Mont Bleu Glass Nail Files Polymer Clay Project Idea

00:00:03 –> 00:00:08 Hi guys, its Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor, and today’s PcT Product Demo, I’m gonna

00:00:08 –> 00:00:15 do a review of Mont Bleu Glass Nail Files, and I’m gonna share with you a cool idea on

00:00:15 –> 00:00:23 how to make Polymer Clay covered glass nail files, so this is kind of a combo video.

00:00:23 –> 00:00:29 And for a long time, I wanted to make Polymer Clay covered nail files, glass nail files

00:00:29 –> 00:00:35 are the perfect medium for putting Polymer Clay on and they make a really, really beautiful

00:00:35 –> 00:00:38 gift, and you can do them in any kind of style.

00:00:38 –> 00:00:44 So when Mont Bleu offered to send me some samples of their glass nail files, I was really

00:00:44 –> 00:00:50 excited about it, ‘cause finally I would get a chance to try Polymer Clay on it, and

00:00:50 –> 00:00:55 so then they sent me these absolutely stunning ones, and I felt a little guilty about covering

00:00:55 –> 00:01:02 up the crystals with the Polymer Clay, but I did do one sample of it, but I’ll explain

00:01:02 –> 00:01:07 the process of covering a glass nail file in a bit.

00:01:07 –> 00:01:14 So here are the nail files from Mont Bleu, they are absolutely beautiful, they are a

00:01:14 –> 00:01:21 company that comes out of the city of Prague in the Czech Republic, and they put this post

00:01:21 –> 00:01:29 card in there of Prague which is a nice touch and you can see their beautiful city, and

00:01:29 –> 00:01:38 the nail files that they make are really nice quality, they’ve got, these ones here are

00:01:38 –> 00:01:43 one of their special ones, they’ve got lots and lots of different designs, and some plain

00:01:43 –> 00:01:48 ones which would be more suited for covering in Polymer Clay, but they have them in several

00:01:48 –> 00:01:51 sizes and styles.

00:01:51 –> 00:02:01 Now these ones have a sticker on there that is the authenticity of…they have real Swarovski

00:02:01 –> 00:02:07 crystals on here, and they put them all on there, they’re hand decorated with the crystals.

00:02:07 –> 00:02:13 They have some with lots of different colors, some that are hand painted, some that are

00:02:13 –> 00:02:20 plain like I was saying, and lots of different sizes… or these three sizes anyways.

00:02:20 –> 00:02:26 And this one here is the large one and it is about just over…oh about 7 1/2 inches

00:02:26 –> 00:02:31 long, it’s a beautiful size.

00:02:31 –> 00:02:40 The medium one here has a pointed tip on it, and it is about just over 5 inches, about

00:02:40 –> 00:02:45 5 1/4 inches, and then the small one here, which also has a pointed tip for cleaning

00:02:45 –> 00:02:52 under your nails and things with it, that one is about 3 1/2 inches, and they have these

00:02:52 –> 00:02:56 nice little packages that they slide into to protect them, so if you put them in your

00:02:56 –> 00:03:00 purse and whatever, they’re protected.

00:03:00 –> 00:03:09 But the beautiful thing about glass nail files is their surface, now they do…

00:03:09 –> 00:03:14 I don’t know how they get this etched surface on there, whether it’s chemical or like with

00:03:14 –> 00:03:20 sand blasting or whatever they do but it has an etched surface to it, so when you file

00:03:20 –> 00:03:24 your nails with it…and ignore my nails please, I’ve been doing a lot of gardening and stuff,

00:03:24 –> 00:03:28 so they’re kinda in rough shape, but when you file your nails with it, it has a really

00:03:28 –> 00:03:33 smooth surface to it, it doesn’t have the grains in it, like a metal nail file will

00:03:33 –> 00:03:40 have, or even like a diamond nail file.

00:03:40 –> 00:03:44 And the nice thing about glass is that you can sterilize them, so if you’re using them

00:03:44 –> 00:03:50 in like a commercial situation or different people are using the nail files, you can wash

00:03:50 –> 00:03:55 them and sterilize them with rubbing alcohol or however you wanna do that.

00:03:55 –> 00:03:59 But glass also is a great one for covering in Polymer Clay, and you can see on places

00:03:59 –> 00:04:07 like Etsy, where people are selling their handmade Polymer Clay glass files and they

00:04:07 –> 00:04:12 are really beautiful, you can do them in any style you like.

