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Yanika B
hey i was trying to personalize my school stuff for next year..
Can i put pens and pencils in the oven when covered in fimo or will they melt?
Any ideas of how can i personalize these things ?
thanks for helping im sooo freeaking bored and need ideas thanks
Answer
You can "cover" various plastics with polymer clay then cure them in a home oven, but some plastics will shrink or distort. The pens that work best for covering with clay are the plain white Bic Round Stics (not the clear Bics!)... they are the right kind of plastic to stand up to the temps required to cure polymer clays, and they're also completely cylindrical (not tapered) so they're just easier to do.
There's loads of info on covering pens with polymer clay on this page of my polymer clay "encyclopedia" website:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/pens.htm
Items made from other materials can be covered with polymer clay (and baked with it) too --materials like glass, metal, wood, stone, etc.
Check this page for more on how to cover those materials, and what some of the possible items to cover would be:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/covering.htm
Other ways to personalize school items might be to make decorative things to put onto your notebooks --those could be small clay items (created by hand or from all kinds of molds--even molds you make yourself from clay-- or stamped clay items, etc.), decorative clay sheets, clay cutout shapes, or they could even be whole covers for the notebooks).
Or you could put various things inside your locker (make clay items into magnets, or make a frame around a mirror you stick to the door, for example).
Or make pulls or buttons for your backpack.
Or make bookmarks.
Check out some of these pages for lessons and examples of all those things. Rather than give a direct link for each page though, I'll just have you go to the "Table of Contents" page for the whole site:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/contents.htm
then click on each of the following page names from inside the alphabetical navigation bar on the left:
Kids & Beginners > Cutouts...and Stamping-Molds
Miniatures
Books--Mini,Covers > Covers
Cards, Postcards > Bookmarks
Frames & Mirrors
Beads > Misc. Uses for Beads (zipper pulls, etc.)
Buttons
Sheets of Pattern
Other Materials > Magnets
P.S. It's good not to refer to FimoClassic or FimoSoft (or any particular brand of polymer clay) as "modeling clay" since the types of clay that are most often called that can't be put in the oven (they'll melt) and will never harden.
"Air-dry" clays are different from either of those, but they won't stay soft in the air (they'll dry and harden). You could experiment with those too, but they'll need to be sealed after drying and they can shrink while drying (clays like Makins or Hearty, or Creative Paperclay, for example).
HTH, and have fun!
(you'll never be bored with polymer clay--there are so many different ways to go with it that you'll never get through them all, much less really explore them all!)
Diane B.
You can "cover" various plastics with polymer clay then cure them in a home oven, but some plastics will shrink or distort. The pens that work best for covering with clay are the plain white Bic Round Stics (not the clear Bics!)... they are the right kind of plastic to stand up to the temps required to cure polymer clays, and they're also completely cylindrical (not tapered) so they're just easier to do.
There's loads of info on covering pens with polymer clay on this page of my polymer clay "encyclopedia" website:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/pens.htm
Items made from other materials can be covered with polymer clay (and baked with it) too --materials like glass, metal, wood, stone, etc.
Check this page for more on how to cover those materials, and what some of the possible items to cover would be:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/covering.htm
Other ways to personalize school items might be to make decorative things to put onto your notebooks --those could be small clay items (created by hand or from all kinds of molds--even molds you make yourself from clay-- or stamped clay items, etc.), decorative clay sheets, clay cutout shapes, or they could even be whole covers for the notebooks).
Or you could put various things inside your locker (make clay items into magnets, or make a frame around a mirror you stick to the door, for example).
Or make pulls or buttons for your backpack.
Or make bookmarks.
Check out some of these pages for lessons and examples of all those things. Rather than give a direct link for each page though, I'll just have you go to the "Table of Contents" page for the whole site:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/contents.htm
then click on each of the following page names from inside the alphabetical navigation bar on the left:
Kids & Beginners > Cutouts...and Stamping-Molds
Miniatures
Books--Mini,Covers > Covers
Cards, Postcards > Bookmarks
Frames & Mirrors
Beads > Misc. Uses for Beads (zipper pulls, etc.)
Buttons
Sheets of Pattern
Other Materials > Magnets
P.S. It's good not to refer to FimoClassic or FimoSoft (or any particular brand of polymer clay) as "modeling clay" since the types of clay that are most often called that can't be put in the oven (they'll melt) and will never harden.
"Air-dry" clays are different from either of those, but they won't stay soft in the air (they'll dry and harden). You could experiment with those too, but they'll need to be sealed after drying and they can shrink while drying (clays like Makins or Hearty, or Creative Paperclay, for example).
HTH, and have fun!
(you'll never be bored with polymer clay--there are so many different ways to go with it that you'll never get through them all, much less really explore them all!)
Diane B.
Who's bought this backpack?
Apple
http://www.ebags.com/products/view/ZoomColorsViews.cfm?fuseaction=imagePop&ModelID=1&sub_site_id=20&productid=1161995
I just want to know how many people have already bought the DRAGONFLY BLUE Jansport backpack for school this year. If a lot of people bought it, I think I might choose a different one, so that I'm not carrying the same backpack 10 other people are carrying.
So, if you already bought this backpack please say so! =D
(Sorry if you've already answered this before, but the other one got messed up =P)
Answer
ive seen a lot of kids use that backpack. its a jansport, no matter what color you get it in, at least 5 other kids are going to have it :)
If you really like it and it matches with your closet go for it :) you can personalize it with charms and iron ons later on.
ive seen a lot of kids use that backpack. its a jansport, no matter what color you get it in, at least 5 other kids are going to have it :)
If you really like it and it matches with your closet go for it :) you can personalize it with charms and iron ons later on.
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