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Thank you for joining us here at Beadaholique.com. This is Julie. Today I'm going to teach you 0:00:11.300,0:00:13.659. how to make Scrabble tile pendants.
Here are a few examples of some pendants which
have yet to put their bail on.
You can see that there's a wide array of choices you have in terms of your image and graphics.
A few of these use transfers
others use collage images
and here's the completed one with the little bail attached to the back.
So to begin with we will have to gather supplies
we here at Beadaholique.com sell these great one-inch square wood blanks.
You can tell that they're a little bit larger than the scrabble tile which i actually like
because it gives me more room to see my design and my embellishments.
But if you have scrabble tiles on hand feel free to use them. They work great too.
You're going to need a white glue. We are using the Nunn Design glue but any white craft glue is going to do.
You're going to need some Mod Podge as well
and a pair of scissors and that's all you're going to need at this point as we prepare to get our images
onto our
tiles.
If you using a inkjet printer just be aware that the ink can bleed.
So it's best to use a laser printer. You can usually go down to your neighborhood office supply
store and print a sheet of images
for around fifty cents a copy. That's always a good way
to get a crisp image that won't bleed.
Once you've choose your image, cut it out.
Now what i like to recommend is if you have a image
which is exactly the size of your scrabble tile pendant or your wood blank
go ahead and you can cut it up on the lines that you have distinguishing the edges.
Now if you have a image such as this
which is a little bit larger than my tile i do not recommend
tracing it. Now I'm going to show you example of why.
If you look closely on this
pendant
right here
you can see that what i did that I traced my image and then I cut around the trace marks.
I kept cutting a little bit closer and I cut a little bit closer until I thought it fit my pendant
and now what happened though was I cut a little too far in
and now I have this little line which shows the wood along the edges of my tile and that's
why I recommend that unless you have
your computer and you've shrunken your image to exactly one inch and you know it's precise
I recommend you cutting out your image a little bit larger than what your pendant is.
So you've cut your imagine and it's larger than the tile itself which is what you want at this
point
and then what you want to do is you want to cut a straight edge around
the top or one side. Whereever you want to line up your pendant. So like I know I want that
cats head
to be in the center of my tile
so I cut
a straight edge along the top.
Now what I'm going to do to apply my glue
and you can use a craft paint brush if you want, I actually prefer to use my fingers
and find that I get a much smoother
appearance and I don't have to worry about any of the bristles
coming off
and getting into my
paper and wood. So I take my finger put a little glob of glue on it
and then what I'm going to do and I caught myself there I almost put the glue on the tile
I'm going to show you in a moment why you don't want to do that
you want to go ahead and put the glue right on your image.
and go ahead and put a good amount and just smooth it out. Make sure when you do place you tile onto this
image that
every corner of it is going to be covered in glue. So I can kind of see through my
image at this point
and I can see that
I want it where the cat's head tail is.
Okay so now I'm lining it up
with that straight edge.
I'm turning it over and I can kind of bend it a little bit right now. You can see
I have that placed where I want it.
The beauty of white glue is that you actually have some wiggle room. Look I can actually
still move this around
and then when I'm happy with the placement I'm just going to press it into place.
I flip that over. I'm going to let that dry.
Okay so why didn't I put the glue right on the tile pendant.
The reason is that because the wood tends to absorb the glue faster than the
paper
and what will happen is something like this might occur. So I put the glue onto the wood
and then I put the image onto the glued wood
and part of my glue had already dried so my image is not
already secured down. If that does happen
you can just go back
and apply some more glue.
So your images are not wasted but it is an extra step and you do run the risk of
the paper coming off of the pendant.
Here I have an image which is already dried.
you can see it's fully attached to every side.
I'm just going to take a pair of scissors
and cut right
along the edge
nice straight cut.
My image is now fully adhered to my tile pendant.
What I'm gonna do now is I'm going to coat it with Mod Podge.
Now I'm going to do the same thing that I did with the glue, I'm just gonna use my fingers.
Squeeze out a little bit of Mod Podge. Just gonna take my finger and dip it into my Mod Podge
and then I'm going to coat
the top of the image.
What I'm going to do I'm going to make sure
take I coat along the edges.
You want to make sure that it's a sealed properly
and I'm going to let that dry.
You might be wondering
why don't we just use Mod Podge for the bottom caot and the top coat. Why do we have to use white glue
and then Mod Podge.
Well we thought we could just use Mod Podge as well and we experimented with it and what
we found is
the Mod Podge dries a lot quicker than the white glue. So there wasn't that wiggle room
to position your
image on the tile but it wouldn't
slide.
So I really prefer to use the white glue that way I can have a little bit more time to
play with my image make and sure to get it right where I want it
and then allow it to dry.
So you could technically use Mod Podge for the base as well as the top coat but I do find
is a lot easier to use a white glue for bottom and Mod Podge for the top.
Now that we've coated our images in a protective layer of Mod Podge and it has dried,
what we're going to want to do is get that really cool glass like dome appearance and
there's going two ways we could go about doing this.
We can use a product such as Gel Du Soleil which is a one part resin
or we can use a product such as Ice Resin which is a two part resin.
So to begin I want to show you how to do Gel Du Soleil
and I'm going to use a small bottle here. So Gel Du Soleil you can but in a large bottle
which is great. It gives you a lot of product to work with
and it has a convenient flip top.
But for making Scrabble tile pendants I really like the applicator tip
that is on the smaller bottle.
