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Make Your Own Push Molds

DIY Push Molds

You can use them to duplicate beads or make your own flat backs from your beads and pendants.

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This is what you need
Take a piece of your modelling clay which is big enough for your bead or pendant to make a mold out of it.

Flatten it and cover it with Baby Powder, so you can take your item later easier out of the clay.
Push your item carefully in the modelling clay.

Take your item carefully out of the modelling clay and let the clay dry.
Take a piece of polymer clay which fits in your mold and knead it so that is easy to use.
Use a little bit of the baby powder for the mold, so you can take the polymer clay easier out of it.
Push the polymer clay in the mold.
Take your polymer clay carefully out of the mold.
Cut the edges and make it a little bit even.
Ready is it!!!

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skettio's

Jun 20, 2008 4:41pm

thats realy freakin awsome
it definatly solves me problem of never having enough beads for something >3

Kalli

Jun 20, 2008 5:36pm

Very, very nice. I like it.

PorcelinaZero

Jun 20, 2008 6:25pm

Thank you very much!!!
I had the same problem, that i never had enough beads and it's much cheaper ;)

opposites-girl

Jun 20, 2008 9:54pm

WOW That looks so cool! thanks :)

Cat Morley

Jun 22, 2008 11:52am

That's really clever. Did the white clay you used for the mold stay flexible when it dried?

No, it's not flexible after it's dried. The flexible modelling clay make not so good molds and results, because when you push the polymer clay in the mold it's not so dimensionally stable (hope, that's the right word?).