Making a complex cane is hard work. This tutorial forms part of the complex cane or millifiori technique tutorials. This tutorial shows how you can incorporate slices from your complex cane to make a pretty pendant.
As you may have noticed, I like making striped jewellery. But in today's tutorial I wanted to show how easy it is to make a striped log.
After baking a piece I get flustered on how much I should do to finish it. I ask myself, 'Will it make a significant difference to wet-sand each piece from 400 grit to 1200 grit, polish and varnish it compared to just varnishing it?' I've spent many hours agonising over this and figured the best way to resolve my indecision is by approaching it in a (reasonably) scientific manner. Experiment.
Bull’s eye canes are one of the basic elements often used in creating more complex canes when making polymer clay jewellery. Alternatively the cane can be sliced to create pretty flat, round beads. This tutorials show the different steps in the process in making a bull’s eye cane.
Bracelets have always been my favourite type of jewellery but I realised with a shock that I rarely make them. This tutorial shows the different steps on how to make a cuff out of polymer clay. It also shows how to make the bracelet blank and shows how the soft-in-soft polymer clay technique works as used for the pattern on the outside.
Pendants make great gifts and I like making them. In this tutorial I wanted to show two things. The first is how to do an image transfer onto metal. The second is to make a pendant with a rounded top so that you can string it easily.
Image transfers to metal is a nifty technique if you don't have the equipment (or want to take the risks) that etching on metal involves. It also allows you to introduce vivid colours to your jewellery. For this tutorial I wanted to focus on two aspects, the first is to show how to do an image transfer and the second is how to make an adjustable ring.
Image transfers are fun, relatively easy and have a lot of scope for making different pretty things with it. There are various techniques you can use while making jewellery, in this tutorial we are going to make a pendant using the liquid polymer image transfer technique.
I lovingly call this piece my blond abacus. It consists of a sterling silver metal bar with a howlite barrel bead riveted on. The howlite is riveted on a brass wire.
After baking a piece I get flustered on how much I should do to finish it. I ask myself, 'Will it make a significant difference to wet-sand each piece from 400 grit to 1200 grit, polish and varnish it compared to just varnishing it?' I've spent many hours agonising over this and figured the best way to resolve my indecision is by approaching it in a (reasonably) scientific manner. Experiment.
This tutorial shows how to make a sterling silver ring with a round fitting. You can add a semi-precious stone, polymer clay design or fill it with resin. I made a design with some polymer clay for mine. I liked the orange and black with the silver.
I like using leather cord and sterling silver to assemble my polymer clay necklaces. So I want to quickly show you how to make loop wrap bead attached to a jump ring. You’ll need wire cutters, round nose pliers, flat nose pliers, some beads, sterling silver (or any other) wire and some jump rings. (Made or bought.)
This technique works well for a disc-shaped bead with holes on each side. I like attaching disc shaped beads to long necklaces made with beads and leather cord.
