 Hi guys! This is my last video for the week and I just want to walk you through a couple things which is a variation on a theme we've already had this week by Ann Williamson, which involves making clay charms. Now this is just scrap clay. It actually was a few different colors. I've kneaded it together so much that it's just become this brown tan color and that's fine. I'm going to break off a blob and I am going to roll it out here. I'm working on this cookie sheet. This is a cookie sheet that's dedicated to crafting so don't use things from your kitchen for your crafting tools. I got this at the dollar store you don't need to spend a lot of money and this is polymer clay. I don't want it too thick but I don't want it too thin either and then once I have a piece that I think is going to work then I'm going to take one of my embossing folders and talked about this in her video and I'm going to take the deeper etched side of it if you've worked with embossing folders before you know what I mean and I'm actually going to put it like over this is a flower one I'm going to put it over the flower center and then I'm going to roll the clay into the embossing folder with my oops roller okay well good thing that I got a pretty good impression there because I got stuck to the roller so I ended up with that. I'm going to turn it pretty side up and I'm going to take my exacto knife and I'm going to cut a hand cut a heart shape and remove the extra clay then I'm going to take either my finger or I have one of these little clay tools with the little knobs oops little knobs on the end and I'm going to fix any issues with the edges make them a little less sharp with either the tool or honestly I found the easiest thing to do is just push around the edge slightly with my finger okay and you end up with something like that so I want to make a couple of them different ones I have one more embossing folder I want to do I have this one which is these are all juries folders they're really inexpensive and I so I like to buy them this is a flower one I have this one which is another flower one and then I have this swirly one which I want to do so let's roll out one more piece of clay I'm actually going to move that so I don't take a chance of damaging the hearts I've already got on there I'm going to put this on the embossing folder let's see which side is the I want to do this side if you do it wrong the clay is not baked yet so it's not a big deal oh yeah that's that's great look at that okay and I'm gonna I'm gonna cut this one over no I'm gonna cut it on the tree then I don't have to move it this piece in half might be able to get two hearts out of it which would be fantabulous the clay is not baked or dried or permanently formed yet so if you make a mistake it's not a big deal just pick it up wad it back up into a ball and try again I am going to fix can you see what I'm doing you can't see but I'm doing them off camera so I'm going to fix these edges here that are kind of funky down here at the bottom I'm going to try actually I wonder if I can so I don't necessarily want them to be perfect but I don't want them to be too rough either now of course if I had heart shaped cookie cutters this would be easier but I don't so the point of this is to use what you have and make things for your journals and your project projects using what you have I like that one and using the embossing folders leaves you with something more interesting than just a straight flat heart when we're all done don't worry about what color your clay is or anything like that because it doesn't matter and you'll see why so I'm going to cut one last heart then I'm going to bake these and I'll be back okay so I'm going to show you here what I did I already baked our clay pieces and now we're going to make molds of them if you don't want the texture of the clay itself to be in there which is going to give you a rough like almost stone-like texture in your mold then you probably want to coat this with some sort of glaze or polymer and let it dry really thoroughly before you make your mold I don't care about that so I'm going to be fine um and I'm going to show you first how to make the mold I'm going to take my um clay piece and my glue dots which are on the table somewhere I have a little strip I don't know they disappeared they're just gone of course they're on a piece of clear plastic so they could be anywhere oh that is way too strange okay well I have more glue dots these are repositionable glue dots you could probably um hot glue it down if you wanted um I'm going to just use glue dots and just put three on the back of each one of these clay pieces now that I'm doing it on camera the glue dot doesn't want to stick because you know that's how it works that's how we roll and this is just a piece of you know acrylic from my local plastics shop um actually going to clean this off a little bit the silicone this is a silicone mold and it doesn't stick to the acrylic so I'm going to push this down really carefully really thoroughly now if you have excess of the silicone mold material in your mixing bowl or cup um it's not going to stick see it just comes right out um this is what from the molds I just did off camera so I'm going to take this blob of dried silicone and stick it in the trash can so you can of course use something disposable but you can also just reuse the container now I want to get two clean sticks and I'm going to take equal amounts of both both of the materials now this is from environmental technologies um product easy mold which is a silicone paste um I think it's a little bit easier to get um a finished detail mold with this material than it is the putty version of um this type of mold making material I've tried both I prefer this one for detailed molds anyway you of course could weigh this and be really precise about it I'm not actually going to I'm going to just eyeball it which is probably the wrong thing to do you probably should weigh it and I do actually have a scale off camera and I'm just being lazy so if you don't get the um amounts of each material exactly right it may take a little longer to dry so now you just want to mix them thoroughly until there's no white specks and it's just all a solid color and really scrape your container and make sure that you've got and scrape your stick make sure you've got all the little bits and pieces mixed in really thoroughly you have about 20 to 30 minutes of drying time then I'm going to take a disposable glue brush like this you probably can get these this kind of thing in the hobby section of your craft store um where they have like the model cars and stuff I would