Adding Glitter and Embossing Powder to Polymer clay and Stencil Designs

Adding Glitter and Embossing Powder to Polymer clay and Stencil Designs

I had this chunky glitter that I bought to use with polymer clay but it's been sitting around a while so I thought I would see what I could do with it. I pulled out some of our Flexie stencils and started to play. However this glitter is really chunky and I didn't think it would stay on the clay. So I thought Liquid clay would be the solution. I wanted to see how different it would look with different colors of liquid clay and it really does make a difference. As I always say the sky is the limit!

I played around with white, clear and gold Liquid Clay but there are so many other colors on the market and even better you can mix your own too!. I did however end up sealing mine with a spray sealer that worked really well. I used a product called Helmar Crystal Kote Matte and you can find more info about it at this link.  It worked awesome and is truly a matte finish. Another plus it dried super fast for me, of course it was a hot day in Florida but I was impressed. The company sent Kira and I each a matte and shiny but I have only used the matte and I am now a big believer! I do plan to do a show using both so you can compare the results and see what you think so stay tuned for that. 

I also had some red embossing powder that I thought would be perfect for our New Hot Lips Flexie and it was! I love how embossing powder puffs up it really was the right look for the stencil. Hope you will give this technique a try. ***Leave a comment on this post and I will pick 2 random winners and send you a bottle of Sculpey Liquid Clay and a few other goodies. I will choose the winners next week. Good luck!

UPDATE: Congrats to Babette for winning the prize. Stay tuned for more giveaways!

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75 comments

I liked your video – now I have tons of ideas for projects I want to make using your technique !

Donna Price

Love love love the lips.

CAROL STEVENSON

I’m enjoying working with polymer clay and loving every tip, tutorial and product offered by Kira and Ilysa. So much fun!

Judy Bottita

Wow, this is great. I never thought of using embossing powder on polymer clay. I have a bunch of embossing powder as I make cards for our deployed military, so that’s great to find an additional use for it. I also have glitter, which I cannot use on the cards for the military, so this is wonderful to have a use for that too rather than it just sit on my shelf collecting dust! Thanks for the tutorial!

Lisa Stewart

What a fun technique a can’t wait to try it out!

Sherri Thompson

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