Do your neighbors know what you do for a living? If you were my neighbor, I'd be over everyday to craft with you. LOL

@stupidteafairy8157

3 жыл бұрын

@Cason Braylen go away

Yvonne, that is great to see you trying Pardo. Why it didn't condition right is because it needs conditioning differently. I have a few tutorials on that and also on how to reduce plaquing in it. As for flakes, I tried at least 30 different ones and honestly the Lumieres are much ado about nothing at a very high price. I found the Ice Resin Opal Crystal Opal the best - I think I have somewhere on my facebook page a video where I show the huge difference between the Lumieres and the Ice Resin - and the Lumiere loses by far. Don't mix anything in Pardo, just needs warming for that bees' wax to get soft and squishy, that's all. You can get exceptional transparency with Pardo. I never use coatings, just sand and buff. Maybe you can join our effort to bring more Pardo in the US. There's a petition out there.

@windrisemorgans

6 жыл бұрын

I was going to refer Von to you Day for your recent Pardo conditioning video. I'm wondering too if it is because Pardo is made from Beeswax as to why it didn't do well with the uv resin? Hmmm...

@KalyanaDesignTutorials

6 жыл бұрын

Well it's several things, not just that. It's first that it was mixed with another clay of different composition. The other clays are very similar in composition so they can be mixed without a problem. When I asked Viva Decor, they said they don't guarantee the result of mixing Pardo with anything else. I really don't recommend mixing it with clay softener either - as for baby oil, you'll get a very opaque translucent. The only thing you need is to warm it up enough for that beeswax to get soft and squishy. I even heard people complaining that it can get oo squishy if you have warm hands. Second, the other clay was Sculpey III. The UV - I don't know, honestly I've never ever used any kind of coating on Pardo. It doesn't need it. It sands and buffs to glass-like perfection. As for the plaquing - that happens always when there's air trapped. I have a video where I show how to reduce plaquing in translucents. Plaquing happens in opaques too, it's just that they're opaques and we don't see it :)

You need to condition pardo in ver y very thin pieces and then add them to each other. What you experienced is normal for pardo. Pardo is a beeswax based clay and you will always have a crumbling reaction when you try to break pieces off or condition large amounts at a time.

Thank you Ivonne for taking chances on experimenting on your own sources and showing us your results. There is something good to learn on your videos.

I thought I was the only one who was mesmerized with sanding to higher and higher grits. I love hand sanding and watching stuff get shinier and shiner.

I love that plastic sound!

I’ve heard someone refer to the opal flakes as Unicorn Skin however I am enjoying the different treatments of brands of clay that you’re using!

@TcTess

6 жыл бұрын

Miss Rzhrt There is a paint brand called “Unicorn Spit” we don’t have it locally but I would love to experiment with it.

I love watching your tutorials and always want to start whatever craft you are doing!

I bought Cernit Clay after watching a product comparison tutorial on Polymer Clay Tutor. Still saving it for a "special" project or occasion. It bakes at 235 like Fimo, so not compatible with Sculpy products. I always appreciate product reviews. Saves me money, and mistakes. I like Baroque music, and I play recorder. I would not be your favorite neighbor, except that I would happily share my kitchen scraps with your feathered dinosaurs.

Hi Yvonne awesome video

Did not even hear the kids playing at all. Love the technique with the pardo clay Yvonne keep up the good work an love your videios!!!

Pardo is one of my favorite types of clay. You have to condition it in a really different way. But once it is conditioned it is so very beautiful!

@backtoearthcreations

5 жыл бұрын

Right on! I still have so much to learn, lol! Whats your favorite use of the pardo clay?

I only wish real Opals came in that size - few & far in between. Yours are great for wire wrapping. I love your Turquoise cabs too. I'll be watching you. Thank you for all your beautiful crafting.

WOW ~ Thanks for showing this... Good to Know... Love Learning.. Sorry it bubbled..

Sure do enjoy your tutorials Yvonne. You have such a nice personality. It is great that you share so many helpful tips and such :0) I tried Pardo once and it was beyond crumbly. The difficulty, even with baby oil I believe, didn't make it any easier. Had to give up. Otherwise it always looks so Great once baked.