This tip actually can just popped off and you can refill this bottle. So that's one little tip.
You don't have to do it this way but I do find if a little bit easier.
So what I'm going to do
is you you are going to want to
put some Gel Du Soleil
in the middle of your pendant.
I'm just going to put a lot of drops.
Gel Du Soleil
is a resin which cures in UV.
UV of course comes from the sun which is great if you're in a sunny climate. You can
go ahead and just
put your pieces out on a windowsill.
If you're not in a sunny climate what you're going to want to do is
purchased a UV lamp
and that's something that's very similar to what
is at the nail salon where you put your manicure under to dry.
With the UV lamp the Gel Du Soleil will cure in fifteen minutes which is
really fast. It's a lot quicker than of course the two part resin.
You notice that I'm doing my drops towards the middle.
So what I'm going to do once I have quite a few drops
is I'm actually going to take my applicator tip
starting from the middle
push my resin to the side.
I'm just going very slow.
Working every angle.
Now Gel Du Soleil will not cure without UV.
I lived in Seattle for quite awhile and I learned that lesson the hard way after five days
and my
resin was just as liquid
as when i started.
The surface tension is keeping the resin in place so it's not spilling over to the sides
but you will also want to be careful.
Now what I want to do since
I'm not going to put this in the sunshine I'm actually going to put it in my UV lamp. I'm going to take a post-it
Fold the post-it in half
so the sticky side
can back onto itself.
Then what I want to do is very carefully
slide the post-it
under my tile
use that as a little tray
then going to put
my tile
in my UV lamp.
If you rather use a two part resin instead of Gel Du Soleil to finish off your Scrabble like
tile pendants is really quite simple.
You go ahead and mix a batch of
two part resin part A and the hardener
and you let it set up for about five minutes to let the air bubbles
escape naturally.
You're not going to pour your resin. You're going to load some onto
your stir stick
and place a dab in the middle. What you're going to do is you're going to keep
doing that
for probably
three, four times.
Just keep going from the center. You don't want to
get any on the edges at this point.
After about four drops
you're going to use your stick
and start pushing
the resin out towards the edges.
You're going to wait about five minutes and then what you're going to do
you're gonna come back with a heat source
such as a torch
and quickly
go over it to remove any air bubbles
and then you're going to let that cure
for three days.
It's been a couple days
and our resin has now dried so we're ready to finish our tile pendants. Before we chose our bail
I'm going to show you a quick tip.
When you're using Gel Du Soleil
this actually happened after we stopped the cameras and I want to show you, you can
see
there's a little bit of a variation in
height on the Gel Du Soleil.
Now what happened is when I put
my piece onto my little paper tray and I put it into the UV lamp
there's a little bit of a curve to the paper.
I noticed this within just a minute or two
but the UV had already started to set up to the resin. So it actually dried
a little bit uneven. So that's a little bit troubleshooting tip. You just want to make sure
that whatever you put
under your tile to put into the UV lamp is completely flat.
This is still a completely serviceable piece. It looks great but it is just a little bit
uneven.
Just take note of that and be conscious of it when
using the Gel Du Soleil.
I've pulled a selection of Aanraku
pendant bails.
With this finished tile pendant I have here I've adhered a heart shaped one.
The most common shape you can see is this little leaf. It comes in three different sizes.
I'm going to hold it in comparison to the wood tile that we carry here at Beadaholique.com
and a usual scrabble pile.
So you have small,
medium and large.
You can just decide which one you prefer aesthetically.
Here's a medium one.
You can see how that lays against the wood.
I usually go with the medium size. If you want you can do a small one
or you could go for the large.
Personal preference. Do keep in mind though what you're gonna be putting through this hoop.
in terms of the size of your chain. If you're going to put a really thick chain
you are going to want to go with one of the larger sizes.
We have a really petite chain. I'm going to be using a ball chain here in a little bit.
Then I would go with a small or medium. But it's totally up to you.
You can also choose an Aanraku bail with a
celtic design, heart shape. There's a whole wealth of shapes that you can choose from.
Also between silver and gold you can choose as well.
I also want to show you an earring bail.
This'll work great with one of the wood tiles that we sell here at Beadaholique.com.
It's very nice and flush.
One quick note though if you are doing it with traditional Scrabble tiles.
The depth is a little bit off. You'll want to keep that in mind.
Also note with the earring bails, the orientation of the little hoop
is gonna be different than the orientation of the pendant.
So I'm going to take one of the
tile pendants that we made
and I'm going to put a
heart bail onto it.
Really quite simple. I just have a piece of wire to use as a applicator you can also use a toothpick
and I have some E6000 glue.
Just going to use my
applicator
spread a little bit of glue on the bail
line it up
so that the orientation is with the top of the pendant
and press in place.
There's a little bit of glue coming out the edges. I just take my fingernail
and scrape it away.
I'm going to let that dry for at least an hour and then I'm gonna attach my chain.
Usually with scrabble tile pendants you see a ball chain. I think it looks very nicely with them.
You can purchase a pre-made ball chain which actually has a little
connector clasp attached to it.
You can also purchase ball chain by the foot.
I've purchased two feet and I've cut it to sixteen inches and then you can purchase a little
connecter clasp.
This is a stainless steel ball chain.
To attach the clasp you just
put one end in that middle area
pull it to the side
and do the same
with the other end and that creates a necklace.
If you just want to string it though. I'm going to string it through my little mermaid
pendant
And there you go.
You have a wood Scrabble like tile pendant
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