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Hi this is Julie with beadaholique.com
I want to show you a Decore kit
if you're familiar with Decore clay it's an epoxy clay and they've come up with these
wonderful
kits which have everything you need to complete the featured project which
here is a ring
and I just wanna open it up with you and do this project so you can see what's
involved with these kits
and what you'll be getting. So when you flip it over you'll see that
it looks like all the information is in Japanese but it's not
Once you've actually open it up you'll see it's been translated
you've got your photo here to follow
you'll also have a photo in the actual instructions as well
and then when you open it up you'll see you've got
the clay that you're gonna need. It has two colors. It has a rose and a white
It's got part A and part B included for both and it's actually already measured for
you
you'll know if you work with epoxy clays in the past you have to have equal parts
of A and B and they've already done that for you. Now this has
two different colors of crystal chatons included for you as well
and then the ring finding. So you've got everything you need
except for an applicator and so I've got a magic pic right here and I'm going to use it to
apply my chatons
Sometimes you'll find little toothpicks with wax on the end
those work great as well. There's a variety of different products out there
I'm using the magic pic. I just wanna open this up
This is the twin flower ring and it's got all these great instructions. It's really
quite easy to follow
at the top it shows you what you have included and then it starts to tell you
what to do
It tells you to mix part A and part B for 3 to 4 minutes
and then I can tell that we're gonna start here with the rose color. So I'm
just gonna mix rose color
and you have about an hour work time before it starts to get really hard so allow
yourself to relax, have fun, go about this
and just enjoy. Normally
with the epoxy clay you're going to use gloves. This is such a small amount
it's gonna be okay just to use your fingers. I think it be a little too hard
with gloves. So rose A and B
just gonna open it up and just going to rip the actual packaging, it'll be easier to
get it out
now I'm working on a beading mat which does have fibers in it. So I've taken a
post-it note
which is clean, put my little clay on it so I don't get any of the fibers in the clay
squish them together
I'll do this for 3 to 4 minutes
until all the striations are gone
As you can see we now have a nice uniformed color
we're ready to go to the next step in the instruction
so you can see it shows you here that we've got the blank ring form
right here
with the big flower on top. It says we need to add the clay
and it's gonna go ahead and equal this. So we need to fill all these little holes
with the rose-colored Decore clay. To do that
I'm going to pinch off a little bit at a time
and fill
the little cavities
Almost done. I just have the center flower to go
as you can see it didn't actually take that much clay. I have quite a bit left over. So
if you have another project handy
you'll only use that within an hour. So I've filled
all the little recesses and I'm trying to shape it. I'm trying to
make it so that it doesn't go too far out of the line
of the finding. That part
is now done. I need to look at the directions and it's telling me
and I need to add my rose chatons. It's telling me to do it from the outside in. So if you
can see in this diagram it's saying I need to do them
along the outside in each petal and then fill the interior
and I do that for all of them
Got the two colors of crystals
I'm gonna go ahead and open up the rose one and put them on my little note pad so I can
see them. I've got my magic a pic. So whatever you're using
that's great. You just need something that's going to pick up a crystal
and be able to put it into the clay
one crystal placed. You wanna push enough that the
outer edge of the chaton is just barely underneath the
clay edge and that way it will hold. These are small so they can be a little tricky
just going to work my way around
It's up to you. You can put as few or as many of these as you want
The clay is self hardening. It's gonna
harden on its own overnight. You don't need to bake this
You also don't need to add adhesive to
glue the chatons to the clay because it's sticky
I'm going to go back in and reinforcing it and pushing in
my crystal down into the clay a little bit more
now I'm gonna trim up the
side as well and now I'm going to go on to the other pedals and to the centers
so I finished the pink flower
I actually wanna go back and I want to make sure
that
all my crystals are set properly. So I go back and
reinforce because they tend to move around a little bit when you're working
with it and putting other crystals in and squishes the clay around size. Wanna make
sure that they're okay
That one is done. Now I wanna go do the other flowers
the white flower. It's same exact process. But what you do need to do is go
make sure you wash your hands
before you touch the white because if you've already touched the pink there's probably a
little bit of residue left on your hands
Do that, then go ahead and we're gonna put the
white clay on. Now do the same process
with the white clay. Mix up Part A and Part B
for 3 to 4 minutes and apply it to the setting
I just finished my ring. I wanna show you I actually tried two different techniques on
this one
I did the pink ones where it showed more
of the finding itself. I used a little bit less clay and fewer of the
chatons and then for the white one I made it a little bit puffier
You don't really see the finding below and I used more crystal
Either way works. There's enough in the kit for you to do whichever option you like
and as you can see it does, it looks just like the picture when it is finished
and the instructions are really easy to use. Everything's included
all you'll need is a little applicator to apply the chatons
I don't recommend using your finger for them. If it was a really big one you
could
but you'll need more of a precision tool. So I hope you enjoyed this
and I hope that it gives you a better understanding of the Decore Jewelry
kit.
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