Hi! This is Julie with Beadaholique.com and I want to show you have to make
some large hole pandora style beads
out of pretty simple ingredients
and the base of them is going to be grommets. Got them right here
to actually do this surrounded it's gonna be crystal clay which is a self
hardening two part epoxy clay
I added some crystal chatons. I actually added mica
powder as well to give them a little bit of shimmer
what you're going to need is some chatons if this is the pattern
you choose to follow and I'm actually going to mix it up a little. Here I used all the
same size
I have sample here for the video. I used two different sizes
you'll need it two grommets per bead you make
you're going to need some crystal clay I thought I'd do it in pink
you need some mica powder which is this crystal clay sparkle dust
what it looks like
loose eye shadow
mineral eye shadow what it looks like
in terms of tools you'll need a magic pick
what is going to help you picked up your chatons I got a
little pad here which helps the magic pick stay sticky
you need a paint brush for the mica powder
you're not going to need a scissor. I'm going to use it with the straw in
just a second. You will need a straw
You need one that is
about the size of the grommet
just a little bit smaller is ideal
so keep that in mind. You'll find straws at fast food restaurants, places
like that. Just start collecting them
you'll find one that is the size of the grommet and you need a plastic bag
or piece of wax paper for this project as well
So to begin
I've got my straw and I actually used it to create these two
I actually punched the center out
so to keep using my straw
I'm going to
make a snip
and cut off that end so now I have the hollow portion again
take the crystal clay
I've got part B which is the hardener
part A which is the color and I need equal parts of both
take a pinch off of B and A
rolling them into two little balls and comparing the size of the balls to see
I have equal sizes
I'm happy with that. Wrap up the extra clay
With Crystal Clay, the actual curing process doesn't start until you mix the two together
so you have some work time to you start mixing it
you have about two hours of work time but I find that it starts to dry out
after about twenty or thirty minutes, so you do want to do
all of your work in the beginning. To mix it up, squish it
together
like so
you can wear gloves when you do this, if you don't wear gloves wash your hands
right away
I prefer not to wear gloves in the video because it's hard to see what I'm doing
you see I've got some modeling going on and just gonna mix for a couple
minutes until all the striations s are gone
it's fully mixed
roll it into a ball
this is going to cure on its own so there is no need to fire or bake it
take my plastic bag, you can use wax paper as
well
take my ball and flatten it a little bit
I want it to still be round but I want it to be flat
take my straw and on the end which is hollow
I'm going to
center
punch all the way through
pull up
though the clay within the straw
discard that
and now we have a hole to place the grommets
I'm going to very carefully
put the grommet in the middle
and my straw is a little bit larger than I would like so to compensate
pinch the clay together a little bit
that's secure on that end
carefully pick it up. It is quite sticky so bear that in mind. Be gentle
with it
put the grommet on the other side
again
press it inwards squeezing the sides together
that's narrowing that hole
I want to look at it from all angles
and I wanna form
it into a nice
uniform round shape like I did on the examples
when you have the shape
take the end of a dowel or paint brush
form it a little bit more. This allows you to not have to hold onto it
and get my fingerprints on it
after we've done that
we can now add our chatons
clean this up ever so slightly
the clay is
starting creep over the grommet and I don't want that. I want a more determined look
now the fun part
I have my magical pick
I'm using it on the pad. It has some tape on there and it help's it stay
really nice and sticky
pick up
a chaton
and place it
by having a structure like this that your
got your bead on. You can add a little bit more pressure to get
that chaton in there
I know from experience I'm actually going to pick up these heavier ones
place it in there
it might be fun to do more random look with this one so I'm just going to put
these
where ever you want
these are nice and sparkly
look at my bead
see if I need to add anymore
the more sparkle the better with this one
let yourself play, don't feel it you have to do it any certain way
I think that looks good
now I'm going to make sure my shape
still intact
add one more crystal
why not
now I'm going to add mica powder
you want to add the mica powder while it's still wet. I need the paint brush
pull this off
put it on the end of my magical pick
with the mica powder, I'm going to grab a little bit on the tip of it
holding my
bead over the tub
just paint it on
it's going to give it a shimmer
so some of the pink is going to still show
it's going to give it a more silver look
we have enough on there and you can go and be little bit firmer with my paint brush
to get the access off
we have just created
a large hole
pandora style bead
using crystal clay
and mica powder and chatons
and grommets
here's an example of a couple other ones. You can see it's nice that the pink does show
through
this was done with white and this with black
I hope you have fun with this technique. Feel free to experiment and let your creativity flow.
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