On RAW clay:

Use a soft brush, sifter, or stencil to create designs or just coat the piece of clay. 

Bake on a tile or parchment paper.

When the hot piece comes out of the oven, you may want to heat it with a heat tool- crafters heat gun or the like, to bring the Dazzle Dust to 300F- the proper temperature for curing it to a glossy glass like finish.

Alternatively, you can bring your polymer clay piece to 300F at the very end of your baking cycle for 2-3 minutes. MAKE SURE YOU TENT your work with aluminum to make sure the heating elements of your oven do not scorch the top of your clay. 

Also be sure you understand your oven temps and hot spots so you don't have any overbaking accidents. 

This is how all the color chips on the page were created.

Take your finished clay work and hold with tweezers- make sure they are heat-protected or you wear a pot holder or mitt to protect your hand.

Hold the clay piece in the air stream from a heat gun. We like the Darice crafter heat gun, or the Wagner 4000 from the home store.

Flip the piece around to heat it evenly for about 20 seconds.

Dip the hot piece into the powder and quickly tap off the excess. We like doing this over a coffee filter, this catches the excess powder to pour back into the jar!

Bring the piece back into the hot air stream to gloss it.

Repeat as necessary to build up the color and coating until you like it. 

Make sure you DON'T TOUCH the hot clay or powder, because you can hurt yourself and you can smear the coating while it is still hot.

Allow it to finish cooling on a tile or tempered glass surface. 

If you find that the Dazzle Dust has covered a hole (such as for jewelry pieces) you can easily use your hand drill to create the hole again once it is cooled. 

Right now, we have these special limited-edition palettes being sold as a set. 

Some of these colors will not be made again once sold out.

Some of the colors will be stocked in our shop next week, so you can wait and see if you'd like to purchase colors as singles. 

Dazzle Dust works great with stencils to create designs with it, however it won't work will with silkscreens as the particles are a bit large and you do need a decent "pile" of it to create the glossy finish. 

You can even stamp into it while it's hot! Watch for a YouTube video on that technique.

If you find that your finish is lumpy or not glossy-smooth, you are either:

1. not using enough powder. 

2. not using enough heat to smooth it.

3. Remember- the "finish" before you heat it is going to influence how it looks later, so try to get a nice smooth coating of it either by sifting or dipping a hot piece of clay right into the powder. 

We find that ONE thick layer is often lumpy, while several thinner coats comes out very smooth and glossy.

So yes- go ahead and build up your layers one by one until you achieve the finish you like!

Too thick of a layer can crackle. So see the question before- build up thinner layers instead of one thick layer. 

Also, if you flex the clay instead of just allowing it to cool naturally, you can develop crackling in the finish. So be gentle and take your time. 

It's a GREAT sealer! It's waterproof when used properly, so it's awesome for jewelry! 

Yes, just make sure your paint, glue, mediums, etc are completely dry before sealing them under Dazzle Dust. 

Most of our specially created colors are slightly transparent, see the color chips on the page- they were created with textured Premo Pearl clay. Dazzle Dust settles in the low parts of a texture, which makes a nice effect. 

The thicker the layers, the less transparent it is. 

Yes! It looks so cool! So if you have some silver or gold charms and you wish you could color them to go with your clay, go ahead! The DIP method - see how to use, above, is best with metal charms.