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Web Page Tutorials and Guides for making Molds and Textures for Metal Clay

Making your own textures is a great way of creating a truly unique piece of jewellery. This page contains links to web pages with tutorials and guides for creating your own textures and also how to make molds that really work. Use these with your metal clay to create truly unique jewelry.

You could also check out our unique texture supplier page for sources of images to make into your own textures.

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All Things Metal Clay - Getting Started with Photo Polymer Plates

Short article on making your own texture plates using photo polymer plates (PPP).

How to make photo polymer plates

Fantastic tutorial by Maggie Bergman. Includes everything you need to know to make photo polymer plates (PPP). Photo polymer plates allow you to turn black and white designs, including photographs, into stamps to use with your metal clay. This allows you to design not just your piece of jewellery but also the texture you use. You finished item will be totally unique.

Improving the life of photo polymer plates

Useful technical guide to making and storing photopolymer plates which last. It's written for the print industry so you can ignore the parts that don't relate to using PPP's with metal clay. If you're having trouble with your plates cracking or curling, this article should help you increase the life of your photopolymer plates.

Mad About Molds - How to use molds with clay

Very comprehensive page detailing how to use the molds with clay.

Margaret Schindel - Textures in Metal Clay

Another very comprehensive Squidoo Lens, this time about the different ways you can texture metal clay.

Metal Clay Veneer

Create a flexible texture sheet of PMC or Art Clay that never dries out and can be cut, twisted and shaped in ways nearly impossible by any other method!

Photoshop Tutorial - turning a photo into artwork for photo polymer plates.

Maggie Bergman's excellent tutorial shows you how to prepare a photo for use with photo polymer plates. A very useful companion to the above tutorial.

Textures in Photoshop

Great tutorial site with step by step instructions on how to create a number of basic textures using Photoshop. These textures can then be translated into tear away sheets to use with your metal clay.

Tonya Davidson - Photopolymer Plate Tips and Tricks

Tonya's great blog has lots of wonderful information. This link gives you tips and tricks about making photopolymer plates. Tonya uses Thermal Negative Film as an additional step in the process. This gives you a much better impression than using transparency film alone.