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Thank you for joining us here at Beadaholique.com As we do another instructional video and
today we're going to cover a very fun medium.
And that is Easy Molds two part Silicon Mold Putty.
So what I'm going to do is first off I'm going to take off rings I have because I'm going to be
kneading the mold putty in my hands.
In the kit you're going to
have part A which is a white substance and then part B which is purple.
What's nice is as long as these are not touching they'll stay pliable and fresh
for very a long time.
I'm going to open them up.
Unlike when you're doing resin and you have two part resin. You need the measurement to
be really exact.
You don't need them to be so exact with the mold putty.
You just need to eye ball it
and have approximately the same amounts of putty.
You take the two
units. You squish them together.
This is why we took our rings off.
You wanna work relatively fast.
You have about one minute.
Go ahead and kneed it together
or trying to remove are all these white striations.
You do just one mold at a time.
I have a plate here, from our kitchen which is a non porous surface. You don't want to
use a paper plate. You don't want to use
newspaper print. You just want to use a non porous surface.
Go ahead put that down. Again working pretty quickly. You have about three minutes now
total.
Go ahead
depress a button or whatever you want.
Let it sit there. Now we're going to wait twenty five minutes
for that to cure. Once that is ready and we will go ahead and pop out our button.
So in the meantime
I'm going to make another mold.
That was really how quick and easy that was.
That took no time at all.
Now that that was a really easy because I could just depress it down into my form.
With this little skull button, I'm going to do a little different technique
cause I want to shape it around the head.
Because I've want his features to be distorted at all. I'm to go ahead and put my ball of clay
on top of him.
Instead of like pressing it here and dragging it over and I'm actually going to take some from the
sides
and roll it over him.
Now I wanna make sure that I have enough because in a moment I'm going to
make sure that he is sitting on a flat surface so that when I do
fill the mold, stay straight.
So now I'm just going to
push him
down like so. Make sure it's flat.
Now I'll let him dry.
Go ahead and push that down. And now I'm taking a rubber stamp.
These a million of these out there and you're probanbly wondering what to do with all of them.
You can go ahead and make molds.
I'm going to leave that
like that is.
Again wait twenty five minutes. Twenty five minutes have ellapsed and we're gonna go
ahead and release our original objects from our molds which are now set up. It does only
take twenty five minutes which is really hard to believe but it is true.
A very interesting thing happened when we were away. Here our rubber stamp mold
took a tumble which is a good thing to be
cognizant of and
be aware of. we can't use this more but it does show that we need to be cautious
when we do have an object that is
taller than it is wide or really top heavy or bottom heavy. That we have to be careful
that it is in a complete up right position. So I'm going to go ahead and release this.
Just to show you what it would have looked like.
Now unfortunately I can't use this but we know not to make that mistake again.
But our other molds are fine.
I'm going to take the first one.
Just going to go ahead
gently
pull on the sides.
It's very flexible
I'm going to pop out
our object.
Do the same
for our skull.
You can see we have
have an impression in there.
So if you're going to go ahead and use polymer clay with these you can go ahead and use them right away.
If you wanna use resin then you need to wait for twenty four hours.
So what we've done is, we have actually, I'm going to show you a variety, here are some other molds
that we made.
We made a little airplane.
Made a couple other buttons.
This here is a little vintage jewelry component that I had.
Made a little mold of that.
We actually even molded a branch from outside.
A couple troubleshooting tips is one you don't want to press down so hard
that
these tips, these edges that actually goes through to the bottom. What
will happen is it will create a little hole and if you're pouring resin
it's going to leak out the base. You're not going to have an object that's going to come out the mold
cause
it's all going to drain out the sides. To prevent that, don't push down too hard,
you can go ahead and take
some tape or some packaging tape
flush up against your mold. The sticky side attached to the mold.
Go ahead and press it into place. Then
lay your mold flat again and that should
seal up that hole.
Another thing you want to be cautious of is if you have something that,
you got to make sure that there's a complete round bowl shape, so that will you need
to fill it
it all stays
secure in there. You don't want to have
a slit down here or part if it that doesn't
encompass it.
You also want to go ahead and if you
pull an object out of the mold and has perhaps have a rough edge
just take a diamond file.
You can file it down.
I hope you can have a lot of fun
making many molds using Silicone two part Mold Putty.
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