Weekend Projection Diy: Gilded Foliage Geometric Necklace
Saturday, 23 June 2012
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Contributor shipping service past times Penelope together with Pip.
I am loving the pastel colours that are already popping upward this summertime hence when I stumbled across roughly gilded leafage at my local hardware store concluding weekend I at in 1 trial regard of this cute DIY projection amongst polymer clay.
This pretty necklace takes no fourth dimension at all to brand together with volition await slap-up at a summertime party.
Lets teach started amongst materials:
Materials:
1. Polymer clay
2. Blade
3. Hole poking tool (I don't know what the fancy cite for that is!)
4. Natural twine
5. Glass
6. Card
7. Baking tray
8. Jewellery findings
9. Gold leafage (I industrial plant life mine at the hardware store)
The steps are super easy:
Step 1: Condition your clay past times rolling it inward the palm of your manus for a pair of minutes until it is soft together with pliable.
The slap-up affair close polymer is yous tin mix colours. I made this pretty apricot color amongst a brilliant orangish together with roughly white. Luckily the other pastel colours were inward stock at the shop.
Step 2: Use the drinking glass to whorl out the clay, making certain it is even. If yous don't purpose an fifty-fifty sided drinking glass yous won't live on able to teach the clay an fifty-fifty thickness.
If yous guide maintain an acrylic rolling pivot that volition live on fifty-fifty easier to use!
Step 3: Use your blade to cutting a triangle shape. You could teach fancy together with create a hexagon precisely I was a flake every bit good mathematically challenged for that on a Fri afternoon!
Step 4: Use something to poke a hole inward the acme for your cord. I truly guide maintain a exceptional polymer hole puncher, precisely yous could purpose a knitting needle or something similiar.
Step 5: Place yous triangle confront downwards on a slice of gilded leaf, making certain it has a direct border at the top.
Step 6: Turn it over together with purpose the gilded leafage backing to rub the leafage on to the polymer. Rub it pretty difficult to teach it prissy together with smooth.
You tin together with then tear away the excess gilded leafage to function out a lovely triangle of gilded similar below.
Step 7: After yous guide maintain finished making all of your pieces if yous are making to a greater extent than than 1 necklace, seat all of the pieces onto a menu together with house on a baking tray reading for baking.
Follow your clay's instructions to bake. I had to bake mine at 130 deg Celsius for xv minutes. It is a skillful regard to comprehend the tray inward aluminum foil to ensure no fumes escape into the stove. The clay bundle says it is fine for a domestic oven, precisely I similar to live on safe.
Step 8: Once your pieces are cooked together with cooled, thread the cord through, necktie a knot together with and then attach your findings to the top, making certain yous guide maintain the desired length.
You could fifty-fifty add together a few together for a tiered look.
Now all yous guide maintain to create is create upward one's heed what to jibe it amongst together with taste wearing roughly pretty pastels for summer!
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Rachael is an illustrator from Brisbane, Commonwealth of Australia together with is the creator of the whimsical basis of Penelope together with Pip. You tin sneak a peek at her illustrations here and come across what other projects together with adventures are inspiring her on her blog too.
This pretty necklace takes no fourth dimension at all to brand together with volition await slap-up at a summertime party.
Lets teach started amongst materials:
Materials:
1. Polymer clay
2. Blade
3. Hole poking tool (I don't know what the fancy cite for that is!)
4. Natural twine
5. Glass
6. Card
7. Baking tray
8. Jewellery findings
9. Gold leafage (I industrial plant life mine at the hardware store)
The steps are super easy:
Step 1: Condition your clay past times rolling it inward the palm of your manus for a pair of minutes until it is soft together with pliable.
The slap-up affair close polymer is yous tin mix colours. I made this pretty apricot color amongst a brilliant orangish together with roughly white. Luckily the other pastel colours were inward stock at the shop.
Step 2: Use the drinking glass to whorl out the clay, making certain it is even. If yous don't purpose an fifty-fifty sided drinking glass yous won't live on able to teach the clay an fifty-fifty thickness.
If yous guide maintain an acrylic rolling pivot that volition live on fifty-fifty easier to use!
Step 3: Use your blade to cutting a triangle shape. You could teach fancy together with create a hexagon precisely I was a flake every bit good mathematically challenged for that on a Fri afternoon!
Step 4: Use something to poke a hole inward the acme for your cord. I truly guide maintain a exceptional polymer hole puncher, precisely yous could purpose a knitting needle or something similiar.
Step 5: Place yous triangle confront downwards on a slice of gilded leaf, making certain it has a direct border at the top.
Related:
You tin together with then tear away the excess gilded leafage to function out a lovely triangle of gilded similar below.
Step 7: After yous guide maintain finished making all of your pieces if yous are making to a greater extent than than 1 necklace, seat all of the pieces onto a menu together with house on a baking tray reading for baking.
Follow your clay's instructions to bake. I had to bake mine at 130 deg Celsius for xv minutes. It is a skillful regard to comprehend the tray inward aluminum foil to ensure no fumes escape into the stove. The clay bundle says it is fine for a domestic oven, precisely I similar to live on safe.
Step 8: Once your pieces are cooked together with cooled, thread the cord through, necktie a knot together with and then attach your findings to the top, making certain yous guide maintain the desired length.
You could fifty-fifty add together a few together for a tiered look.
Now all yous guide maintain to create is create upward one's heed what to jibe it amongst together with taste wearing roughly pretty pastels for summer!
***
Rachael is an illustrator from Brisbane, Commonwealth of Australia together with is the creator of the whimsical basis of Penelope together with Pip. You tin sneak a peek at her illustrations here and come across what other projects together with adventures are inspiring her on her blog too.
