UTEE Roses from a Mould

I ordered some bronzed pendant blanks from ebay (see future posts for experiments) and the very nice people sent a little red plastic rose as well, so I thohght it would be perfect to try and use it to have a go at making a mould to pour utee into.

Rather than investing in some of the pricier mould making products that are around I brought a tub of playdoh for about a pound.  I pressed the rose into the playdoh (which smells as good as I remember!) and eased it out, then poured in my utee into it, let it cool and popped out the rose. The first cream rose in the picture is my first attempt, the second one wasn't quite so good on the detail, this was to do with how I coloured the utee.

Those little stringy bits just snap off.

To get the rose out of the playdoh just ease it a bit and the rose falls out.

I have read that you can colour utee with normal embossing powder, I tried this by adding some yellow 

powder to the melted utee, it only turned it cream rather than yellow. So for the second rose I added more yellow powder, this seemed to make to utee mix much thicker but didn't change the colour at all.  When it came to pour out the utee it it was too thick to fill in the detail on the mould, maybe adding more utee would have thinned it out again.

As for the actual playdoh as a mould, I was very impressed. Obviously the mould doesn't last, so if there's something you know you'll want to make again and again something like Mould N Pour but for a one offs I'd go with playdoh.

The red one is the original, the middle is the first attempt and the last one is the slightly lumpy one poured out when the mixture was too thick.