Hi there, Sandy here.
Welcome to another polymer clay video at KeepsakeCrafts.net.
Today I have for you a simple technique for not only quickly making a whole bunch of beads,
but also experimenting and playing with textures and surface effects.
So many times we buy new products to play with our polymer clay, like texture sheets
or paints or different effects and then they get stored away and we never use them.
So today I have a great project for you that will help you pull some of those products
off the shelves and put them in use and see what they can do, but also quickly and easily
make yourself some beads that you can make into a quick gift or use to accent something
else that you've made, maybe a focal piece that needs some accent beads.
So here's actually three sets of beads I've made.
I made some in brown, I made some with pearl and I made some with turquoise and I'll get
back to those in a minute.
I have here just some more of that turquoise clay.
Now if you use just about 1/4 of a block or 1/2 oz of clay, that will get you 10-11 of
these beads.
Plenty to make necklace accents or a whole bracelet and what I have here is a 7/8" round
cutter.
You don't have to use a round cutter.
This just helps you make all of your beads the same size.
So this is a great trick for making beads that are all the same size is to roll the
sheet and then just cut them all with the same cutter and then you know you have the
exact same amount of clay in each b all.
The next step is to roll those into a smooth ball.
See how there's creases here still.
You want to make sure that you get rid of all of those because they will show in your
finished bead.
And then just kind of roughly make your beads the shape that you want them to be.
So I like, especially for bracelets, I love flattened ovals or flattened rectangles.
They just lay really nicely on the wrist.
They're comfortable to wear.
So we can reshape these later.
We don't have to make them perfect now and then one of my favorite tools in polymer clay
making is one that I have leftover from my sewing days, and that's a doll needle.
It's a nice hard needle and has a very sharp tip.
It's nice and long and I use it all the time.
So I'm going to use this to pierce the holes for my beads.
I just got one end and I'm just twirling it until it comes out the other end.
Once it comes out, pull it out and put it back through and that way you have a nice
even hole and you can put more than one bead on at a time.
That makes this go much more quickly.
When I first started doing this, I was doing them one at a time and I was like, "Ugh, this
is taking forever," and then I realize d"Oh, I can do a whole bunch at a time."
So I'm just going to do, let's see, now with this size bead, I found that I wanted to put
4-5 on my needle, no more than 5.
It was too crowded otherwise.
Now I'm gonna leave a little space in between them and then I want to flatten these just
a little to start with and I love using an acrylic block because then they all get flattened
to the same thickness.
And here I have a bunch of texture sheets that you can see I bought from Aniko, Mandarin
Duck.
She designed them and they're all absolutely lovely.
It's funny, you know I thought I would love the dragon scale one the best when I bought
it.
That was the one that I really wanted, but I found I like it, but it's not my favorite.
I think I love the feather.
That one is just beautiful and then this one, the organic mesh, some sort of weird amoeba,
I love that.
Now there's two different ways you can do this.
If you really, really, really want the same texture on both sides and you have a big texture
sheet, you can actually lift it up, put these in between and then press like this.
I found it very difficult to get it even.
So instead, what I prefer to do is actually have two different textures, one on the top
and one on the bottom.
So I've got the organic mesh and I'm going to put that on a larger colored block.
And then I have here some Armor All and I'm just gonna put a spritz of that in a little
plastic cup and just put my finger in it and a little dab on each of these.
Put down my texture flip it over and put a little bit of the release on the other side.
And now I can press nice and hard and not worry about clay getting stuck in my stamps.
And what's nice is you can kind of see as you're pressing and I'm gonna rock it top
to bottom, side to side just to make sure I get a nice impression.
Oh, cool!
Now you can see that wasn't even.
I was obviously pressing harder on this end than that, but we can fix that easily.
Cool!
Nice texture on both sides.
So then I found this is easiest to do while it's still on the needle so you don't mess
up your hole, just use your fingers and gently reshape those edges and bring them back to
the same size and shape, mostly.
You can spend a lot more time than this and make them exact and that would be fine or
you can call it organic and leave it like this.
I kind of like the look.
One thing, if you're going to be doing a lot of rubbing over with mica powders, with things
after baking, do try to make sure that as you're doing this, I don't know if you can
see that it's kind of cupped, so I sort of want to flatten it out a little just so that
the surface of the bead is flat so that when you rub over it with your surface effects
you can get all of it.
And then speaking of surface effects, now you can add things like PanPastels.
This is the only color of PanPastels I have.
I added that to these two pearl ones.
I'm not sure that I'm in love with that.
The turquoise one that I added the PanPastels, yeah I think I like this better on other things,
but you can certainly do that.
You can add mica powders.
Here are a few that I added mica powders to for a very subtle shimmery look.
Like this one had pearl on it.
These ones got Forever Blue, no Blue Patina excuse me.
Funny, I didn't really love the look of the perfect pearl on the pearl clay.
I just, I like it better on the darker ones, but I'll just show you that real simple.
One thing I kind of like to do is tap down my, and then just get what's in the lid if
you want a light application.
And you can see what I mean here about wanting to make sure those aren't cupped.
Let's see what the feathered side looks like.
Oh, that's pretty!
So this you would do before baking.
Add pastels of any type, mica powders.
