just some green
clay.
I think I swirled in some Wasabi.
You don't really see it, but it gives it a little more richness.
And you just want to roll from that big piece really, really, really tiny pieces and leave
it attached.
It just gives you so much more control to leave it attached.
So like I'm going to put down this stem for that flower and now you can see I can easily
maneuver it, kind of move it about trying to cover those dots, but I can also cover
them later with leaves if it's not right where I want it to be.
Just give that a little tap with a craft knife and then that should cut without cutting your
background.
And this way you can roll them really, really thin and still be able to handle them without
too much difficulty.
Let me demonstrate for you the faux embroidery just with this little lump of scrap clay and
I'll use this bright green for contrast.
So the easiest way to do this is to start out by rolling thin snakes and then use your
blade to cut lots of little pieces that are the same size.
That's the best way to do it and then I like to roll all of my little balls and then you'll
have a pile of them and then you can just start building your designs.
All right, so say you want to make a flower.
You just, it really is easiest to put your pieces down first and then go back in and
shape them.
Now this is my favorite tool for doing it.
It's a pick.
I think I got a set of them at Harbor Freight.
I'm going to hold this at an angle so you can see.
I'm going to hold my tool at about a 45 degree angle to the surface.
Press down and pull back and that's it.
Press down, pull back and then I can add another layer of petals on top of those since they
ended up kind of wide and spread apart.
So that's the look with the kind of skinny probe pick.
Here's the look with a toothpick and it's similar, but because it's wood, you get a
little bit more drag so you can actually pull it out a little bit further.
This is a gum stimulator that I've made into a tool just with some polymer clay and epoxy
sculpt to hold it under the handle because this tool melts if you go put it in the oven,
the little plastic stimulator.
And this give you kind of a different, kind of a softer look.
You can see your little indent is a little bit softer and a little bit wider.
And then this is a clay shaper.
This is a silicone tool and this will give you even a softer and wider look as you can
imagine.
It flattens it out far more in the center, but for all of them, you can see the trick
to making it look like embroidery is leaving that raised edge in back.
So there's lots of different ways that you can sculpt these using different tools.
So you should really just experiment on your own.
Find what you like and of course you can start off with not just little balls.
You can roll them into just little ovals.
You could roll it into a long oval.
You could taper the ends and start out with a little bit of a rice look or a football
shape.
And that would also give you a different kind of look for your piece.
So I'm going to make kind of a spike-y little plant here and what I've done to get a nice
variation of colors is I took a little piece of blend and then I'll just cut that into
strips, nice little skinny strips and then I'm going to cut these into little pieces.
I rolled all those little pieces into rice shapes and I'm just going to start adding
them in layers starting at the top.
I'm going to have it at a 45 degree angle and leave that nice soft round at the outer
edge.
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So you get the idea.
This is how you would build something like this with a lot of really nice variegated
color.
It's hard to make these small enough.
Really you think it's small enough and then it ends up like this tiny piece of clay ends
up being twice the size you need it to be.
So let's see.
These I'm going to roll out into slightly longer pieces.
Boy that clay is dirty!
You would make yours beautifully clean.
I took the time with my samples to make them nice and clean.
Now you can leave it like that or you could turn it into a narcissus just as easily.
Ooo, I have a narcissus.
Or you could just kind of stipple it with your needle tool to give it texture.
It helps press it in place.
You know it's not going to pop off.
Let me show you also how to make some of the leaves.
It's all pretty much a variation on the same theme.
I'm just going to roll my green out a little thicker, but thinner than you think you may
want because we're going to use a tool to draw a line and that will flatten it out and
make it a little thicker.
So I'll pop that down.
Oops, get out of there.
One reason I like the metal tool for this especially is it's slick and it slides very
nicely across the clay as I make these lines.
And a lot of this will be covered up with other leaves underneath.
In fact, here's mine that I made.
Like this one, I actually trimmed it down here because if I had left the thickness,
it would have been very bulky by the time I had all these leaves converging at the bottom.
And then one more thing I'll show you is how to do the butterfly.
I did these partial flowers and I just did four petals and then put a ball of green over
them so they look like they're turned sideways.
The butterfly is really cute and it just consists of four little balls that I then I rolled
into balls and then rolled into tear drops.
Just kind of ever so slightly pointed to one side and then to shape it, for the upper wing
since it's a little bit bigger, I actually pressed on it three times and it kind of gave
it a ruffle-y look and gave it that texture that I thought was pretty.
And then for the lower wings, I just did the one press like with the petals.
Sorry about that.
My camera cut off on me.
So just to finish up the butterfly, all you need to do is take a little bit of black and
roll super, super thin pieces.
You know like when you're rolling out snakes and one end gets thread like and gets so thin
and you can hardly manage it?
Well, that's kind of what you want.
You get just this really, really thin pieces and then you can put those on the butterfly.
Use a craft knife to cut off the excess and add a slightly thicker one for the body and
that's that.
So I hope you'll have fun and give these a try.
Do keep in mind that after baking these will usually pop right out of the bezels.
You might want to sand away the shiny and glue it in so it will be in there permanently.
And you will then have some lovely spring time pendants in whatever designs and colors
you want.
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