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Hi this is Becky Nunn with Nunn Design
I'm the guest designer today with Beadaholique.com. This is a part 2
video series called Casting A Bezel
in the first video we created a mold
to fit the bezel. In this video
learn how to cast and create sculpted
images inside the different bezels
what you need for this video are some bezels
we have the Nunn Design Patera line
and you need some crystal clay and I'm working with the white
I've already pinched off two
equal sized balls of the clay and blend it in together
and now my clay is activated and I'm ready to go
in part 1 we created
a mold to fit into a bezel and
I had a different bezel for this particular one but it has the same
circle dimension. It has a different bail
but I'll still be able to work with this one here
because it is the same dimensions. So this is how you can use the same mold
on various bezels. So now that I have already mixed my clay
I'm going to pinch off a small bit because this bezel it doesn't take that much clay
go ahead and
make a nice circle and pat it down
into the bezel. I'm just using my fingertips
to squeeze it over to the side edges and I'm slightly pulling
over. And on this bezel
I don't have any intricate designs on the sides
but some of the other bezel do so these are good
for starter projects. You don't have to worry about getting
that Clay over into the side edges. Once I have a nice
mound, pat it into the bezel
the next step is creating the impression
of this sculpted image on the bezel
so what you do
is place it down and I'm looking to make sure that I have it
right on that circumference
and my loop on top
is right where my other bail was. Then I pick it up
and I'm using my fingers from the back
and on the sides to create that impression
into the clay and how did we do
there's an impression
now if we didn't like that we could just pat down again
and just keep on going until we got something that we really liked
I had a little bit of the
side there. I'm just slightly patting that down
and making that smooth and now we have our sculpted image
in our bezel and this is part 2
of our four part series. This is Becky Nunn of
Nunn Design for Beadaholique.com
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