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Vol-074-1: Video #539: Introduction: In this 6 part video tutorial series, you will learn how to create my original Reptile Hollow Bead Neckwire design. Included are many tips, tricks and techniques that you can use to create this cool cane in the colors and style I suggest, or your own. Truly a one-of-a-kind polymer clay project. This stunning reptile patterned cane design can be used to create gorgeous bracelets, earrings, pendants, and other jewelry pieces in addition to the Neck Wire design included in this tutorial. Plus the cane is great for making home decor items and whatever other polymer clay creations you can dream up.
Vol-074-2: Video #540: Reptile Pattern Cane: In this video I will show you how to create a sparkling and dimensional reptile patterned cane using a just a few colors and some inexpensive. It is an easy cane to accomplish and the results turn out wonderful every time. You will use this cane to create patterned polymer clay sheets, which will then be used for constructing the hollow lentil beads. You can choose the colors that I have used in the tutorial or easily adapt them to whatever color combination that you choose. Don’t limit yourself to only using this Reptile cane for beads though… this cane has endless possibilities in all kinds of polymer clay projects!
Vol-074-3: Video #541: Hollow Beads: In this video I will show all the tips, tricks and tools needed to make perfectly shaped hollow lentil beads. You will learn what thickness of clay works best. Plus I’ll share my techniques that will help you way to avoid having to do a lot of extra work when it comes time to finishing the beads. Also, if you don’t have access to the special tools used in this tutorial, I will show you alternatives that you probably already have in your home right now.
Vol-074-4: Video #542: Baking Shaping Gluing: In this video you will learn all about shaping, baking, cutting, fitting, gluing and re-baking your bead halves to form the perfect hollow lentil beads. There are important steps that you need to do, so that your beads fit properly together, and end up with beautiful crisp edges that look very professional. If you don’t do these steps, your beads will look clunky and homemade, instead of the gorgeous art jewelry quality that I’m sure you prefer. And achieving these results is not that hard to do either… not when you know exactly what to do.
Vol-074-5: Video #543: Sanding Finishing Drilling: In this video you will learn how to properly sand, buff and finish your gorgeous reptile patterned hollow lentil beads to perfection. I’ve got a really neat trick for drilling the holes in your lentil beads too. If you don’t do this simple extra step, it can be tricky to get the bead holes straight and in the right spot along those skinny edges… I’m sure you have seen poorly drilled lentil beads before. You be really surprised how much easier it is to drill holes after watching this video.
Vol-074-6: Video #544: Making the Neckwire: In this final video of the series, you will learn how to create a beautiful, clean lined necklace using a single piece of heavy gauged wire. I will show you how to measure, cut and form your neck wire so that it lays beautifully, and displays your incredible hollow reptile beads with perfection. You’ll be walking around with this eye catching piece of statement jewelry, like a mobile art gallery… or at least that is how I feel when I wear mine ;-)
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1-A: Helicopter 2-A: Maple Samara 3-A: Winged Seed 4-A: Maple Fruit . . . . |
Helicopter is the beautiful soft gray of the background in this photo. Plus it seemed like an appropriate name for this color since these little seeds make great helicopters and a lot of helicopters are gray… makes sense right? Maple Samara is a gorgeous soft pink found on these newly formed Maple Samaras. Winged Seeds is a neat greenish tan that rims the edges of these flora & fauna beauties. And Maple Fruit is the rich brown color of the branch that binds the tiny copter to the Maple Tree until it is fully ripened and dried and ready to be released in the Fall.
