Miniature Beauty And The Beast Enchanted Rose

00:00:03 –> 00:00:08 Hi Guys! This is Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor and today, I’m gonna do a little

00:00:08 –> 00:00:16 show and tell on a miniature enchanted rose that I made out of polymer clay, that was

00:00:16 –> 00:00:21 inspired by the new Beauty and the Beast movie that’s coming out. You may have heard of the

00:00:21 –> 00:00:27 new movie coming out–Beauty and the Beast. They’re doing a live action version of it.

00:00:27 –> 00:00:34 It’s actually gonna star Emma Watson, who was Hermione in Harry Potter. I got really

00:00:34 –> 00:00:39 excited when I saw the trailer because it looks like it’s gonna be a beautiful movie.

00:00:39 –> 00:00:46 The kids watched it a lot when they were little and if you’ve watched any of my videos, you’ll

00:00:46 –> 00:00:53 know I’m not really a princess-y kind of girl, but I did really love Beauty and the Beast

00:00:53 –> 00:00:59 when the kids watched it because Belle was such a neat character. She had a mind of her

00:00:59 –> 00:01:05 own, she was always off another little world. She always stood up to the beast and she was

00:01:05 –> 00:01:10 just a cute girl and I really admired her. So I liked the movie and when the new movie

00:01:10 –> 00:01:22 came out, and I happened to go into Michael’s and I saw this little tiny miniature domes

00:01:22 –> 00:01:27 by Tim Holtz. They’re called Decorative Domes and they look exactly like the little bell

00:01:27 –> 00:01:34 jars. I thought It would be super fun to see if I could make a miniature, realistic-looking

00:01:34 –> 00:01:39 enchanted rose. I’ve seen a few out there that have been made out of polymer clay that

00:01:39 –> 00:01:44 are tiny, this size but they’re not very realistic-looking. They’re quite chunky and I wanted to see if

00:01:44 –> 00:01:53 I could really make it look real. That’s what I’ve done and it was way harder than I thought.

00:01:53 –> 00:01:58 Just because it’s so tiny, when you’re working with something miniature, it’s important to

00:01:58 –> 00:02:06 think of the scale, not only in the size and the shape of things but also in the thinness

00:02:06 –> 00:02:12 of the petals. That’s where it was quite hard to do. I’m gonna show you what I ended up

00:02:12 –> 00:02:17 making here and I didn’t glue down the lid because I wanted to open it up and show it

00:02:17 –> 00:02:24 to you but I did it just like a little bell jar here, put the rose inside. There are a

00:02:24 –> 00:02:29 little sparkles on the glass. I used some larger glitter for that. I’ll just open it

00:02:29 –> 00:02:37 up and show it to you. It was a very fun project to make but it took me a ton of time. It took

00:02:37 –> 00:02:43 me about three to four hours to actually make this little rose. It was because of the tiny

00:02:43 –> 00:02:51 little petals and here, I’ll get a little pointer here. Even the little tiny things–look

00:02:51 –> 00:03:05 at this little tiny thorn and just the little tiny leaf, and all the little calyxes underneath.

00:03:05 –> 00:03:15 The petals are super thin and they were fun to make. The way I did it was I took the little

00:03:15 –> 00:03:22 dome here and I did a sketch of it first. I thought it was the only way I can get the

00:03:22 –> 00:03:29 scale right. So I just traced around on a piece of paper the size of the dome. Then

00:03:29 –> 00:03:38 I used some florist wire, it’s a thin, gauge wire that’s kind of wrapped in a green thread.

00:03:38 –> 00:03:43 I used that and bent it to the shape of the rose, I figured it was about the only way

00:03:43 –> 00:03:52 I was going to be able to get something strong to mount to the bottom of the little plate

00:03:52 –> 00:04:00 for the bottom of this little bell jar here. I bent it to the correct shape and then started

00:04:00 –> 00:04:09 building the rose on to there. The rose was made out of translucent clay. I used some

00:04:09 –> 00:04:14 Premo white translucent and I used the white rather than the regular translucent because

00:04:14 –> 00:04:20 it’s whiter and it doesn’t turn yellow. The regular translucent is a little bit more yellow.

00:04:20 –> 00:04:28 Then I used some Pinata Inks, alcohol inks to tint some polymer clay. I’ve shown that

00:04:28 –> 00:04:35 before–how you can tint translucent clay with it. So I made this super, super fine

00:04:35 –> 00:04:47 sheet of translucent and then I cut out tiny little circles using a drinking straw actually.