00:04:12 –> 00:04:15 This one I decided to do in…

00:04:15 –> 00:04:22 I covered it with one of the Mod canes that we made a little while ago in a video, I’ll

00:04:22 –> 00:04:28 just show you some samples of the slices here, and this particular cane was made with some

00:04:28 –> 00:04:30 Soufflé clay…

00:04:30 –> 00:04:38 Sculpey Soufflé Clay, and it was a great style to put on these nail files.

00:04:38 –> 00:04:45 Now, they have…I’ve got the site over here for you…oh, and when you…if you do check

00:04:45 –> 00:04:52 out their site, their site is design-glassware.com, but we’re gonna have a coupon code for 20%

00:04:52 –> 00:04:59 off, so that will be on our website…on our blog at polymerclaytutor.com, so you’ll wanna

00:04:59 –> 00:05:05 check that out if you’re interested in buying these, but like I said, they have some plain

00:05:05 –> 00:05:12 ones in clear, they also have different colors and all kinds of different styles, you can

00:05:12 –> 00:05:16 get them with crystals and lots of things, so you’ll wanna check that out.

00:05:16 –> 00:05:24 But their prices are really good, it’s in Euros, and they do ship from the Czech Republic,

00:05:24 –> 00:05:33 but right now…so the small nail file is about 4 dollars, or 4 Euros which currently

00:05:33 –> 00:05:39 for American prices that’s just over $4 and Canadian prices that’s just over $5, so that’s

00:05:39 –> 00:05:42 a very good price.

00:05:42 –> 00:05:48 And if you do decide to cover them in Polymer Clay, it is really quite easy to do.

00:05:48 –> 00:05:56 Now, whenever you cover anything glass in Polymer Clay, you want to make sure that the

00:05:56 –> 00:06:03 glass is going to be able to be oven safe, so you wanna test it first, so what I did

00:06:03 –> 00:06:11 was I took one of the…I had two of these in this size here, I took this and put it

00:06:11 –> 00:06:16 into the oven… you always wanna start with a cold oven first, because you don’t wanna

00:06:16 –> 00:06:26 thermal shock your glass, so I put it in the oven, cold first, and put it… let the temperature

00:06:26 –> 00:06:30 rise up to the temperature I was gonna be baking the Polymer Clay at, and Soufflé Clay

00:06:30 –> 00:06:37 bakes at 275F which is the same as Premo!, so I let it get up to the 275F, let it sit

00:06:37 –> 00:06:41 there for about 15 minutes, and then let it cool down.

00:06:41 –> 00:06:46 That way I could see if it was gonna be able to handle the heat, you always want to let

00:06:46 –> 00:06:51 glass cool down right down till it’s cold, you don’t wanna move it so you leave it in

00:06:51 –> 00:06:55 the oven, turn the oven off and then let it cool down before touching it so that you’re

00:06:55 –> 00:06:59 not letting it break or shocking it.

00:06:59 –> 00:07:05 So once I tested it to make sure it could handle the heat…oh, and I actually peeled

00:07:05 –> 00:07:10 off the little sticker first before I did that, I don’t know if the plain ones…the

00:07:10 –> 00:07:15 plain ones probably don’t have a sticker on there, that’s just to show the authenticity

00:07:15 –> 00:07:22 for these crystals, but…so, and also you wouldn’t be covering up these beautiful crystals

00:07:22 –> 00:07:25 if you bought the plain ones, or even the painted ones.

00:07:25 –> 00:07:31 But, what I did next was…because they had the crystals on there, I built up a little

00:07:31 –> 00:07:37 bit of a layer first, but I covered it in scrap Polymer Clay first, so that I could

00:07:37 –> 00:07:44 have a nice base and shape it properly before I put my canes on it.

00:07:44 –> 00:07:51 So once I wrapped it in the scrap Polymer Clay, I trimmed it off and I put it in the

00:07:51 –> 00:07:58 oven and baked it for about 30 minutes to get a good solid base, same rule applies,

00:07:58 –> 00:08:03 so I put it in the oven cold, let it get full temperature, baked it for 30 minutes and then

00:08:03 –> 00:08:06 let it cool down.

00:08:06 –> 00:08:10 Then after I brought it out of the oven… pretend this is in a muddy color ‘cause

00:08:10 –> 00:08:15 that’s what I used, some scrap clay, I sanded it and got a nice shape to it, so that I would

00:08:15 –> 00:08:19 have a good base for putting my cane slices on.

