This detailed master class will teach you how to make jewelry from polymer clay – DIY ethnic style beads.
In creating jewelry from polymer clay –DIY ethnic style beads – We will use the following materials: – Plastic in black, blue, gray-blue, rich green-blue and silver – Liquid plastic (fimo-gel) – Texture mat – Rolling pin – Blade – Some colorful (weed) plastic – Toothpicks – Glossy varnish for plastic – Nylon thread – 4 long pins with a cap – Several small pieces of paper – Nail polish remover – Cotton pads – 2 round boats – 4 and 2 cm – Round nose pliers – Connecting ring – Super glue – Gray acrylic paint – Brush – Needle
From blue shades we roll sausages with a diameter of 7-8 mm.
We cut them into equal pieces with a blade.
Roll these pieces into balls.
Place a ball on a sheet of paper. Cover it with a small piece of paper.
Use the end of the rolling pin to press the ball through the paper, turning the ball into a pancake.
This results in a neat round shape.
Use a toothpick to make a hole in the center.
We repeat many times, thus forming beads-chips.
We do the same with black plastic and bake it.
We prepare and knead pieces of weed plastic, now we will use a textured mat to create textured beads and beads using the mika-shift technique.
We roll out the silver plastic and imprint the texture on it.
Using a blade, carefully cut off all the convex parts of the pattern.
It is necessary to obtain a flat surface, but not to damage the pattern, which was formed due to the shift of pigment particles in the silver plastic. Small defects are rolled out with a rolling pin.
We imprint the texture on the green-blue piece and roll it into a thick sausage made of trash material.
We wrap the sausage in silver plastic, the design facing out. We join the edges extremely evenly.
Use a toothpick to sand the joint.
Cut the silver sausage into 4 equal parts.
We put them on their sides and drill holes in them with toothpicks.
We wrap the remaining piece of weed sausage in blue-green textured plastic.
We also join the edges using a toothpick.
We cut into three parts, the central one is larger than the side ones. We also put it on its side and make holes with a toothpick.
Mix the remaining silver and green-blue plastic with fimo-gel until liquid.
Using a toothpick, apply liquid colored plastic of the corresponding color to the side parts of the beads.
We cover the beads only on one side for now and send them to bake.
While the beads are baking, from the texturedUsing silver plastic, cut out a circle with a diameter of 4 cm, make a 2 cm hole in it with a second cutter, and use a blade to randomly cut out an oblong figure from the same plastic. This will be a toggle lock, so use a toothpick to make holes in the middle of the oblong shape and along the edge of the round shape. We also send it off to bake.
We take the beads out of the oven, cool them,turn it over, coat it with colored plastic on the other side, and put it back in the oven. At this stage we have: baked chips, a toggle lock, 4 silver beads and 3 green-blue, if desired, the silver beads can be varnished.
We cover the green-blue beads with gray acrylic paint.
After the paint has dried, remove the top layer using cotton pads and nail polish remover.
We will collect beads using nylon thread! It is really strong and will give movement to such heavy beads.
We take a pin with a cap and wind a thread around it. We tie knots, like macrame.
We thread this pin into the bead along with the edge of the double thread.
Lubricate the knots and the part of the pins that will be hidden by the bead with super glue.
With a sharp and precise movement, push the pin all the way into the bead. On one side of the bead there is a pin sticking out, on the other – double thread.
We insert the thread into the needle and string the beads mixed with the chips. ANY order, the only thing is that the largest bead should be in the center and the largest bead next to the lock. For balance.
When all the elements are in place, tighten the thread. We attach a pin close to the last chip.
And repeat the gluing trick.
We get surprisingly cool beads in ethno style! No lock yet.
Use round-nose pliers to twist the pins into springs.
Insert a pin with a cap into each part of the toggle lock.
We also twist the edges of the pins into springs.
We attach the lock to the beads using the connecting rings.
And we admire the result – The original polymer clay decoration is ready!
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