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Hi this is Becky Nunn
of Nunn Design and I'm the guest designer today at the Beadaholique.com's
studio. In this video we're going to be making
this great channel bangle using crystal clay
and then using Gilder's Paste to go over the top of it
and then seal it. The textures is going to be coming from the rubber stamp.
So for this project you'll need the Nunn Design sealant,
a paintbrush, a rubber stamp
and this one I'm using the vine, a little bit of baby powder
some channel bangles, crystal clay
and Gilder's Paste. It might look like a lot of items
but a lot of these items you can use for many other projects too.
You're going to want to follow the manufacturer's instructions on how to handle
the clay. You want to put your gloves on first. Pinch off
equal size balls and I got a pretty good size amount
because I have to go all the way around and plus I'm going to do another channel bracelet
back behind it
I have two worth here. Take your clay
you're going to mix it together and I have the black and the black
is probably one of the stickier ones that I have experienced
meaning that it sticks to my gloves more so than others
I think that's because it just takes a lot of pigment to make it that
black. You'll have
90 to 120 minutes to work with the clay before it starts to get really hard
you won't be able to work with that, so
don't feel like you need to rush because that's quite a bit of time for the project
that we're going to be doing
mix it together until it's no longer
marbled. It should look like something like that
Once your clay is fully mixed
you'll be able to take off your gloves and handle the clay
I like to also have a wet wipe right beside me
when I'm working at this phase because I like to make sure that I'm getting the
clay
of my fingers, out from underneath my fingernails
and off of the metals when I'm working. So I have a nice round ball
go ahead and start to snake it out
approximately
8 inches but don't worry because you can continue to make it long as you go
along, so I'm just putting the clay down
into the channel bangle
by pressing down and I'm moving my finger
forward like this to squeeze the clay. I want it to be somewhat
raised so it'll take that impression but I don't want it to be too
raised and I don't want my snake to be too wide
because I'll end up getting clay all over the sides
you might want to mix
a small amount first and just practice
this and then pull it out and clean up your bangle but
if you're feeling confident I say go for it. Nothing that a little bit of cleanup
later can't take care of.
so I'm just gonna go all the way on the outside edge
pressing it down and also pulling
on my clay a little bit to thin it out. If I have a really thick area
see right here's a really thick so when I get to that to pull little bit more
I'm using my thumb to press
in that forward motion
sometimes if I had a thin patch and
you'll know when you have a thin patch you can pull it back even
that way. If you had
a place that had more clay
or less clay and it wasn't a nice even dome
you can also go back and pinch off that excess
after the fact so don't worry about it
not being perfect, there's always time
and ways in which can go back if you aren't happy with the results the first time
that's one of the things that I love about the techniques that Nunn Design
comes up with this
they're very forgiving and they're made for
a person who has absolutely no jewelry skills
or a person has a lot of them so
I got to the end right here. I'm going to pinch off my excess
and I'll blend that together
at the end. So now I have the clay
all down. See that thin part so I can add more clay in there but I just squished it over on
the sides
so I'm just making sure that the clay is over to the side edges
all the way flush. Make it look
nice and tidy. If I have some that's hanging over
I'll pull it in and I'm going to use my wet wipe
I'm going along these edges right here
just make sure that my clay, so my fingernails come a little bit down
inside that inside groove
I'm using my back fingernail here on the inside
coming around this side and cleaning up
that outside edge. Flip it and do the same
on this
there's where my seam. Pat that down a little bit more. Then I'm going to double check
to make sure that
you know my clay, if I have excess, a lot of it I might wanna pinch some of it out
that looks pretty good
this is where the
rubber-stamp comes into play and my baby powder
go ahead and take a little bit of my baby powder that I
have on my put on my finger. Rub it over
on top of the rubber stamp
or if you have a texturing pad. It just allows the
clay which is fairly soft to go over
the surface and not stick to the rubber stamp
I'm just putting a
really light coat. You can pat off the
excess onto that rubber-stamp. Then I'm gonna take my channel
and I'm just gonna lightly
roll it over, well it depends on how
hard of an impression you want to make but I'm going to roll it over
and don't worry if you have that baby powder showing up there, we can wipe that
off
keep on going
just continuing to roll it
and when you have that impression inside
you want to make sure that your not touching that side because you can press
down on that, so I'm actually using my fingers to control it from the
inside of the bangle. Can you see that
if it starts to stick a little bit
you want to just takes a wet wipe and wipe it down
and wipe down your pad a little bit and get that excess
clay that might of been coming off onto your rubber stamp
let that try
and then take a little bit more of your baby
powder and put it
onto the surface
excess off
and your ready to roll
and
I'm almost there
now I have my texture inside
of my bangle
I'm gonna go ahead and I wipe off any
of that baby powder while it's still
slightly wet and also just kinda making sure that my
edges are nice and clean along the sides
and then I'm gonna let this sit for about
two hours until the clay is really hard inside
the channel bangle before I put on
the Gilder's Paste. So the next step is going to be applying
Gilder's Paste to the pattern that we rolled over and embedded in
Open up your Gilder's Paste. I'm using the inca gold
and I took my wet wipe and just rolled it and got it a little bit wet
right there using the wet wipe and my finger
and then you just slightly brush it onto your
piece and you can see that I'm just going
over lightly the surface area so it's leaving
they recessed areas still
down inside of there black. Isn't that cool
then depending on the kind of look that you want you can rub away more of it
and have it just be a really light
look or you can put a lot it on there and have it be a really gold look
I'm even thinking about those little side edges right there
that
how you do that
the last step is going to be using the Nunn Design sealant
this just creates a nice varnish
that goes over the top attacks the piece Gilder's Paste
so just go ahead and dip your brush into the sealant
then paint a light coat over-the-top
your channel bangle
I let my piece dry following the manufacturer's instructions
this will give it a nice sheen not too glossy
like resin will give us but just a nice
sheen over the top of it
so this is the part of the video where I bring to you the
Becky Nunn dog & pony show, although this looks kinda like a garage sale or
an estate sale but that's cool too. So this is a piece that we just
showed the example of making something similar to this
we texturized and we put a little bit of Gilder's Paste over it
and in this one it was a copper Gilder's Paste on a copper bangle and then
has the sealant over it and to watch other videos on how to embed crystal
clay
look up crystal clay on Beadaholique.com. This
over here is using the same technique
with white crystal clay and the sealant
and then using cording to make a macrame
finish. This doesn't have
any of the Gilder's Paste on it just the white
crystal clay. This one has the sealant
and this one has no sealant
at, all just has that more of a matte finish
you can see the difference of what that looks like. This piece was texturized
it's a brown crystal clay and embedded in a couple of the bead
caps inside the ring to make a fun ring
on this one I used the crystal clay
around the outside edge of the piece of glass with an image in it
I texturize it and then let it sit
and then painted it. I used the Gilder's Paste over
the top of it. Here are some samples of texturizing
and then using paint and here's an example of
texturizing by rubber-stamping direct onto
the crystal clay first putting the white down
putting some mica powder and then using
black StazOn Ink and rubber-stamping
right onto the piece. So I hope I've been successful and inspiring and nurturing
your creativity
and teaching you find ways to use epoxy clays
crystal clay and texturizing.
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