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So last week michaels had a really good sale on clay that I couldnt pass up. All the small blocks of clay were only .99 cents each. They also had a 50% off coupon that I used on the super sculpey.

I figured it was finally time for me to test out fimo more since I usually mostly use sculpey III.

So far Im really liking fimo alot, now I wish I had bought more fimo for .99 cents since it regularly cost like almost 3 bucks a bar at my michaels. I was on a budget though and I didnt want to spend alot.

and here is something I was a bit shocked to see when comparing the black colors. The sculpey III Black is not really black its more like a grey color and fimo black is actually black. A few of fimo colors are alot more pigmented than sculpeys so those are the ones that I will buy instead of sculpey.

I also bought a bar of craftsmart clay which I think is the michaels brand of clay. It was the prettiest shade of purple out of all the brands. I could mix that color of course with the other brands but its nice to have it already premixed. I’ll review that brand later for strength and see how it holds up.

Today I will share with you my experiment to determine how waterproof is lumina clay.

I always do a waterproof test out all the clays I use before I make jewelry. I want to make sure all my products are made out of materials that will not have a reaction that will ruin my customers clothes. Of course there are always unforseen circumstances but for 99% of the normal occurances I like to be sure everything will be okay with my creations.

So since I used ink, acrylic paint and oil paint to tint lumina I needed to make sure these items are really waterproof and the pigments wont leak out of the clay if they get wet. So I decided to do a 5 day test to see what would happen.

I took several pieces of tinted clay and I put them in a ziplock bag filled with water. Below is a picture of the pieces of clay before I put them in water

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In this tutorial I will show you the results of coloring lumina clay and what works and what doesnt.

On the package of lumina it says you can color it with acrylic paint, oil paint, colored hearty clay to create custom colors.

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