@backtoearthcreations

6 жыл бұрын

That is good to know! I am so glad you like my work! I think I am missing something big time with the pardo clay; I am going to keep experimenting!

I am a Nail Tech. If you want you can do 3 parts rubbing alcohol to 1 part Acetone for brush cleaner. I use 97% rubbing alcohol and pure acetone.

I don’t know if you’ve solved the bubbling problem, but here’s some suggestions. Let the piece dry out more before adding the clear coat, try under the UV light in smaller increments (30 secs at a time) for the total curing time as this cuts down on the heat generated. Great work, love watching you. 😃

@backtoearthcreations

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tip, Susan! I will have to try that!

I once learned that the volume a microphone picks up is reduced by the square of the distance from the microphone. So sounds that are far away needs to be quite loud to be heard. Usually when you apologize for the noise, I'm not even aware of it until you point it out, cars, trains and dogs excluded.

@backtoearthcreations

6 жыл бұрын

I often forget that things that sound very loud to me often don't get picked up during recording; I was able to edit out most of the worst of the screeching but there were parts that I wasn't able to tone down without ruining the audio completely. I feel really self conscious of being a butt about kids having fun, and I would never go out and tell them to stop, but I was getting pretty agitated after 3 hours of them honking the recorders at each other on and off. Even Randy, as patient as he is, was like "Realy? ****ing really?" as we were both shooting videos and clicking Record seemed to activate their desire to make music :p First world youtuber problems, maybe lol

Yvonne, I've had success using a heating pad on low setting to soften crumbling clay before conditioning it. Learned this technique from either Lisa Pavelka or Ms. Kato herself when the Carol Duvall Show was on HGTV. Oh, how I miss that show! But give it a try, I've never worked with Pardo and it looks like Kalyana Design Tutorials might have a better suggestion.

Kalyana Design Tutorials does amazing tutorials on using Pardo clay. You can learn and get amazing tips on how to use it for her. Day is awesome at getting back to you for questions also.

Ever try mop and glow floor wax ??? We used it on our shoes and boots in the military after polishing them for extra shine ...

@backtoearthcreations

6 жыл бұрын

I haven't tried that, but will give it a go!

Thank you. Will you let us know how it holds up months from now with the mix. I heard on another video that the Viva decor company said they did not recommend this as they were unsure of the results. I'd love to know! thank you for sharing.

Watching everyones videos besides yours, said if you don't have a thinner to recondition the clay, someone said you can use a very thin or small dot of vasoline to reactivate the premo or sculpey clay. Have use it and works great but use very very small amount of the vasoline.

@backtoearthcreations

6 жыл бұрын

Right on! I will have to try that!

I am reluctant to use the uv coating because i dont know if you could bake it after you coat it so that you could build a bezel .

This was awesome, I definitely learned a lot. I have a ton of mylar, and glitter as I do nails so I am definitely going to try this out using sculpey translucent. now I am wondering what would happen if you also add white pearl mica to it. I also make soap so I have lots of mica around. Hmmm....... I found the music in the background funny. Probably because I can turn it off. Lol

Don't you just love summer vacation for all the neighborhood kids? :)

This video is exactly why I started following you back when you only had 10K subscribers. :o) I love that you share with us both the successes and the failures. I wonder if the bubbled coating has to do with the glitter flakes being larger. Is it possible the UV reflected more on those than the other and that might have made the difference? I have no idea if that might be it, but thought I'd throw it out there. Or maybe since Fawn says it's a beeswax-based clay, that might make a difference. Not sure because the whole UV resin thing still seems like some form of magic to me. lol Tiny Pandora has some great polymer clay stuff and her tutorials are good too. (Different from Von's, so I love them both.)

Love your tutorials! I have a question doesn't UV resin turn brown over time? I've heard that from so many people.

hey Von, great video. i enjoy watching you work. about the deep shine UV finish.... it is a 'brush on' coating, one thin coating with the brush should give you a very shinny finish. it will not self dome, and pouring is way to thick. Teresa Salgado has a video on how to use deep shine, at her KZread channel. thanks again!

