Silicone Molds From The Bargain Rollback Company

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 –> 00:00:16 show you some Silicone Molds from BargainRollback.com. Now, a little while ago I was contacted by

00:00:16 –> 00:00:21 BargainRollback.com to see if I wanted to test some of their Silicone Molds and I said

00:00:21 –> 00:00:29 sure, so I checked them out and I’ve picked out a few different patterns. Now, I’ll show

00:00:29 –> 00:00:32 you the patterns and then I’ll talk about the different types of Silicone molds that

00:00:32 –> 00:00:38 they have and how I used them. So this is a cute little… this is a Silicone Mold,

00:00:38 –> 00:00:48 and this one is of little Lego people, this one here is also a Silicone mold and it has

00:00:48 –> 00:00:54 quite deep cavities and it’s got like a Ladybug, Star, Butterfly, Hearts, Flowers, that kind

00:00:54 –> 00:00:58 of thing, this one here is also Silicone… and the reason why I keep bringing that up

00:00:58 –> 00:01:03 is ‘cause some of them are Silicone and rubber, but this one’s also Silicone and it’s

00:01:03 –> 00:01:10 got some Butterflies and different things in there. This one’s also Silicone and this

00:01:10 –> 00:01:15 one’s a little smaller, about the size of Christmas chocolates, that kind of thing,

00:01:15 –> 00:01:23 it’s all little Christmas patterns, and then these two molds here are called Silicone and

00:01:23 –> 00:01:30 rubber, and in brackets they have TPR, I forgot to ask what TPR actually stood for, I’m guessing

00:01:30 –> 00:01:36 it’s the type of rubber that it is, now they also have one more design that I didn’t get

00:01:36 –> 00:01:43 and it is Silicone and plastic combination. Now the reason why this is really important

00:01:43 –> 00:01:49 to know about… and this will be important to know about any of the Silicone molds or

00:01:49 –> 00:01:54 any kinds of molds that you get out in the internet and out in the world or wherever

00:01:54 –> 00:02:00 you’re getting them, there are different types and they can do different things. Now, these

00:02:00 –> 00:02:11 Silicone only molds can actually handle heat, so that means that you can actually put your

00:02:11 –> 00:02:16 Polymer Clay into these or Liquid Polymer Clay into them and you can bake them in the

00:02:16 –> 00:02:24 oven. The ones that have Silicone and rubber in them, they are not heat safe, so they cannot

00:02:24 –> 00:02:30 go in the oven, so if you’re going to use this for anything Polymer Clay related, you

00:02:30 –> 00:02:37 would need to mold it first and then remove it from the mold before you bake it, these

00:02:37 –> 00:02:44 ones are better suited for something like ice, and that’s what… or chocolates or some

00:02:44 –> 00:02:51 sort of food thing like a jelly, these are all food safe, and I actually made the ice

00:02:51 –> 00:02:55 cubes, they’re very cute, okay so they’re starting to melt fast ‘cause it’s quite

00:02:55 –> 00:03:03 warm in here, but the Blue mold there is a Titanic mold, so it’s got the Titanic and

00:03:03 –> 00:03:08 a little ice berg, which is really cute… so in your glass, but I tried to keep it…

00:03:08 –> 00:03:14 put it in a glass to show you and it started melting too fast. Then the Pirate one has

00:03:14 –> 00:03:20 a like a skull and… or a crossbones and a Pirate, and it’s really cute, so it makes

00:03:20 –> 00:03:28 for super cute ice… those molds. I found that they didn’t mold Polymer Clay very well

00:03:28 –> 00:03:34 because they’re a little too floppy, they’re different than some of the other Polymer Clay

00:03:34 –> 00:03:41 molds that are meant for putting clay into, they’re more supported at the back, so here

00:03:41 –> 00:03:48 when you try to press items into… especially such a deep, deep form, it gets a little distorted…

00:03:48 –> 00:03:54 it’s hard to pull it out without distorting it and it uses up a lot of clay to try to

00:03:54 –> 00:04:03 do something in these molds anyways, so they’re not the best really for Polymer Clay, but

00:04:03 –> 00:04:10 all these ones here are great for Polymer Clay. I found that… okay so I have a few

00:04:10 –> 00:04:17 little samples here, some stuff that I baked in some of the molds, in these super deep

00:04:17 –> 00:04:27 ones, they’re not really that suited for molding clay, like the solid clay, I did take out

00:04:27 –> 00:04:33 a small amount and press it in, so if you take… I mean who really wants like a half

00:04:33 –> 00:04:38 an inch thick boot out of Polymer Clay, but a smaller boot, you might wanna use, so I

00:04:38 –> 00:04:44 just took a small amount and pressed it in to the mold, it’s a little tricky to get in

00:04:44 –> 00:04:50 there. And because it’s floppy, you have to kinda reshape it after, ‘cause it wants

