| QUOTE: Does anyone know where she go the rubber stamp looking texture sheet that she used on the mokume with the white background (foreground technically?)? |
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Some polymer clayers have started designing their own deeper-cut texture sheets, and having them made to sell, so this could one of those... I think Lisa Pavelka and Barbara McGuire may be two examples... you could check on my
Stamping page* to see if others are mentioned wherever I have "suppliers" liststed.
Also some of the clayer-distributor-suppliers will probably carry some of those too (polymerclayexpress, polymerclayyourway, clayalley, etc.... check my
Suppliers* page for more names and links).
Of course, you can always make many kinds of
deep texture plates yourself too.
Some texture images would be too complex, but many can be made by just pressing "things" into a thick clay sheet (deeply) to create the texture look you want, then bake the sheet. That yields a reverse, innie stamp, or a "mold," which can be cool to use as is.
To get an outie "
stamp"-type texture sheet from an innie mold though, press the baked mold into a new thick sheet of clay (then bake it) to create something similar to the deeply cut stamp shown in the photo for making the mokume gane.
All kinds of things could be found around the house, or shaped, to create the basic shapes on that particular stamp, for example. . . . round shapes could be made with eraser-ends of pencils, various pen and other caps, dowels, marbles, beads, etc.... the short lines could be "stamped" with a slot screwdriver end, a strip of credit card, a paperclip with one end bent to a right angle, etc... the sort-of pyramidal shapes could have been made with brads shaped like that at one point, then stretched before joining to other impressed strips... the spiral could be created with a wire or paperclip bent into a spiral, with the remainder bent up 90 degrees as a handle ... plus things like chains of various types, all kinds of hardware, etc.... and just about any shape can be made in clay and baked, then used as a stamp to create multiples in other raw clay, etc.
(In this case, there's a combination of "innie" and "outie" shapes so one might need to use a combination of stamps and "molds" from stamps to create a final result that has both.)
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http://www.glassattic.com/polymer/texturing.htm
http://www.glassattic.com/polymer/stamping.htm
http://www.glassattic.com/polymer/molds.htm
http://www.glassattic.com/polymer/supplysources.htm
Diane B.