Creating something completely unique that nobody else in the world has is one
reason many of us love to make our own jewelry, it's the reason I still
occasionally sell my own garments and have I got a unique project for you, these are
pieces that you can make into any jewelry you like that look one color in
the daylight and glow something entirely different when the lights go out.
Hey there creative people, Sandy here, welcome to another polymer clay video at
keepsakecrafts.net. So I have been playing this week with glow-in-the-dark
powders which I did a Friday findings video on last week, translucent clay and
the concept of making hollow beads. Yes, this bead is actually hollow,
what's even more cool is when the lights go out and there it is I think this has
been in the dark for a while so it didn't glow very much but it actually
does glow better than that. As I mentioned in the Friday findings video
in order to use glow-in-the-dark powders you do want to use a translucent clay so
that they the glow will come through, now this clay I apologize I was
experimenting and I grabbed some tinted... I know it was Pardo translucent that I
tinted with something. I'm not sure if it was a paint or a alcohol ink or another
clay I don't know but I grabbed it out of my scrap bin and ended up being
really happy with it. So you have to have translucent clay in order for the glow
to come through, now here's one that I made and I added just a little bit of
the pinata alcohol ink to it and got a fairly nice purple color and there was
glow powder in this but when I turn out the lights, well you can see it really
doesn't come through at all which is kind of sad but oh well what are you
gonna do? Live and learn move on. So a little experimenting is in order to find
what works, you are probably not going to get a good glow if you use darker shades
so you want to focus on having a lighter shade
for your main pebble, which is fine because this black silvery sparkling
decoration looks great and really contrasts nicely with your lighter color
and with the color once it glows. Now I thought I would just play with the
sculpey glow in the dark clay, this is one of the
colors that comes in their set. I showed this to you last week and I will say
this was actually much easier to form the hollow bead with than the Pardo. It
just moved more nicely it was much softer but I don't know if you can tell
the difference between these. These two were made with Pardo this one was with
the Sculpey, these two baked up pretty nice and smooth a lot of a lumpy bumpy
bits smoothed out and I'll talk more about that in a minute, on this one it
didn't. So although it was easier to form it I don't think it was worth it and
what I did was I took some of this color and I mixed some. I had a pinch of this
purple left over on my table and I mixed it in and the color wasn't bad when
before it was baked but now it's just kind of a gnarly pink that I really
don't like. It does however glow. Oh, there they are. Well, the first thing you need
is some Pardo clay or other translucent clay. I like the Pardo. I stopped using
the Premo for most things because it just yellows on me, and I ended up using
a little bit more than 1/8 of a block of clay in fact I have it right here this
is what was not in there and I mixed in a drop of Pearlescent Emerald Lumiere
paint by Jacquard and I also mixed in probably a good quarter of a vial of
aqua. What's fun about this is that this is green and it's gonna glow aqua, this
one's kind of a blue and it glows green, you could mix in a completely different
color of the powder, these powders are... you can buy them colored in powder form
or like whitish in powder form so this really doesn't add
any color to the clear clay until it's baked, well, and even after its baked,
until the lights are out you don't know it's there. And as I mentioned in that
video it's a good idea when you're mixing this powder in it does tend to
dry the clay so add a little liquid clay any TLS. This is clear because I'm gonna
use this later, just add some, kind of smear it on your
clay and then you can put the powders on and it sticks and it makes far less of a
mess putting it in. You could roll it out into a sheet which is how I did this one
and then curve it around to make your hollow form but I thought it was much
easier... I'm just gonna warm this up a tiny bit I don't want to flatten it too
much, but it has been sitting overnight. So I'll warm it up a little. I found it
easier to form it over something already kind of rounded ,so I'm sort of halfway
to making that rounded shape, this is just the top of a screwdriver. I was
actually pretty happy with doing it over this, this is just a lip-balm container,
rather than rolling it out in a sheet and then you you already still have to
do this particular operation. Now notice the Pardo cracking. Pardo is one
of those wonderful clays that... it's fantastic because of its translucency
but it is a little finicky in the way it's handled. If you want to know more
about conditioning Pardo and it's probably the only reason I use it these
days is Ginger Davis Allman's article at the Blue Bottle Tree on how to condition
Pardo. You just have to work it with gentle persuasion, if you try to force it
real quick you're gonna get these kind of cracks but if you just gently push
and tap and prod it it behaves really well. So I've got a thick pancake here and now,
now see I pushed that too fast and it said, No!" like a cranky toddler, that's
the analogy she gives and I love it, but if you just use gentle pats and
persuasion and also this ball of clay has been, like I said sitting overnight.
