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#ScrapClaySaturday Episode 9 🕯️ 🔈 Volume up for voiceover 📈 #wellthatscrap 🍁🍂✨ | ☝️Change is inevitable, so let’s use Episode 9 to switch things up! 🤸‍♀️ Welcome back to another exciting episode of #ScrapClaySaturday! 😍 It’s time for... | By Jami Rae | Stop right there. Do not scroll away. If this is your first time watching my series, this is ScrapClaySaturday and it's a perfect time for you to start watching. It's going to be a little bit different than the past eight weeks and I cannot believe we're on episode nine. This is the beginning of our third month doing the ScrapClaySaturday series and so I decided to switch it up just a tad bit. Part of getting your scraps for your ScrapClay series is making new creations. So, this week, I went ahead and did a little bit of outside of my comfort zone or I guess, you know, outside of my go-to color palette. I typically go with like pinks and purples and blues and greens. And so this week I decided to start off with some like earthy tones. Some fall type colors. Just you can see it's like two browns. Um I think a yellow, two oranges, and a reddish color. So we can kind of start off fresh. And the alcohol inks that I use. Those are from Common Sky. I am an affiliate for Common Skya. I don't get paid for this video but if you use my code which is the Rae Clay THE R A E C L A Y then you do get 10% off your purchase so I put a couple drops of those in my sculpy primo translucent clay and now I'm rolling that out by hand because I don't want to mix it all the way up I just want to mix it to where it's mostly mixed in but I want that kind of you know just like little spots that have darker colors and lighter colors I think it leaves a little dimension to the clay and so yeah I'm just rolling out by hand for those of you who say you know it goes too fast and it's dizzy you get dizzy watching my watching my videos I'm really sorry but I have to speed it up a little bit this this video would be like over an hour long if I didn't speed it up so I actually did three times speed I hope that's not too fast if at any point you need to pause it and you know look at a certain tool or a certain process again you can rewind it and do that but I just want to explain why I speed it up these videos do tend to be a little bit longer and I want to make sure Everybody can get through the video without getting bored. Um some people you know their attention span is just not you know 45 minutes long. So yeah I'm going through here and just like I said rolling this out by hand. I'm not going to put them through my my Lucy Clay my clay roller. I'm just going to do it all by hand and so yeah that's what we're starting out with. That yellow it tended to it it it tends to get a little brighter than I thought it would. I should probably use a little less or put a little white but you'll see it ended up Working out just just fine. Um so yeah the I think I used let's see chestnut brown, cool brown, lemon, orange, terracotta, and I think that last color is called Marsol. Um but yeah these are all common Skya inks. They are alcohol inks. They also have acrylic inks and and different types of multi-functional colors as well. So now that we have all six of our colors and again I know it's ScrapClaySaturday but I don't want to I we've built eight weeks or the first seven weeks we built off the pinks and purples and greens. I didn't want to keep going in that direction because I don't want it to get I want to do something different. So for this week we're actually making a totally new creation. And then we're going to build off these scraps for the next few weeks. And like I said we're going to kind of steer towards you know yellows and reds and and oranges and browns and maybe some white and black. And we might add you know some some pink and and stuff in here here and there once we get a few weeks into the series. But I just wanted to start out fresh. We had been building off those scraps like I said for seven weeks and don't get me wrong they were beautiful and every week it was like a totally different design I don't I wasn't bored with it but I do tend to gravitate towards a certain you know a certain color palette so this kind of like sets the tone for the next few weeks and so some more earthy type like I said fall autumn vibes and so now you see I've mixed all those little pieces together and I'm going to take each one of those alcohol inks that I used on each one of the translucent colors I'm going to put like 10 to 20 drops just random throughout and between each color I'm going to mix them together just slightly I don't want it to be on every piece I don't want it to be you know I'm not squirting it all over I'm just touching the pieces or dripping a few drips and then you know mixing that together just a little bit and as I'm going I'm actually blowing on this just to kind of get to dry faster but alcohol ink dries pretty darn fast so you know you don't have really have to sit there and trying to make yourself pass out but yeah I was kind of blowing on it in between colors just to get and you can see I'm I'm cutting up some bigger pieces I'm pulling pieces apart because they do stick together sometimes you want to make sure that like light colors are not three or four of them stuck together you want to make sure they're all broken up so that they can mix up and you can get a nice little variation once you build your block we're we're going to do build a block today so yeah I've got all those six colors I've gone through and put each one six colors in. I've mixed them up. I'm going through right now and separating all the little blocks. You know, like I said, defining some big ones then go ahead and cut them in half. I just want to make sure each piece is separated and each piece has some alcohol ink on it so that it has some depth, some some dimension in the pattern itself and I have kept this video a little bit long today. Um you'll see here that here's Kamaskaya gold and bronze. Um I really love the way these look when I put them in