Backing Ear wires or Stud posts - Clean and securely.

Yesterday I made three earrings which are just different from my usual style, slight bigger and of course trendy. I have used Lisa Pavelka texture stamps , cookie utters, Premo clays and mica pigments. They are adorable. 

You see alcohol inks in picture but it is not used for these ear rings. This was my recent purchase from Joann Fabric and Crafts (I got really cool offers ie, free shipping plus 50% off ) , and cutters from Amazon. 

Come to point, here's is a hack for glueing metal to clay, is that strong enough? Obviously we can not relay on it. Being poly clay is highly durable what if findings attached to it fallen off over some time.. Bad thing eh? 

So I do cover the er wires or stud posts on cured earring with a thin layer of clay . Cured clay does'nt stick well to raw clay for this we can either use Translucent liquid sculpey or Bake and Bond. Apply little adhering agent over baked part ,place metal and cover it in thin sheet of clay. Texture n sign if necessary.

Tada... W done!. Look these picture.

Backside - Covered and signed.

And Ear rings... :-) @My FB page to buy.

MICA SHIFT

Textured n domed

Texture n mica powder

Hope you loved them. Thanks for visiting.

Stay tuned for Batik ear rings using Alcohol inks !!!! See you.

Backing Ear wires or Stud posts - Clean and securely.

Yesterday I made three earrings which are just different from my usual style, slight bigger and of course trendy. I have used Lisa Pavelka texture stamps , cookie utters, Premo clays and mica pigments. They are adorable. 

You see alcohol inks in picture but it is not used for these ear rings. This was my recent purchase from Joann Fabric and Crafts (I got really cool offers ie, free shipping plus 50% off ) , and cutters from Amazon. 

Come to point, here's is a hack for glueing metal to clay, is that strong enough? Obviously we can not relay on it. Being poly clay is highly durable what if findings attached to it fallen off over some time.. Bad thing eh? 

So I do cover the er wires or stud posts on cured earring with a thin layer of clay . Cured clay does'nt stick well to raw clay for this we can either use Translucent liquid sculpey or Bake and Bond. Apply little adhering agent over baked part ,place metal and cover it in thin sheet of clay. Texture n sign if necessary.

Tada... W done!. Look these picture.

Backside - Covered and signed.

And Ear rings... :-)

MICA SHIFT

Textured n domed

Texture n mica powder

Hope you loved them. Thanks for visiting.

Stay tuned for Batik ear rings using Alcohol inks !!!! See you.

Jumkas Tutorial II (Applique Technique with simple canes )

Can you spot "vibgyor" on Beige background?

          I have posted earlier how to shape jumka domes with quilling mold. The quilling molds are made out of plastic which you can not bake along. So the clay should take out of mold before curing.
Link HERE.
So today let's make a different jumka with Rainbow colors in.

Image 1

 I selected Beige as base color. I love Premo brands especially for Jumka making. Condition clay very well with brayer or Pasta machine (image 1).

 

 Take two equal volume of clay for ear ring pair. Make  2 domes out of it. Edges should be evenly cut if required. Thickness of the wall also need to be even for neat looking jumka. Similarly the perfection of final crafting too depending on evenness.

Here I gonna share how to do applique work!!!

Image 2

Canes already made few weeks back- one with yellow n cadmium red (orangish), other one with dark violet n red. Dark violet made mixing  premo purple aand premo white. You can add more white for violet, but then it won't pop out of beige.

I have used simple bulls eye canes you can opt skinner blend bulls eye canes too. Because we have small surface to do these applique work , Pinch one side of log to make a drop shape for petals;thin the log as you wish. Cut some thin slices of the canes we are using (Image 2). Arrange them in a pattern ( like flowers here) on the raw domes . Repeat with other canes do some different flowers, make leaves , stems , vines it's all upto you. I am sending some lights on basic idea only.

Make some small balls of blue color in identical size to attach beneath the domes, we are glueing it either with Bake & Bond Or Transulacent Liquid Sculpey. Apply any of the above with the help of tooth prick on edges of dome as shown (Images 3 & 4).

Image 3

Image 4

Image 5

           

  After adhering with TLS it will look like this <= picture (image 5) . I made 2 other round beads in different color (for indigo), will use them while finishing the ear rings.

Image 6

Preheat oven between 250 -275 degree Farenheit is fine. Our beads are hollow and thin. Make sure
the temperature with an oven thermometer (mine is a Walmart $5 one) . But at beginning I will like to maintain 275F for some 10 minutes,then reduces to 250 F because my oven is known for its fluctuating temperature. Send our ear rings to oven .Keep thermometer near to beads (Image 6) to know what temperature is inside. If it is spiking reduce accordingly.