00:08:19 –> 00:08:25 And this is a good way to go about it, because when you…whenever you put a handle on something,

00:08:25 –> 00:08:29 if you’ve got a base that’s baked on it first and you’ve shaped it first, then it’s a

00:08:29 –> 00:08:35 lot easier to put your cane slices on, if you were to just put raw clay and then your

00:08:35 –> 00:08:41 cane slices, it would be difficult to get a really nice shape without doing a lot of

00:08:41 –> 00:08:45 sanding and possibly removing your cane slice.

00:08:45 –> 00:08:52 So once my base was baked, I rubbed the base with a little bit of Sculpey Bake & Bond and

00:08:52 –> 00:08:58 I’ve talked about this before, but you just… it’s like liquid Sculpey, you could use the

00:08:58 –> 00:09:02 liquid Sculpey, but the Bake & Bond has some little fibers in it or something that makes

00:09:02 –> 00:09:07 it a little bit more like a glue and it works beautifully between baked clay and raw clay,

00:09:07 –> 00:09:14 so I rubbed it down with the…the baked base with the Bake & Bond, and then I put the slices

00:09:14 –> 00:09:19 of the Mod cane on there, and you can see here’s some slices here.

00:09:19 –> 00:09:26 Whenever I used a cane slice for a project or a veneer or anything like that, I make

00:09:26 –> 00:09:33 sure that the slice is quite thick, around at least a millimeter or two, not paper thin,

00:09:33 –> 00:09:40 because that gives me a lot more room for sanding later, if you make super, super thin

00:09:40 –> 00:09:45 slices, a lot of people try to get as much mileage out of their cane as possible, but

00:09:45 –> 00:09:50 then you run into the trouble of not being able to sand it back, and if you’ve got a

00:09:50 –> 00:09:55 thick slice like that, you can sand it back without worrying about wearing right through

00:09:55 –> 00:09:56 it.

00:09:56 –> 00:10:04 So I wrapped it around the base, I used all my slices, connected them up, trimmed it off…and

00:10:04 –> 00:10:10 it was a little tricky in these corners here, but I did the best I could there, and then

00:10:10 –> 00:10:16 wrapped it and baked it again, and this time I baked it for a full hour just to make sure

00:10:16 –> 00:10:22 that this was really tough, because you’re gonna be using this as a utilitarian type

00:10:22 –> 00:10:28 thing you wanna make sure that it is really tough and not gonna chip or break on you,

00:10:28 –> 00:10:36 so…the Polymer I mean, so I baked it, you know, from cold yet again, and baked it, but

00:10:36 –> 00:10:43 this time I made sure to bake it within the pan with a lid on it, so that the colors of

00:10:43 –> 00:10:51 the cane weren’t getting discolored or anything, they were protected from the heat of the elements…and

00:10:51 –> 00:10:56 I always bake it that way, but I just thought I’d mention that.

00:10:56 –> 00:11:03 And then we sanded and buffed it afterwards, now Soufflé Clay has kind of a matte suede

00:11:03 –> 00:11:09 type finish to it, so it doesn’t get a high shine if you sand and buff it but it really

00:11:09 –> 00:11:11 has a beautiful feel to it.

00:11:11 –> 00:11:17 So I think that what I’m gonna wanna do is get myself a bunch of the plain ones, or I

00:11:17 –> 00:11:18 could go…

00:11:18 –> 00:11:22 I do like the… with the little bit of color there, but the plain ones are even a better

00:11:22 –> 00:11:28 deal, get a bunch of them and start maybe make a tutorial on doing some more… like

00:11:28 –> 00:11:34 a proper in-depth tutorial, and with covering them in Polymer Clay.

00:11:34 –> 00:11:40 So I hope you enjoyed that, like I said, if you’re interested in picking up some of these

00:11:40 –> 00:11:46 glass nail files, the quality is beautiful, they do a beautiful job, they sent them in

00:11:46 –> 00:11:52 a nice packaging, whether you get the plain ones or the fancy ones, they’re beautiful.

00:11:52 –> 00:12:02 And you’ll wanna go to our site at www.polymerclaytutor.com to get the coupon code for your 20% off.

00:12:02 –> 00:12:11 And so, I hope you liked that, and that you got some neat ideas from it, if you did like

00:12:11 –> 00:12:12 that, let us know.

00:12:12 –> 00:12:17 And also, we’ve got lots and lots and lots of videos on lots of different subjects to

00:12:17 –> 00:12:22 do with Polymer Clay, so make sure to check through them and see if we’ve got the answers

00:12:22 –> 00:12:27 that you are looking for, for working with Polymer Clay, and if not, leave a suggestion

00:12:27 –> 00:12:32 in the comment section below and maybe we can make a video for you in the future, alright?So

00:12:32 –> 00:12:35 we’ll see you next time and bye for now.

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