Cynthia Tinapple Polymer Clay Extruder Disks

00:00:03 –> 00:00:07 Hi guys, its Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor, and today’s PcT Product Demo, we’re

00:00:07 –> 00:00:11 talking about Cynthia Tinapple’s extruder disks.

00:00:11 –> 00:00:19 Now, Cynthia Tinapple is quite a well-known Polymer clay artist, and blogger, and author,

00:00:19 –> 00:00:28 she has a blog called Polymerclaydaily.com and she has come up with her own designs for

00:00:28 –> 00:00:30 using in an extruder.

00:00:30 –> 00:00:36 Now I’ve got her set here and it’s quite cool, I’ll show you all the different things

00:00:36 –> 00:00:38 we can do with it.

00:00:38 –> 00:00:47 It is a steel set of dies, these dies pop out of this disk here, and I’ve used some

00:00:47 –> 00:00:52 of them already, and I’ll just pop out another one, you just kind of twist it back and forth

00:00:52 –> 00:00:57 and you pop it out of the disk and then use it in your extruder, now, these ones will

00:00:57 –> 00:01:01 fit into most of the extruders that are out there right now.

00:01:01 –> 00:01:07 It’ll work in the Makins and in the Walnut Hollow extruders that I just showed you the

00:01:07 –> 00:01:16 other day, and they’ve got some unique designs to them, they probably show in here the best.

00:01:16 –> 00:01:21 The first one that I’m gonna show you is the Polka Dot one, it comes in two parts like

00:01:21 –> 00:01:28 this, you’ve got the base of the Polka Dot, and then the Dot itself, and here’s what

00:01:28 –> 00:01:32 it looks like here when it’s been extruded out and pieced together.

00:01:32 –> 00:01:41 I used this Polka Dot extrusions for my new cane called the Happy Camper cane, and you

00:01:41 –> 00:01:45 can see the Polka Dots were used in this top part of this cane.

00:01:45 –> 00:01:55 And there’s several other designs as well, you may have seen in one of my Rainbow Skinner…or

00:01:55 –> 00:02:01 Teardrop blend videos…I used…I have these Rainbow flower beads and I’ve got a big

00:02:01 –> 00:02:06 pile of them here on the table and I’m gonna show you actually how to make those in a second,

00:02:06 –> 00:02:14 but I actually used her flower disk here, and it’s really quite cool.

00:02:14 –> 00:02:19 You can…I’ve made a bunch of different little projects here with…using those extrusions

00:02:19 –> 00:02:26 of the little flowers, I used them on this Happy Camper bracelet, I’ve used them kinda

00:02:26 –> 00:02:31 sliced and stacked like this…they look a little bit like a flower lei, I think, when

00:02:31 –> 00:02:36 they’re used like this on this pair of earrings, and then I used a little Rainbow one here

00:02:36 –> 00:02:38 on this necklace.

00:02:38 –> 00:02:46 And there are several other designs, there’s one called Moroccan tile, and I’ve done

00:02:46 –> 00:02:52 it here in some sort of coppery type colors and what’s neat about this particular disk

00:02:52 –> 00:02:59 is that the…all the pieces sorta stick together quite well, they kinda lock together, and

00:02:59 –> 00:03:06 all the little notches from the one spot notch together, and you can get quite a detailed

00:03:06 –> 00:03:12 cane just by extruding it out of the extruder.

00:03:12 –> 00:03:18 Also she’s got a 5-petal blossom cane here, I’ve a long extrusion here and some other

00:03:18 –> 00:03:22 baked pieces here…I also did them in the Rainbow.

00:03:22 –> 00:03:29 I haven’t worked with the Sunray one yet, or the little Basic Square, this Basic Square

00:03:29 –> 00:03:35 can be used for some of the…like the little gingham canes and the pixilated canes, that

00:03:35 –> 00:03:40 kind of thing and it’s perfect ‘cause it’s so tiny, you can get a lot of detail

00:03:40 –> 00:03:44 in without having to use much clay.

00:03:44 –> 00:03:51 Now, let me just show you…I did promise I would show you how to use these disks, I’m

00:03:51 –> 00:03:57 gonna use the Flower cane (*disk) and a section of the Rainbow Teardrop blend that we made

00:03:57 –> 00:04:01 in a previous video, and what I’m gonna do is…I’m just going to…

00:04:01 –> 00:04:05 I’ve got the blend going up and down in this direction and I’m just gonna roll it

00:04:05 –> 00:04:14 up into a tight little log, and you want the log to be skinny enough to fit inside your

00:04:14 –> 00:04:18 extruder So, I’m just going to put…

00:04:18 –> 00:04:28 I’ve got my Makins extruder attached to my Walnut Hollow vise…you could use either

00:04:28 –> 00:04:33 extruder it doesn’t matter, and I’m just going to pop it in.

