Sabertooth Tiger Beads – Halloween Costume Jewelry

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

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

00:00:08 –> 00:00:14 show you how to make some Sabretooth Tiger beads for making Caveman jewelry.

00:00:14 –> 00:00:21 Now it’s just coming up on Halloween pretty soon, and last year I made these really cool

00:00:21 –> 00:00:28 necklaces for my daughter and her boyfriend, they were cavemen and when I saw their outfits,

00:00:28 –> 00:00:34 I knew they just had to have a Sabretooth Tiger necklace made out of Polymer Clay, so

00:00:34 –> 00:00:38 I did that but it was so last minute that I couldn’t show you last year how they were

00:00:38 –> 00:00:41 made, so I thought I’d save ‘em for this year.

00:00:41 –> 00:00:48 So anyways, here is the necklace here with the beads, and the really cool thing about

00:00:48 –> 00:00:53 Polymer Clay is that you can make it look like just about anything, and I have it looking

00:00:53 –> 00:01:03 like ancient Sabretooth Tiger teeth just pulled right out of the soil, they’ve got cracks

00:01:03 –> 00:01:13 and all kinds of rotted tooth areas, cracks and little pitted areas, and they just look

00:01:13 –> 00:01:19 really funky and they’re not near as hard to make as they might look like they are.

00:01:19 –> 00:01:24 So what you’re gonna need is a little bit of clay, now I’m only gonna make one tooth

00:01:24 –> 00:01:28 so I’m just using a little bit of clay here, but if you’re gonna make a whole string of

00:01:28 –> 00:01:32 them, you’re gonna need to use more of it, but it’s the same idea.

00:01:32 –> 00:01:36 Now this is some Ecru…Premo!

00:01:36 –> 00:01:47 Clay I’m using for all of this, and this is Ecru, this is Regular Translucent…the regular

00:01:47 –> 00:01:52 has a little bit more of a Yellowish tinge to it which is perfect for making Faux Bone

00:01:52 –> 00:01:58 or teeth, and then this is a 50-50 mix of Premo!

00:01:58 –> 00:02:05 Ecru and White, and you can see that I didn’t really mix it that well, it doesn’t matter…it

00:02:05 –> 00:02:07 doesn’t matter if it’s kinda streaky.

00:02:07 –> 00:02:08 Now all you need to do…

00:02:08 –> 00:02:11 I rolled these out at the thickest setting on my pasta machine, but if you just rolled

00:02:11 –> 00:02:16 them out by hand, that would be fine too, and I’m just gonna layer these pieces together.

00:02:16 –> 00:02:22 I’ve got the Ecru then the Translucent then the lighter mix, then I’m just gonna run it

00:02:22 –> 00:02:28 through at the thickest setting on my pasta machine, and then I’m just gonna rip it in

00:02:28 –> 00:02:32 half and stack it, and run it through again.

00:02:32 –> 00:02:40 And I’m gonna do this a couple of times, and basically what’s happening is I’m creating

00:02:40 –> 00:02:50 a striped layered sheet of really fine striations going this way, now I want…you’ll be able

00:02:50 –> 00:02:57 to see in one of these…here I’ll show you here, if you look at these teeth really close,

00:02:57 –> 00:03:03 you can see that there is really fine striations of color, and that’s what we’ve done here

00:03:03 –> 00:03:11 with these layers, so we want those layers to be showing up down the whole length, and

00:03:11 –> 00:03:15 you can kinda see it here, it’s a little hard to see, but you want that showing up the whole

00:03:15 –> 00:03:16 length of the tooth.

00:03:16 –> 00:03:26 So I’m just going to rip this into some smaller pieces like this, so that my tooth has this

00:03:26 –> 00:03:29 going through the whole length, now that’s probably a little too much clay.

00:03:29 –> 00:03:34 so I’ll cut some of it off…it would be kind of too big of a tooth, but this will make

00:03:34 –> 00:03:42 two teeth, and you can see there a lot easier where all of your different stripes are.

00:03:42 –> 00:03:50 So I’m just gonna kinda roll this into a tooth kinda shape, so that I’ve got my stripes happening

00:03:50 –> 00:03:56 the whole distance, and if these cracks happen in there, all the better, because then, it’ll

00:03:56 –> 00:04:00 really look like your tooth just has been sitting in the soil forever and wore right

00:04:00 –> 00:04:01 out.