I was like okay this is this really you know kind of made this pattern for me or this design for me but yeah just put it in I I don't have a a method on this it's just kind of put it in mood around and you can see it's just very very earthy I'll just say you know that's that's the word that comes to mind for me is it's earthy so yeah this is your sculpty liquid clay I put a little bit on there you don't have to put a whole lot and then you just it around and once I did that I realized it needed a little bit more for this particular you know it was kind of a dryer block of clay so now I'm just going to kind of push that together and it it does take a little effort it'll try to come apart you keep pushing and then I just kind of take the ball itself and push it down into the pieces that don't want to come up and now I'm going to do I love this part because you see it's like almost like little rocks all smushed together but you can see how they're all separated and this is actually a really good video because it shows once I cut into it you'll see what I'm talking about but it shows that no matter how much you squish and you push and you you try to get it to adhere together sometimes it just doesn't but it ended up being great but just you know good lessons learned for those of you who are wondering how long this takes this is at three times speed and I'm using my fingers as you can see pushing it in using my acrylic block pushing it down I also use the palm of my hand and I'm just squishing and pushing and and just keep going so at three times speed and I actually cut some out I do this for anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes and some people don't I've seen people do it in real time that they barely squish and push and they really don't care if it's kind of chunky and it's not really adhered together I am a freak about making sure my square is perfect and this is actually after I put it in the freezer I put it in there just for 10 minutes and it's hardens it up so when you start cutting it it's not going to smoosh your block and you know make or make it all mis mishapen however I'm just making a birds here I don't even know that's a word but yeah well maybe this isn't after and you know what this might be before I put it in the freezer but anyways at some point once I get my block formed I do put it in the freezer for 10 to 20 minutes it's actually better when it's closer to 10 minutes, but sometimes I forget it and then it's really hard so you want it just hard enough where it's not going to smoosh the block when you cut it but you don't want to put it in there for like 20 30 because then when you try to cut it, it is extremely difficult but one of the reasons I like leaving some of this process in there is because people tend to think, you know, people charge too much for their clay pieces but it really takes a lot of time and I love how this looks on the outside. We all know that once you cut it, it's going to look a little bit different but I love how it just looks like, like I said, a bunch of rocks or a bunch of stones. Um it's just really pretty. So, I cut into it. Um I think I've said this before but sometimes I'm just not really impressed. I'll cut it and I'll be like, ah, that's nice. Um but you really have to roll it out. Um you really have to get your UV resin on there before it you can really see what it's going to look like. Now as you can see all that squishing and pushing and smooshing did not help. I still have gaps in the middle. And that is one of the reasons why I take so much time to form my clay blocks. Because even with all that I still had issues with this one when I cut it open. But this is actually a good thing for you to see that it doesn't matter because I'm going to show you how you get a perfectly good slab even if you have pieces in the middle that just do not want to mesh well together. Um I left a lot of this in as well. I have a couple other videos that have my process. It's what I call rolling and reducing. Um it seems a little counter productive to some people. They're just like this seems like it takes way too long and it does. I can spend anywhere from 15 to over 30 minutes rolling and reducing. Um you'll see me doing a lot of pushing on the sides, pushing in the middle because all those seams in between those blocks or those pieces you'll think that it's adhered together and you'll think that it's all good and then, you'll go to start rolling and those pieces will literally split apart or you'll go to flip it over which you need to do both sides and it'll fall apart on you. So, I am squishing and pushing the sides and then, I'm taking my hands and I'm pushing it towards the middle because I want every piece, every individual piece as well as all of those, you know, six-ish blocks that I put together. They have to stay together. They to and look this is my process if it's not your process if you don't like it it takes too long for you do something different I definitely have seen people roll it out and they don't care about those splits in the side you know what I mean they just roll it out and if there's splits in the side they just use the parts that's not split I want to get the you know the full I want to use my full slab of clay so again this is why I left this in just to show you guys this is a lot of work it's really not just like oh take the clay out of the cut it up and put some little paints and look at all the I mean you see I've been rolling it forever and I've been rolling and reducing and I still have sides that are splitting apart and you'll see once I flip it over you'll see what I'm talking about it's like once you think it's all together and it's good you can just roll it you really can't if I were to put this through my Lucy clay right now it would totally fall apart so you see I take my little blade here and as I as you turn it over you can really see the sides and the piece pieces that see right there how it literally like half of it splits apart all that rolling and reducing it and it is still not cohesive it is still not