00:04:50 –> 00:04:58 to bulge out the sides, but it is possible to get this little mold out of it with the

00:04:58 –> 00:05:04 solid clay, but with the liquid clay, there’s a lot more options that you can do. I have

00:05:04 –> 00:05:13 a few… oh, here for example in the same mold is a snowman mold, and… oh, actually,

00:05:13 –> 00:05:20 I just did that one in resin, but I poured some UV Resin into the snowman mold, just

00:05:20 –> 00:05:26 a little bit of it… I didn’t pour it very deep, and I got this cute little snowman that

00:05:26 –> 00:05:33 I could use for a charm, a… some sort of scrapbooking embellishment, some sort of thing

00:05:33 –> 00:05:40 like that. With the UV resin, you wanna make sure that light can get all the way through,

00:05:40 –> 00:05:46 so you don’t wanna add anything to the… like glitter or anything to the UV resin when

00:05:46 –> 00:05:51 you’re putting it in a mold like this, otherwise the light can’t get in there to cure it, but

00:05:51 –> 00:05:58 you can do the clear stuff really well that way. So I also took this mold here and I put

00:05:58 –> 00:06:02 some Liquid Polymer Clay in them… and I’m gonna show you the samples here and tell you

00:06:02 –> 00:06:11 how I did it in a sec, so I’ve got these little Lego guys that I did using Liquid Gold…

00:06:11 –> 00:06:19 the Liquid Sculpey, and I just talked about this in a previous video, and I also used

00:06:19 –> 00:06:27 the Silver on this guy here… of the Liquid Sculpey, and then for this guy, what I did

00:06:27 –> 00:06:35 was I took some TLS or Translucent Liquid Sculpey, so the regular kind, the clear kind,

00:06:35 –> 00:06:42 or semi-clear translucent kind, and I put a very thin layer in the bottom first, then

00:06:42 –> 00:06:50 I sprinkled in some eye lash glitter… the Silvery eye lash glitter, and then kinda mixed

00:06:50 –> 00:06:56 it together and added some more liquid Polymer Clay until I got it a reasonable depth in

00:06:56 –> 00:07:03 there, and got this kind of semi-translucent sparkly robot kind of thing going on, I think

00:07:03 –> 00:07:10 you could do some very, very fun things, I just took a quick playing around with it.

00:07:10 –> 00:07:17 Now, whenever you use something like a liquid Polymer Clay in a mold, I’m finding that you

00:07:17 –> 00:07:23 can get a lot of bubbles in it if you’re not careful, and one of the tips I had read about

00:07:23 –> 00:07:33 was to put your mold in the oven first to mold it… or I mean to warm it up first,

00:07:33 –> 00:07:40 and then when you add your clay to it, it will help prevent bubbles, I did that but

00:07:40 –> 00:07:47 really, really quickly, it started to cool off. So the Gold one, it was done in a really

00:07:47 –> 00:07:54 warm mold, and the Silver one was in a cool one, and there really isn’t much of a difference,

00:07:54 –> 00:08:01 though I do see the odd little bubble on the Silver one that doesn’t seem to be as much

00:08:01 –> 00:08:06 on the Gold, so I think I’ll have to play with that more to see if it makes any difference

00:08:06 –> 00:08:14 at all. As far as pricing goes, these molds are really inexpensive, I guess that’s why

00:08:14 –> 00:08:21 they’re called Bargain Rollback, but the Silicone molds here, the ones that are heat safe are

00:08:21 –> 00:08:31 like $4.49, American, at today’s prices, the Silicone and Rubber, which are not heat

00:08:31 –> 00:08:36 safe… there’s a bunch of different designs by the way, these ones are $2.99 and then

00:08:36 –> 00:08:42 the Silicone and plastic ones that I didn’t talk about, they’re like $3.49, those Silicone

00:08:42 –> 00:08:53 and plastic ones basically have a hard plastic frame here, and then Silicone, the mold parts,

00:08:53 –> 00:08:58 so you can easily pop them out, they’re more suited… they’re obviously not heat safe,

00:08:58 –> 00:09:04 because of the plastic edge, but they are more suited for ice cube trays, as you can

00:09:04 –> 00:09:10 imagine, with a floppy thing like this, trying to get it in, I found these a little tricky,

00:09:10 –> 00:09:15 if you had water in it and tried to put it in the freezer… and they do spill a little

00:09:15 –> 00:09:19 bit, so if you set them in a little tray first, then put the water and then in the freezer

00:09:19 –> 00:09:25 then you’re gonna have less spillage, but that’s what those plastic and Silicone ice

00:09:25 –> 00:09:32 trays are more suited for, ‘cause they have the rigid form. But anyways, there are some

00:09:32 –> 00:09:36 really, really cute designs, as you can see you can use them in a bunch of creative ways,

00:09:36 –> 00:09:41 just make sure you’re using only heat safe ones if you plan to put them in the oven,

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