![]() ![]() Always wait about twenty four hours for the Varathane to completely cure. I suspend the daggers from a bead baking rack while the varnish dries. ![]() (If you don't have a drill, you can use a piercing pin to create your holes while your clay is still raw.) I use a hand held drill to drill my holes. Now you need to drill holes at the thick end of the dagger. It will bring out the translucent and the daggers need to be smooth before varnishing. Bake on a piece of cloth or a bed of tissues to avoid shiny spots. It’s now ready to bake for an hour at the brand's recommended temperature. Shape the pointed end of the dagger into a slight curve. Roll on your work surface until it looks like a dagger. The end that has no white should be the thin end of the dagger. ![]() You want quite fine lines, but not so fine that you lose the detail. You may have to stop and compress your log and begin twisting again a few times. Now that you have your stack, roll it on your work surface and form it into a log. This results in the white and the two colors at the bottom slowly fading to translucent. What I like to do is start with white and the two alcohol ink colors and as I get to the middle of the stack I’ll start to replace some of the white with translucent and as I reach the end I’ll take away the white. Carry on doing this until you think you have enough polymer clay for the beads you want to make. Repeat again in random combinations on top of the first balls. You should have four balls in a rough square shape. Now a ball of blue above the green and then a ball of green next to the blue and above the white. Take a small ball of green and place it next to the white. Take a small ball of white and stick it onto your tile. That’s good because it will mute the brightness. That’s what you want because as you condition the white before putting it through the pasta machine that alcohol ink on your hands will get into the white and make it off-white. I like to smooth my alcohol ink out by hand so my hands are a little dirty at the moment. You can make your own faux agate in purple using the same technique. You should now have three balls of tinted polymer clay: green, blue and purple. You can mix it part way so that you have streaks still or you can mix it until you’ve got a full color. Now mix the alcohol ink into the translucent by hand (You don’t want that alcohol ink all over your pasta machine). Smooth the alcohol ink across the pieces, using your fingers or a brush, and let dry for about ten minutes. Three to four drops per 3cm by 3cm piece will do. Please keep in mind that you don’t need a lot of ink to color the clay. Roll out three pieces of translucent polymer clay on the thickest setting on your pasta machineĭrip your alcohol ink on to the pieces so that you have one green, one blue and one purple. Steps To Making Faux Agate Polymer Clay Daggers ![]()
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