Not Another CRAP Kit? Hopefully...

oh yeah hey it's me today I'm doing a video that I've actually been waiting to do for quite some time I'm going to be using this kit I already know quite a bit about this kit I just know it's a good kit if things go wrong that's on me this is a kit made by nerdycrafter who is another Creator here on YouTube introducing the first ever nerdy crafter craft kit called not another craft kit she does a lot of craft kit review videos she does things with clay and she does like a lot of like just fun random videos now this is a serious kit I can confidently say it is the heaviest crap sorry getting a lot of messages every time I turn on the camera baby can you stop talking to me I love people um I can confidently what could I do I could just mute my devices pretty much everyone else in the community has already used this kit and made a video on it I'm definitely the last one but I do have an excuse I've known about this kit for a long time because Jackie and I actually do message I've known that she's been working on this kid it's been a long project for her I told her I was so excited to test it out she told me she was gonna send it to me as soon as it was ready and I was gonna make a video and and then it came out and I started seeing all these people with this kid making videos and I thought I didn't get one I guess she forgot to send me one and my heart started to break it started to shrivel that's fine yeah I know I'm I'm forgettable everyone got one but not me no not me I didn't say anything because I'm like you know what she's busy maybe it slipped her mind I got over it and didn't get in my feels at all I'm not important okay I'm not special and I said you know what I still want to do the kit I'll just buy it myself so I went doo doo doo doo I ordered the kit here it is and I messaged Jackie and I said you know hey I am so excited to test your kit I've ordered it I'm waiting for it and she's like what didn't you get the one that I sent you and I'm like I didn't get a you didn't send me one you forgot about me remember remember when you broke my heart turns out she actually did send me one um the post office held it just like yeah we'll keep this one We're Not Gonna actually deliver it we're just gonna hold it here and not tell you about it but anyway eventually I did get the one that I ordered as well as the one that she sent me so now I have two kits it actually kind of works out because according to Jackie she is actually doing a small relaunch of the kit around the time that I'm gonna be posting this so if you want the kit now is definitely the last chance to get it okay now you're kind of crowding me I love you give me space I've watched a lot of videos on this kid at this point I've watched Jackie's video on it I've watched other people's videos on it I've watched Jackie's video watching other people's videos and I think I felt the need to consume so much content about this kit because it honestly freaks me out you make a figurine And Then There are a million different tools and techniques to kind of like customize it with clay and sculpture and I am not the best at that I am not experienced with it I'm gonna just try to enjoy using this to the best of my ability this is the one that Jackie sent to me I know this because it has a little note in it I know you'll have fun despite the fact that many of these things are new materials to you thank you for the confidence I hope I will very sweet note thank you Jackie she's always very sweet I know you're about the salt but there's a lot of sugar in there too yo I hate myself okay we have the instruction booklet nobody shows this on camera because there's a secret little QR code that leads to some secret little tutorials I know these These are paint brushes aha the iconic collapsible Bowl am I doing this right the little hangy part is a heart can you see that oh we have the mold the mold the mold the mold them all the mold the mode the mold is so much squishier than I thought you use this little mold which is going to create the form of a little figurine it's kind of like an ambiguous form and you can transform it into just about anything that you want Oh My Gosh Sculpey tools they're little clay tools with the the the orb on the end oven bake clay adhesive that's right we have to use the oven that dreaded dreaded hot place when I do use clay I use air dry clay because I try to avoid the oven at all costs we're gonna use the oven today rubber bands to hold the mold clothes look at me I know what all this is I've got this I didn't see anyone using this a miniature spear in case you want to make a voodoo doll sanding stick to sand down the plaster in case there are any rough little here's the clay itself nice brick of clay the plaster oh a little measuring cup I don't know why I said all it's not supposed to be cute reason I think it's kind of cute oh no this is epoxy sculpt there's two parts you mix them together to create some sort of reaction Lord knows why it turns into clay we already have Clay so why do you need this what can you do with this that you can't do with this I I'm gonna text Jackie and ask her what else is in here spatula oh there's Jackie with the quickness regular polymer clay is oven baked so when you bake it it hardens epoxy Clay is air dry clay this is water-based instead of oil okay I use epoxy mostly for more fragile Parts like whiskers or thin pieces okay this is a little mold I don't know why I'm being like really aggressive with the way I'm handling things right now so the little mold is for resin to make little eyeballs and such I have a um deep rooted fear of resin oh my gosh we have nine colors of paint and this foreign it attacked me first step of this is we have to actually create our little form so I'm going to take my squishy squishy mold and just kind of match it up and then take these little rubber bands and just use them to make sure that this mold stays closed now for the plaster 200 milliliters of plaster now we just pour the plaster into the bowl then we need three ounces of water I have my water simply pour the water over the plaster oh just mix these two up oh no I'm spilling can you over mix it because if you can I most definitely will now I'm just gonna put the funnel on top and go ahead and pour the plaster in gosh this is terrifying for some reason okay yeah we filled that okay jiggle it a little bit to get all the air bubbles out it's going to take 45 minutes to cure I hope I did everything properly we'll see I guess it's been almost an hour time to open this puppy up and see how we did pull the rubber bands off and then carefully he's very warm ding it dang it dang it dang it dang it so he looks pretty good except for the fact that his arm got ripped off so I'm gonna have to be a little bit creative whether I can reattach this arm or maybe just like sculpt a new one for the rest of the process I think I'm going to switch into voice over mode because this is the part where it gets really really time consuming so let's go do that so I decided that I couldn't really deal with the fact that I had ripped the arm off this was attempt number two clearly I've rushed things here and I didn't close the mold completely so I tried it again this time I did a superb job look at that not a drop of plaster