00:04:01 –> 00:04:07 So I’m just gonna kinda roll it and then I’m going to make a point on one end, now

00:04:07 –> 00:04:12 it’s really important that you don’t get this all twisted, ‘cause you don’t want it…your

00:04:12 –> 00:04:19 bone wouldn’t be twisted, so if you do get it…the patterning twisted in it at all,

00:04:19 –> 00:04:22 then what you do is you just kinda straighten it back out.

00:04:22 –> 00:04:28 Okay, so I’m getting a tooth shape…here I have one baked up, and so I’m gonna get

00:04:28 –> 00:04:33 it tapered, I’m also gonna make it a little bit skinny, so it’s a little bit flattened

00:04:33 –> 00:04:39 out, and I’m gonna shape it like a tooth…like a Sabretooth like that.

00:04:39 –> 00:04:44 Now at the top end we have the part that goes into the mouth and attaches in, so we need

00:04:44 –> 00:04:51 to take some sort of tool and open it up here at this end, now this happens to be cracking

00:04:51 –> 00:05:00 quite wonderfully, I’m gonna leave that because that’s what an old tooth would look like.

00:05:00 –> 00:05:05 So I’m putting it fairly deep in there so that it had some sort of part attached to

00:05:05 –> 00:05:07 the mouth there.

00:05:07 –> 00:05:16 Okay, so that’s looking pretty good, also, I don’t want any fingerprints because a Sabretooth

00:05:16 –> 00:05:24 Tiger tooth would not have any fingerprints…I know that for sure, this is of course kind

00:05:24 –> 00:05:31 of a fantasy thing, so it doesn’t have to be too perfect, but it doesn’t have fingerprints,

00:05:31 –> 00:05:32 I know that.

00:05:32 –> 00:05:37 And then another thing you can do is you can take a sharp tool and just put the odd little

00:05:37 –> 00:05:45 poke mark in it, like a little pitted part, like maybe some little bug or something had

00:05:45 –> 00:05:51 gotten into the tooth, and then also just kinda drag your tool along and put a few little

00:05:51 –> 00:05:59 scratch marks and things in it, the more distressed this tooth looks, the better.

00:05:59 –> 00:06:02 Then what you’re gonna do is you’re gonna lay…now this one ended up a little bit bigger

00:06:02 –> 00:06:06 than the other, and that’s fine, you’re going to lay your teeth on a piece of card

00:06:06 –> 00:06:13 stock in the oven, and bake it for the full hour cause I’m using Premo! clay here and

00:06:13 –> 00:06:17 I like to bake it at 275F for 1 hour, with the tented thing over it…if you need more

00:06:17 –> 00:06:20 information on baking, I’ve got videos on that.

00:06:20 –> 00:06:26 Oh, I see a fingerprint there I don’t want, anyways, so I’m gonna pop it in the oven and

00:06:26 –> 00:06:30 bake it, and then I’m gonna end up with something like this.

00:06:30 –> 00:06:38 Now the next stage is to turn into a bead, and the way to do that is just use a hand

00:06:38 –> 00:06:46 drill, and I’ve got a little drill bit, just a regular wooden drill bit attached to a pin

00:06:46 –> 00:06:52 vise, it’s called, and you can just hand drill it all the way through, Polymer Clay is pretty

00:06:52 –> 00:06:53 soft.

00:06:53 –> 00:07:02 And I like to go right up here near the root, and just drill right through until you get

00:07:02 –> 00:07:07 to the other side, now I always let it just barely come through the other side, I can

00:07:07 –> 00:07:11 see that it’s just coming through, and then I’m gonna start from that other end so that

00:07:11 –> 00:07:15 it makes a nice clean hole.

00:07:15 –> 00:07:18 And then what we need to do is we need to distress this, because it still looks, you

00:07:18 –> 00:07:26 know, just like a chunk of plastic actually, oh yeah and also before we continue, if there’s

00:07:26 –> 00:07:31 any kinda rough spots or if you did end up with a fingerprint…a little piece of sandpaper

00:07:31 –> 00:07:36 and just clean that up, and make sure it’s nice and smooth, so it just looks worn right

00:07:36 –> 00:07:38 out, so you clean it up.