My timer is on for 45 minutes !!Let it cool slowly inside the oven.  And I'm done.

Another demo

Finish it with eye pins and ear wires of your choice.. Tada...
Thank you..

Faux stones

Last week I tried upon some faux stones for challenge in polymer clay related facebook forum. I got these tips from one Russian site and also from youtube.

Festive Collections- Onam

Filigree Continues....with ethnic jewellery

Brands : Fimo classic & Kato clay

Jumkhas- Faux coral

Minimalism with elegance-  Soutache ear rings

Palakkamala (Kerala traditional Necklace) inspired pattern

Palakka mala in precious metal, the real inspiration.

Its the most popular pattern in Kerala, the South Indian state. One of the must in our jewel box. I believe I could show maximum possible justice to the design. Instead of doing a choker with plenty of "palakka charms " I only made the pendant to make it more vivid. Spacer beads with intricate work also fully handmade in poly clay (Kato).

Peacock Jumkha Handmade without mold

Yellow - Green Embroidery Jumkha

Ethnic Gold Jewelry Inspired Pendant Necklace

Another version of Handmade Peacock

Soutache Inspired Pendant

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Accidental Beauty- Story of a Mokume gane necklace

             This is a necklace I made without having a pattern in my mind. What I wanna try is just to entertain myself by :MOKUME GANE " technique. Other than that I should not had any specific plan or idea.        

           First I made few round beads n long beads out of the mini mokume gane block. Since mind was blank I left them as it is for two days , day , night, even during sleep time and doing routine work try to conceive an idea. I needed it (the necklace)  to have a FOCAL point, what should be it... thoughts thoughts and only thoughts going on. Once in such time I happened to read my online horoscope. I am a Piscean born by the ides  march.  

          The symbol of 2 fish one upward n one downward inspired me suddenly. But planning went with only one fish. 

      The color scheme chosen "Analogous"- ie, adjacent colors in color wheel like blue, green, yellow and red also present in beads already made. So the fish should be more eye catching, the color Orange was absent in color palate of analogous scheme.

        The basic shape roughly figured with white sculpey original clay on that spiral cane of yellow -orange tone applied as fish scales - fringes - tail parts. Hence my vibrant fish got ready to go.

                  Next attempted to make some more beads to satisfy the length. For this part made a handful of tiny nugget or pebble beads (which do not have a symmetry in shape) in Yellow, orange and an earthen tone to neutralize the other colors. They are arranged in three  lightly twisted raws with the fish at one end then stopping y long mokume beads.

       The clasp is beaded toggle one that too handmade.  :)  I got many appreciation for this from many people which ultimately made me smiled out of satisfaction of doing something with PC.

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Many in One....

                         

 Onam is the state festival of  Kerala a state in India, from where I am hailing from. It celebrates for ten days in the remembrance of  the king "Mahabali" as per our mythology. We love wear our traditional out fits for such days.

So last day I planned to make an ethnic necklace with matching ear rings. Here's what I made. I do not ever want to make an ordinary piece hence I adopted few techniques for this.

Requisites : Fimo blue , Kato gold.

Filigree n faux stone Pendant : Pendant is my favourit part in the set. Base cut from a blue thick piece by a pentagon shape cutter. Hand made oval faux stone placed in the center of the cut shape. Few tiny gold balls surrounding the center. Next aimed to make blue strings (I don't have an extruder yet managed to make evenly by hand) they placed around in some specific patterns along with some golden balls to fill gaps among the curves. This particular focal very much resembling to "Soutache" as it is done as some what inspired by a Russian artist - Anna Oriona's vedio tutorials.

Cane : A simple flower cane is used to adore the blue beads. The cane is not exaggerated though it sinks with blue bead to lessen  the density of intense blue. I made a mini cane with skinner blend of blue n gold clays for the purpose.

Natasha Beads with a twist : The scrap after caning presented in the form of 1 inch long cylinder beads both side with a technique called natasha beads. I just twisted them gently so the pattern flowing all over the beads.

Dotted golden beads / blue beads: Its simple applique work. Gold beads have blue dots n blue beads have dual tone dots.

Size of beads : They are not having an even size, but evenly arranged. Nearing to focal bead tiny handmade poly clay beads used to get maximum attraction. Same way at the end too tiny beads are strung along.

Matching Ear rings : Though they do not possessed  exactly similar matching with pendant in its simpler way.

Color : It would remind u a dancing peacock.

And I am absolutely happy and excited to show you the finished set.