Start to form it around your round thing. In case you've got scraps that you're
working from I started with about a one inch ball of play. Oops.
Yeah see? If you move it too quick it just like shears off, it's really interesting that
way. So now I've got kind of a cup or a dish shape. The idea is that I'm going to
bring this all up and around and eventually have these edges meet each
other thus trapping a bubble of air on the inside. So what I'm going to do is
pinch these edges. I'm kind of doing three things at once. I'm pinching these a
little flatter, pulling them up and in, and then also pinching this edge
together, you can see that V that I'm pushing between my fingers and it just
takes a little bit of time and patience. Like I said this much softer Sculpey
clay did this beautifully, it did it really fast,
but I never could get it as smooth as I could get these ones so I think it's
worth it to just take a little bit more time and you just kind of work it.
Speaking of time, it is now mid-June 2018 and I have been working on so many
different projects. I have got several big projects in the works for you,
unfortunately I can't tell you about any of them it's just, you know how it is,
it's not smart marketing to talk about any of these things, or I'm contractually
obligated not to, and unfortunately I'm kind of finding myself a little bit
burnt out. I'm just, I've been working on so many different things and I love what
I do, but you can only do so much especially if you're an artist and a
creative person I'm sure you you just, you need a time to do other
things and refill your creative well, so to speak. So I hope you all won't hate me
too much if I take the month of July off from publishing videos. I just have so
much to do. I will continue to make videos for my patrons so my patrons will
get their bonus tutorials in July, but I'm going to give my channel a break for
the month of July and I hope... You know if you're, if you're dying for some creative
stuff I have nearly 600 videos on this channel if you haven't seen them all
take a look. You can have a laugh the quality of some of the older ones. I
haven't taken down older ones just because they were older. I've left those
up so you can go watch the very first video I did. I actually never intended to
start a YouTube channel. I had a blog and the blog was just kind of a way to share
with a few people things I did and share some tutorials because I always found
myself wanting to teach, and I had done a really cool project from Club Scrap.
Actually it was a memory cube thing and it was like three-dimensional and you
flipped it and folded it and there were pictures on the inside and outside and I
couldn't figure out how in the world to show that in still photos which is what
I had on my blog were just stills. So I got out my little camera, it was just a
little point and shoot camera and made a video, and I finished making the video
and I was like, "That was fun!" I enjoyed doing that and I did another one. I did
another one on a scrapbooky type project and then I did a jewelry video. I
was kind of copying a piece of ready-made jewelry, a couple pieces
actually. I figured out how they were made and shared how to do it. All right, let
me interrupt myself here... as you get to this point now you've got like a little
pot, isn't that cool? And now kind of start pinching from the outside
because it starts to get difficult to pinch it from the inside just the way I
was, you can't... you can only fit one finger in there. You want to just do this
slowly and carefully, so I'm kind of popping that out when I come around to
it. The idea is that you don't want to have any cracks or holes or places for
air to escape. So anyway, so I recorded a few jewelry tutorials because it was
just fun. I really enjoyed doing it. I kind of liked editing the videos. I just
enjoyed the whole process and then I was contacted by allfreejewelrymaking.com.
