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.

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 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.

I wanted to write a tutorial that would allow a complete beginner to polymer clay to create a piece of jewellery with the minimum of tools and materials, with a professional finish and takes a short time to make.

When I started making jewellery out of clay I found it very easy to make lovely pieces, but it took me a while to figure out how to get a lovely finish on my lovely beads.