Mirror Image Scrap Cane Natasha Beads

00:00:03 –> 00:00:07 Hi guys, its Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor, and today I’m gonna show you how you

00:00:07 –> 00:00:15 can use up your old scrap canes for making cool Natasha Beads.So, lots of times people

00:00:15 –> 00:00:20 have concern about wasting their cane ends, like you’ve made a Polymer Clay cane like

00:00:20 –> 00:00:28 this neat little Easter Lily Cane, and when you’ve reduced it down sometimes…depending

00:00:28 –> 00:00:33 on how good you are at reducing, you can end up with some scrap clay at the end.Well, you

00:00:33 –> 00:00:39 can take these neat pieces here, and turn them into great looking beads and pendants

00:00:39 –> 00:00:47 and cool things, let me just show you some samples.Now, when I was designing this Easter

00:00:47 –> 00:00:51 Lily Cane, I had a bunch of little sample canes that I was trying to figure out the

00:00:51 –> 00:00:56 colors and the exact design, so the canes didn’t turn out how I wanted them to, so I

00:00:56 –> 00:01:03 had different ones left over, and that’s where I made these Natasha beads.And Natasha beads

00:01:03 –> 00:01:05 are a name…

00:01:05 –> 00:01:09 I’m assuming a woman named Natasha… though I never have found her last name out, came

00:01:09 –> 00:01:16 up with this technique, but it has sort of a mirror image look to it, or an ink blot

00:01:16 –> 00:01:25 look, or Rorschach I think it’s called, anyways, it’s quite a cool look where you’ve got a

00:01:25 –> 00:01:33 mirror image on all the sides of the bead.This one was made with a scrap cane, same with

00:01:33 –> 00:01:39 this one, one of my Easter Lily Canes that didn’t quite work out.

00:01:39 –> 00:01:44 Here’s another one here using little bit different colors, and they’re… it’s just… this

00:01:44 –> 00:01:48 one’s very graphic looking, and that’s a neat thing about using a cane rather than just

00:01:48 –> 00:01:52 scrap clay like a lot of people make their Natasha beads with.

00:01:52 –> 00:01:57 And when you use a cane, you can get things like these lines in here that are consistent

00:01:57 –> 00:02:00 and quite cool looking.

00:02:00 –> 00:02:07 Here’s one that I was really excited about when I cut it open, it has a little beautiful

00:02:07 –> 00:02:13 woman in the center of it, I mean I have never seen it turn out this much like a woman, it’s

00:02:13 –> 00:02:18 got…she’s got hair and arms and a dress and if you look carefully, you can even see

00:02:18 –> 00:02:26 little wings on either side, so it’s really magical when you cut open these samples, I’ll

00:02:26 –> 00:02:32 show you how to do it in a second, but it’s…what you end up with can very magical looking.

00:02:32 –> 00:02:40 Now these 3 down here are from the cane ends of the Easter lilies that did work out, so

00:02:40 –> 00:02:47 you can see how beautiful and different these pendants and things have turned out, this

00:02:47 –> 00:02:55 one here, I mean it looks to me like a Water Lily painting or something, it’s very cool.

00:02:55 –> 00:03:02 And then here’s another one here with…similar to the other one, so it’s got all the colors

00:03:02 –> 00:03:04 that were in the cane.

00:03:04 –> 00:03:09 Now, I’m not gonna go through a full tutorial here, but I am gonna show you how these are

00:03:09 –> 00:03:13 made and how you can use up your scrap canes.

00:03:13 –> 00:03:20 Now I’m just gonna take this scrap of Easter lily, and I’m just going to kinda crush it

00:03:20 –> 00:03:29 down till I have more of a…just a log shape, and it’s getting kinda stiff, it’s been here

00:03:29 –> 00:03:36 sitting in the studio for a few weeks, and I’m just gonna warm it up and roll it out

00:03:36 –> 00:03:41 into a log.

00:03:41 –> 00:03:46 Now, like I said, some people like to use just chopped up clay, and you can get some

00:03:46 –> 00:03:53 really cool looks, but the neat thing about when you use a cane end, is that this pattern

00:03:53 –> 00:04:00 is going all the way through to the end, so when you do this technique, it can be quite

00:04:00 –> 00:04:01 neat looking.

00:04:01 –> 00:04:07 Alright, so what we’re gonna do now is just start twisting the cane.

00:04:07 –> 00:04:13 And right now, you can’t see what’s happening on the inside of it too much, we’re just gonna

00:04:13 –> 00:04:20 twist it and then kinda shorten it back up and twist it some more, and we’re just kinda

00:04:20 –> 00:04:26 twisting up those insides of that cane.