00:07:38 –> 00:07:47 And then we’re gonna use some Glazing Medium to antique it, so I’ve got some…you can

00:07:47 –> 00:07:53 use any acrylic paint, I happen to have a really nice selection of higher end art paints,

00:07:53 –> 00:07:59 but you know, a craft paint would be just fine, this is a Raw Umber which is a really

00:07:59 –> 00:08:07 dark Brown paint…acrylic paint, I’m gonna put a little drop of this on my work table…or

00:08:07 –> 00:08:12 I’m going to try to put a drop of it on my work table…maybe I’ll take the lid

00:08:12 –> 00:08:17 off, I haven’t opened this up for a little while, it’s getting a little thick, so there’s

00:08:17 –> 00:08:19 the drop of that.

00:08:19 –> 00:08:25 And then I’m going to also use some Black, and this happens to be Golden Fluid Acrylic…so

00:08:25 –> 00:08:32 this will be a little runnier, or it should be anyways, and I’m gonna mix it with Glazing

00:08:32 –> 00:08:45 Medium ‘cause it makes it a little more fluid, you can work it longer

00:08:45 –> 00:08:49 and it just gives a really nice finish, you could just water down paint, but it won’t

00:08:49 –> 00:08:55 be quite as nice as when you use a glazing medium, and this is Golden Acrylic Glazing

00:08:55 –> 00:08:57 Medium.

00:08:57 –> 00:09:02 And what I’m gonna do is take the glazing medium and work the Black and the Brown paint

00:09:02 –> 00:09:07 right into these crevices and things, and I’ll work it right in, and at first you’ll

00:09:07 –> 00:09:13 think you’ve completely ruined it…and that’s pretty typical for most crafts, there’s

00:09:13 –> 00:09:19 a stage where it kinda looks terrible and you think you’ve really done something wrong,

00:09:19 –> 00:09:21 and you just have to go a little further yet.

00:09:21 –> 00:09:27 Okay, so I’m working it right into all the cracks and scratches and everything else,

00:09:27 –> 00:09:31 and then I’m gonna wipe it back with a paper towel, I wanna make sure to get it nice and

00:09:31 –> 00:09:39 dark in here, because it will have been spending all that time in the dirt, ‘cause it’s been

00:09:39 –> 00:09:45 quite some time since there’s been Sabretooth Tigers around, alright, so I’m gonna work

00:09:45 –> 00:09:52 that in and wipe it back with a paper towel, and look at how instantly old this is getting,

00:09:52 –> 00:09:55 right like that.

00:09:55 –> 00:09:59 And you can add a little more Brown, you could use some little bit different color of Browns,

00:09:59 –> 00:10:05 you could use kind of an Amber kinda color if you wanted to as well, and then you’ve

00:10:05 –> 00:10:08 got this really great looking tooth.

00:10:08 –> 00:10:16 Now as far as the design for stringing goes, I’m not gonna be able to show you that today,

00:10:16 –> 00:10:28 but I got…I used some jute string…actually this one’s hemp, but I strung it up in a way…I

00:10:28 –> 00:10:35 looked online at whale tooth necklaces, they were made by Fijians a long, long time ago,

00:10:35 –> 00:10:41 so there’s some really cool designs for inspiration, for the way the teeth are all knotted together

00:10:41 –> 00:10:46 into a necklace, and then I just made it long enough to tie around their necks.

00:10:46 –> 00:10:50 And it is a great prop, that is the greatest thing about Polymer Clay I think is that you

00:10:50 –> 00:10:57 can use it for all sorts of cool accessories, and it’s a great costume…thing to add to

00:10:57 –> 00:10:58 your costume.

00:10:58 –> 00:11:02 So I hope you enjoyed that, if you did, do let us know.

00:11:02 –> 00:11:11 And also, if you’ve ever made a Halloween costume or a Cosplay type accessory out of

00:11:11 –> 00:11:14 Polymer Clay let us know in the comment section below, I bet you give everybody some really

00:11:14 –> 00:11:16 neat ideas.

00:11:16 –> 00:11:22 And also, if you have suggestions for future videos like this or products you’d like me

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00:11:32 –> 00:11:34 We’ll see you next time and bye for now.

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