think so I'm going to take some of this silicone mold making material and I'm going to kind of lightly brush a thin coat around the sides of my clay piece and over the top kind of swirling it into the cracks in the clay that of the emboss design I'm also going to make sure that I turn this around so I can make sure that I'm seeing and truly getting all the edges so we have a good seal around the edge I have one here this one that I actually missed a spot so we're going to add the scraps of silicone mold material here to the little hole that's in the edge of that one okay once you have all the edges down then you can really just kind of just mound it on the top making sure of course that you get all of the clay piece covered up and because my clay is brown and the mold material is blue in theory it should be pretty easy to know if you've covered it all up correctly because there won't be any more brown showing although as I said it did miss a spot on that one and what I was doing too is kind of periodically scraping the glue brush with my mixing stick and scraping the sides of the bowl to try to really just use all of the material that I could it takes like I said about 20 or 30 minutes to dry and once it is dry then you can peel it off it should peel right off okay I am going to take some of this extra I'm going to stuff it in the little hole I have over here on this other one hopefully the demo one I have to pull off which is this one pulls off and there's no issues so we'll find out okay so we're going to let all that dry these are trash and but I'm going to leave the stick in here to pull the to scrape the bowl with and this can just be thrown away these are really inexpensive all right so then once it's dry which this one is dry to the touch then you can just lift the edges it's not going to stick to the clay or the plastic and I that one wasn't quite dry in the middle stick that down there and see if it sticks it dries more I'll be right back okay so once it's dry and I would just recommend not being impatient like I am and just just let it go let it sit for at least 30 minutes if not longer it should peel right up and you'll have a fairly nice impression of your clay heart inside of this a new flexible silicone mold you can take some scissors and trim some of the excess little wispy bits off and now I have six new molds this one's a little thin on the edge so you really kind of want to make sure that you get enough of the mold putty or the mold paste paste yeah silicone paste on there that one I might have to the next I might so what I do is I take my molds and the next time I'm making a mold I take the little bit of extra that's in the bowl and I fix holes in them like in this one because it'll stick to itself really well okay so I'm going to get these all trimmed and then really quickly I'm going to show you how to use some another product to make some more hearts I'll be right back okay once you have your molds made you can use paper clay in them you can use all kinds of things and I'm going to actually use though some resin this is fast cast again by environmental technologies it dries really quickly 10 minutes and there's little or no odor which means I can use it without wheezing and I am going to take precautions you're still working with chemicals and we're going to put gloves on you really don't want to get this on your skin and before we this mold this resin actually dries white not clear and before we do anything we are going to coat the inside of our molds with some mica powders these are magicals yeah lindy stamp gain magicals so these were a gift from my dear friend Cindy udder and I just got three different kind of shades of pinky colors that she gave gave me this is wild honey peony scarlet and opaline rosy so like a tanny rose like a pink and like this peachy color um so I'm going to just brush these lightly on the inside of the mold probably like two or more you know colors per I don't know exactly what you know these colors are going to look like after they're molded I'm just playing and experimenting it's just you know a fun experiment these would be great to make and then turn them into jewelry or or some sort of planner charm maybe drill a hole in them after they're dry and you know gift them to your friends loved ones art pals things like that of course you could have a big stash of them that you save to um do art with make them ahead of time okay so before we do anything else we're going to close these because I'm really worried I'm going to spill them everywhere and it's going to make a big mess okay and I have since the these molds aren't flat I have them sitting on little bags of BB shot um you could balance them on something else so that they are fairly flat and even so that when you put the resin in you get a nice even pour all right now we this is of course a two-part mixing thing so we are going to put a in my little mixing tiny mixing container and then an equal part of B and I'm going to use this half this is again measuring spoons I just use for crafting I don't use them for anything else I especially want to use something like this for either the silicone paste or for resin you really you can't use it for food again then this lid's kind of stuck let's see there we go so then we'll put an equal amount of B and again the resin that dries on there should lift right out of that plastic you have 10 minutes to work with this I'm going to stir it quickly it'll start to get warm and thick the drying time hardening time will of course vary depending on where you're at the weather and other conditions that you're at you need to stir it for about 30 seconds you feel this bottom start to get warm that's usually time that it's a good time to pour it I am by no means a resin expert there are other channels on youtube that are much better with resin than I am I will try to remember to link one of my favorites in the description below I actually may not have enough resin for that last one nope need to mix a little bit more as it dries it's going to turn white and opaque it will not stay clear and again depending on where you are in the world what your weather conditions are like how hot it is how humid it is it may take have a longer or shorter drying time so I'm going to get this last one poured and then we will be back when they're dried and unmolded and we will see what we get look around your and I already had all of this stuff I just hadn't really done any playing with it so the lesson here that we've been trying to show you not only this month but so far in the program is to look around and see what you have and how you can use that to create some