hi everyone welcome back to my channel where the gnomes live this is sharon
ojala and today I'm going to show you how I made some of this glass you see on
my table so first of all we have a little piece of glass for my beaded lamp
it's not real glass that's plastic but I'm going to show you how I shape it in
this video and I also made some drinking glasses one with a bit of milk and one
with water and ice in it so when I started the video all I had planned was
the lamp glass and the two drinking glasses but then I started getting more
ideas so towards the end of the video I also put together this little ketchup
bottle I'll show you how to make a cap for it kind of add the ketchup inside
how to close up the bottom and then I also at the very end threw together a
little jar of pickled eggs and for the eggs I'm using sculpey clay sculpey
three clay and the glue that you see in this video that I'm using for the eggs
and also for the water is just glue it's just a liquid glue it doesn't have to be
this brand of this type any clear drying glue will work I just had this on hand
and I like the little tip on it which made it easier for me to pour it in
there I'm also using in this video some tacky glue a hole-punch scrapbooking
paper I also used a small paintbrush and some paint of course acrylic or chalk
paint either one will work pair of scissors I used a little bit of hot glue
not very much so in the next clip I'm going to talk about the tubing that I
use to make the glass and how I shape it alright guys so this is something that I
just happen upon by a fluke accident because I saw a tutorial online on using
candle flame and hard plastic for making glass so I will put that link in the
description box below because that gave me the idea for this using heat I didn't
think flame would be good on soft plastic because I think I would just
melt it I thought if I used heat and soft plastic together maybe I'll get the
result that I was looking for and I did so this is fish tank tubing this one is
ten millimeters across
so it's a skinny tube and I'm using the mini glue gun so I'll show you my larger
glue gun nope you'll have to excuse this glue gun it's very very messy I use it
on moths and stuff all the time so it looks very dirty so you can see that
difference in the size of the nozzles this one won't work I've tried it it's
just too big so you want the mini glue gun you also want to make sure that the
nozzle is nice and clean and you don't have any glue in there I did have glue
in mine but I didn't push the trigger so it didn't matter but if your glue gun
tends to drip out a little bit just make sure you don't have any glue in there
when you start shaping the glass so first of all we're going to heat up the
glue gun and I let it heat up for about five minutes and while it's heating up I
get a little piece of the tubing cut and then I go over to my kitchen sink so
let's head over there now in this end here that I cut I made sure to cut it as
straight as possible I don't want any angles because I'm going to be shaping
it on to this nozzle here I want it to go all the way to the end and that's
going to be the end of our glass and now we're going to put it on or heat it up
glue gun and it's just going to take a few seconds for it to loosen up while
we're pushing on it to get it all the way to the end we want to get it to the
end of that nozzle and I'm pushing quite hard and I'm not twisting the glass or
the plastic I should say and don't bend this straight part try to keep that as
straight as possible and I'm almost there almost there there we go I got to
the end so I'm just gonna hold that for a few seconds and the tip is very hot so
I'm just going to move my fingers out of the way
so I'll take this off and show you how much bigger it is now so you can see
it's quite a bit bigger than when we started but I want it bigger even and I
want it to hold that shape the shape of the nozzle so what I'm gonna do before I
put this back on I'm going to unplug my glue gun of course water and electricity
do not go hand in hand I'm going to put a little stream of cold water here I'm
going to place this back on all the way to the end make sure it's all the way to
the end and holding it as straight as possible we're going to cool this right
down call it sitting on the nozzle and keep it pushed up to the end so I'm
just pointing the nozzle down towards the drain and then letting the water run
over it and pull it down and it's going to shock that plastic into the shape
that it's in and it's going to hold that shape forever
and I want to cool it right down before I take it off then I can turn off my
water and then pull this off and if you've twisted it at all
and when you pulled it off it looked a little bit bumpy on the end don't be
afraid to reach in there with your fingernail and pull any bumps out like
any bumps of plastic you can do that it's not going to wreck it I've done it
a few times on some pieces that I made that didn't quite turn out exactly how I
wanted them too I just reach in there with my thumbnail and kind of pulled any
bumps away so let's head back to my desk now and I'm gonna show you how I trim
this up to make the lamp glass and also how to make them into little glasses for
drinking out of so now all we have to do if we're making the lamp glass is just
trim it so I'm gonna trim that skinny end of course so at the end of this
video I'll link you to the video I have on making these lamps there's a lot of
you that won't need any help with that part so I just wanted to get you started
with the glass part now the other thing I made was these little glasses and you
can make these a variety of different sizes of course
and we're going to try to cut this as straight as possible because we do want
it to be able to stand up alright so we have our bottom of the glass and it's
wide open we don't want that we want to close it up like I've done here you want
to give it a bottom and I did that with hot glue because I used my
high-temperature glue gun and I have my stainless steel ruler here because I'm
going to use it like a counter top so since I put the hot glue in there I'm
going to place it right on top of my stainless steel ruler just a little bit
and then work very quickly just get it right down on top of that ruler and
flatten it right out okay and it should dry very quickly and there we go we have
our bottom of our glass now you'd really want the bottom on there of course
because of looks and also if you wanted to put some paint in there it because
you could put in would look like milk or juice or anything you want and it will
