Crackle Square Gilded Cane
Tutorial by Pamela Gilfillen
Part 1 of 2
Tools:
1.) Pasta Machine
2.) Tissue Blade
3.) Wax Paper
4.) Parchment Paper
5.) Old Credit Card
6.) Rubber Gloves
7.) Acrylic Plate or Tile
Materials:
1.) 1 Pkg. Translucent Polymer Clay
(Conditioned)
2.) Alcohol Inks (like Pinata or Ranger)
3.) Silver or Gold leaf
4.) Colored Jones Tones Foils
Work on Wax Paper to protect your surface and to keep
clay from sticking to your surface while burnishing.
1) Roll out translucent clay on the third smallest
setting of the pasta machine, and cut into 4 equal
strips. Cover 2 strips with leaf. (I used Silver)
Then burnish the other 2 strips with the Jones
Tones Foil. (I used Blue and Green)  Snatch off
the mylar backing.
 2) Put drops of the inks onto the foil covered
clay. I used Teal, Blue and Green, and brush
them  onto 4 quadrants of the clay. Be sure to
stagger the colors from one strip to the next.
So when you stack them later you will have
different colors stacked.
3) Stack the layers.
4) Cut the 4 quadrants apart.
6) Trim the remaining 3 sides,
so you have a neat square
layered slab.
5) Stack the 4 quadrants
lining up 1 edge.
7) Pick apart  a few of the layers
of the scraps you previously
trimmed from the slab.
8) Squish the scraps together
so that its in a little different
configuration.
10) Flatten out the scraps to
about 1/2" thick and  as wide
as your layered slab.
9) Roll scraps into a ball to
tighten it up and make sure
there is no air trapped inside.
12) Roll scraps through Pasta
Machine on 5th smallest
setting.
11) This shows how thick to
make it so it easily passes
through the pasta machine.
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