hi everyone its Keren here and welcome back to my channel today I have a new
video on how to use silicone molds to create embellishments I use five
different types of products inside the molds to show you the versatility or how
you can use the moles to create embellishments with many different
things that you might already have in your house the first product that I'm
using is Wonder that it's covered recently and you probably don't have in
your house either it's called amazing casting resin and it's a really cool
product that has two different liquids that you pour inside cups and then you
mix the two liquids together and they create a solution that when poured into
the mold it hardens really hard and creates an amazing embellishment this is
actually my favorite technique to use inside the molds because you can create
really sturdy embellishments that can be used for any type of project once the
two liquid parts are mixed inside another cup you simply pour them into
the mold and just let it sit there until it dries so I'm just using three
different modes these are prima marketing IOD molds and I just wanted to
show you the versatility that you can use them in any type of mold or any type
of embellishment and it creates a beautiful beautiful hard embellishment I
find this one so easy to use that I went ahead and made a little bit more of the
same solution to make some more molds this is my favorite one because it's
just so easy all you have to do is just pour the liquid so that's why I made so
many of these molds because I thought I could make a few molds at the same time
and use them in different projects and have the molds already ready
I find this a good solution for people that have a hard time needing clay so
that way you can just use a liquid and not have to have a hard time kneading
the clay to fit into the molds but that way you can still create embellishments
all you have to do is let this sit and dry and you will see how the clear
liquid changes into white when it starts changing into white it becomes really
really hot so not a good idea to touch it but you know
that as soon as it finishes turning white it will become really hard and you
will be able to remove it from the mold you can definitely remove it a little
bit before if you want it to be moved a little bit or if you want it to bend the
mold a little bit but you have to make sure that it's not hot anymore I ended
up making a third solution because as you can see it's so easy to make I just
wanted to make some more embellishments and at the same time show you how the
original ones are starting to turn white and Harden and look how fast it is it
usually takes about 10 minutes or even less and it's start they start hardening
I first warded this part to show you how it's changes from clear to white and how
cool it looks I let mine fully dry and then I went ahead and just simply
removed it and you see how easy it is to remove that from its shell because it's
so hard and the silicone is so soft it's easily removable from the shell that
it's in sometimes when it's really thin pieces it could break and that has
happened to me before but most of the time they come out
perfectly which I really really love because they're so easy to maneuver and
to actually use in your projects these two got stuck because the liquid poured
too much on the outside so all I did is I took my scissors and basically cut
around them so there it's easily cut with scissors which is really great and
it has a plasticky kind of feel so it's an amazing product that way I've also
used this product inside some embossing folders and that was really cool it
created some really nice embellishments for my cards and I will tag that video
above so you can see what I mean how cool it is to use it with embossing
folders it's a technique I learned from Kat Kerr and that was a really amazing
idea for the second product used inside the IOD molds I took some three all
patty this is basically almost like clay but a little bit smoother and it's white
and all you have to do is basically push it into
the mold itself until it covers the whole area it's pretty soft and it's
quite easy to use I got this on Amazon and I really love it because it's so
smooth and you can actually just cover something really quickly and don't have
to do a lot of effort for it some of the clays are that you can use in molds are
really hard to get maneuver and this is really easy I found for example
something like female would be really hard because it always needs a lot of
kneading in order for it to work before even dries I like taking the
embellishment out of the mold because that way you can actually dry it outside
and you can also use to shape the mold so you could let it dry until it's fully
dry inside them all or you can take it out and then you can let's say wrap it
around a bottle like I show you here and that would work perfectly if you want to
embellish something around a bottle or something that is not perfectly straight
the third product that I use inside the silicone mold is my glue gun and this is
a product that you probably have lying around from all your crafting so it's
really easy to use all you have to do is fill out the mold with the glue from the
glue gun and let it sit there until it dries the glue from the glue gun dries
really fast and it's perfect to fill this mold once it's dry all you have to
do is actually pull it out and it will be transparent so you definitely want to
color this with some paint or gesso or included on some kind of project but you
can make your own embellishments that way
fourth product that I actually used inside the molds is paper clay and paper
clay is the one that prima sells so you could definitely buy it through them but
you can also find this in many different places I've actually seen paper clay at
the dollar store so that's a really good way of putting it inside the mold it's a
little bit harder to maneuver especially if you have issues with your hands but
it's still pretty easy to kind of a mix inside and what I do is I use a little
bit of water to wet it and that way it becomes softer and I'm able to move it
around you can definitely also use regular clay if you want but I know that
regular clay is really brittle so you have to be very careful when you're
using it inside the molds it's better to use something that is very cohesive and
has everything smooth inside so it can actually come out as a one-piece this
one with the paper clay I also like to remove it before it's actually fully
drying so I let this dry a little bit and then what I do is I actually take it
out before it's fully dry that way I can actually use it and mold it around any
type of object whether it's round or straight you can also grab some tools
and clean up all the extra pieces of clay that do not belong this last one I
wasn't sure if it was going to work or not this was actually an experiment
I took my heavy joe from prima this is gel medium and it's from Prima marketing
but there's lots of heavy gels out there on the market and I use a palette knife
to actually put it inside them all I figured that if the silicone glue from
the glue gun actually worked then any type of glue should really work in there
so I actually put the heavy gel and then let it dry overnight
this of course took a long time to dry and I let it dry inside the mold because
it's really soft and he needed a long time to actually harden
it was once it was hard and I actually removed it from the shell and it worked
out perfectly I'm guessing that if this worked that probably things like fabric
or beacon glue would work as well so any type of harder glue or that glue that
becomes hard easily would probably work inside the mold finally just want to
show you the five examples of the five different products and how well it
worked for all of them thank you so much for watching
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