Molds with their own hands - easy master classes of creation from sealant, porcelain, polymer clay

Molds are special molds in which a liquid substance is poured to obtain a certain shape (soap, candle, plaster, epoxy resin). Another type of molds involves pressing a special mastic for molding (leaves, ornaments, figurines) into the recesses of the mold.

Molds can be made from silicone sealant, polymer clay, plasticine, and other materials that can be removed from the finished product without damaging it.

Fields of application

Scrapbooking

This technique is used to make beautiful albums and postcards. It involves the use of small details - frames, buttons, keys, locks, various figurines of people, birds and animals.

All this wealth of craftswoman can buy in the store, or can prepare herself with homemade forms.

Decoupage

The technique of decorating old boxes, bottles, jars and other items that are transformed by pasting with paper napkins and/or various ornaments, cut-outs, flowers, monograms. With workpieces made with molds, you can create completely unique things.

Costume Jewelry

Artisans who make epoxy jewelry also resort to the use of molds for creative blanks - elements for earrings, beads, rings and necklaces.

Making dolls

Individual dollmakers who prefer to make an interior doll with a porcelain head successfully use homemade molds made with the head from a broken doll.

Cooking

Today, along with a pastry syringe for decorating cakes and other culinary delights, silicone molds are very widely used, which greatly expand the creative possibilities of cooks.

They mold inscriptions for cakes, numbers, letters, leaves, ornaments, figures, bows, beads, hearts, wreaths. Chocolate for modeling or confectionary mastic are used as filler for the molds.

Soapmaking and making decorative candles

These molds are the most difficult to make with your own hands. They require special tin-based silicone, which costs more than 1,000 rubles. Also designs made from separate parts, which should imitate a finished piece of soap with a flower decoration, for example. But with a strong desire, when you need to make something exclusive, they can be made even at home.

You can buy ready-made molds. They cost from 300 rubles and above.

Ready molds should be stored in a box, so that they do not get debris on them.

Tools and materials for mold making

Their set is not great. For silicone sealant molds you need:

• sealant,
• flour;
• starch or powder;
• PVA glue;
• a shape for extruding the mold;
• gloves;
• a container for mixing the mass;
• Soap solution or oil to grease the molds.

For polymer clay molds:

• polymer clay;
• needle;
• A bendable blade from a office knife;
• baking tray;
• figures;
• leaves.

Objects for casting (imprinting) in molds

The blocks that are needed to make impressions in the future mold are an important part of the process. Where can you get them?

Handmade Materials

Lots of details and gizmos for molding or imprinting can be found by walking around the apartment:

• buttons;
• keys;
• gears from a broken alarm clock;
• plaster angels;
• Frames made of plaster or polymer clay.

Looking into the children's room, in the corner with toys, you can find a lot of small objects that will be suitable for this purpose:

• figurines of animals and birds;
• figurines of people;
• doll furniture;
• Small toy vehicles and much more.

The utensil cabinet also has items that can be used to create molds for ornaments. Crystal tableware:

• glasses;
• vases;
• sugar bowls;
• candy bowls;
• salad bowls;
• decanters.

Each product has a bottom with an exclusive pattern. It is almost a Klondike with a scattering of bobbleheads.

Materials from the store

In search of a molding to create a shape with ornamentation to transform large objects, you can look into a construction store. Today the construction industry offers a mass of wall cornices (moldings). The cheapest options are made of polyurethane, foam plastic, plastic. They are decorated with various ornaments, geometric designs.

For pennies you can buy a few samples and make molds with them to decorate larger items.

Look on the Internet

Order online dummy molds, carved from wood. They cost up to 100 rubles. This is ideal for making molds, giving a clear imprint. The selection within Ali Express alone is very wide:

• floral ornaments;
• monograms;
• flowers;
• leaves;
• musical instruments;
• bicycles;
• numbers;
• letters and much more.

At the Fair of Masters for a price of 15 to 80 rubles, you can check out the figures made of plastic:

• birds;
• animals;
• flowers of different sizes, which are perfect for making molds for soap;
• miniature furniture;
• monograms;
• hearts;
• ornaments, etc.