out of place oh it's so clean I ripped off those rubber bands and carefully carefully oh it's the arm it's the arm don't do it don't you leave me ta-da I got it and it only took me three tries here's attempt number one and attempt number three together attempt number two could not be present but anyway here's my little dude I'm gonna take this sanding stick rip that out and just use it along the little seams just get those little frillies off you know this worked like a charm to clean things right up this was one thing I didn't struggle with whoa yay celebrate the little victories and don't get used to them all right laying down some wax paper and I'm taking out the clay oven bake I'm scared I ripped off a nice small piece of that and then I'll take the liquid clay this is my first time using this what is this and I'll just add a little bit of that into the clay to soften it up you gotta do some intense kneading to work with Clay like this I did watch every single one of Jackie's little secret tutorials this is the first thing I learned from the tutorials trying to patch up some of the little air bubbles in the plaster when I was watching Jackie do it I was like oh okay easy no problem super duper clear I can do that but then actually trying to do it it's not that easy Jackie it's not that easy props to Jackie and the other clay people sculptors sorry because clay people disrespectful no I'd be fine if somebody called me a paint people trying to get the clay smooth down nicely it's like an art form I've actually made it lumpier than it was before good job you're making it worse I'm taking a couple more small pieces of clay kneading them kneading kneading need ages later I've created this and I'm cutting that in half oh good that's perfect yep that's exactly how I wanted it to end up this is gonna be an ear but it's far too large and Now's the Time to use these tools that I'm weirdly excited about I just feel like a real sculptor so I'm gonna have to work with that and fix that up until I have two little bare ears and before you point out how basic I am being for turning this into a bear I did have a lot of grand plans I was thinking about designing some sort of like rainbow alien with big resin eyes I thought about doing like some sort of intense dessert creature but then I experienced step one and then I experienced step two and I realized this may be a little more difficult than I expected I decided to completely simplify my idea it's just a bear I decided to create a little fur texture on the ears this was one of the joys of my life okay I loved this because it was actually quite easy to do I was just happy for a win next I'm gonna make an accessory for my bear I went with something that I've done before with Clay a bow I wanted to be able to kind of directly compare my experience with air dry clay to polymer clay I think I came to the conclusion that air dry Clay is much easier to work with it's softer you can use water to soften it but polymer clay holds its shape so much nicer it doesn't really like smush and fall as easily as air dry clay so as with everything there's pros and cons to both and here we go with another hunk of clay and this is going to be another accessory for my girl here but first I gotta put some underwear on her I just threw that on to help this stick better and it's going to be a cute little skirt well it's supposed to be cute it doesn't really look that cute right now that's awful it's a style it's a look okay no no we're taking that off I made a new strip of clay and tried to redo it it's still not the most magnificent thing I've ever seen but I can live with that I have this very weird patch of clay over the chest so I decided to texture that to give her some chest hair now because I've added all my accessories to the front she no longer stands on her own I thought adding the rest of the skirt in the back might help that but then I was having a lot of trouble doing that because as I'm trying to create something on the back I'm messing everything up on the front so then I just decided to rip that off let's just keep the front looking decent I did go over everything with a Q-tip and some rubbing alcohol which was a suggestion that Jackie made it did work really well to take minor imperfections out like fingerprints but obviously it's it's not going to fix the mountains of lumpiness that I've created here out with my baking sheet I laid her down and into the oven and out of the oven already nothing bad happened in the oven everything is as it was so no Miracles happened either and I thought because now the front is baked I could work on the back without worrying about messing up the front but I was missing my old friend we were desperate to be together again I was really ready to start painting so whatever I'm just gonna start painting let's just forget about the back okay can we do that no thanks you're the best no no now I started painting the color I went for this very fleshy tan color but then I wasn't really feeling that so I added a whole bunch of brown and other colors to make it more Berry and there we go let's go over with that looks very similar to the first color but in my mind that's a big deal let's paint this tragedy of a back now oh not lingering on that for long okay good and on to the accessories I gave her a nice little pink bow and a very light yellow skirt and of course I really did enjoy this process of decorating it was really fun oh but this was a bad choice I tried painting the chest a lighter brown you know how Bears have the lighter like tummy patch thing for some reason it just didn't look right in this scenario I'm working on the face now which of course I'm just painting it on I didn't sculpt the face there were a lot of things in this kit that I didn't end up using like the resin and the epoxy and the paint and I went into this thinking that I was gonna use all of those things but this was all very new to me and so I kind of just decided to choose a handful of struggles at a time instead of trying to tackle everything all at once and here's where I try to make sense of the fact that she's wearing half a skirt I painted a tie on her back so it looks like she's wearing like some sort of apron yeah it's not a skirt it's an apron it's always been an apron I'm gonna go with that finally I did throw a varnish over the whole thing to protect my paint this is so much different of an outcome than I was envisioning when I started she's very simple but this process was not simple it was pretty challenging for me and even though my results are very simple personally I like it clearly there's still a lot of improvement when it comes to my sculpting ability also kind of sad that she can't stand on her own anymore pretty sure that's a big No-No when it comes to sculpture sorry I think I did learn a decent amount in this experience this is definitely a super top-notch kit with so much packed into it I hope I did a reasonably decent job showing off some of the capabilities of this kit even for a completely clueless beginner like me I hope you guys enjoyed watching and I'll see you next week bye [Music] [Music]

Channel: Moriah Elizabeth

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Length: 15min 57sec (957 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 19 2021