00:04:26 –> 00:04:31 And I’m gonna roll it on the surface here, kinda smooth it out, and maybe twist it some

00:04:31 –> 00:04:39 more, the more twisting you do, the finer the little lines will be and the more patterning

00:04:39 –> 00:04:40 it will get.

00:04:40 –> 00:04:46 And the more you kinda squish it and shorten it, the more it will sorta distort the inside,

00:04:46 –> 00:04:52 so there’s no set rules, there’s no set way of going about this.

00:04:52 –> 00:04:58 One thing I like to do is to get this sort of pointed look to it, you can do that by

00:04:58 –> 00:05:07 just turning this into a bit of a teardrop shape by just rubbing the ends together here,

00:05:07 –> 00:05:14 and we have a triangular piece, and I like to do that before I cut it.

00:05:14 –> 00:05:24 Also, I like to flatten it out a bit on all 4 sides, so I get a bit of a pyramid shape

00:05:24 –> 00:05:40 to it, so I’m just gonna keep going until I have these in a relatively pyramid shape,

00:05:40 –> 00:05:45 and when we cut into this, it’s just really cool what happens.

00:05:45 –> 00:05:52 I’m going to cut right down as very best I can, right down the center, so excuse my head

00:05:52 –> 00:06:00 here a sec while I try to get in here, I’m gonna cut right down the center, and then

00:06:00 –> 00:06:07 when you split it open…oh isn’t this so cool, you need to match up these sides very

00:06:07 –> 00:06:15 perfectly, as perfectly as you can, and you get this wonderful, wonderful pattern.

00:06:15 –> 00:06:22 And when you have used a cane, sometimes you get to see…like this one has quite a flowery

00:06:22 –> 00:06:25 look to it, because it was a flower on the inside of that cane.

00:06:25 –> 00:06:32 If you were to use a different type of pattern, say a checker board cane or some other type

00:06:32 –> 00:06:36 of pattern, you would see repeats of those types of patterns in there and you would get

00:06:36 –> 00:06:39 some very, very wonderful looks.

00:06:39 –> 00:06:45 You can continue on to cut it 2 more times, I’ll show you…you cut down the center of

00:06:45 –> 00:06:51 this side, so I’d probably use that as a pendant or something like that, but I can also cut

00:06:51 –> 00:07:04 down the center of this one…I’ll try not to get my head in the way, and if you open

00:07:04 –> 00:07:13 that up again, they match one more time, see that, so that whole side can match, here,

00:07:13 –> 00:07:16 I’ll just set that to the side first.

00:07:16 –> 00:07:25 Cut down this other side, the same way, and this is where you end up with the bead.

00:07:25 –> 00:07:35 Alright, so you have this…this one you open up and match on this side, like that…and

00:07:35 –> 00:07:42 I’d be more careful and picky if I had more time, and then on this other one, it will

00:07:42 –> 00:07:49 match up on both sides, it’ll match up here as well as on this other side, and you have

00:07:49 –> 00:07:53 to kinda fiddle around until you can get them all to match up perfectly.

00:07:53 –> 00:08:01 But here you end up with… if I spend a little more time, you end up with a cone shape that

00:08:01 –> 00:08:11 has a mirror image here and here and here and here, all 4 sides, then you can smooth

00:08:11 –> 00:08:15 it out and end up with a really, really unique pendant.

00:08:15 –> 00:08:19 So if you wanted to, you could cut this in different sizes, depending on the size you

00:08:19 –> 00:08:23 start off in the first place, is how big your bead is going to end up.

00:08:23 –> 00:08:30 But I just wanted to show you that; that there is never such thing as waste clay, even if

00:08:30 –> 00:08:39 it’s at the end of your beautiful cane, so you can use it up in all kinds of cool projects

00:08:39 –> 00:08:42 and come up with these beautiful, beautiful Natasha beads.

00:08:42 –> 00:08:47 So I hope you enjoyed that, make sure to press that like button if you found this helpful

00:08:47 –> 00:08:50 and fun for you.

00:08:50 –> 00:08:54 My question is, have you ever made a Natasha bead?

00:08:54 –> 00:08:59 And have you ever tried making them with a cane before?

00:08:59 –> 00:09:03 So leave that answer in the comment section below.

00:09:03 –> 00:09:07 So I enjoyed being with you today, and I will see you next time.

00:09:07 –> 00:09:08 Bye for now.

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