interesting embellishments not only in your my year 2017 journal but in your art going forward let's break some of those things out of the boxes that we've bought in the past thinking we wanted to try them and then you know what we never did let's let's get them out of the box let's use them and see what happens all right I will be back it hasn't been 10 minutes yet yet but look I'll see how they're turning white that's what I meant so when they're completely white I'm going to give them a good 10 minutes if not a little bit longer we'll be back and we'll unmold them and we'll see what we've got all right I'll be back okay so one thing I want to show you is the bowl see did indeed come out clean and our little clay pieces all the leftover little random bits of the silicone mold making um putty all came off um so they can of course be used to make more molds or they can just be used as is on a future project I do have a drawer a little drawer full of clay bits and pieces that I will probably put these into and these are our here's our little mixing thing well that should all peel out of there um I don't know if these are completely dry I noticed this one evidently I missed a spot so some of it leaked out onto my little bean bag which is fine so what I'll probably do on this one is I'll set this mold aside in the next time I'm making molds I'll stuff that hole up with some more of the blue paste but let's see what the heart looks like should pop out well it might be a little difficult to pop out because of the part where it leaked oh not too bad actually so there is a little bit extra here so I can take some scissors while it's not completely hard and just give it a little trim you can also let it harden completely which it's not and you can you know sand the edges I kind of like the kind of rough um nature of that now as far as the part where there's a hole and we've got you can't leave this here and then make more molds because it's going to stick to whatever more resin you put in here but we do have a hole that will have to be plugged up let's try the next one now you can use this fast cast in any silicone mold so if you have like the cake molds or any store-bought molds roughness that's on it you can tell it's not completely hardened because it's a little bit flexible when it's hardened it will be not it won't be flexible so that one is fine and I probably could and should be leaving these in here a little longer but I'm not going to and if you want them to be more colored then you of course put more magicals inside the mold but I kind of like this sort of distressed and even look of them and you of course can paint them so maybe you put some magicals in there and you mold you molded some you pulled them out and you thought well they're not really as pink as I would like or they're not the exact color I would like you can use any number of supplies in your stash including your acrylic paints to paint them this one doesn't seem to want to come out it might not be dry enough again you could be a lot more patient than I'm being like that one there's something about that one I like I don't know and I'm going to show you what I mean by some paint because I do think we're going to add a little more color to them and again you could do this with anything maybe you have um uh key molds maybe you have it actually looks like some of the putty is stuck in the cracks maybe you have some other shaped mold that you want to do this with there's dirt or something else hang on so now we're gonna um zoom in I'm going to move some things out of my way here put these back here we got five carts because remember one mold didn't quite make it so let's zoom in just a little bit let me grab something really quick now hoping as I said really quick that I actually knew where it was but I did yay have two colors oh no three colors okay these are um ink of golds hopefully they're not dried up so we'll find out here in a second I have red green and gold let's try the red one oh no they're not dried up and I'm going to just use my finger are we zoomed in enough maybe really lightly just to kind of hit the high spots this is a gold one I put baby wipes inside of these to keep them from drying out it does really work and it no it does not make them moldy at least I've never had a problem with that but this is another way to color your resin and you could do just this like cast them white and do just this or you could like I said and I've done you could put the magicals in there and then um go back and add some ink of gold now they demo demonstrated this fast cast at creativation in phoenix and I fell in love with it there I will put the link to environmental technologies in the description below um it is their products their easy cast at least is available pretty readily available you can of course order it from their website and on a bunch of other places I'm not going to use the green because you know these are hearts and the green the green just doesn't seem appropriate again don't go buy new things use what you have to create something interesting you can tint the resin to a color before you get started so you can instead of letting it be white you can tint it to be any one of a number of colors including black so there you go I don't know which lid goes to which now oh this one goes here all right so that's it let me move these so there there we go now this should come out of here pretty easily yep see just peels right off see peels right off so you can use this container again to put to mix more resin all righty I'm going to throw that away that's it for today and for the week I hope you've enjoyed this weekend that all of uh and this month and all of the teachers and I have given you some great ideas of what you can do in your my year journal and with your art in general if you have any questions comments or concerns please let us know if you're not a member of the my year 2017 Facebook group the link to that and a bunch of other stuff like I have said is in the description below we would be happy to have you join us it's a free safe place to do and share art um and that's it for right now I don't forget to like share and subscribe if you can and look see I painted just inadvertently painted one of the clay ones um that's okay so don't forget to like share and subscribe if you can and to um support my channel by maybe thinking about shopping over in my Etsy shop again the link is in the description below the most important thing of course though is have a great day and play with your supplies see what you have and what you can make and uh have some fun do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys