Silkscreen Videos

http://www.polymerclaytv.com If you love Halloween like we do, there s almost no better time to enjoy the various ways to scare up a good time! Check it out as we take you on a tour of fun things to make with polymer clay for this spooky holiday.

http://www.polymerclaytv.com This week we have a demo Christi Friesen did at the Orlando Clay Fandango http://www.oapcguild.com Steampunk is all the rage now and her Steampunk bunny came out absolutely adorable. You will have to go to the Polymer Clay TV website to see the entire demo as it was too large for some of the video sites including You Tube. Enjoy!

http://www.polymerclaytv.com In this episode we attend the Orlando Clay Fandango retreat in St. Augustine, FL. A weekend filled with fun and laughter and lots of claying. Stay tuned for a bunch more footage plus a demo by Penni Jo Couch and Christi Friesen.

http://www.polymerclaytv.com In this episode we share some fun Peeps Marshmallow earrings.

http://www.polymerclaytv.com In this episode Ilysa takes you on a tour of her home studio and show you some of her storage solutions and art work.

Silkscreen printing is an everyday part of our lives. This printing method has its origins in China almost 3000 years ago. Many of the stickers we print are silkscreen printed like these Laughing Squid stickers. This sticker has a green impression, and a black impression. When combined, they make a two color sticker. Two screens mounted on a rigid frame are created, one for the green impression and one for the black impression. The yellow areas are where the ink will pass through the screen. The green screen is mounted on the printing press making sure it is aligned properly. A specially formulated green ink is prepared, .and a pre-measured amount is applied to the screen. 2 large squeegees set the ink in place, and the machine begins to feed the adhesive backed vinyl sheets into the machine. A series of suction cups and steel fingers make sure the sheets go in one at a time. Two large squeegees alternate spreading ink across the screen and then scraping it off again. The ink is squeezed through the screen onto the vinyl sheets. The inks are dried instantly using ultraviolet light. This job required 500 sheets to be printed. The sheets are stacked and taken back to the front of the press. The screen is cleaned and the ink is put away to be used another day. Now the black screen is carefully mounted on the press. Black ink is applied, and the sheets are fed back into the machine. The process is repeated applying the black impression onto previously printed sheets. The printing process is completed and the sheets are fed through a slitting machine. Each sheet gets four slits so the stickers have a crack and peel backing. The stickers are ready to be trimmed in this cutting machine. After careful alignment the 5 horizontal cuts are made consecutively. This machine requires the operator to use two hands to activate the blade. This reduces the risk of injury. The sheets are turned and the process is repeated making the 7 vertical cuts. Once the trimming is complete, a simple rubber band keeps the finished stickers in order. And that's how 2-color Laughing Squid stickers are made at StickerGiant.

http://www.polymerclaytv.com In this episode we show several ways we made polymer clay pocket mirrors.

Hi my name is John Fischer and I'm the owner and founder of Stickergiant and today I want to tell you about spot color printing versus four color process printing. We're gonna start with spot color printing first, by far the most popular type of sticker we print is spot color printing - probably 80-90% of our stickers are spot color. There are some advantages:spot color stickers last longer and are less expensive. This is an example of a one color sticker black on a white sticker substrate for Zombie Compact Claw. This is an example for Gold's Gym of a two color sticker black and yellow. Very durable very inexpensive with a standard circle shape. Here's an example of a four spot color sticker, not four color process, but four spot colors. Yellow, red, black and blue colors in this sticker. They're all separate and none of the colors are combined to create other colors. That's one of the characteristics of spot color printing, we don't blend the colors together very often to make other colors. This is a fantastic high end four spot color sticker. It's die cut on a removable white vinyl. It's got four special colors. A fantastic sticker. This sticker is a very long lasting sticker for my friends at Tech Cocktail - Frank Ruber, Eric Olsen great guys, make a great drink. So that is Spot color printing. The advantages are it's less expensive. It's longer lasting, that ink when we print spot color we can print silk screen so the ink is thicker on the substrate so it's gonna lasts longer in the intense sulight. The other kind of printing we do, and we do it really well, is four color process printing. Four color process uses the same four inks always: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. THose four colors - Cyan, basically a light blue, Magenta, a dark red, yellow and black. Those are combined together to make thousands of colors. This is an illustration of my friend Dave Taylor, he does online tech support, an excellent resource. Four colors, four color process, combined to make thousands of colors. This is a four color process that I really like. Carson Fireking. Again, four color process, cyan magentna yellow and black are combined to make thousands of color combinations. This particular sticker is for Carson Fireking, they customize helicopters. In fact President elect Obama flies on a customized Carson customized helicopter. This is another example of four color process, Stop the Social Media Voodoo. Thousands of color combinations in this sticker but only four colors were used. And here is a nice cancer survivor sticker with a happy line on it from pennington health center, our customers, cancer center. So that's the main advantage, four color process is really cool, gives you the ability to have thousands of colors when you're only using four colors so you can have delicate vingettes and blends and photo realistic pritning. The big disadvantage to four color process is it's expensive and doesn't last as long. The inks are put down in a very controlled and thin fashion so we can combine them and get predictable results, but that also means the inks are thinner and they're not going to last as long in the sun and the weather and that kind of thing. THe substrates for four color process stickers are not as durable as well. They're thinner, not as heavy duty because they have to run in a certain kind of environment that doesn't lend itself to really thick substrates. So the advantages of spot color printing are they're cheaper and longer lasting. Most stickers you see are spot color printed. The disadvantages are less color combinations available and you can't get delicate blends and vignettes that you can get in four color process. Four color process the advantages are the felxibility in colors you can achieve, photo realistic printing. Disadvanatges are it's much more expensive and doesn't last as long. So that's four color versus spot color. I'm John Fischer and thanks for watching.

http://www.polymerclaytv.com In this episode Lisa Pavelka shows how to work her water slide transfers and Angelina fibers.

http://www.polymerclaytv.com In this episode we explore covering glass objects.

http://www.polymerclaytv.com In this episode of Polymer Clay Tv we show how to get started silkscreening on polymer clay. This is a fun and easy technique that you get amazing results with. Enjoy!

In this podcast, Bre brings in Matt, the screenprinting expert of etsy.com, to the Weekend Projects podcast. Have you ever wanted to create your own t-shirt designs? Look no further! Don't forget to go and download the pdf to get all the details and supply lists. http://makezine.com/podcast