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Customer Reviews: Reptile Pattern Hollow Lentil Bead Neck Wire (6 Videos):
- I just LOVE that neckwire shape! Seriously cool. All the sample jewellery pieces look fantastic, and I’m sure this is another winner. ~Sue-F
- This is so exciting! Thank you Cindy, what a fabulous project! ~Marion-R
- Just have to tell you how much I’m enjoying your website and tutorials. You are a natural teacher and I love the videos. Thank you! ~Kathy-S
- WOW!!! Right up my alley, Cindy! I love this tute!! ~Marianne-O
- Wow, I love this! I’m so pleased it’s raining today …… the perfect excuse to sit indoors and play :-) Thank you for another great project!!!!!!! ~Lesley-S
- I was so delighted to find you had used a hollow bead maker technique and the designs are gorgeous… this months tutorial is so exciting because of the overwhelming number of designs you can create with it… my mind is running amuck with ideas… thanks Cindy and Doug for another creative project. ~DixieAnn-S
- This is the first tutorial I have purchased from you. Thank you for your amazing videos!! I have learned so many things from you. ~Amy-C
- Hi Cindy, I love this tutorial, like always. ~Gay-G
- Awesome tutorial! I watch all of them one time through before starting and then the second time around I work along with you, watching on my ipad. I really liked the purple ‘snakeskin’ palette. ~Laura-R
- Hi Cindy and Doug, What a fantastic video… so very professional! Thanks so much for the way you come across which is just as important as the actual technique, you’re both tops! Thanks again. ~Joy-D
- When I first saw the reptile pattern for the bead, I thought you probably used an extruder like you did for your Mod Cane. The “controlled” Mokume-gane technique is VERY cool. ~Jill-V
- Dear Cindy, I have just watched the reptile video. Great tutorial. I loved the colors you used. ~Sylvia-B
- Cindy – I have been trying to make these beads for years and they always came out wonky. I would use a thin strip of clay around the two edges to get the halves together and this never looked that great even if I sanded it down. I made them too thin or too thick. Drilling also came out uneven. This is such a great video! It is the answer to all of the problems I have been having making professional looking hollow beads. Thank you, thank you, thank you! ~Maria-C
- Hi Cindy, Love love this tutorial, so many design possibilities… thanks again for your most generous information. ~Kay-B
- Beautiful!! … thanks so much for using a piece of tape on the back of the bead to sand it – I have tried sanding flat like that more than once, and the piece won’t move. I feel like having a duh moment because you make so much sense. ~Beth-W
- Hi peeps, After returning from my holiday in France my laptop was very sick!! Had to take it into the repair shop and spent a fortune getting it running again. My first chance today to watch the hollow bead tute… Wow Cindy, spectacular! Lovely design and great colours. As it’s nearly two weeks since I could watch anything, reading all the comments and questions posted by your other members, answered all the questions I was thinking to ask. So for any new members, don’t forget to click on the questions/comments to read what other members post. Saves a lot of time for Cindy as she has to answer the same things three times over. “Right Cindy”? If anyone has eaten escargot in garlic butter, they are served up on a round metal dish with little hollows all round the edge. Who do you think was cheeky enough to ask (In my terrible french accent ) if I could take home the empty dish! Just right to make lentil beads all the same size!! I even enjoyed the “snails” so don’t say uggg! (unless you are a vegetarian,) as they were very tasty and were a valuable source of protein during the war when meat was very scarce for the French people. Drew the line at ordering the frogs legs though, as I have a darling little frog living in my garden at home who could have French cousins! ~Elaine-F
- Cindy, this tute is fabu. Cannot tell you how many times I’ve tried this hollow lentil process and failed. After watching the video, can see where and how I made all my mistakes, so I am sure glad I am a member here. Also, I love the new mokume gane approach! ~Jocelyn-C
- Every time I look at your videos (pretty much every day!) I learn more, smile more and am more grateful to you for being such a talented and warm teacher. I am also So grateful to Doug for the exceptional job he does in the film and editing… a HUGE job! He makes everything look clear and sharp and appealing. My husband, Geoff is an aerial photographer with his own business, so I am aware of some of the work that goes into a final product and how stressful ( but wonderful) it is to work for yourself! ~Julia-G
- The Reptile Hollow Bead Tutorial is super awesome! ~Carol-B
- Cindy – This is my all time fav. The Reptile tute!!!!!!!!!!!! I never could get the forms right – mostly too thick. So I made the tute and they came out perfectly. Sanded the fool out of them. All the way to 1200 grit. What shine and so light weight! I bought the Silk-screen kit too. So I am going to made LOTS of hollow beads. Also thanks for the other 2 color ways. Happy camper for sure. YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~Patt-W
- All I can say is Fantastic! I love the cane Cindy, so many options, and the great necklace is so clever. I’ve already tried making similar beads using a plastic paint palette. I was concerned that it might melt in my toaster-oven so tried it out alone beforehand for an hour at 275f and it worked perfectly! Hoping I can get the various sizes shown in the Sculpey hollow bead maker here in the UK, but if not I can still try out your super project! Way to go Cindy! May I also add, I’m staggered by your output Cindy, where do all the ideas come from? Amazing, that’s the word for you! More power to your elbow! ~Marion-K
