Where can I buy felt fabric (used in crafts) and metallic paint for polymer clay? and also polymer..?

Question

specify store name and location

Answer 1

If you have an A.C. Moore's in your area. They have it. I know for certain, and maybe Michael's.

Answer 2

You should be able to buy (polyester) felt in fabric stores at least, and perhaps in some craft or hobby stores.

Here are places you can buy some of the brands of polymer clay in the Philippines:

LOCALLY

...ATC (retail)... Premo & Sculpey

...Hobbes (retail) ...Sculpey

...craft store in robinson's galleria, ortigas... clay and other stuff.

..."TheSculpeyman" (retail & "delivery")

-- [e-mail] ...ms 09176269790 (QuezonCity~Manilla)

.......Premo: 2 oz only (Php145 --poss. better deals on bulk orders) --Black,White,Beige,BurntUmber

Blue5562, CobaltBlue5063, Yellow5572, Red5259 ... Green, Orange, Purple, Violet

Gold, Silver....Translucent5310, GlowInTheDark ....Translucent Liquid Sculpey

......Sculpey (boxes, single color): Original Sculpey, SuperSculpey, SuperS.Gray, Ultralight--stronger

(..........INFO-PRICES for this supplier MAY BE OLD.....)

MAIL ORDER (will have more brands & colors, better prices):

Singapore:

http://www.garieinternational.com.sg/cla...

Australia:

http://www.polymerclay.com.au

New Zealand:

http://www.zigzag.co.nz

If you want to paint on top of baked polymer clay, you can use any metallic paint as long as it's acrylic (craft paint or artists' acrylics).  Painting over polymer clay usually involves 2 coats (or a primer plus one coat), and wiping the clay down with alcohol before painting to remove any oils that could act as resists to the paint.

There are other materials that can give metallic effects to polymer clays though, if you're interested, like metallic powders and waxes, and metallic leaf, etc.

If you want more info on metallic paints, powders, waxes, and leaf when used with polymer clay, check out these pages too:

http://glassattic.com/polymer/paints.htm

http://glassattic.com/polymer/powders_me...

http://glassattic.com/polymer/leaf.htm

...and this page deals with all the ways to simulate certain types of metal with polymer clay (gold, silver, pewter, copper, etc.):

http://glassattic.com/polymer/Faux--many...

(....click on the category called "Metal" near the bottom of the list)

HTH,

Diane B.

Answer 3

i was looking up India beads tonight and think i saw that listed on one of the pages oddly enough