Cute pendants from clay
There are thousands of shapes you can form from polymer clay. But these days, the shapes are both decorative and functional. But what I really like about these clay items are the colors and flexibility – you can combine them with other colors, mix and match or decorate them with beads, glasses and other stones.
Pendants are my favorite and after trying out several designs, some copied, some originals, I now have a collection of polymer clay pendants to wear depending on my moods and my clothes.
Some video tutorials are now available online to guide you in designing and baking polymer clay. Each one presents its own technique but here’s the basic procedure for a clay pendant to start off:
First, choose from the range of colors. You may combine two attractive colors or more. Some clay types are used for this purpose. Premo or Fimo clays are among the strongest and can stand baking. Prepare the ornament – you may use beads or metal items to add to the design.
Shape the clay and flatten to desired size and thickness. Press the ornament or bead deep enough and remove excess clay. Take a jump ring, add a piece of wire through the jump ring and twist to secure. Bend the bottom of the wire up to form a small hook and insert it into the clay.
Bake for 20 minutes at 275 degrees Fahrenheit on ceramic tile, tempered glass or invented cookie sheet. To obtain a shiny effect, dip the pendant into Future Floor Finish and let dry.
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I want to learn how to make beads like the one in the picture above and those cool Raku beads.When I began in pemylor clay I did not think I would do jewelry but I got bit by the bead bug. Now I have a growing number of beads that seem to be multiplying like rabbits. I love to go to my happy place and mindlessly make more beads and more beads and more beads. Now putting these together into something is problematic so i just keep making more beads. There are a lot of resource on color theory but I have not seem much on actual jewelry design.I recently took a community education bead bracelet class for fun and relaxation. HA !!!! It was worse than my fun and relaxing China painting class where I wanted to inhale all of the pant thinner and lind seed oil and then go lick the lead based paint off other students china. I thought this bracelet class would teach us tricks on how to put textures, dangling beads, charms and spacers into something. It was more like jump on in kids, the water is fine; which is actually a good technique. But did the instructor need to bring 30 bead organizers full of choices; did we need 15 choices of yellow. Bless her heart she was trying to be generous and give us choices too many choices. I spent almost the entire 90 minutes trying to pick beads and spacers.I am usually a very spur of the moment, non perfectionistic , don’t sweat the small stuff person who does not have trouble making decisions. Now I was an identity crisis and panic attack in my fun and relaxing beading. class. I finally just forced a decision and the bracelet come out great.I look in sale ads and magazine for ideas. I am being over analytical. I know, less is more. Maybe I am focusing too much on the details in the bead and see them more as an overall color. Any suggestions?
I definately think it’s beacuse Olive was not there
Well bummer. My first one was in Portland a few years ago and it was huge, packed, but like you mentioned, there was a lot of the same stuff on each table. I was there for pearls and bought a bunch, and some hill tribe silver and that was about it. I came home with cash still in purse, so that must say a lot!