- Many thanks, even though I have said it in the past, to you and Doug. You do such a wonderful job, and he is great at those close ups with the camera. You have such talent, Cindy. I made the brown set before you gave us the colours, and boy, was I close! They look the same, but I had 1 of the colours slightly different, and that was the ecru. I used 1/12th ecru, 11/12ths pearl. They look close. My fave was 1 that I came up with: black, silver, 1/4 pearl mixed with 3/4 white, and 1/2 Aliziran Crimson! ~Marianne-O
- Thank you, Cindy! Very good video!! All very detailed and precise. See you soon and friendliness! My English is so-so, from Italy. ~Cecilia-L
- Dear Cindy, I live in Lockerbie in Scotland, and started using polymer clay earlier this year. I had moved house in Dec and my studio was not set up and by Feb I was just longing to use colour. Came on polymer clay and Love it… big distraction from all the other things I need to do in my life! Really enjoy your tutorials, clear and sharp and really detailed. I am a teacher myself… or have been, only do a little bit now… but really appreciate your way of presenting the info. Just great! I am making swirly bead pendants to give to all the students in my colour workshop in Italy in a month (16 of them, 3 from Canada)… will do key rings for the 3 men… just love making them. I recently bought your hollow lentil bead tutorial and am waiting for the wire to arrive so I can construct my necklace. I made the beads according to your lessons and am really pleased with them… they are not perfect, think I will make them a bit thicker next time… but they look and feel great… you see them below, waiting to be put together. I was not paying attention when I cut the first slice from the cane and that gave me the other pattern… so I did a few of them as well as the reptile pattern… now I know how to do both. Many thanks again for your inspiring work! All the best for now. ~Bella-G
- Hi Cindy… I’m new to Polymer Clay and so very happy I found your tutorials on YouTube!! I’m a new member and recently bought the Vol-074 tutorials on hollow beads – just awesome, Cindy, really awesome! Thanks to You and Doug for being there for all of us beginner through to expert polymer clay lovers. ~Donna-S
- Well, if you looked at my desk -you would see 1/2 hollow beads everywhere. I can’t stop!!!!! I just love this Reptile Pattern Hollow Bead Lentil Tutorial. I will be here til midnight -LOL My hubby will have to fix his own dinner – it is that addicting!!!!!!!!!!! ~Patt-W
- Cindy/Doug, All the videos are so great! I enjoy learning creative things and your videos are SO GREAT! I am watching the reptile pattern tutorial now on my iPad. I had to order some graduated circle cutters and it was the longest two weeks of my life. LOL. I have everything in the 2 x 2 square now. Just found the old credit card. SO excited!!!! Your lentil beads with that pattern are probably the coolest thing I’ve seen this year. I want to cover my life in that pattern. ~Lena-S
- Cindy and Doug together make the best videos online and they are great value too. Doug with his close-up shots and Cindy with her step by step instructions are just the best team. I have been a member of PCT for quite some time and must add that although I knew lots of things about polymer clay there was loads I didn’t know but you can find ALL the answers here. If Cindy is busy one of the members will pop in to suggest trying something that has worked for them or you can use the search box to scroll through answers to your questions. Nope, I do not get any commission for encouraging new people to become members. I know it has changed my way of working. So three cheers to the Lietz team, long may you continue to amaze us. ~Elaine-F
Customer Reviews: Maple Samara A-Series Color Palette (4 Recipe Cards):
- Thank you Cindy for a lovely color palette coming up for Volume 74. Even though I love the colors you produced, those little spinning helicopter leaves are a bane to my existence. I am flooded with them every year since I am surrounded by silver maple trees. I guess now I will have to take a more endearing attitude each spring when they start to cascade down in torrents. I love my trees but not their offspring. A little rain mixed with them makes them extremely slippery when walking across the deck and clean up is never ending. At least now each spring my mind will wander to the lovely color palette you created and I will smile and say “only in nature can you find such beauty and only can Cindy create such lovely colors to go with it!” ~DixieAnn-S
- I love these color recipes! I am behind in making the color chips but I usually make them as I use them. Sometimes I make up several palettes when I want to play with my clay but don’t know what I want to make. Seeing the colors in person inspires my creativity! ~Catalina-L
- I really like the picture format with the palette samples because it can inspire you to create using that particular palette of colors. Sometimes you have the color cards in front of you and it takes awhile to decide how you will incorporate them into your piece whether it be jewelry or something else. Thanks so much and looking forward to new recipes… keep them coming! ~Lupe-M
- Beautiful colors! I’m glad you can invision colors. Nature is a great source for inspiration and living in Arizona I enjoy the earth tones of the desert, the wonderful colors from our cactus and wildflowers, the color influence from Mexico and of course the sunsets. Trying to duplicate them is a tough one for me. Have you ever considered doing a southwest color palette? Wouldn’t it be fun to do a series on colors from around the world, tulips from Holland, the waters of Aruba, colors from the rainforest…! Wow one could stay a wake all night just dreaming up colors. As a very new clayer I find your website very informative, you’re a very gifted person. ~Jeanne-C
- Being a very avid nature girl myself, I love the way your color recipes link to nature and the stories you tell about each one. Your stories are told in a way that make us feel like we’re right there with you, and you taught me to tune in more to my surroundings, always watching for inspiration no matter where I am. We’ve got a trip to our cabin planned for this weekend and I can’t wait! ~Tanya-L
