{"id":19130,"date":"2014-10-27T08:43:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T15:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=19130"},"modified":"2016-09-28T12:36:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T19:36:57","slug":"cabezel-demo-polymer-clay-cabochon-and-bezel-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/cabezel-demo-polymer-clay-cabochon-and-bezel-mold\/19130\/","title":{"rendered":"CaBezel Demo &#8211; Polymer Clay Cabochon and Bezel Mold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=19130#video\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2014-10\/30-90585-cabezel-demo.jpg\" alt=\"CaBezel Demo - Polymer Clay Tutor\" width=\"255\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Video #585:<\/span> <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The Cabezel molds are made with a unique see-through material that allows you to position your piece perfectly every time.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080; font-size: large;\"><strong>Topics Covered In This Video:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">CaBezel Molds invented by fellow Canadian, Wendy Orlowski From Shades of Clay.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Photopolymer molds for making polymer clay cabochons and polymer clay bezels.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I show some examples of focal pieces made with the Fab Focals 2 CaBezel Mold.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Wendy makes these CaBezel molds in many shapes including geometrics, organic shapes, all-in-one designs, bracelet tiles, focals and more.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">What&#8217;s unique about this product is that you can see through the molds, which allows you to position them exactly where you want on your patterned clay sheet. Other cab molds do not have that feature.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">To the best of my knowledge, Wendy Orlowski was the first person to invent cabochon and bezel molds for polymer clay.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Step by step demo of how to use the CaBezel molds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I use sheets of clay that are about 16 playing cards thick (two layers on the thickest setting of my Atlas Pasta Machine), for both the bezel mold and the cabochon.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The bezel is shaped, cut and baked for 30 min first. Cabochon is formed, cut and added to baked bezel, then formed, smoothed and baked for 1 hour. I used Premo polymer clay so I baked at 275 F.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">After baking, I sanded and buffed my pieces, making sure the edges and surfaces were smooth and beautiful.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Bails can be added or holes drilled to make beads.<a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rAbi8gTNtf0?rel=0\" width=\"575\" height=\"323\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Resource: <a href=\"http:\/\/shadesofclay.com\/products\/molds\/cabezels-tools-supplies\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Cabezels Available at Shades of Clay Website<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=12215#video\">Silicone Molding Techniques Polymer Clay Tutorial<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=3969\">Making Molds for Duplicating Your Favorite Polymer Clay Beads<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=92\">Making Polymer Clay Molds Inspiration From the Sea<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=11635#video\">Polymer Clay Tutorial Sculpey MoldMaker Texture Plates<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Do you have any suggestions for videos on tips, techniques or products you would like to learn more about? Let me know in the comments section below!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">My goal is to help you to learn quicker and easier ways to bring up the professionalism in your polymer clay art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808080;\">Oh and don&#8217;t forget to give these videos a<em> Thumbs Up<\/em> click at YouTube if you are enjoying them. The more <em>Likes<\/em> a video gets, the higher it rises in the searches. And that means even more people will be able to join in on this polymer clay journey of a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Also, by subscribing to our YouTube Channel directly, you will receive notifications as soon as new videos are uploaded. To subscribe, click here&#8230; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rAbi8gTNtf0\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">CaBezel Polymer Clay Cabochon and Bezel Molds<\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> &#8230; the Subscribe Button is right near the top of that YouTube page.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Looking forward to hearing from you!<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 575px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px;\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video #585: The Cabezel molds are made with a unique see-through material that allows you to position your piece perfectly every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2665],"tags":[2855,2750,2676,1162],"class_list":["post-19130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-product-demos","tag-shadesofclay","tag-polymer-clay-focal-beads","tag-jewelry-findings","tag-molds-stamps-stencils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}