Just a guess - maybe the UV curing time needs to be different than other brands of clay.

The Pardo is beautifully white, though! Much more transparent, also. I think I'd just polish and buff the Pardo, w/o the resin. Just my opinion, but I think it would look more natural, more like a stone. ☺️🌹

Are the bubbles on the pardo cab over the flakes maybe? Could it be that the opal flakes you added reacted somehow? Also, you could try mixing either clay with translucent liquid clay and use a mold, that might give a more translucent finish? Just a few ideas I had while watching :)

@Yvonne Williams I could be something in the clay. I know when I am doing molds with silicones sulfur and latex will make it so it will not cure. So I always have to use clay with out sulfur in it to make my molds. So my guess would be something in the clay is reacting to the glaze.

@backtoearthcreations

6 жыл бұрын

This is a great tip, I hadn't thought of that!

Use a small piece of scrap clay underneath to keep it from sliding around

@backtoearthcreations

6 жыл бұрын

oooo Good idea, thank you!

I’m not sure if someone has already said something but, I think I know why the resin bubbled. If you have a look at the end of when you were applying the resin, right where your bubbles appear is right where you dabbed the brush instead of brushing it on. Just a thought. I understand this is an old video. Very entertaining

Could it be because of the extra work that you did on the second clay which may have incorporated air?

I did the same experiment last week. I also did it with the clear liquid sculpy. All 3 pieces of mine came out bad. I didn't think any of them looked like an opal. My glitter was to large which was some of the problem. Now I'm trying to decide to cover them with colored clay or maybe try an ink die on them and see how they look. I hate wasting clay. Any ideas??

That is very interesting, do you know where your generous Giver got that clay. I've been using the bottom coat and top coat of a nail gel, but after you do the two steps it still has like a film on it and you just wipe it off from alcohol and it comes out pretty good

@xStarlicax

6 жыл бұрын

polyclayplay.com carries Pardo Professional Art Clay.

@kilburnskreations

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you

My daughter played a recorder in school. After awhile I didn't notice so much...….on the other hand, when my husband was learning to play the fiddle it nearly drove me mad. Eventually they do learn and start sounding better. Usually. :)

I know from doing nails u have to make sure the surface u are applying gel to is free of debris and oils otherwise the gel does not stick well.could be why u have separation or bubbling.

@cherrywhiskey4217

6 жыл бұрын

Just buff the gel lightly and reapply....it should be fine

can you steam the clay to mke it not crumbly

a thin layer at a time with the UV, may take a couple coats :)

I wonder if the other clay (the one you were working with in this video) was more porous? Maybe, that is why it bubbled? Or maybe it heats up at a higher rate and needs a lower temperature to set the UV? Maybe ask the manufacturers of both the new clay and the UV light and see what they tell you. I have had clear coats bubble up before when I painted outside and the sun heated the wood up too much. I bring my stuff inside and get it out of sunlight nowadays to dry it after adding a clear coat. BUT.... The headstock on my first guitar, a Harmony, looks like black leather now because of that method, using black spray paint, leaving it in the sun, then adding another coat on top without doing anything else to it. It was a really hot sunny couple weeks while I was painting it. I kept that effect, because it was a happy accident, lol.

I have used the sun to dry and harden and it only took minutes!

Where did you get your brush on resin? Thank you

Nice science experiment 👍😄. It looks like the shine stuff changed the color slightly too on both. I've never worked with clay, so I apologize if my question is stupid - but do you have to put that final shine on it? Thank you very much for taking the time with sharing the video too though.

@shielacushenbery5635

6 жыл бұрын

Tammy Williams it's not necessary to coat polymer clay. You can wet sand and buff it to a nice shine. Many people prefer to use a gloss coating to reduce the amount of sanding necessary and to give a higher shine. Hope this answers your question.

@tammywilliams2035

6 жыл бұрын

Shiela Cushenbery thank you for the response. Answers my question perfectly

Are you polishing it with the sand paper?

