hello youtube friends and welcome to my channel if you're new here my name is
deidra from our upcycled life and i do lots of thrifting upcycling repurposing and diy content
and today's video i'm going to show you how you can make your own diy molds they can get really
pricey i mean really pricey and you're limited to only that one mold that you just bought
i'm going to show you how you can take objects that you probably already have in your craft room
or in your house and turn them into beautiful molds for your diy projects okay we've got lots of
work i'm gonna head out to the shed come on let's get started okay if you have never made silicone
molds before put it on your to-do list these are amazing you're gonna need a hundred percent
clear silicone and i picked this up at my hardware store and the caulking gun that's they're not that
expensive and you can get a lot of molds out of one thing of caulking now i haven't
put a whole lot of silicone in this first one because i'm just going to show you how to do it
i'm incorporating cornstarch into the silicone i'm doing it in just a scrap bowl that we're
never going to use in the kitchen again this is in my craft room in my shed and you're going to
incorporate that cornstarch into the silicone i like to use a fork not my fingers yet until
it kind of feels like pizza dough you want to be making sure you're doing this in a
really well ventilated area the silicone is really stinky and you might even want to put a mask on
make sure you have your doors and windows open i'm in my shed the windows are open the door is open
and i have lots of ventilation coming through now i like to color mine just makes them look pretty
i've just added a little bit of gel food coloring if you just want a white silicone mold then you
don't have to do this step so i mixed the mold all together until it felt like pizza dough i put it
in a ball and now i'm going to roll it out i have these slats there are two slots put together from
an old shutter and i like to use them so when you're rolling you have the consistent width
all the way through so there's so many things that you can use to make molds out of these
are just a few ideas these are some poles off of a dresser and they have an intricate pattern in them
and i think they're going to transfer into the silicone mold really nicely i have some buttons
they are just ones that i picked up at the dollar store and i'm going to push them in you want to
use as much of the silicone as you can if you're already mixing it up you want to get as many molds
out of one as you can okay i've set that one aside now let's mix up another one incorporating that
cornstarch into that clear silicone and i had some blue coloring left over from the last one so i'm
just going to incorporate that into it too it'll give it a nice pale blue color as you can see
it's starting to form a ball starting to kind of come together mix till it's like pizza dough
put in a little bit more cornstarch and then once we get to this point i'm going to use my hands and
form it into a bowl you want to make sure you have your hands really coated well with the cornstarch
too and if you start mixing it too soon with your hands you're going to be in a mucky mess
so you just have to maybe play around with it a few times until you get the hang of it
and of course i'm making this and i didn't take my rings off please remember if you want to make this
stuff to take your rings off because i'm still pulling silicone out of them i've also tried to
make the silicone molds wearing gloves it didn't work it stuck and it was a horrible mess too so
i just use my hands and that works the best for me and i'm just going to roll this all out
now i have tried the other recipe using dish soap and i didn't have much success so i always come
back to the corn starch one and it works wonderful i just did a stamp that's going to imprint really
well i love this door pull and it's so intricate and has so many swirls in it i'm excited to see
how this one's going to turn out and you just want to gently push it into the mold until it just
starts to come up over the edges this is a piece of hardware probably off some sort of a dresser
and it's just missing the knob but it was really intricate again i'm really excited to see how this
one's going to turn out just gently pushing it until it just sits down into the silicone
so here's a look at some of the different objects that i used to make into silicone molds i'm going
to let these dry it's probably going to take a couple hours and then we're going to unmold
them so it's been a couple hours this is all dry and you can see how this imprinted it's beautiful
this is the stamp
and you just want to carefully just peel away and pull that stamp out it'll come out quite easy
if you just take your time and i'm always amazed when i pull these apart
how much detail you get and this one is beautiful i love it
this is just a dollar store snowflake that i picked up at christmas time and
you can see how detailed it is it's going to make a beautiful imprint and these are the
knobs this one didn't come it's a little bit faint and this one just had an outer circle
but they still worked really well the little circle and our button was really detailed
now this one might be my favorite one it was just from the dollar store and it's just a little frame
but it had a beautiful floral edge on it and i knew it would imprint really nice and i'm just
going to really carefully peel it out of there but look at the detail in that just gorgeous
this piece of hardware we're just going to peel it off and you can see how fun this
will be to use i love using air dry clay and then add these to any any sort of diy project
and we're gonna peel the big door pull off and look at the swirl in that just gorgeous
okay i just tried this one for fun i've seen other people do it i pressed the cookie too
hard it actually worked really well but it cracked and even the crack imprinted so now i'm going to
show you how i love to use these silicone molds i just dust them with a little bit of cornstarch and
then i'm just pressing that air dry clay this is air dry clay that i picked up at the dollar store
but you can find it at any craft store and they all work fantastic
you just want to make sure you've got it pressed in nice and well and then take off the extra
you can use a little knife or you can just use your fingers to peel away the extra
clay and once we have the back all smoothed out you're going to just pick up that and you can just
peel it away and you're going to be left with this gorgeous piece of clay and i just take my fingers
just smooth it out around the edges and you can set it aside let it dry and incorporate it into
your diy projects next one i'm going to do is this fun cookie one of course it needs to be
done again i just pressed it too hard when i put it into the mold and it cracked the cookie but
if i didn't it would have been really cool we're just going to press in that air dry clay and then
smooth it out on the back and then we're going to pick up that silicone mold and the nice thing
about these molds is they're flexible they're not really hard so you when you want to pop
out that clay it's really easy to do just going to work at the one corner be careful you don't
distort it and you can see it is so intricate and it even picked up where that crack was
and let's see how these ones turned out these were the buttons and the door knobs and this one
is good too it would be good to put in the four corners of a project and the button is almost
kind of looked like it turned out a little bit like a teardrop but again i like to smooth out
the outside of it you can trim away with a knife if you need to and this one even imprinted not too
bad i didn't think it was going to show up very much but it worked really well and the button is
beautiful now this big drawer pull dusting it with some cornstarch we're going to put in the
air dry clay i like to roll it in a the length of the actual mold and then press it in and you
want to press quite firm like i said before right out to the edges making sure it's nice and smooth
on the back and you can actually flip it over and press it and that will make it nice and flat also
and then we're just going to pick it up and peel it out and set it aside and let it dry so after
watching this video i know you're going to be going through your drawers and through your stash
seeing if you have stuff that will imprint really well into these silicone molds because it's
addicting i love using these as embellishments on any of my diy projects i've added them onto my
signs and glued them on after they were dried i've put them on glass bottles and jars and it always
looks beautiful and this one is really gorgeous too i'm loving the intricate flower pattern in
the middle the snowflake that one's going to be really great at christmas time i can make turn
it into an ornament i can make them into gift tags i can add it onto a wooden snowflake sign
you just have to get really creative and see how you can incorporate these into your projects i
really like using stamps too you're really limited to what you can use the stamps for so when you
can also turn them into molds it makes it a lot of fun and you just want to carefully peel it out now
when i make these i can trim all that extra clay off around the side and it works really well this
one the frame it's going to take a lot of clay it's actually quite a big mold so i'm going to
fill it right up flatten it out on the back and this is really intricate and turns out beautiful
so if you've never made silicone molds put it on your to-do list and get rooting through your
stash and see what you can find to imprint with and i'm working on a video right now
using the silicone mold that i use the dollar store frame from so stay tuned for that so let me
know down in the comments if you've ever made this type of silicone mold before thanks for watching
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