together if I put that through it would be a hot mess so again that's why I do this process it's it's what works for me it's what I like it's what makes it easy for me to do a roll some from the top to the bottom squish from the sides turn it roll some from the top to the bottom squish the sides turn it I'm really taking my fingers and pushing into those seams you want to that you don't want to mess the pattern up but you want to make sure that all those little pieces are you know one piece by the end of this process so if it takes me 45 minutes I'm okay with that again you I'm flipping it back and forth I'm turning it round and round I'm making sure those I like to keep it kind of a square or rectangle as possible I'm again I you know I just have things that I like to do and if that doesn't work for you if you just don't want to take the time like I like I said I've seen people do it in different seeing people do it looks a little bit of a easier process this is what I like and this is what I like to do so that's why I share it with you so rolling and reducing and you'll see it's kind of starts to get a little bigger and you're thinking chick you're never going to get this thing to roll out if you keep pushing it in but you have to like if I didn't keep pushing the lines if I didn't keep pushing from the outside in and rolling and rolling and rolling it would not be the slab that you're going to see before I put it through my Lucy Clay machine it would I've had it fall apart on me even doing this process. So, I don't know how other people do it. I don't know, you know, they have magic clay and their clay just sticks together. I use Sculpy Primo for the most part, translucent and this is just how I do it. So, you'll see here is where I finally, you know, there's only a few little spots that it's really not staying together but for the most part, I'm able to start now stretching it out. You want to roll it back, I mean, you want to flip it back and forth, you want to do it roll it from different because you don't want the pattern to stretch one way or the other you kind of want to stretch it long ways one way then turn it stretch it long ways that way so that way it continues to spread out pretty evenly and I will eventually zoom out on this here we go yeah so you can see the whole slab but yeah I'm I'm I'm just taking my time that's the best thing you could do to make sure you have a quality slab to make sure it's not going to fall apart on you and that it's not going to fall apart you know later on in the process you want that clay to be as sturdy as possible so that you can make some earrings out of it. This is my favorite part. Everybody knows I love the draping is what I call it. Look at those pieces. They're so pretty. All that dimension, the different colors with the different alcohol inks on it. You can see I can, you know, flap it around and and and dangle it a little bit and that's to show you that those lines are kind of still there but it is still a solid piece and then, we're going to put it just one time through the Lucy clay. So, I actually rolled it out almost to the thickness I wanted but you'll see when I put it through it stretch it out a little bit more long ways and I just think that's beautiful it looks much better now than it did when I first cut into the block in my opinion so yeah that's that's the the longest part of the process and now I'm going to roll it out a little bit more just to get it stuck to my tile but look I use a little bit of cornstarch so it doesn't really stick to the tile I noticed earlier on I picked a few pieces that I was okay this is not working every single piece is coming up I don't mind if they come up but when they stick in the cutter like here I have to take that little silicone tool and push it out it didn't mess it up but I just don't like dealing with that so it only took me about three sets of cutters and I was like okay we're we're going to the easier ones I think this is the last one I use where I have to kind of pull it out of the cutter I just don't like that so yeah if you use cornstarch sometimes that is some people don't like working with it because of various reasons but part of that is because it's not going to adhere to the ceramic a hundred percent. You are going to have that clay pull up when you cut your pieces but again, I don't mind it. I really don't. I used to hate it but now, it's kind of just part of my process. I'd rather have it that way than have it so stuck to the ceramic or the porcelain tile that you have to really like scrape it off with the with the blade. I just like it better. So, I actually end up going kind of you know back to the my favorite cutters you know what I mean like I I I kind of have tried to move away from those because I use the same shapes a lot and those are my clay cutters my crease my my Lucy clay or I'm sorry my Lulu cutters yeah I I try real hard to switch it up but then I get slabs like this where like every cutter is a problem and I just go back to my tried and true true old school cut excuse me, old school cutters, kind of, you know, Lucy Clay. I keep saying Lucy Clay. Why I keep saying that? The Lulu cutters and the real clay. Those are like two of my favorite places to get cutters from but yeah. So, I really like the way this turned out. Like I said, I don't think we'll really be able to see the true the true finished product and how it looks until we get that UV resin on there but those are coming soon. I keep saying that but you guys, I have so much going on. So, just know that I'm always behind in life and that's just Kinda my aesthetic. That's just me. Um we don't have a lot of scraps but we have enough to make a little slab for next week and I think these are beautiful. Um I think they're very, I don't know, earthy vibes and I cannot wait to finish these. I hope you guys enjoyed the creation this week that will kind of set the stage for our next ScrapClaySaturday. So, join me next week to see what we're going to make out of these scraps.

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