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[calzephyr]

The hardest thing is to sit here with new art supplies and knowing I have to study for my final :-D I popped by Michaels after work so I could use a 40% off coupon before it expired.


Our Michaels seems to have more than the one I went to last week, I found something called Makin's Clay. It's an air dry clay that is supposed to be similar to Fimo, but we'll see! I bought a package of white ($6.99 for 4.2oz!) and a sheet of flower push molds to test. It claims it can dry in 24 hours. No baking required! It feels weird but pleasant and very malleable. The two things I made seem to be drying quite fast already. The hardest thing for me is to not touch until it's dried, which is why my large natural clay oval bead is a little funny. I sanded it a little yesterday and it didn't crumble :-) I'm going to try painting a horse on it.

I also happened to stumble across Mold N Pour in the rubber stamp aisle, so I'm going to use my other coupon on it. I was going to order some online. You can use it to make flexible molds of things, so I'm going to try doing some casting at home, maybe.

Me and my crafts! I don't have enough time for them, and there's so much out there to try...

Comments

[tooaquarius.livejournal.com]

Makins is fun!

Nothing like Fimo or Sculpey at all - it is a polymer clay though - but as you said, no baking required, which can be a Good Thing. A lot of Makins better tools work fine with polymer clay and a lot of people use both.

I have some bend and bake, a clay people use to make small molds of things - makes a flexible item after baking. I don't know if it's called sculpey flex now or what. I haven't used mold n pour yet... but amazing mold putty is good stuff too.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I was playing around with it some more this morning and I'm really happy with the outcome. I think I could make a mold from it even - I need to find some jar lids! I tried making a mold from the natural air dry clay and I broke part of the mane off my little test horse (doh!). LOL, I saw their pasta clay machine and now I'm tempted! Ahhh!

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll have to look more closely next time. I didn't realize how much stuff they had at Michael's - there were several other air dry clays or oven bake clays that were like terra cotta? And plaster of paris, cellulite clay (tried that a long time ago, wouldn't try it again) and other plaster casting things. It was overwhelming!