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Create Pendants Using Molds, Epoxy Clay and Colorized Resin
Create pieces that look like fire glazed porcelain using Crystal Clay and opaque pigments added to resin. In this series of videos filmed with Beadaholique last month, I walk you through the steps of creating molds with silicone putty, creating your impression into a Nunn Design Pendants filled with Crystal Clay with perfect registration, adding opaque pigments into Nunn Design Resin to build out a color sampler and finally, applying it onto your cured pendant. The finished pieces look stunning and are really very fun to make!
Crystal Clay: Molding, Casting, Setting, & Finishing – Part 1
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaxHAdFOAHM[/youtube] Part 1 of a 4 part video series: In this video learn how to create silicone molds using Easy Mold Silicone Putty, by Craftin’ Craft. This video covers mixing the silicone putty and using your bezel to create a registration for your mold impressions so that it is consistent and uniformed with each impression (fancy words for ‘not all caddy-womped!’).To create this project, you will need:
- Easy Mold Silicone Putty, by Craftin’Craft.
- Nunn Design Metal Embellishments for making the impression in the mold.
Crystal Clay: Molding, Casting, Setting, & Finishing – Part 2
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y73JCqSAgts[/youtube] Part 2 of a 4 part video series: Once you have learned how to make a silicone mold using Nunn Design Brass Embellishments, you will be ready to create your impressions into the Nunn Design Patera Bezels.To create your impressions you will need:
- Nunn Design Patera Bezels
- Crystal Clay, two-part epoxy clay, for creating the impression into the bezel.
Crystal Clay: Molding, Casting, Setting, & Finishing – Part 3
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuZkEU-5TEU[/youtube] Part 3 of a 4 part video series: Learn how to create a pigment color sampler with Nunn Design 2 Part Resin, ETI’s Castin’ Craft Opaque Pigments and Crystal Clay. In this video I show what a tiny drip of Opaque Pigments can do to the resin and how to create variations by adding more resin or by adding more Opaque Pigment. These pigment samples are helpful to see how the resin will look on various colors of Crystal Clay.There are a couple other videos mentioned in this video that you may want to watch and learn how to:
- Texturize Crystal Clay using Rubber Stamps
- How to Add Opaque Pigments to 2 Part Resin
- Videos on how to mix 2 part resin
To create a color sampler, you will need:
Crystal Clay: Molding, Casting, Setting, & Finishing – Part 4
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdAO60bYOMA[/youtube] Part 4 of a 4 part video series: Complete this great video series and apply the colorized resin onto your pendants. And that’s a wrap! I hope that you will enjoy the fun of creating these great little pendants!Shop Nunn Design Wholesale
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Great tutorials! Very well explained.
I love the clever idea of creating a stamp out of molds that fit perfectly to each bezel!