I'm thinking of making a set of beads so.
What's fun with this is you can make a whole set.
They don't all have to be the exact same thing, as long as they're unified in something.
If they all have the turquoise base, if they all have a similar color on top.
You might want to have a baby wipe ready.
I use my fingers.
Some people don't like to.
I just feel like I have more control.
Let's try this with pearl.
That's purdy too!
Let's see, it's just fun to play.
So if you've got a bunch of new products, say you got a package of Perfect Pearls and
you wanted to know what they look like, this would be a great way of making a whole bunch
of beads really quickly and then trying them out and seeing what you've got and then when
you're done, you've got a whole bunch of beads to add to your collection.
So then you bake your beads, obviously, according to manufacturer's directions.
If you want to make more than 4-5, you just slide these off of the needle.
Just pull them gently and pull them off.
They come right off.
It is easiest to add your surface effects whilst they are still on the needle.
It's easier to handle them all at once.
So here are a bunch of the turquoise beads that I made earlier.
This one got the PanPastel in green and I didn't love it.
I really didn't love the look.
So this one, once it came out of the oven, I actually went over it with some copper Gilders
Paste.
Same way, it's just a paste.
Apply it with your finger or a dauber and now this one got copper Gilders Paste just,
no this one.
This one got copper Gilders Paste straight on and you can see the difference between
this one with the green underneath.
So one thing I discovered in all of this experimenting and playing was that layers are really good.
You may not love something to begin with, but by building up layers, you get just a
really interesting look.
So this is a different look from just the copper straight on the turquoise to having
the copper over the, I keep forgetting the name of it, PanPastels.
And you would add any of the Gilders Paste the same way, with your finger or with a dauber,
whichever makes you happier.
There's mica powders, there's silver Gilders Paste.
The mica powders do tend to give you a more subtle look.
I think this was gold over the, there's the PanPastel that I didn't love and there it
is with some gold over it and it's kind of an interesting look.
Maybe if I pulled out some of these, these would make an interesting piece of jewelry.
I might go over them with other things and tie them together more, but that would be
great strung with some crystals or some gold or copper or gold and copper beads and make
yourself a bracelet.
Now here are several I made obviously with brown.
This is Burnt Umber clay.
These have the Blue Patina mica powder is on them.
They're pretty and subtle, but you do get a bit stronger look if you use Gilders Paste.
In this case I used the light blue color called Patina.
And if you want to learn more about Gilders Paste, I actually have done an entire Friday
Findings video on using Gilders Paste.
One thing about it is you do have to let it sit for awhile and then buff it off, like
a day later is really the best way to do it.
And here's an interesting example.
I took a dark blue and put it on this one and yeah, boring!
Not interesting at all.
So on the other side, I put antique gold and then put that exact same dark blue, I think
it's called Blue Iris, over it and suddenly it's got a lot of depth and interest and I
could see making a whole set of beads out of this and this was just experimenting and
playing and seeing.
This one I put some silver on and didn't love it so I went back over it with, no this one
got silver.
Yes, now I can't even remember.
If you want it to be real scientific, unlike me, you would probably keep track of which
you used and which over which just so you can replicate it, but I just was having fun
and playing and experimenting.
I think this is my favorite though with the layers.
I said, "No, no, no.
No way a dark blue over brown" and that was right, but then that led me to do the gold
with the blue and that suddenly is rich and interesting to look at.
And then finally I made a whole bunch of beads out of pearl clay.
My first thought had been to get real pretty pastels and put Perfect Pearls on them and
I thought they'd be gorgeous and I said 'yuck" and I actually mixed all of the pearls into
the white pearl clay and just went ahead from there.
So here's one with nothing on it, just a plain pearl bead.
Let's see, these two have the PanPastels, which I say, "Eh, boring."
So I took one of the ones with the PanPastels and I went over it with some gold and thought,
Well, that's interesting," and then I on this side, I went over it with some gold and then
I went around the edges with the African Bronze and suddenly you have something like I said,
very interesting with lots of depth and layers to it.
These ones all got antiqued after baking.
These are a couple of products that I had bought at the craft store.
I think they were on clearance or something and I wanted to try them and I said "Iridescent
Stainless Steel?
What the heck is that?"
Well, it's this.
It is.
It's iridescent stainless steel and it's kind of cool and I think it is definitely one that
needs more layers to be truly interesting, but that's pretty cool.
And then this is the Interference Blue.
And these were all wiped on, allowed to sit for a couple minutes and then the excess wiped
off leaving the paint in the crevices.
This is another Golden color.
This is Interference Gold.
This works especially well when you have those nice deep crevices and again going over that
with something else later.
And then this was just plain burnt umber brown acrylic paint and again, add more layers.
Add some metallics on that and you'll have something really cool.
So have fun and play and experiment!
Pull out a measly 1/4 block of clay.
Make yourself some beads using maybe textures you haven't tried before.
Pull out some of your surface effects and experiment.
Who knows?
You might discover the next cool thing.
So I'm gonna try this Iris Blue with some of these white beads and see what I end up
with.
So if you're interested in the supplies I used, click on the little 'i' in the upper
right of the video or in the description box to go to my blog post where I always have
a complete supply list with links to supplies.
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