- I love these colour recipes Cindy. And I love being able to think of an idea involving different colours and knowing I’ll most likely find exactly how to make it in the library. Thanks. ~Aims-A
- Cindy, you have such a good eye for color!! ~Sandra-G
- Funny, I was just thinking about your colour palettes today (as I downloaded them into my new computer) and was struck by the names you give your colours. The names are all so lush and original, it’s impossible NOT to try to mix them to see what they look like. ~Isabel-H
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Wow, I love this! I’m so pleased it’s raining today …… the perfect excuse to sit indoors and play :-) Thank you for another great project!!!!!!! ~Lesley-S
I was so delighted to find you had used a hollow bead maker technique and the designs are gorgeous… this months tutorial is so exciting because of the overwhelming number of designs you can create with it… my mind is running amuck with ideas… thanks Cindy and Doug for another creative project. ~DixieAnn-S
This is the first tutorial I have purchased from you. Thank you for your amazing videos!! I have learned so many things from you. ~Amy-C
Hi Cindy, I love this tutorial, like always. ~Gay-G
Awesome tutorial! I watch all of them one time through before starting and then the second time around I work along with you, watching on my ipad. I really liked the purple ‘snakeskin’ palette. ~Laura-R
Hi Cindy and Doug, What a fantastic video… so very professional! Thanks so much for the way you come across which is just as important as the actual technique, you’re both tops! Thanks again. ~Joy-D
When I first saw the reptile pattern for the bead, I thought you probably used an extruder like you did for your Mod Cane. The “controlled” Mokume-gane technique is VERY cool. ~Jill-V
Dear Cindy, I have just watched the reptile video. Great tutorial. I loved the colors you used. ~Sylvia-B
Cindy – I have been trying to make these beads for years and they always came out wonky. I would use a thin strip of clay around the two edges to get the halves together and this never looked that great even if I sanded it down. I made them too thin or too thick. Drilling also came out uneven. This is such a great video! It is the answer to all of the problems I have been having making professional looking hollow beads. Thank you, thank you, thank you! ~Maria-C
Hi Cindy, Love love this tutorial, so many design possibilities… thanks again for your most generous information. Kay-B
Beautiful!! … thanks so much for using a piece of tape on the back of the bead to sand it – I have tried sanding flat like that more than once, and the piece won’t move. I feel like having a duh moment because you make so much sense. ~Beth-W
Hi peeps, After returning from my holiday in France my laptop was very sick!! Had to take it into the repair shop and spent a fortune getting it running again. My first chance today to watch the hollow bead tute… Wow Cindy, spectacular! Lovely design and great colours. As it’s nearly two weeks since I could watch anything, reading all the comments and questions posted by your other members, answered all the questions I was thinking to ask. So for any new members, don’t forget to click on the questions/comments to read what other members post. Saves a lot of time for Cindy as she has to answer the same things three times over. “Right Cindy”? If anyone has eaten escargot in garlic butter, they are served up on a round metal dish with little hollows all round the edge. Who do you think was cheeky enough to ask (In my terrible french accent ) if I could take home the empty dish! Just right to make lentil beads all the same size!! I even enjoyed the “snails” so don’t say uggg! (unless you are a vegetarian,) as they were very tasty and were a valuable source of protein during the war when meat was very scarce for the French people. Drew the line at ordering the frogs legs though, as I have a darling little frog living in my garden at home who could have French cousins! ~Elaine-F
Cindy, this tute is fabu. Cannot tell you how many times I’ve tried this hollow lentil process and failed. After watching the video, can see where and how I made all my mistakes, so I am sure glad I am a member here. Also, I love the new mokume gane approach! ~Jocelyn-C
Every time I look at your videos (pretty much every day!) I learn more, smile more and am more grateful to you for being such a talented and warm teacher. I am also So grateful to Doug for the exceptional job he does in the film and editing… a HUGE job! He makes everything look clear and sharp and appealing. My husband, Geoff is an aerial photographer with his own business, so I am aware of some of the work that goes into a final product and how stressful ( but wonderful) it is to work for yourself! ~Julia-G
The Reptile Hollow Bead Tutorial is super awesome! ~Carol-B
Cindy – This is my all time fav. The Reptile tute!!!!!!!!!!!! I never could get the forms right – mostly too thick. So I made the tute and they came out perfectly. Sanded the fool out of them. All the way to 1200 grit. What shine and so light weight! I bought the Silk-screen kit too. So I am going to made LOTS of hollow beads. Also thanks for the other 2 color ways. Happy camper for sure. YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~Patt-W
All I can say is Fantastic! I love the cane Cindy, so many options, and the great necklace is so clever. I’ve already tried making similar beads using a plastic paint palette. I was concerned that it might melt in my toaster-oven so tried it out alone beforehand for an hour at 275f and it worked perfectly! Hoping I can get the various sizes shown in the Sculpey hollow bead maker here in the UK, but if not I can still try out your super project! Way to go Cindy! May I also add, I’m staggered by your output Cindy, where do all the ideas come from? Amazing, that’s the word for you! More power to your elbow! ~Marion-K