00:04:47 –> 00:05:08 That is the base of each petal, so I take each tiny petal and pick it up and use that as each petal

00:05:08 –> 00:05:14 for the rose but if I just cut it like that and use it as is, the edges are still too

00:05:14 –> 00:05:20 thick believe it or not. I want it to look delicate and realistic so I used the ball

00:05:20 –> 00:05:30 tool and just really stretched out those edges and got them really ruffled, built each little

00:05:30 –> 00:05:39 petals, stretch it out and built it under this tiny little rose. Then the green calyx

00:05:39 –> 00:05:45 stuff was made with white translucent clay tinted with a little big of green alcohol

00:05:45 –> 00:05:54 Pinata Ink and then that, I built up underneath. Each stage, because it’s so delicate, I had

00:05:54 –> 00:06:00 to bake each stage to start off with just with the heat gun to kind of get it heat-set

00:06:00 –> 00:06:06 so that I wouldn’t crush each little area as I was trying to add it on. My fingers–I

00:06:06 –> 00:06:16 have these big, thick fingers and it’s tricky to build something like that tiny without

00:06:16 –> 00:06:23 wrecking it. So I did heat-set it with a heat gun after each layer of adding different petals

00:06:23 –> 00:06:32 and different things. The stem itself, I used some liquid polymer clay and mixed it with

00:06:32 –> 00:06:38 the alcohol ink and painted it over the wire, so it gives something to hold on to. Also,

00:06:38 –> 00:06:45 it acted as a glue to stick on the world’s tiniest little thorn. I think that was probably

00:06:45 –> 00:06:51 the hardest part to do there–getting that thorn small enough and then sticking that

00:06:51 –> 00:07:01 on that liquid clay. The little leaf here was done, I kind of made a little tiny leaf

00:07:01 –> 00:07:07 and baked it over the side of one of my little wooden tools. Here, I’ll grab that. I used

00:07:07 –> 00:07:12 the heat gun and baked that little leaf that was flopped over the edge with a heat gun

00:07:12 –> 00:07:21 and then held on to that and stuck it on some liquid glue. I used a little bit of gold liquid

00:07:21 –> 00:07:28 polymer clay in the bottom here so that I’d have a base to attach the wire to. Then the

00:07:28 –> 00:07:35 whole thing got baked for an hour. There’s tiny little petals in there, little bits of

00:07:35 –> 00:07:44 glitter, a little bit more alcohol ink for added shading but it was quite tricky. Like

00:07:44 –> 00:07:50 I said, it took about four hours to build but I loved it. It was one of those projects

00:07:50 –> 00:07:57 that was super fun to do. I think it would make a great little prop in a doll house,

00:07:57 –> 00:08:01 a great necklace ’cause this one happens to have a little hole on the top of it. It will

00:08:01 –> 00:08:07 make a great charm but I haven’t quite decided whether or not I’ll do a tutorial because

00:08:07 –> 00:08:11 it’s quite a bit tricky to do and probably, a little bit advanced. But if there’s enough

00:08:11 –> 00:08:18 interest, I may just do that. So, I hope you enjoyed checking that out. I wanna make up

00:08:18 –> 00:08:22 some more samples of it and I wanna tweak some of the colors and try making it in a

00:08:22 –> 00:08:29 little bit larger dome. I think one about this size would make a wonderful cake topper

00:08:29 –> 00:08:36 for wedding or a wedding shower, something like that ’cause it’s such a romantic story.

00:08:36 –> 00:08:40 I’m really looking forward to when the movie comes out, it looks like it’s going to be

00:08:40 –> 00:08:45 beautiful and I think a lot of people are gonna enjoy that. I think it’s gonna be at

00:08:45 –> 00:08:55 March 2017. It’s a bit of a ways away but it’s something to look forward to. So we’ll

00:08:55 –> 00:09:02 see you next time and do let us know if you liked this video and if you got any suggestions,

00:09:02 –> 00:09:08 ideas for future tutorials, products you’d like me to test, anything you haven’t seen

00:09:08 –> 00:09:12 already in the videos that we’ve made and you would like me to make a video on it, make

00:09:12 –> 00:09:17 sure to leave those in the comment section below. Alright, so we’ll see you next time

00:09:17 –> 00:09:18 and bye for now!

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