Using purchased molds is a great way to quickly make very consistent polymer clay pieces.
However, sometimes we don't want our results to be so predictable and to look so much like
anybody else's.
In today's video, I have even more ideas for how you can customize polymer clay bezel molds.
So in a previous video I showed you how to use this Sculpey bezel mold, which is a match
for the cabochon mold and I showed you several ways you could press your clay into this mold,
de-mold it and then sculpt it and make it custom, but it occurred to me while I was
doing that and I kind of mentioned it towards the end of the video that what about baking
your pieces right in the mold so that they are perfectly shaped and then adding decoration
to them this way?
So now you have your perfect molded bezel shape, but then you can add things to it.
I started playing and experimenting and came up with several different ideas that I hope
you will use as jumping off points for decorating your own.
This is one that I alluded to and kind of showed in the previous video, which is just
to make polymer clay beading.
I showed one way of measuring your clay for the beads last time, but another way of doing
that is to just roll out your clay on whatever setting.
This happens to be the thinnest setting of my pasta machine and then use a cutter to
cut out pieces and now you know that every single one of those pieces is the exact same
size and so you can get your perfect little pearls or beads.
The best way I've found to make them perfectly round is to actually roll them in the palm
of my hand.
You want to be sure to apply a little bit of liquid polymer clay to the edge of your
baked bezel so that your unbaked clay will stick and then you can just go ahead and add
these.
The nice thing about having the baked bezel is that you can use that hard edge and I kind
of end up using my fingernails a lot here to just press up against that and get your
rows nice and even.
Then I started experimenting with an extruder and I found all kinds of fun things that you
can do.
First of all, I used this extruder.
This is from my Czechtruder and it extrudes these little triangle shapes.
You can then use your clay blade to cut them into as evenly sized slices as you can and
I found all sorts of different ways that you can arrange these on your bezels.
One way is to put the pointy side out and again I kind of used my fingernail.
You could also use your blade and that helps you to get that nice, even edge and just pick
these up and apply them.
And again, in all of these, I won't repeat it in all of them, but do make sure and put
a thin line of liquid clay on all of your baked clay surfaces.
What's interesting is here's one look with the points facing out and here's a completely
different look with the points pointing in.
And in this case because the points are overlapping the inside edge of the bezel a bit, I actually
put my cabochon in first.
And notice in all of the examples I've shown you so far, I didn't match the color of my
decoration to the color of the baked bezel.
Some of the contrast is nice, but this is a really cool look and very different from
the points facing in.
Or if you don't want to decide, then don't and have them facing in and out and you get
almost the look of a mosaic.
I just used a tool as I was placing these.
This is a little gum stimulator that I attached to a polymer handle with some Apoxie Sculpt
because these will melt if you put them in the oven.
So air dry clay is good for that.
And then I can just use this to position these so that I had a somewhat consistent grout
line and in this case you do have to decide where you want your pieces to line up, on
the inside edge or the outside edge.
One extruded die, three different looks and this one would be fun to fill in after baking,
perhaps fill in with some liquid polymer clay in a different color to make it look like
grout lines.
So it looks like you've got a little mosaic on top of your bezel there.
And here's a tip for you when you're experimenting: is just pick a couple of techniques and stick
with those.
So for me, it was rolled balls and extrusions.
I picked just a few extruder plates and started playing with what I had.
So there's this one.
So this one extrudes this shape and then you can see here I cut it into slices.
Now my first thought had been to leave the slices whole and have them sticking out, but
it seemed a bit much.
Maybe it can be used in other applications.
You can overlap them like feathers or such, but what I actually ended up doing was I cut
right down the middle so that I had a flat edge and then started placing these on my
shapes and again kind of used the fingernail to get those all straight against that hard
edge and also just use the back of the blade to make a little indent in each of those.
Again it sort of looks like leaves or feathers and like the triangle one, this is another
one that you can play and explore and experiment with.
I really wanted to take the time to start putting these, like I said whole instead of
cut in half, but sort of like a feather border.
There's just so many ideas that really you could limit yourself to one die, cut out a
strip like this and then challenge yourself to try to make half a dozen or ten different
ways of using just that one thing.
The final die I used was this one, which is just a little tiny 1mm round die which I use
for a lot of different things in my work.
It just gives you this perfect little tiny rope that you can use as a decoration.
In this case, I just wrapped it around and around and around, again putting TLS around
the edges.
I kind of thinned the end and tapered it down a bit and then just started wrapping and then
at the end I also thinned it down quite a bit so that will taper nicely and that's a
cool look.
This would really look fun with some patina, some antiquing in there.
Another thing I did was I combined the ideas.
So this one has been baked.
First I baked the bezel and then I made these little dots.
These dots were made the same way as these ones were, except that I cut each of these
circles in half to get, you can see these balls are half the size of those, to get little
balls that are just a little bit smaller.
But then I thought it would be fun to take my little tiny spaghetti die, whatever you
want to call it, and this was much easier to do once you've gone ahead and baked the
balls, and have them on there because, isn't that fun, you can just wrap this around and
then decide.
I think I want it on the outside of the outer corners.
This was difficult to do without pre-baking the little dots.
Having them pre-baked really gives you a firm place to wrap your clay extrusion.
Isn't that just a cool look?
A filigree kind of zig-zaggy, you get the idea.
And this one I really love the look of.
It's kind of rustic and shaggy and all I did was I took again bits of this 1mm extrusion,
kind of just lightly tapped them against each other.
Trim off the ragged edge and a tip for you when doing this is don't make this section
too long, because you're going to be trying to shape it around a round piece and if it's
too long, it's just really difficult.
Cut off a section, pop it on here which has some TLS on it and I kind of embrace it when
it all falls apart and gets all messy.
I did not try to make this perfect.
For me, part of the beauty of it is that it isn't.
They're all kind of overlapping.
They're not exactly all the same length.
This clay has been sitting over the weekend.
I am recording this on a Monday and I planned this on Thursday or Friday so it's a little
difficult to manage.
If your clay is freshly conditioned, it would be more sticky and those pieces would actually
have stuck together much more nicely for me when I did this.
But you get the idea.
You just put these little bits from just a simple extruded strand and you have a great
design.
And like I said, if you want to play and experiment, really pick one or two things to play with
and then challenge yourself to how many different ways can you put these together.
And even as I'm looking at this right now and it's all this kind of spaghetti pile and
I'm thinking, "Oh, wouldn't that be fun to just press that onto the edges of the bezel
and trim off the excess and have this very random look."
So by limiting yourself, you really find yourself exploring new and different ways of doing
things.
So I hope this has given you some ideas for taking just a plain kind of boring baked bezel
and turning it into something really fun and unique.
Especially if you add paints and patinas afterwards.
If you're interested in the supplies I used, you should click on the link in the upper
right of the video or the lower left at the end or the description box.
All of those will lead you to my blog post where I have a complete supply list with links
to products.
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Happy creating!
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