hey crafters its Amend here I hope that everyone had a great Labor Day weekend
I'm actually filming this on Labor Day I was up in Dollywood for the weekend with
my family so that was a lot of fun and since I'm filming this right now I am
often at school which is great but tomorrow when I post this so when you're
watching it now it's time to get back into the real world so maybe this
crafting project will be just what you need to brighten your week so know for
today's tutorial Tuesday we are going to be making polymer clay beads and I'm
going to be teaching you how to use this really cool method that I discovered a
few years ago and it's called Millie Fiore I probably should have looked that
up to make sure I'm pronouncing that right but hopefully I pronounced that
right so today we're going to be making some very simple beads that will look
like this see these big ones and they look really complicated and like I might
have bottomed on the store but they're actually really easy to make because I'm
going to show you how to make canes so I'll give you two more looks of
different beads I've made using this method and you might be looking at these
bracelets I made these years ago so remember I stuff gotten a lot bigger so
the elastic is all stretched down and they don't quite go all the way around
my wrist so they can't fake a degree right now but using this method you can
make a lot of really cool beads if they have a nice professional aspect to them
which is nice because when I made these when I was younger you know I'd want to
wear them but I didn't want to be that kid who makes like the weird craft stuff
and then wear ease and I really go oh okay but I would actually get like lots
of valid compliments on these so let's really quick look at what we need for
this project play I'm using sculpey clay this is
sculpt III it's just an oven-baked clay which means I bake it in the oven and it
gets hard I am going to need a baking dish and the way I'm going to bake these
beads I'm going to use a dish saw some depth and then I'm going to use bamboo
skewers and I'll have my beads on the bamboo skewer hanging over the dish so
that way the beads don't flatten out on one side if you don't have a bamboo
skewer you can use string or you can use like a wire coat hanger and of course
you can't just make it flat on a cooking I just like this because then it keeps
any of the size from getting flat since you're baking your clay you'll obviously
need an oven which I don't have featured right now because it's downstairs and
I'm in my bedroom the last thing you will definitely need is some kind of
blade or a knife I'm going to be using this razor blade here because it's very
thin so I can cut through the cane easily and they'll make more sense if
you don't have a razor blade a knife works fine but I recommend using a
thinner knife versus a thicker knife and that will come into play later on add a
few different points in this tutorial we're gonna need to roll out a sheet of
polymer clay so there's a couple options here one you can just roll it up by hand
smooth it out and I've you know I've gotten ok results with that and another
result is to use a pasta machine I personally don't have one but it's very
big in the clay world you can do a quick google search on it and basically you
just feed the clay through there and it makes a smooth sheet the final method is
to use rulers parchment paper and a roller and I will show you this method
later on in the video so if you think you might wanna use this method grab two
rulers wax paper and a some kind of ruler itself alright so to make our
beads today we're going to use two colors but before we get into that I'm
gonna talk about how the beat is made because it will give you a better idea
of how to pick your colors and just kind of what to expect so if you look at this
beam there's all it's blue with all these white flecks all over it and what
you might not be able to talk first is the way this bead is constructed is
there's actually this repeating pattern you can see there's a white in the
center and then for white surrounded I kind of make a circular shape you can
see another one right here here's another one of those here's
another one of those and they're all slightly different but you can possibly
see this is a really good well-defined one but the way these beads are
constructed is you start by rolling a round bead and then from your cane you
cut off these slices and they're gonna end up being these little circles with
this pattern on it or whatever pattern you make and then you put those pattern
thin slices all around your circular bead roll the circular bead and then
you're left with the bead with all these really intricate patterns all over it so
that might still be a little bit confusing but hopefully that gives you a
little bit of an idea of what we're working toward
so you're going to want to colors the two colors I'm using today are going to
be this nice coral and this nice yellow and your cars can be whatever colors you
want to be generally speaking when you make canes and when you do these kinds
of beads the better contrasting of the colors they are the better your butte
will turn out so here we've got a light color and a dark color so they turned
out really nicely so again a darker color and a lighter color I'm going to
use the coral color in the center so the coral will be like the white on this
bead and the yellow will be like the blue so the first step is we want to
take a nice sized piece of the coral and we just want to roll it into a log so
you can just put it on the table and start rolling it of course before you
start working with your clay make sure you condition it you can just knead it