You'll still see them their name on some of my older videos and they wanted
to buy from me the rights to put some of my videos on their channel and I could,
they would pay me so much per video. All right now I'm just kind of twisting this
all together again, trying to make sure that there's no places for air to escape
and I'm just gonna kind of smooth out these seams as I go. But anyways, they
they wanted to pay me to make videos and I could do up to two a week and I said
"Well, why wouldn't I do 2 a week? They're gonna pay me, I could use the money. " And I
noticed when I started uploading two videos a week my channel started to grow
and it's just been going from there and I've been having so much fun making
creative things and knowing that I've inspired you all. So this is really cool
because if you have it sealed so that there is no place for air to escape
you can feel the resistance of that pocket of air in there and again with
the Pardo you can just gentle nudges and persuasion you'll be able to smooth it
all out, really cool. The benefit of making this hollow is that it's a fairly
large piece but it's really lightweight so it's lighter and weight for wearing
and also it uses less clay, both benefits and
then I had thought that it would be fun to play with this with the Anglerfish
light that LED light that goes inside jewelry that I got last fall. I did a
video on that and I have yet to do another video which I've been meaning to.
I didn't have time this week to explore that as well as this technique but I
may look into that at some point because that would be a great use of the
translucent. So once you have that pretty smooth you notice I kind of twisted off
that excess at the top. You can just roll this in your palms just like you would
roll a ball of clay and as long as you can feel that resistance... Uh-oh, now see,
I could feel that it wasn't... "Hello, I'm a hole, I'm letting the air out. " Haha,
Sorry! We'll smooth that out.
Again with the Pardo just take your time, gentle strokes will smooth it out. So
anyways I love making videos for you guys and I love it when you come to me
with your ideas, with your alternates. I've even I've had people say, "Nope, that
doesn't work for me," and it turned out they were absolutely right. It was a
project that I had finished the video and then you know I think I probably
wore the piece and went back and said yeah I've got to change that. They were absolutely
right. So it's it's just fun to have a community here and over at our Patreon
page we have a community of people. If you enjoy my videos and would like to
get more tutorials from me every month my patrons have the opportunity to get
two, up to two bonus tutorials every month. We cover polymer clay and jewelry
at Patreon and we're also building a nice little community over there of
folks sharing their work and I share a lot of behind the scenes stuff. So if
you're interested check out Patreon.com/sandysewin on for more
information. All right, so that's looking pretty good. Now you just roll it in your
palms and you can really feel... it's so strange, the resistance from that
pocket of air that's in there, and see how that's getting nice and smooth which
this never did, and you notice I didn't completely mix in the paint. I left it a
little marbled because I thought that would be really pretty. So you can roll
it in your palms until it's nice and smooth and then you can leave it round.
I like kind of an oval shape, that's sort of an egg shape, I like that, so you can
continue to manipulate it. You could probably make a heart shape out of this
making a point at one end and adding a soft indent at the top and then you put
it on your tile
and you can press it down and as you press it down, as I press it down I don't
know if you can see but as I'm pressing again that air is resisting and it's
making it nice and round. It kind of reminds me of making hollow beads out of glass
when I used to do lamp working, it was a similar process. You had to build the
glass up differently but you basically you made rings so you would... if you
pretend this is glass this won't be long enough to do, but you would you would
wrap them in concentric circles around a mandrel... that's a terrible demonstration,
sorry. I'll give you a link to a a hollow glass bead making video if you're
interested, but you wrap them around and around and you start on here and you
start here and then you kind of curve them inward until they meet and make
sure you have no air pockets and then because hot air expands it's like magic
doing it in glass you just see the bubble puffs out and gets all smooth
because glass has a very high surface tension, and with the Pardo clay I found
it did something similar, whether it's clay or glass hot air
expands and it pushed these both out so that they're nice and smooth. Again I
don't know what the deal is with the Sculpey clay it didn't, it stayed lumpy.
So then you just go ahead and bake this at the manufacturer's recommended
temperature for about, I did it for half an hour. Okay so I'm back and I promised
I would show you this one once it got charged up it's been sitting in the sun.
