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Hi this is Becky Nunn from Nunn Design
and this next project I gonna be doing for Beadaholique.com
is a decorative bauble. It's making a piece that's very similar to this
In previous videos you could have seen
this one, this one, this one
this one, this one
finish it off with this one. For this project
you will need to have a bead cap, a head pin, some crystal clay
some chatons, cutters
and round nose pliers for the first step
you want to put on your gloves because when you're handling the crystal clay
when it is
in this form of the raw resin you're going to always be wearing your gloves
pinch off two pea sized balls
equal size and then you're going to go ahead
and kneed those until they are marbled. You have ninety to one hundred twenty minutes
there are no longer marble you have nine needs two hundred and twenty minutes to
work with the clay
so you have plenty of time to do this project. Once your clay is fully mixed
you'll have a ball that looks like that. Once your clay is mixed
you want to roll it into a nice smooth ball and depending on how big
you want your bead dangle ball to be
you can have it really big such as that. That's too big. I'm going to pinch off
wee bit, re-roll it
into a nice round ball, see
what works better for you. I like that
so this is what I'm trying to avoid is little creases
or dimples in the clay like that, it just makes it a little bit more
challenging
to embed the crystals all nice and
evenly. So I'll make it nice and smooth, see how the difference is
a lucky little mistake there to show you
another tidbit
a tip and technique and then take your head pin
and you're going to poke it through the
center mark, gonna put it right in and you might have to feel your way a little bit and
out the other side. In this one
I wanna go ahead and pull it through embed it down
inside of the crystal clay. So I'm going head
and pinching over that tip part
don't worry about it too much if it
changes the form because that's going to right at that edge
tapping it down and blending it all together
if you have some wet wipes I highly recommend just cleaning up
as you go along to make sure that you didn't get any of
the crystal clay on your metal and also
go ahead and clean it off your head pin so it doesn't get onto your fingers
the next step is going to be using
your toothpick with a little bit of beeswax on the top
this comes with inside your package of your crystal clay
you'll want to practice turning your chatons over
with the beeswax toothpick so you can pick them up
and that's what you're gonna want it to look like is that pointy
part of the chaton is going to be facing down. I always start
on the bottom or outside
edge and go all the way around and then when I finish all the way
I'll go into the next layer. If you're having problems with the
chatons coming out just slightly turn your beeswax toothpick
and it will release. You also wanna make sure that your not pressing down
too hard into the clay, as you can see
they're placed inside of there but they're not fully
all the way down in there. That's just to prevent it from getting too
cattywomped of a surface
once you press them down in too hard they're really hard to get out
so I can use my fingers later to go in
and sculpt it and press them down
even farther
if you like you can spread them out so that they're far apart
and see more of the clay or you can keep it nice and tight
like you're seeing what I'm doing
its over a hundred degrees outside at the Beadaholique.com
studio today and I'm just totally dreading a drip of sweat dripping down onto
this
paper as I'm working. Just squeezing them slightly together
to close up that slight gap right there
now
I'm ready to go to my next layer. Just kinda going around
pressing it down slightly
there's an example of cattywomped, took it out
so I just noticed that I had pulled too tightly down
and my bead cap was coming all the way down, I'm just going to press that back up in
there a little bit
see I'm pressing the chatons in there
and resculpting it to make a nice round ball
ready to go to the next level
now we'll let this set for about two hours
and I'll come back in and trim away the excess of the head pin
and bend our loop. Next we're gonna go ahead and trim away
our head pin approximately
half an inch from the base
so we had this fully set
for about two hours and that head pin is very
firmly secure in there and I want to keep this little remnant because there's
great things that we can do
with our leftover crystal clay and our leftover remnants that you can refer to them in other
Beadaholique.com videos and then using your
round nose pliers, start to loop
and bend the wire
down to the base and straighten that
back up. Now you have a great
little dangle that you can put onto
a charm bracelet, a necklace or make a pair of earrings with.
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