Master class on making molds from silicone sealant

Molds from silicone sealant are flexible and elastic; they are easy to take out dried figurines. Such stencils serve long enough.

How to prepare the mass (mastic)?

To prepare a mass of sealant you will need:

• potato or corn starch;
• silicone sealant;
• Vaseline oil to grease your hands;
• a bowl for kneading the mass;
• knife or spatula.

Preparation:

1. Pour a little starch on a plate - 2-3 spoons with a slide.
2. Press out on the starch silicone sealant 2:1.
3. Knead with a knife or spatula.

When the mass thickens, grease your hands with glycerin oil and knead the mass until it is smooth and no longer sticky to your hands. If necessary, you can add starch. But here you have to be careful not to overdo it.

"If you overdo the starch when kneading the molds, the products will be stiff and brittle. The golden mean is very important: the mass is not sticky to the hands, but it is soft and elastic.

Molds from the obtained mass should be made immediately after mixing. Such mastic can not be stored - it dries quickly.

Mold shaping

To prepare in advance the figures to be used as a mold for a mold impression. Oil the top of the molds. This is done so that the dried molds will easily come off the figure:

• Put a piece of oilcloth on the table. A square of 30 x 30 cm will be enough.
• Place on the oilcloth the figure (dummy) face side up.
• Nibble off a suitable piece of the mold mass. Cover the dummy with the paste. Spread out the mass evenly. Trim edges. And leave to dry.
• Use the rest of the mass on other molds.
• This mixture dries for at least 4 hours at room temperature.

The dried molds can be removed from the molds and you can start making figurines.

Master class on making cold porcelain figurines

Soft, elastic mass, amenable to the formation of any figures, also called cold porcelain. Prepare cold porcelain different masters in different ways.

Non-shrinking mass for figures

Materials needed to make cold porcelain:

• 5 tablespoons of finishing putty;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• 2 tablespoons of thick PVA glue;
• 1 teaspoon of laundry detergent;
• 1 teaspoon of Vaseline oil (you can replace it with any other odorless oil).

Preparation:

1. Mix putty, flour, and glue.
2. Add the conditioner, mix.
3. Add oil and knead into a smooth and homogeneous consistency, which does not stick to your hands. The mastic (cold porcelain) will be used to fill the molds.
4. Allow to rest for 10-15 minutes and can be used.
5. Before filling, dust the mold with starch or powder. This way the mastic will not stick to it.
6. Ready mixture is stored in an airtight sealed bag for 2-3 weeks.

"The mastic should sit in an airtight bag for 10-15 minutes before you start working with it."

Cold Porcelain

Another mass for filling molds, which is made from rice flour.

Ingredients:

• rice flour - 100 grams;
• PVA glue - 100 grams.

Manufacturing process:

• Mix everything on a plate and knead. In the kneaded as a dough porcelain add liquid soap and knead again.
• Ready mass is not sticky to hands, holds shape. Products made of it dries at room temperature.
• To give the porcelain a snow-white color, add white acrylic paint.
• If other colors are needed, acrylic paint is mixed into a torn off piece of mastic of the desired color.

Master class on making a mold from polymer clay

To make a mold (viner) of a leaf, you need:

• a kneaded piece of polymer clay;
• a living leaf from a rosebush;
• a flexible blade from a office knife;
• rolling pin;
• oven (oven) for baking.

Workflow:

1. Roll out a kneaded piece of clay with a rolling pin 3 mm thick.
2. Place on a small square of clean paper.
3. Put the living sheet on the clay with the side on which there are veins (back side of the sheet).
4. Roll the clay with a rolling pin to imprint the veins on the clay.
5. Remove the sheet from the clay.
6. Trim off the excess clay with a flexible blade.
7. Send the mold into the oven for 20 minutes at 150 degrees.
8. After baking, the mold for making rose leaves is ready.

In this way you can make molds for any leaves you want to work with.

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