hold it liquid in there while it dries okay so all we have to do now is just
trim up around the edges of the bottom of the glass where the glue is sticking
out of so after you trim it up you can also use sandpaper around a little emery
board and just go around if you wanted to do that as well okay so now that we
have that closed up I'm just gonna play around with a couple of ideas I had for
making a glass of milk and also a glass with ice in it so I'm gonna do the milk
first and I'm just gonna try to get the white paint in there without making too
much of a mess so I wait a little bit too quickly I could have been more
careful and that was poor putting it in there I'll just take a q-tip and clean
up around the top edge there and once I get this cleaned up I can just set it
aside and let that paint dry and then I'll have a glass of milk so next I want
to do the water with ice cubes so what I'm using is these little things that I
found in the dollar store it's for filling up a vase they look like little
ice cubes it's gonna take two or three of them and just pop them in there I
could have put the glue on there for first alright guys so I have another
surprise for you but which wasn't planned when I started this video we're
also gonna be making a bottle of ketchup I'm going to show you that in a second
but I'm just gonna show you the finished glass of water
turn it really well with the ice in there and then like a glass of milk is
now dry and looks great I'm pretty happy with that so I just want to point out to
make it very clear you can make these any size you want
so of course you just decide where you're gonna cut the bottom of the glass
and we're gonna cut the top alright so when I was wrapping up the video I was
looking at it and I started to see a bottle see it and then I made a cap so
I'm going to show you how I did all those things in the next clip so let's
get started so I think the best way to go about this is paint the inside
because paint will stick to plastic and I can bring it up brai to about there I
think I'll leave the neck free of any paint
all right I think that paint just dry enough inside yeah and we'll close this
bottom up just like I did the glass but I'll have to use a little bit more glue
so go all around the whole edge and I'm just gonna push down I was thinking
about a cap and I think the easiest thing I can do is make little circles
with this hole punch and then I glued for them together alright my friends I
am popping in with another edit because I just wanted to show you the difference
in the size of caps that you can make so what I used was scrapbooking paper in my
hole punch and for one of them I did eight and just take those and add a dot
of glue in between each one and let them dry okay and this one here my little
ketchup bottle has for those scrapbooking papers holes glued together
and then there's this one here look at the difference in size I did eight so
here's another bottle that I'm working on you can also paint these too
and there the bottom is closed up so that's awesome now I will trim it just
like I did the glass if I felt any too - I could paint that bottom - but I think
it looks just fine the way it is so this cap I think I will use tacky
glue I'm just gonna take a little bit of sandpaper and just rough it up on the
bottom just so the glue really has something to grab onto
I'm sure you guys will come up with some pretty awesome ideas of your own this is
just something to help me get started
alright I kind of messed that up a little bit because I wanted that white
glue out of there it would have dried clear but I was inpatient and I tried to
get out of there and I made a mess of the paint inside so I'm gonna try and
make another one but I just printed off this little bitty label now I am NOT a
resizing expert at all for labels I just find google images and then I'll open
them up in paint and resize it down to about 10% of its original size if it's a
great big one and then I'm using Windows gallery to open them up again and then I
print it off in a size that will work for my label so for this one I used
three by five I believe 3 by 5 sheet you can google how to resize photos I'm not
the one to do tutorials on that one day I'll figure it out so we are in the next
day and I didn't film this little jar because it's gonna just making this
video too long but I want to give you another idea so I'm just gonna give you
a couple tips about this jar and I just made a few little eggs out of this
sculpt III just roll them in my hand and then bake them really the hope
temperature cuz they're so small probably but I think it was like 200 and
I did it bake them for about 8 minutes and the lid is just made out of a little
circle and then once I had my circle made I
just made an impression with the jar itself so I will have a permanent little
stopper there so I don't need to glue that lid on now I can just pop it on and
it stays in place so this doesn't hold very many eggs I only made four about
this size here four altogether and when I put them in there they just lined up
and I looked really funny so what I ended up doing was cutting them in half
and then it looks like more eggs in there looks like the jar is full and
then I squeezed in some of this clear glue after the eggs were in there okay
so I'm just gonna cut my other egg in half let's see if I can fit that one in
there and then I'll put the lid on so I think is that a habit yeah I managed it
so I got three and a half eggs in there but it looks like a lot more because I
cut them in half so there's another idea too so you can make a little jar out of
that they're small but they can still work alright guys I'm going to wrap up
the video now and before I go also be sure to look at the connections I made a
little vase I didn't even have to give it a bottom because it was thick enough
and looks pretty enough just the way it is and had a pretty little face so with
this one shape that we made with the hot glue gun we ended up with different
ideas the little jar some glasses bottles and the top for a miniature bead
lamp so I think that's pretty cool with just that one little shape depending on
where you cut it you can get yourself a bunch of different things so you can
fill up the shelves in your dollhouse if you found this video helpful please
give it a thumbs up it helps me out a lot and you do that also be sure to post
pictures on my facebook page where the gnomes live if you make any of these
items here thanks so much for watching and we'll see you super soon