Stamped Foil Jewelry
Design by Kris Richards

Materials (Use these materials for all 3 designs):

• Premo! Sculpey in the following colors:
  • Gold 5303 - 1 package
  • Black 5042 - 1 package
• 2-3 oz. of marbleized, multi-colored "junk" clay (left over from previous projects in several colors)
• Pasta machine, acrylic roller or brayer, or length of PVC piping for rolling clay into flat sheets
• Sculpey Super Slicer tissue slicing blade, or Kemper polymer clay blade
• Kemper Pro needle tool
• Assorted small motif rubber stamps
• Small hand design rubber stamps (Available from All Night Media, Hero Arts, Hampton Art Stamps)
• Silver colored Treasure Gold (rub-on wax based paint pot)
• Clean soft rags
• Super Glue
• Pin backs
• Blue foil transfer sheet from Jones Tones
• Silver foil transfer sheet from Jones Tones
• Gold foil transfer sheet from Jones Tones
• 4 small pieces of clean, white paper or card stock

Directions for All Projects:

• STEP 1: Condition and then roll one package of gold clay through setting #3 on the pasta machine, or flatten with brayer or PVC pipe to an even 1/8" thickness.

• STEP 2: Condition, marbleize, and run the "junk" clay through the pasta machine. Set a small piece aside that measures 1-1/2" by 2". Divide the clay into equal fourths.

• Place each sheet of clay onto a small piece of clean white paper or card stock.

• STEP 3: Cut one sheet of each color of the Jones Tones foil just slightly larger than the piece of clay. Lay the foil COLOR SIDE UP (if the foil is blue, blue side up; if the foil is silver, shiny silver side up, etc.) onto the TOP of each clay piece.

• Press each sheet of foil firmly onto the surface of the clay, making sure there are no air bubbles between the surfaces of the foil and the clay.
• Use your tissue blade SHARP EDGE DOWN on top of the foil to burnish each of the different colors of foil onto the surfaces of the clay, by running the blade firmly and smoothly across the surfaces of the foil and the clay.
• Repeat this process by turning the clay piece ¼ turn and firmly burnishing in a back and forth motion

• STEP 4: Once the burnishing has been done in all four directions, grasp a corner of one of the sheets of foil, and in one very quick smooth "ripping" motion, strip the foil from the surface of the clay. The result is that the foil coloring is transferred to the clay's surface!

• STEP 5: Now, you can use your rubber stamps to stamp into the surface of the foiled clay. You can also use textures such as plastic model railroad sheets, plastic needlepoint canvas, rubber stamps with design motifs on them, leather stamping tools, your needle tool, or anything else with a relief design in it.

NOTE: To use the Treasure Gold to highlight the raised images, dip your finger into the pot, get a VERY TINY bit on the end of your finger, and rub it on in a circular motion. Allow it to dry 5 minutes and buff with a soft clean cloth.

NOTE: Follow all the instructions under the area entitled "FOR ALL PROJECTS", steps 1-4 to see how to transfer the foil to the clay, and refer to the Hand Motif Shrine Pin for cutting the strips and placing them on the pieces.

 

Directions for Hand Motif Shrine Pin:

• Cut a small rectangle of marbleized "junk" clay measuring approximately
  1-1/2 " by 2"

• Stamp the hand stamp into some silver foil-dovered clay. Use the tissue blade to cut around the edges of the stamp, leaving about a 1/8" reveal or selvage. Press this on top center of the junk clay rectangle.

• Cut two small strips of silver foiled clay measuring 1-1/4" long by 1/8" wide. Press one strip above the stamped image, and one below it.

• Cut two strips of blue foiled clay measuring 2 inches long by 1/8" wide, and press them to either side of the outside edge of the junk clay. Use your needle tool to press small horizontal lines in the blue strips.

• Marbleize a small grape-sized piece of gold clay with some silver soiled clay. Flatten it, and cut a small half-circle of it wide enough to fit at the top of the "garbage" clay. (TIP: it helps to lay the piece of clay you will be cutting right on the top edge of the piece. In that way, you can make two marks where the edges are to begin and end. Once you've cut the half-circle, press it to the top of the piece, above the hand stamp motif.

• Cut another small blue strip of clay to fit between the top edges where the half-circle meets the junk clay edge. Cut another wider silver strip of foil-covered clay and bend it to fit the top edge of the half-circle. Use the needle tool to impress lines in a star burst pattern in the silver piece.

• Cut three small silver strips of clay in graduated sizes, and fit them at the bottom of the shrine pin, largest first, down to progressively smaller. Use the needle tool to impress lines in a triangular and crisscross pattern.

• Bake at 265 degrees F for 35-40 minutes. When cool, add pin back with super glue gel, and if desired, cut a small strip of clay wide enough to fit over the flat part of the pin back, press firmly, and re-bake for 30 minutes. This gives a much more professionally finished look, and strengthens the bond of the pin back to the clay back.

Directions for Triangle Pin:

• Cut random triangles and strips of different foil-covered clays, and arrange them onto gold textured clay (in this case, a piece of model railroad siding was used to texture the clay by rolling the clay and siding together through the pasta machine.
• Arrange all the strips in an eye-pleasing manner, referring to the photo for placement of the strips, if desired.
• Bake as in Hand Motif Shrine Pin, and add pin back as detailed in those instructions as well.

Directions for Jumble Pin:

• This pin is a montage, or "jumble" of several randomly assembled pieces, strips, textures, stamps and foils to create a totally freeform piece.
• Use your imagination and assembling knowledge to create your own "jumble" pin. But, if you need some ideas or a guide, refer to the photo for placement and clay colors. Bake as in Hand Motif Shrine Pin, and add pin back as detailed in those instructions as well.
• Bake as in Hand Motif Shrine Pin, and add pin back as detailed in those instructions as well.