I put this one out in the sun for a while while it cooled from coming out of
the oven. Isn't that cool and beautiful? I just
love the way it looks so different when you're wearing it, it's pretty without
the glow-in-the-dark but then it's just so different once it starts glowing. I
just think that's cool and fun. You can decorate this any way you want, you could
leave it just like this. I just really like the contrast between the black
lines and the the pale color or the glow in the dark. So for the black clay
instead of just using straight black clay I mixed it with some
of this this I believe is white gold glitter. I usually mix my black clay
with equal parts black and silver but this was just a little bit too glittery
for me with a one to one ratio so I mixed up this one which is two parts black to
one part of the white gold glitter. I just wanted to use this, I had it and I
hadn't found a use for it. The silver will give you a little bit
more of a subtle effect. I just like it it kind of gives it more of a charcoal,
like I said a more subtle effect. If you want while your clay is baking you can
just take take the time to create some snakes of clay that you're going to
use to decorate your shape. I love to use a tool an acrylic block to help me roll
fairly even, you could extrude these although I like that they're not
actually a hundred percent even. I think it's a little bit more of an interesting
and organic look and if you want I have a couple little leaves left here from
that I didn't use on the last project. You can just make some little tiny
leaves. LIttle tiiiiiny leaves, this will probably make a
dozen, seriously. So thinking about how I'm going to hang this, I didn't really
think ahead with this one. I could have made a loop a hanging loop with the clay
strands but I'm not sure that I want to do that just for structural and strength
reasons, so I think what I would do with this is drill a hole and insert a screw
bail with a loop or depending on your design and you might plan for this drill
a hole sideways or you could do a glue on bail on the back although I'm always
a little suspicious of glue on things. I'm always afraid they're
going to let go. Maybe like eighth inch balls and it depends on how many you
want. I used let's see... one, two, three... I used about five or six or seven.
Put pressure just on one side and kind of roll to make a little cone shape
and then if you press from the rounded end towards the tip it preserves your
point. I don't know why. If you press from the pointed end to the
round end it kind of flattens it out a little bit more, it's not a huge
difference. I don't really worry about it because you can fix the shape easily
enough. I like to use a straight edge in here because the space is so small I can
just get in and manipulate these... or make a mess of them, one or the other.
See, we got an oval, that's okay, just come in and make a leaf shape again and I'm
just kind... of I know it makes that awful squeaking, sorry... I'm just kind of
straightening those out. Yeah, you can use a needle tool, I like to use my blade,
you just get finer lines, and make a few or a lot lines. Just tap lightly, you're not
trying to cut through, you just want to make a few marks to give it a little
texture. By the way if you're interested in any of the supplies I'm using for
every tutorial video I always write a blog post that has links to supplies and
you'll find that a little "i" card in the upper right or I'll link in the
description box there's always a card at the end of the video too at the bottom
left. So you scrape it up and then just use your fingers like your index
your thumb and kind of point pull that to a point and I like to, this is an
especially tiny one, kind of give it just a bit of a round shape, it's just so much
more lively and interesting. Let me show you in this bigger one, I think that
would be easier to see. You just have a very gentle light touch
with these, and yours probably won't look exactly like mine, yours might look
better. We all have our own touch, our own fingers, our own taste, so I'm just trying
to get these little curves in there to make them look more natural. Now I just
hit that with my finger and I actually kind of like that so I'm just gonna
pinch this end and roll it a little and call it good there. Yeah, we'll do this
last one, it's nice just to have a whole bunch of these to use as you're
decorating your little pebble. All right so there. what I used to adhere my
strands to my pebble is some liquid clay and I'm using the clear, you know one
thing I noticed is that it's much, much thinner, it has a much thinner viscosity
than TLS which I kind of like because it goes on well, thinner, so you can get just
a nice fine coat that is pretty much gonna smooth out and self level. Now for
this one I kind of wrapped the strands around the back a lot and I don't think
I'm gonna do that for this I'm going to do it a little differently. So start with
one of your strands and then just.. I'll set this down, and you have a paper towel
or something to wipe your fingers off. I'm gonna try not to get fingerprints in
this. Roll that into a bit of a point and then I found it's much easier to get
this spiral started before you set it down, you just kind of tap it between
your thumb and your finger and encourage it to spiral around but you can adjust
it more once you get it on.
So I'm just gonna lay that on where I want it may be a little off-center.
