Tiling!
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So......I have been very busy making tiles for the entrance and slate for the kitchen! I decided to make the tiles 2cm square so I used a permanent marker and marked a white tile measurements. I then baked it for 30mins in order to bake the vivid onto the tile - you don't want it coming off onto your polymer clay. Then I used a pasta machine to roll out white clay to a uniform thickness. I used the side of a steel ruler to mark out the tiles, measuring up using the grid on the tile. I then baked the tiles directly on the tile - this enabled them to stay nice and flat during baking and cool down. I then sprayed the tiles white and broke them apart. I trimmed the edges and then marked each corner triangle with gold. I sprayed fixative over them all. Then for the centre tile I chose the pattern I wanted and printed it out. I then used Mod Podge transfer medium to transfer the outline to the tile. I then painted within the lines directly onto the tile. I sprayed with fixative and also covered the whole tile with a layer of Mod Podge to protect the pattern. I used a template that I made of the area and created a light card backing which I then 'glued' the tiles directly onto. I started with the large centre tile and moved outwards - cutting as I needed to. When they were dry I used spackle to grout. After this I shaved a little grey and cream chalk pastels over the whole area and rubbed this over everything to give it a slightly aged look. Before putting into position I also used a blade to scrape some of the patterns off. Very hard to essentially damage something you've spent so much time on making perfect!!
Slate tiles for the Kitchen! I found a vinyl tile in a local hardware store with a sticky back. I marked out the shape of the kitchen floor onto the tile by using a template I had made. I then marked out the floor - all different sizes and shapes of tiles. I tried to cut them using a blade but it took far too much effort! Instead I used scissors - this did have the unfortunate side-effect of the tiles not being nice and straight! I then cut out a thin card template of the floor and pieced the floor together in a random pattern. Once it was all stuck down I used spackle to grout. This looked far too white! As spackle shrinks when it dries I put another layer of grout on only this time darkened it using shavings of chalk pastels. I then used a black stamp pad (stayz on ink) to darken the floors to my liking. Then I sprayed with fixative before placing the whole thing onto the kitchen floor!
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