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One of the great things about building with slabs is that being flat it's a really great
surface to decorate with stamping, number of different ways. There's so many different
ways you can do this. You can buy pre made sheets that are texture sheets. They make
these for clay. They also make them for polymer clay and the polymer clay ones work just as
well in clay. This is one that's made for polymer clay which is the femo type stuff,
but it leaves a really good surface in regular clay as well. Other ways to texture your slab
would be to make your own stamps. You can cut; you can carve out of a piece of clay,
shapes, forms, different kinds of things. You can also make one that rolls and has a
changing texture all the way around. You can use natural objects, like this sea urchin
makes a really cool pattern. This is the interior of a piece of cactus; it also makes a really
cool pattern. Just explore cabinet knobs, I mean there's so many different things you
can use to put textures into clay. And then what you can do, is you can make your little
slabs that show your stamps, so that you know when you go to decorate your slab, what it's
going to come out looking like in the long run. And you can keep these with the textures
that you have. So now I'll show you how to use these objects to make textures in your
slab.