Faux Amethyst Geode Slice Project Tutorial

How to Make My Faux Amethyst Geode Slice Bracelet

• You need Cernit Translucent violet, Cernit Violet and Cernit translucent and Premo Pearl white.
• You will also need to mix 1 part Cernit violet with 2 parts Cernit translucent.
• Use your tissue blade to chop up a ball of unconditioned Premo pearl white into small pieces. (Roughly 1oz of clay)
• Repeat with an equal amount of Cernit translucent.
• Separate all your pieces out, then mix the white and translucent together.
• Ball the pieces together and chop again.
• Bring the pieces together and roll into a log and twist.
• Scrunch back into a ball and then shape into a thick log around 1 inch long. This will be used as the core of your geode.
• Wrap your log in a thin sheet of translucent violet. Roll to smooth out seams.
• Use a needle tool to press ridges around the cane.
• Add a couple of drops of white alcohol ink to the outside of the cane and spread all over.
• Cover with a layer of translucent. Smooth the seams and repeat the indentations.
• Cover with a layer of the color mix. Smooth the seams and repeat the indentations.
• Add another layer of white alcohol ink.
• Continue these steps, adding layers of randomly alternating colors, keeping to the lighter colors near the center and working out to darker at the outer edge.
• Wrap the polymer clay cane with a final layer of Cernit Turquoise Metallic. Give a final roll and add the indentations.
• Roll back into a round to create folds in the clay.
• Reduce to a good size for the jewelry you want to make.
• Place in the freezer to set.

• Once your polymer clay cane has cooled, place it on your work surface lodged between two balls of Blu-Tac to keep it still. Cut off a good number of slices.
• Mold the slices into a nice oval shape using your fingers.
• Use a needle tool to roughen the edges.
• Place on a piece of deli paper. Cover with a second piece and burnish to smooth out any fingerprints.
• Cut off a piece of the cane and reduce to a smaller size. Cut a good number of slices from this cane too.
• Repeat the process used to shape and burnish the larger pieces.
• Use a craft knife to roughly trim out the centers. Use your needle tool to roughen the edges.
• Bake at the recommended temperature for 40 minutes.
• Once cooled, brush the centers of your small slices with translucent liquid clay.
• Place one slice at a time on a piece of deli paper and tap silver glitter over the slice.
• Tap off the excess and brush over with your finger to remove overhanging pieces.
• Repeat with the larger slices, using silver druzy this time.
• Bake for 30 minutes.

• Use a pin drill to drill your pieces. The necklace and bracelet pieces on either side, the earring and keyring pieces, with one hole at the top.
• String onto a piece of wire, and dunk into your varnish.
• Allow to drain, then suspend the wire so that the pieces are separated and allow to dry for an hour.
• Repeat twice more.
• Once dry, remove from the wire and check that your drilled holes are clean.

• Choose your favorite side of each slice, lay them side by side, and join together using jump rings. Keep adding until you have enough for a necklace.
• You can have the slices going all the way around or add a piece of chain with a clasp to each end. I am using some chain mail I made.
• Link the larger pieces together in the same way to make a bracelet.
• Add a jumpring and earring wire to the top of each earring slice.
• Add a jumpring and keyring piece to the top of the keyring slice.