Hi this Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I want to show you How to Use Circle and Oval
templates when you're working with collage art bezel settings
You can use these for a lot of different things. If you've gone to art school you've probably seen
these or have these I want to show you how easy it is to use in jewelry making applications
I got two templates right here. I've got a circle and an oval shape
the circle has a
thirty-six circles ranging from one millimeter all the way to thirty six
millimeters. There's a very nice centimeter
and millimeter ruler down here at the bottom
and then on the oval template we have a total of twenty seven holes ranging from
two millimeters up to fifty five millimeters, again it's got a really nice
ruler on the bottom as well
so if your done a lot of collage art, worked with bezels with resin,
epoxy stickers, glass domes, anything like that you've probably encountered a bunch of
different sized circles or ovals
with your bezel settings
now I tend to recommend if possible to use
a hole punch
Here I have a hole punch. I have to sign a piece of
actually
wrapping paper I bought
that I thought had a lot of pretty patterns on it
well that's great, that was really easy but the problem is
it's not the right shape and oftentimes you won't be able to find a hole
punch match the exact size
of your bezel
so this is where these templates come in handy. I'm going to show you how to use the circle
one
when I purchased this particular bezel
the actual description told me that it had a inner diameter of thirty two
millimeters
so what you're going to do then is on your template you're gonna find a
thirty two millimeter
template circle
now I'm going to be using a pen for this but I would rather you use a pencil
either a really sharp pencil or a mechanical pencil
because you're gonna wanna be able to get as close to that inside edge
as possible because you don't wanna end up with your pen going like this and
actually adding several millimeters all the way your circle so it ends up
smaller than what you're going to want
what you can do with the template, another nice thing is you can
actually scroll it over and see what is within the window
I love that bird, I'm gonna go ahead
take my pen, what will be your pencil
draw a line
try to get as close to that edge as possible
now if you're not able to get very close to that edge you might have to bump up a
size
so that when you do cut around your line it's going to actually
become the original size that you wanted
so now that I've got that nice circle
take a pair of scissors
cut carefully on the line I drew
You want to use a pencil
also because one it won't be as apparent on your edge
but also if you were going to do something where you put perhaps resin
or diamond glaze
on top of this sometimes that pen will actually bleed into your image
where a pencil is not going to do so you want to make sure you use a pencil
now it should fit right in here
you can see that it does
I might want to trim it a little bit more because I went a little bit on the
outside of my line
cut right on your line
this should fit
right into the setting
there we go
now you have a perfectly sized
circle to fit within your circle bezel
and you can do that for any size circle you have
so I hope you found this video helpful and will use this great tool to make your
life a lot easier when you're cutting out images
that need to be a circle or an oval shape