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Clay Craft/Modelling Ideas

Date: 18-06-2024
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Check out these cool ideas you can make with clay!

 

Polymer Clay Jewellery

These polymer clay earrings are super fun to make, keep it simple with single colours for a bright pop or be more adventurous and try the marble-look effect in the other video! 

 

What You'll Need: 

- An oven

- Earring (or other jewellery) hardware

- Premo Sculpey Polymer Clay 

- Essdee Aluminium Craft Roller

- Sculpey Mini Metal Cutters 

- Optional: Acrylic Paint e.g Pebeo Studio Acrylic Set

- Optional: Pebeo Gold Flakes

- Optional: Sculpey Gloss Glaze & paint brush

 

Directions: 

1. Roll out the polymer clay in to the desired thickness for single coloured jewellery, or for marbled effect chop it up into pieces and coat in paint and/or gold leaf as desired, recombining and rolling out into a thin, flat piece as shown in the video. 

2. Cut out selected shapes with Sculpey Mini Metal Cutters. Don't forget to poke holes for the earring fittings with a tooth pick! 

3. Bake the in the oven according to instructions on the packet - should be 130° for 30mins per 1/4 inch of clay thickness.

4. Optional - add sculpey gloss glaze

5. Use hardware to build your jewellery! 

 

 

WATCH THE VIDEO OF SINGLE-COLOUR EARRINGS

WATCH THE VIDEO OF MARBLE-EFFECT EARRINGS

 

Trinket Trays 

These trinket trays are so beautiful and super easy to make! Using Gedeo Air Drying clay, you can use almost any acrylic paint to decorate them.

 

What you'll need: 

- Gedeo Air Dry Clay

- Gedeo Selection of 4 Modelling Tools

- Sponge

- Schmincke Akademie Acrylics Set or Golden SoFlat Matte Acrylic 

- Golden GAC-100 Acrylic Primer

- Golden Gesso or Pebeo Studio Green Gesso

- Golden Waterborne Varnish

 

Directions: 

1. Cut off the clay, roll it out to the thickness desired and shape on top of a plate using the modelling tools and a wet sponge to smooth out imperfections. 

2. Let dry for as long as necessary - may take up to 3 days to dry depending on thickness of clay

3. Seal with Golden GAC-100 Acrylic Primer front and back with two to three coats, allow to dry

4. Prime with Gesso like the Golden Gesso or Pebeo Studio Green Gesso for an eco-friendly option and let dry

5. Paint with acrylic paint like the Schmincke Akademie Acrylic or Golden SoFlat matte self-levelling Acrylic Range, let dry. 

6. Seal with Golden Waterborne Varnish

 

WATCH THE VIDEO

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