around push it around and condition is especially important when working with
canes because you don't want any air bubbles because that will mess up your
patterns alright so I've got a nice little tubular shape here nice cylinder
just kind of kind of smush off the ends here make them a little bit flatter so
that way I can use as much clay and I'm not going to be super careful about the
ends of my cane just because this pattern isn't particularly detailed so
I'm going to set that off to the side the next thing we want to do is we want
to roll this into a flat sheet that we can cover our coral cane with so if you
want to you can just push it out with your hand a second method uses the two
rulers wax paper and a actual roller and so with this method just going to put
your clay down put your rulers on either side of the clay and then fold the
parchment paper back on twitter' reason for putting it between the parchment
paper is just it that way if it's a roller that you use for cooking then you
don't you know get the pull of clay on it and then you put it between the two
rulers because once we get it rolled down a lot it'll be the thickness of the
ruler so create a nice really even consistency so I'm gonna work on rolling
this out here you may want to kind of wish it out a little bit first before
you start rolling in but you want to end up whatever method you use if you use
this method or if you put it in a pasta machine you want to end up with a nice
even flat piece of clay one other tip is if your clay starts to curl upward like
this take your whole looking strap
and roll it this way to kind of even out those that curl so after a little bit of
working and rolling I've got this nice flat piece of clay here and the edges
aren't particularly neat that's just kind of what happens when you boil your
clay out what we want to do next is we want to roll this sheet around this tube
so you want to make sure that it's wide enough this way and you also want to
make sure that it's long enough that it can roll all the way around and
fortunately I can with this piece you can trim it up a little bit before you
roll it up or you don't have to I'm gonna trim it up just a little bit you
can see you again my ends aren't completely neat but that's okay for this
pattern you can see the clay meets you want to make sure you have any gaps and
just kind of pinch it around get it to lay on there flat and then you're going
to roll this tube some more when you roll this tube you want to watch out for
air bubbles so you want to work from the center out towards the edges and that
will help prevent air bubbles from forming and we want to roll this out
pretty thin because we're going to cut this into smaller pieces in just a bit
you can see I've been rolling for a little bit here my tubes getting longer
I'm gonna keep rolling because I'm gonna cut this tube into five different pieces
so you don't have to make it crazy long but you do want to make it long enough
that can easily be divided into five different pieces alright so now I've got
this nice long tube of yellow and if you look at the ends you can see there's
that coral still in there but what's really cool about the Canes is the way
it works is if we cut through here and then we look at the side we're gonna
have a coral Center with a yellow ring around it and actually that's the next
step that we need to do we need to cut this cane into five roughly equal pieces
so I'm just gonna take my razor again be very careful I'm gonna cut the ends off
just so that what they all stay nice and crisp so you can start to see how it's
gonna look like they're the ends are always gonna be a little goofy looking
but that's okay there's a better look at the shape there
and I'm going to cut this tube into five equal roughly equal pieces so I'm gonna
do four slices so just kind of eyeball it so one
and five you can see they all line up pretty well also you may have noticed
when I cut it kind of smushed the cane with this particular pattern I like it
letting the cane get smushed you can see here how these turned out a more oval
ish look than a roundish luck and I that's what I'm going for with this cane
if you want to avoid the Ovilus luck and end up with a more round look like this
one and your final pattern you can put the cane in the freezer for about 30
minutes and then make sure you're cutting with a very sharp knife that
will give you crisper look but I kind of like the fun whimsical look of this one
so the last thing to do is we're gonna take these little canes and we're gonna
make a bigger cane so I'm just gonna arrange them around one of the center
ones and so I've got them arranged around it you can see it has a lot of
gaps around this one so that's gonna also cause it to round out a little more
so I'm just gonna kind of gently smush it with my fingers here's look at the
other side again that ends aren't gonna line up perfectly and that's okay
just kind of starts mushing it together and why my goal is here is I'm going to
roll this big chunk like we did at the very beginning so I'm just gonna gently
apply pressure in the middle and start working it longer
takes a little bit of time a little bit of practice you know sometimes I roll
canes and they turn out really sloppy in the end so if your cane doesn't turn out
perfectly that's totally fine there's a bit of a learning curve but also you'll
still end up with some kind of cool pattern even if it's not quite the one
we're going for and so at this point you want to roll it very thin and this is
what we're going to use to cover our beads so if you look at this bead here
again you can see I rolled this cane when I made this one to be about that
wide of a circumference so just roll your bead and tell us how detailed or as
