Lessons and master classes with a photo on the modeling of fruit beads and a whole mandarin.

December 7, 2017 handmadebase

Create jewelry with your own hands -popular hobby. All over the world, needlewomen weave from beads, knit from laces and threads, mold from polymer clay a variety of things: necklaces, bracelets, earrings and much more. And if for beading and knitting all beads and stones are sold in hardware stores, then craftsmen working with polymer clay can create not only jewelry, but also elements for it, for example, beads. Jewelry made of polymer clay can be in a variety of styles. This article will offer master classes on making beads from fruit sausages and a mandarin made of thermoplastic. Fruit canes made of polymer clay.Such bright and beautiful sausages will be useful in creating earrings and bracelets and will become excellent decorative elements in more complex jewelry. Orange cane. Materials:

Thermoplastic (orange, translucent orange, white flowers);
Stationery knife;
Transparent varnish (glossy or matte to your taste);
Skalka.

To avoid fingerprints on the plastic, which clay is very sensitive to, you can put on thin latex gloves. This will make the craft look neater.Take a piece of translucent orange plastic and form a sausage-shaped cane with a triangular cross-section. This is the blank for the orange slices.Roll out a piece of white clay into a thin layer. Wrap the orange sausage in it and cut off the excess.Press the workpiece, keeping to the triangular section. Work with your fingers, to give the desired shape you can use a table, applying the cane with edges.Cut the thin triangular cane into 8 equal parts.Roll a very thin sausage out of white clay and place triangular canes around it.Roll out a piece of white thermoplastic into a layer slightly thicker than the previous one and wrap the workpiece in it. Roll.Then wrap the resulting thick sausage in a layer of orange clay.Part of the sausage can be compressed to a smaller diameter, part can be left as is. From such canes you will get beads of different diameters.Cut the thick cane into circles approximately 3 mm thick and pierce with a straight piece of thick wire, and thin canes can be baked without cutting.Strictly adhere to temperature conditions,indicated on the clay package. After the crafts have cooled, the thin sausages can also be cut into rings. Cover the blanks with varnish. If you replace the colors of the clay, you can get cute lemon or grapefruit slices.They are suitable for decorating larger crafts, such as napkin rings or cakes, also made from plastic.Another fruit that will look great in polymer clay beads is kiwi.What you will need:

Baking plastic of various shades of greenery (dark, medium and light);
The baked plastic is medium and darker than the shades of brown;
Toothpick;
Stationery knife.

Mash a piece of dark green and medium green thoroughly.green clay and make a smooth gradient. Form a bar. Cut it into pieces so that each has a gradient. Separate a small piece from the light green (for veins), roll the rest into a cylinder with an oval cross-section.From the previously left piece of light greenroll out a layer of clay, its thickness should be equal to the width of the vein. Place the plates with the gradient on this layer and cut out the blanks. Roll a thin sausage from dark brown (almost black) clay. Its diameter should be equal to the diameter of the kiwi seed. Make grooves on the blanks with a toothpick, the number is arbitrary, as is the order of arrangement. Press through the veins and place the pieces of dark brown sausage-flail from the darker edge.Take the light green center of the cylindricalforms and attach the blanks with the flagella to it with the dark side. It turns out to be a kind of "sun with rays". Fill the spaces between the "rays" with medium green clay. In order to make the work more neat, you can give a piece of medium green clay the shape of triangles.Now wrap the resulting sausage in a layer of brown clay.Press and bake in the same way as the fruit rings described above. The next modeling lesson suggests creating a whole, bright, sunny tangerine.You will need:

Thermoplastics (colors: orange, translucent orange, white, green);
Roller (you can use the paste machine);
Stationery knife;
Needle;
Toothpick;
Acrylic paint (white color);
Liquid polymer clay;
Salt is fine-grained;
Polishing paper (sandpaper 3 - 5 microns, the thinnest);
Transparent varnish for polymer clay.

The first stage is creating a blanktangerines. Carefully knead a piece of translucent orange thermoplastic, roll it into a sausage and cut into equal parts. Form slices for tangerines from them using your fingers. Assemble tangerines from the resulting blanks. One tangerine will take about seven pieces.Use a needle to make grooves on the slices. 1 longitudinal and several small diagonal ones.If you plan to use tangerines, asbeads, you need to make a through hole with a needle in the center and you can put them on the first temperature treatment. Bake strictly in accordance with the data indicated on the package. The first baking can last about five minutes. After the tangerine is baked, you need to paint its white with paint. For convenience, pin it on a toothpick. Carefully ensure that all the grooves are painted.After the paint has completely dried, remove the top layer of paint so that it remains only in the grooves and depressions between the lobes. Now you need to make the peel for the tangerines. Roll out 1 layer of orange and white, then combine and roll together. The layer thickness should not be more than 0.5 mm.Tear the resulting layer into pieces and wrap with tangerine peel. For better adhesion of the parts, you can additionally apply some liquid polymer clay.To make the peel look like a real tangerine,roll it in fine salt. (Roll only the peel). And put it on the baking again. After that, just rinse with water, the salt will dissolve, and the effect of the tangerine peel will remain.Now you can attach the green clay stalks using liquid plastic, poke a hole for beads if necessary and bake again.After cooling, you can paint the unpeeled parts of the tangerines with varnish and use them as your imagination suggests.

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