Jade beads and pendants - 63 of 366 creative days

63/166  - Fake jade

For the twenty eighth day of 366 creative days I have posted a fake jade attempt of a pendant made of noodles and beads, along with a some other tests. Gives a bit of Maya jewelry impression.

Fake jade polymer clay Mayan pendants

 Materials

1 - 1 x 104 + 1 x 404 + 1/2 x 504 transparent Fimo polymer clay for light green
2 -  1 x 104 + 1x 404 + 1/2 x 374 transparent Fimo polymer clay for mustard olive
3 -  1 x 80 + a pinch of 43
4 - sand (mix of dark and white)
5 - liquid Kato polymer clay
6 - cinnamon powder, tiny sticks, various other "dirt that might look interesting in the jade
7 - 1 x 50 + 1 x 10 polymer clay
8 - 1 x 50 + a pinch of white

b - Tools

1 - roller
2 - pasta machine
3 - extrude gun
4 - molds and stamps
5 - brush


c - Techniques

 1 - Mix the colors together separate by shade by using a pasta machine
 2 - Chop the blended (1, 2) polymer clay into small bits and pieces and mix it with some sand, cinnamon and other "dirt"
3 - Mix 3 with a bit of sand for making the base for the pendant, then flatten it at a 2 mm thickness
4 - Make the bead and pendant shapes and stamp them with various designs
5 - Leftover jade extrude with a polymer clay extruder, same for 7 and 8, will fasten the process.
6 - Thin a bit more the "noodles" using your finger
7 - Brush the base using a brush with liquid Kato polymer clay, and start arranging the polymer clay jade noodles using your imagination.
8 - Bake as described on package (110 C) on a piece of baking paper

Fake jade polymer clay beads

d - End result

I'm trying to find the pendant for some time, somehow, it got lost when I changed flats along with another necklace.
I really loved the pendant, after baking, the polymer clay become slightly transparent and give a very interesting touch along with non transparent colored clay.

More extruded polymer clay stripes - 35/366

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  For the thirty fifth day of 366 creative days I have did more polymer clay extruded stripes from those rainbow striped canes.

Polymer clay extruded stripes

  I have done new arrangements for the cane slices, the only one in common with the first extruded polymer clay stripes is the second one here, same with the third one there.
   I got my hands on white Cernit polymer clay and I will test it. But probably after I am done with these stripes.

Polymer clay rainbow colors pendant - 34 of 366 creative days

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 For the thirty forth day of 366 creative days I have continued with the polymer clay rainbow canes extruded and done a center piece of a pendant, I will add a frame from black polymer clay with cracked silver leaf on top and string it along the beads with same colors.

Polymer clay rainbow colors pendant

   I have used one of the extruded polymer clay cane from two days ago, I think it was the last one, the round cane and slice it on the length.

Extruded polymer clay stripes - 31 of 366 creative days

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  For the thirty first day of 366 creative days I have done some testing with extruded polymer clay rainbow stripes from those logs done in the third day.

 
 You can see the stripe combination before extruding and after extruding you can see the heads, tail and two randoms middle. The extruded shape square is about 5 mm, so it wasn't a good idea, probably with more material and a bigger extruder gun would look better.
  I like the rainbow variation very much, I will try on white next time, maybe some transparent as well when I will get my hands on some.

PMC extruder canes earrings - 26 of 366 creative days

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   For the twenty sixth day I finished a pair of polymer clay earrings from some previous tries on extruded canes with some leftover oranges, transparent and matte as well with some canes from the turquoise emerald beads on sixth day.

Polymer clay extruded cane earrings

   This is my second pair of finished polymer clay earrings, first I have done some years ago and gave it to a friend.

Pendant and earrings - 11 of 366 creative days

11/366
This is eleventh day of 366 creative days.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials

1 - Clay Gun experiment(2/366)
2 - Another clay gun experiment I did before starting to post from some weird tries colors
3 - Uneven stripes from same color experiment

b - Tools

1 - Circular cookie cutter
2 - Blade
3 - Pasta machine
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c - Techniques
1 - Overlap when cutting to have same shape
2 - Add slices from canes on a previously cut shape

d - End result

Earrings, slices of extruded polymer clay

Polymer clay fish

e - Used for
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Finished earrings

f - Other info
- the fish looks was unintentional but I guess I cannot escape, I love fish, water and everything related. No, I cannot survive more than two weeks without eating fish!
- this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about how I did it let me know.

Thank you!
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Turquoise-emerald beads - 6 of 366 creative days

6/366
This is sixth day of 366 creative days

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials

1. Polymer clay colors

          1 - 1x0(white) + 3x32(turquoise)+black painting
          2 - 2x014(transparent white)+1x32(turquoise)
          3 -1x56(emerald)
          4 - 1x404(transparent orange)+2x504(transparent green)
          5 - 1x504(transparent green)+1x014(transparent white)
          6 -1x504(transparent green)
          7 - 1x504(transparent green)+1x374(transparent blue)+1x014(transparent white)
          8 -  2x504(transparent green)+2x374(transparent blue)
          9 - 1x014(transparent white)
          10 -  Silver leaf
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b - Tools
           Forgot to take a picture, also to add the extruded tube when finishes, getting too tired I think.
          1 - Pasta machine
          2 - Extrude gun
          3 - Tissue blade
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c - Techniques

2. Tube to be extruded and Mokume gane layers

          1 -I made the tube layers of different sizes, vary between 1 and 6, depending on the mat left from each material. Cut 3 disks for each material and also added some turquoise dried and run trough a pasta machine( was looking more like rice) as a disk.
          2 - For the layers I run them at setting 8, then placed each contrasting 3 together and between them silver leaf.
          3 -For the blocks in image 3 I got all the rest materials cut them very very small and mixed them with a 10 cm/5cm silver leaf or gold(the smaller one) and made a block of out them keeping them as natural as possible.
          4 - Beads and drops are made from scrap left from the Mokume gane layers.

          5 - To make the turquoise beads I used paint with turquoise bits and left it to dry 1-2 days then put it all together and when I needed I cut chunks of it in small bits again and mixing it with 1xwhite+2xturquoise polymer clay

d - End result

3. Beads and blocks

e - Used for
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f - Other info
          - For the cubes at the end I used chunks of white, big mistake
          - colors aren't quite accurate
          - all this is unbaked, they will look more transparent when they will be cured
          - this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about this method let me know.

Thank you for your support!
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Clay gun Experiment - day one of 366 creative days

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This is for day one of the 366 creative days project.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials

Polymer clay colors and tools

          Fimo polymer clay
          1 - 1x70(sahara)+1x014(translucent)
          2 - 1x35(windsor blue)+1x37(pacific blue)
          3 - 1x56(peppermint)+1x39(emerald)+1x014(translucent)
          4 - 11(gold)
          10 - 75(chocolate)
          9 - scrap from random amount of those 4 polymer clay colors

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   b - Tools


           5 - clay extruder with a square cap
           6 - circular cutter(I didn't have a cookie cutter so i used the inner side of a lipstick)
           7 - 3 circles cap
           8 - blade

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   c - Techniques

Tube made from polymer clay buttons

            I stashes the colors in a random order and then thinned the snake a bit to fit the extruder diameter

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d - End result

 

           1 - all 5 colors and 3 circles extruder cap, not cured

           2 - all 5 colors and square extruder cap, not cured

           3 - only 4 colors, haven't used color 1 and square extruder ca, not cured

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   e - Used for

           Will be added later

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    f - Other info

        - this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about this method let me know.

    Thank you for your support!

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