Pardo is bees wax based and must be conditioned differently. Very thin slice then run thru pasta machine on thin setting one slice at a time. Do not add clay softener and it will still be white after baking. Plunge in ice water immediately. It is very difficult to get in U.S. but is a beautiful clay if used correctly.

@TruthificationChronicles

6 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Why plunge in ice water? What does it do?

@jenniferreynolds1874

6 жыл бұрын

The water brings out the beautiful translucency.

Vonne you couldn't hear the kids playing. I have a neighbor who fancies himself a drummer...wanna trade neighbors?

Wouldn't gel polish clear coat work? They need the uvb/led lights to cure.

Von. Do you always use cold water after baking the cabs? Is it just to cool it down faster or does it make it stronger. Want to try making my own cabs one day. Thanks for being so awesome!

@backtoearthcreations

6 жыл бұрын

Heya! I only do it on the translucent clays because it is supposed to make them nice and clear; I have had mixed results but I am not convinced I am doing it properly lol

@AmandasArtStudio

6 жыл бұрын

I will see what happens. Thanks for the reply.. and it's all trial and error.. how we learn :)

It's not cross contamenating. You should be able to use the different clays together.

Clear nail polish?

Not sure you’ll get this, I’ve used regular uv resin on pardo and it’s been fine. Not sure about the product you’re using. I’ve not seen bubbling before on pardo.

@backtoearthcreations

4 ай бұрын

Right on, I'll have to try that!

You have to take a small lighter and pop all bubbles.she has a great video.

Hi Yvonne, the amazon wishlist link above doesn't seem to work for me.

Where would I find never knead

Interesting!! I am curious as to why the pardo brand bubbled! Someone below mentioned beeswax? Interesting! I'd love to see further experiments!!

@backtoearthcreations

6 жыл бұрын

I am definitely going to be sharing more experiments in the future!

I heard a minute amount of oil (baby) helps with this

I have clay that is probably 10 years old, haven't worked with it in awhile, afraid to open the box up and see how bad it is.

@TruthificationChronicles

6 жыл бұрын

My cousin gave me a pack of Fimo (the multi-color small blocks pack) that some lady gave her years ago, and it's all really crumbly. I did basically what Von did by slicing it really thin, but then I used some liquid Sculpey (TLS) between the slices to help it rejuvenate. Seems to be working well for me, but it does require a lot of TLS and a lot of rolling (don't use a pasta machine until the TLS is well-incorporated).

@jeanmartin6410

6 жыл бұрын

Cynthia Howe I have you beat! Mine was fifteen years old!!! I started using it after starting with Vons tutorials. The one piece I had put away by just wrapping in plastic needed a LOT of conditioning, but it came around after a while. The clay that was still factory wrapped was perfect. Good luck!

@cynthiahowe8697

6 жыл бұрын

I am thinking it is older as we moved into this house 14 years ago and I had it at the old one before that. I have some just wrapped and some still sealed. so hoping too

I tried that same high gloss UV resin...and was so disappointed...it fit the same and on other items peeled off, blistered, bubbled ECT. I ended up giving it to a friend so she could experiment with it. I was just disgusted and wanted it out of my sight cause it ruined some pieces that I worked hard on. I suggest another resin. Good Luck!

Seems as though the special clays are crumbly

10:00 They nail artists call it Angel Paper :)

PLEASE...TURN UP YOUR VOLUME !!! i bout have to turn mine up to 100 to hear you...TY :)

I love your jibber jabber!

@backtoearthcreations

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Pinky! Its so nice to get to be myself!

Oi

Sorry the project failed, but it shows how difficult things can be. 😊

Is it odd that i like the jibber jabber.

I understand WHY you did it, but now there is No Way to get a true idea of what that clay is like now that Its basically "contaminated" lol... ive never seen that clay before, i would have liked to see what happened if you had just worked with just the original new clay. Now there's really no way to know except to buy it. Lol

I like your talents and your videos are the bomb but please do not complain about or ridicule people for living. When the mic is close to your voice the background is minor. Tfs

@backtoearthcreations

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the advice, Jonesy