Diy Simulated Stoneware Necklace
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
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Contributor postal service yesteryear Erick together with Emily of Heidi's Bridge
Lately, we've been actually inspired yesteryear stoneware, specially speckled pieces alongside playful texture. While taking a pottery storey has been on our to-do listing for awhile, inward the meantime, it's fun to replicate the await at dwelling family alongside our imitation stoneware tutorial. While nosotros wouldn't advise using technique for pieces that jibe food, pocket-size accessories similar this necklace are the perfect application.
You Will Need:
-Suede or leather cord
-Polymer Clay
-Acrylic Paint
-Paintbrush
-Old Toothbrush
-Skewer (we used the metallic skewer of a establish marker)
Directions:
1. Form clay into desired shapes using your hands. To brand cutting outs, slightly flatten clay together with carefully cutting out alongside knife.
2. Stick middle of clay beads alongside skewer to shape the hole. Bake or allow air dry, according to directions.
3. To accomplish the await of speckled stoneware, dip former toothbrush into pigment together with brush of excess together with thus that you lot solely bring sparse coating. String dried bead onto your skewer. Using your thumb, gently line downwards on bristles to liberate calorie-free splatters of pigment onto bead equally your other mitt like shooting fish in a barrel turns the skewer to evenly coat. Rest skewer vertically together with allow "faux stoneware" beads dry out on skewer.
3. Pain your other accent beads corporation color, if desired. To conk solely calorie-free launder of color similar our necklace, dab beads alongside newspaper towel field nevertheless tacky.
4. String beads onto your cord. Tie random knots inward the cord for an abstract look.
Meet the Contributors
Lately, we've been actually inspired yesteryear stoneware, specially speckled pieces alongside playful texture. While taking a pottery storey has been on our to-do listing for awhile, inward the meantime, it's fun to replicate the await at dwelling family alongside our imitation stoneware tutorial. While nosotros wouldn't advise using technique for pieces that jibe food, pocket-size accessories similar this necklace are the perfect application.
You Will Need:
-Suede or leather cord
-Polymer Clay
-Acrylic Paint
-Paintbrush
-Old Toothbrush
-Skewer (we used the metallic skewer of a establish marker)
Directions:
1. Form clay into desired shapes using your hands. To brand cutting outs, slightly flatten clay together with carefully cutting out alongside knife.
2. Stick middle of clay beads alongside skewer to shape the hole. Bake or allow air dry, according to directions.
3. To accomplish the await of speckled stoneware, dip former toothbrush into pigment together with brush of excess together with thus that you lot solely bring sparse coating. String dried bead onto your skewer. Using your thumb, gently line downwards on bristles to liberate calorie-free splatters of pigment onto bead equally your other mitt like shooting fish in a barrel turns the skewer to evenly coat. Rest skewer vertically together with allow "faux stoneware" beads dry out on skewer.
3. Pain your other accent beads corporation color, if desired. To conk solely calorie-free launder of color similar our necklace, dab beads alongside newspaper towel field nevertheless tacky.
4. String beads onto your cord. Tie random knots inward the cord for an abstract look.
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Meet the Contributors Emily Hirsch together with Erick Steinberg are blogging yoke behind Heidi's Bridge, a lifestyle weblog alongside a focus on DIY projects, recipes, together with travel. When they're non blogging or working equally 2/4 of the creative means Jolly Bureau, they moonlight equally locally sourced sandwich vendors inward Philadelphia, PA.
