While running crafty errands around Brooklyn this afternoon, I saw these faux glass resin beads in my local bead shop, Brooklyn Bead Box, and I couldn’t resist. They look just like glass—even up close—but they’re so light that you could use even the largest beads for earrings. I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to …
Love the turquoise trend? Bake up some big, bold faux turquoise polymer clay beads and create your own stylish summer statement necklace! Supplies: * Polymer clay, 1 block turquoise or colors to mix (One 2 oz block makes about 20 large beads.) * Oven-safe acrylic paint, black * 1mm necklace cord, black (You’ll need about …
I spent all day yesterday playing with polymer clay. Since this was my first clay project that didn’t involve an Altoids tin or shrink plastic, I decided to start simple, testing out conditioning techniques and methods for mixing colors, adding paint, and shaping. My first color mixing attempt was just begging to be made into …
Over the past few days, I’ve been working on a new jewelry project. While experimenting with different ways to connect two pieces of shrink plastic, I spotted a block of Sculpey on my work table, and decided to try combining a piece of already-baked shrink plastic with some polymer clay. As it turns out, because …