00:04:33 –> 00:04:41 If I pop it in this way, the dark end will stretch over the outside edge, if I do the

00:04:41 –> 00:04:45 lighter end, that color will stretch over, so it’ll have a different look either way…doesn’t

00:04:45 –> 00:04:51 matter too much, just make sure it’s all compact, no air pockets and we’ll pop that

00:04:51 –> 00:05:02 in the extruder, and then we will put in the little Flower disk inside the cap of the extruder

00:05:02 –> 00:05:07 and extrude away.

00:05:07 –> 00:05:16 Now, you can make these nice long snakes of the flowers, this is quite detailed with really

00:05:16 –> 00:05:21 neat little petals, as you see it starts to come out, and…

00:05:21 –> 00:05:28 I mean it would be very difficult to make this any other way than with the extruder.

00:05:28 –> 00:05:38 Now, I found that slicing the cane was a little bit tricky… if it was really, really thin,

00:05:38 –> 00:05:45 on these petalled canes, and I’ll explain that in a second, what happens is those little

00:05:45 –> 00:05:53 petals will fold over a little bit, so I’m just gonna show you what I’ll do here…do

00:05:53 –> 00:05:58 the full length, and as you can see, it’s shifting colors a bit and it’s so cool.

00:05:58 –> 00:06:07 We’ll just cut into it, now the first little part will always be solid color, that’s

00:06:07 –> 00:06:15 the way it works when you extrude a Skinner blend, but as you start to cut through it,

00:06:15 –> 00:06:21 the colors start to shift a little, and they shift more and more as you go through, see

00:06:21 –> 00:06:23 that?

00:06:23 –> 00:06:30 And you get these really neat, different colored Rainbow petals… little flowers.

00:06:30 –> 00:06:37 Now like I said if you were to cut this, it’s a little hard to cut them super thin, I find,

00:06:37 –> 00:06:46 when they’re raw, they squish up a little bit, but what I like to do is take this extruded

00:06:46 –> 00:06:51 section, and do it in…you know, fairly small sections like this, and then take a needle

00:06:51 –> 00:07:03 tool and pierce a hole down the center, and you start from one end and then do the same

00:07:03 –> 00:07:12 from the other end so that they match up, then you have either a large flower bead,

00:07:12 –> 00:07:18 or what you can do is you can pop this into the oven on the bead rack or it can stand

00:07:18 –> 00:07:24 on its end, you bake that and then you slice it after it has been baked.

00:07:24 –> 00:07:29 So let me just grab a section here, I’ve got some Flower petals here that have been

00:07:29 –> 00:07:35 baked, and if you just take a razor blade or something sharp, you can actually cut them

00:07:35 –> 00:07:40 quite thin, it’s easier to cut them when they’re warm from the oven, but I’ll cut

00:07:40 –> 00:07:48 a little bit thicker piece here and even though it’s cold, you can still cut it, and there

00:07:48 –> 00:07:55 you have a little flower bead, already with a hole in the center and it’s all ready

00:07:55 –> 00:07:56 to go.

00:07:56 –> 00:08:01 Now, if you do them in the Rainbow colors…let me just show you how cool they end up looking,

00:08:01 –> 00:08:10 every slice is slightly different, and they’re almost like little sequins, you can use them

00:08:10 –> 00:08:14 like I showed you on the bracelet, you could even sew them on to little projects if you

00:08:14 –> 00:08:20 want, but I just think they are the funkiest and the neatest way to use that flower disk.

00:08:20 –> 00:08:24 I think there’s lots of different designs and cool things that you can do with this

00:08:24 –> 00:08:28 set, and I think you would really enjoy it.

00:08:28 –> 00:08:37 So, if you like this video, let me know, and if you’ve got any suggestions or maybe some

00:08:37 –> 00:08:43 designs that you’d like to see shown in future disk sets like this, maybe you can

00:08:43 –> 00:08:48 give Cynthia some ideas there, or you can give me ideas on what you’d like to see

00:08:48 –> 00:08:51 demonstrated in a future video, alright.?

00:08:51 –> 00:08:53 So we’ll see you next time and bye for now.

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