I wrote a very similar post on Dec. 28, 2014. It can be found here. It provides more photos and details for this technique.
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Yesterday, I
crafted some pendants that will be displayed during a trunk show hosted
at a friend's home next month. If you have been reading my blog, you
will notice my brand is creating asymmetric jewelry using warm tones.
Now,
on to the pendants. The polymer clay colors chosen were all Premo
Accent colors of 1oz size bars. The colors used are Red Glitter, Bronze, 18-karat Gold, Copper and Translucent.
All
bars were chopped into little pieces and conditioned. I find chopping
them up first allows the conditioning process to go a little faster.
Some people use a food processor for this step. I just use a sharp
blade.
This photo is an example of inserting my handmade findings into my polymer clay pieces before baking them. My usual method was to make a hole for the finding and then bake or make no hole in my pieces and wire wrap after baking.
This simple set was completed in less than 2 hours. No need to wire wrap the pendants or the earrings.
Since I have begun using suede lace in place of chains or nylon string on some of my pieces, this technique is turning out to be quite useful and a great little time saver.
Today I decided to try my hand with twisting clay. The colors used were black, chocolate, gold, sweet potato, pearl blue and translucent. I think the results were amazing. The translucent
really made the colors pop!
Now, it's just figuring out how I want to end this
