How to Make Silicone Molds

hey everyone welcome back to my channel I'm Alexa and today I'm going to show you how I make my silicone mold so this is just an example of one that I made and I'm just going to show you my process of what I like to do to make these I'm actually going to use the same container so I'm just going to show you step by step what I like to do and I got this technique from Sean Orly dry head here on YouTube it's a really old video of hers it's around I think two years old so you're gonna have to scroll through quite a bit to find it but it's the exact same thing that she does an overview of what I do is lay some tape down place my container on the tape stick my pieces to the tape and then pour my silicone in so I'm just going to get started this is the container that I am using it's just a food container that I cut the bottom off of so I can pour into it and an alternative of what you can do is you can take the lid of whatever container you're using and you can glue your pieces on that lid close it and then pour straight on the lid without having to use tape but the lid I you have this kind of weirdly shaped it's got some ridges in it so it's not totally flat I can't use the full surface of the lid so I'm deciding to use tape so take the container and cut it if you have to so you have an opening on both sides and now what you want to do is take some tape and cut enough tape to make it so it goes a little past the sides and at the bottom and the top so you want to make it so there's enough tape a little bit of tape to go around your container and the reason for that is afterwards we're going to hold that little bit up just to catch any seepage of this little cone okay so I have my tape all set up next what I'm going to do is place my container on it so there's a little extra around the edge like this and now I'm going to take a sharpie and kind of outline the edge of the inside if that makes sense so I'm going to go around the inside and draw a line so I know where my boundaries are now I know where I can you place my pieces and I took a picture earlier of how I want everything to be laid out so I'm going to refer to that photo and start placing them and if you're like me and you're not wearing gloves be sure to clean off your pieces before you start pouring your silicone I have a microfiber cloth that I'm going to use once I place everything on and clean up every piece that I have on here so fingerprints don't transfer you you everything is on here I was actually able to fit one more of these on here so I'm just pushing everything down make sure there's a seal and now I'm going to lock my prints off now it's time to put this back on okay finally got it how I want it and now I'm going to fold up the edges of the tape around the container this container is now ready to be boarded this is a silicone I'm using its smooth on mold star 15 I got this on eBay I'm just gonna oops kind of stir this in here a little bit before I pour it out all right so I had less silicone than what I thought so I don't have enough I can always pour another badge but now I'm just going to mix everything until it's an even color and I will be back to pour everything is all mixed and now I'm just going to pour as much as I can I'm not sure if it's gonna cover everything but we shall see that looks like all that I have and I guess I have enough for this mold um I'm not sure if I should pour a little bit more I mean I probably should but since it's just me and I'm not rough with my things I don't think this will break anytime soon I think I may just denote this once it's cured instead of buying some more having to wait for that to come in and then pour again when you pour silicone you kind of want the top to go at least 1/4 past the highest point fourth to a half an inch just so there's enough to feel comfortable to not break the mold this will be ready to come out in about four hours I think it is it's I think five o'clock in the morning so I'm gonna go to bed and I will come back when I wake up I'm back and everything is cured so now I'm going to peel away this tape and just pop it out let's see well if you can see here it's a little bit of and overspill if that bothers you you can just cut that off let's see if any of these pieces have an over split on the back there's a little bit not as much as I thought which is good yeah it's pretty thin but oh well I'm going to take my executive knife and cut away some of the overspill and while the pieces are still in the mold I think it's trimmed enough this is just going to be for me like I said so time to pop out the pieces it is so satisfying to pop pieces out after moulding does anyone else feel that way but since the pieces I molded were shiny they left the shine in the silicone so pieces I pop out will be shiny at least for a while like with all the silicon the shine goes away but you can easily restore using some polishing compound and that is it that's how I like to make silicone mold and again I got this technique from Lady jarhead so you can go check her out if you like watching long resin updates definitely check her out because her videos are like 20 to 30 minutes long I love just sitting and watching her show her pieces but anyway that is it for this little tutorial I guess and if you have any questions if I forgot to say something let me know in the comments below and I will get back to you and as always thank you for watching and I will see you next time bye

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Length: 9min 49sec (589 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 15 2016