Maybe we'll do a big spiral that's kinda...
and then see what I mean, you can take your brush and coax that, not there, I
don't want it here. There, that's where I want it. I'm just gonna sort of wrap
around the back and depending on the length you might want to cut off your
black piece, you might want to leave it, I'm gonna leave a little bit on the
back. I'm gonna use my brush so you kind of encourage that like that. And for this
you can add as much or as little as you like. I think less is more. I think if you
add too much it kind of takes away from the delicate lacy effect. I'm gonna try
something here since this is a pretty short strand I'm actually going to try
curling up both ends because it really is easier to do it here on my fingers
than... you can see I got a much, than down here on the shape. I got a much nicer
tighter curl there, okay. The nice thing about this clear liquid clay is with the
finer viscosity is that it is much easier to kind of manipulate things
around. I actually really enjoyed playing with it with the brush so again I'm
gonna go on the back I don't have much on the back to just stick on. There we go,
and then bring it out again, sorry. Ahh, gosh, that's me just... well we've changed the
design. Okay. Oh, that looks good too, all right,
sure, go with the flow, spirals and curly Q's look nice however you place them,
right? Because I'm using the liquid clay as an adhesive I'm not really concerned
with making these touch, another time I might be to have them join together and
make sure that they're secure but in this case I'm not really concerned with
that so I'm gonna send that to the back and then bring it back out so oh okay
fine be that way.
I'm just...
there we go, I just want a few anchor points on the back because what I'm
going to do on the back is similar to this only I'll plan it a little bit
better. I'll cut out an oval that is about the same size as the back side and
press it on making sure that it connects to all of these bits that I have on the
back so I'll make sure and have like at least one more back here and I'll press
it into a texture sheet. Especially where this is a pendant that's going to be
worn and it might be worn against the skin you want some texture so that it
doesn't stick to the skin. I'm just using this one this is one by Barbara McGuire
it's called Klimt's Carpet as in the artist K-L-I-M-T.
Then what I did was just whoever I wanted to pop a leaf I put a tiny bit
more of the clear liquid and you can also use a brush to sort of adjust that
and the clear will, you can see that sort of flooding in there. I didn't really
find that it affected the look of the finished piece at all.
I thought it looked just fine.
Now I mentioned I like to make my leaves a bit of liveliness and twist and bend,
but do be careful, you don't make them too dimensional because this is meant to
be a piece of jewelry and if you make them too dimensional you know, if you
make them too 3D dimensional they may catch on things as somebody's wearing it.
So just keep that in mind that if you're making a piece of jewelry it needs to
you need to consider those practical aspects. All right that'll have to do. Oh,
see howl that's sticking there? We don't want that, that will definitely
catch on something, break off... there we go. Go ahead and bake it on a
piece of cardstock, now with this liquid clay has flowed around to the backside
I did find with this one that some of the paper that I baked it on kind of
stuck but it doesn't didn't matter because I just peeled off what I could
and then this clay went over it and just to show you what I mean I'll demonstrate
on this really ugly piece. I just hate that color maybe some people like it but
I just really hate it. I'm gonna roll a smooth ball I think that'll be a little
too much yeah that'll be good. I'm gonna flatten it just a little and this would
be after this is baked, put it back here with a little liquid clay as an adherent
and then mash it down on the texture sheet, kind of rock it side to side,
kind of all around, round those edges. Well, if I had liquid clay on there... that
might have been a little too much cuz you wouldn't want it to show from the
front, but you get the idea that the back would be nicely covered with the texture
with those kind of rounded edges you could tap them down, thin them out a
little bit more, you'd want to use less clay and then bake it one more time. You
could insert a bail right in here before you do the final bake, a screw bail or a
glue on bail would actually be good in here because then it wouldn't be glued on
it would be embedded, and there you go. Really cute pendants. I hope that you
enjoyed this project, there are so many possibilities, so many other things you
can do with it that, I know you'll just come up with new things and new ways to
use these ideas. Be sure to subscribe to this channel if you haven't already. You
can take a look at my Patreon page for how you can get bonus tutorials for
yourself. Happy creating, bye bye.
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