large of a pattern as you want I'll give you some other looks these ones actually
in a different pattern but you can see the pattern fairly well it's kind of big
this one I rolled it really small so the pattern is very detailed so whatever
look you're going for roll it as tiny or don't roll it very much at all
for whatever look you're going for all right my cane is finished it is all
rolled out and now it's time for the moment of truth I will point out one
thing I had an air bubble here towards the beginning and I wasn't really able
to get it out and just for the sake of this to try didn't bother with it
normally I would but because there was an air bubble in there it ended up
popping down here so you kind of see it's not as smooth and even so that's
why when you roll you want to be really even and consistent and roll from the
middle out towards the edges to avoid air bubbles but also you'll notice that
even this end that didn't have an air bubble it still looks a little scary but
hopefully the once we cut this cane it'll look really good which actually I
haven't cut this yet at all so I'm a little nervous to be cutting it for the
first time on camera because like I said I'm still somewhat new to making canes
myself so they don't always turn out perfect but here we go so I'm just gonna
gently cut down through here kind of make a little slit and then push it down
and that'll prevent the edges from squishing check it out you can see the
pattern really prettily in there I am very happy with how this turned out so
you can see both ends here and that pattern is gonna run all the way through
this cane so if I keep cutting off slices then I will get these little
shapes so one application of this is I've already rolled some beads here I'm
going to cut a bunch of these really thin
when you cut as I said you know how it kind of smooshes on the one side again
you can put it in the freezer for about 30 minutes and then use a very sharp
knife to cut it and that will prevent it from bending as much but if you don't
want to go through them just if this way see how it's smushed this way I'll cut
it the tall way this time and that'll roll it a quarter turn each time I cut
to just kind of balance out how much it gets pushed down so I'm just going to
cut thin little slivers off of this cane
so now I've cut a few out and I'll come back and cut some more out later but
what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take these little patterns and I'm just gonna
stick them on the B just push a little gentle just push gently so that way they
stick just like this Missal them all against each other all the way around
the bead you know these look like the cinnamon rolls that you get in the can
the pattern just because of the colors I did just completely cover the bead with
as many or as few of the pattern that you want okay nice let me so now it's
gonna look like this and the last thing you need to do is just roll this
together so put on your palms and roll in a circular motion you have to do is
roll your bead until it looks like this and cane pieces they just kind of blend
right in to the ball frame that you originally
made the last thing you'll want to do is take your bamboo skewer and poke a hole
in it to poke a hole I come through on the one side just gently kind of twisted
if you need to they come through until it just barely starts to poke out the
side I'm gonna work it back out come to that little bit on this side where I was
poking out and then come food that way and that's just gonna make sure that you
don't end up with a lopsided bee but it'll keep it's a nice round shape and
I'm just gonna keep rolling us back onto this bee just kind of keep twisting the
raw twisting the bead because I'm going to cook it on here just like this I'll
set it on my tray go bake it downstairs and then I'll show you the finished
results
so check it out these are the finished beads I've taken them out of the oven I
will give you one more tip that when you do take them out of the oven you
probably want to use an oven mitt to slide them off a bamboo skewer pretty
soon because it'll make sure that you're able to get them off easily while the
clay starts a little bit of give and you don't have to end up getting a bead
stuck on the bamboo skewer but I think these beads are super cute I'll give you
another close-up look here right it's very playful fun beads yet also very
polished and elegant and if you use the method I showed you in today's video you
can make some really intricate patterns you don't have to make all your canes be
the same color you can make the center's different colors you can repeat the
process with even more instead of you cutting it into five pieces you could
cut it into seven pieces and you can use this basic method to make a variety of
really cool feeds so I hope that you guys enjoyed this and also go ahead and
remind you if you didn't catch my last polymer clay video I am no polymer clay
expert so if I'm able to make these really cool beads then you definitely
can too you also don't want to miss next week's tutorial Tuesday because it's
gonna build off of this one I've got a really fun project that I think you guys
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videos happy crafting so I'm just gonna throw this out thing you might have
noticed this but in my first time I did a clay video I filmed me putting it in
the oven this time I did not if you are wondering why he's give me a box house
gonna appear someone who you know click the box and you know watch like the last
20 seconds or so I'm like ashamed of myself
and I didn't want it happening again so that's why I didn't have tell me putting
them in the oven this time
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