Kelp and Bubbles Polymer Clay Pendant Project

Kelp and Bubbles Polymer Clay Pendant Project Step by Step

• To start with, you will need a sheet of Premo pearl white polymer clay rolled out at about 2mm thick.
• Texture using the same texture sheet you used in part one of this series. I will be using my Cracked Earth Texture.
• Trim away the edges, then shave the raised sections away to create a mica shift.
• Cover with deli paper and burnish flat.
• Choose a cutter, place on the mica shift veneer and trim around it to save the excess clay. I will be using my square cutters today.
• Bring over your Mod Cane from part one of this series, and slice thin slices from various sections.
• Spread them over your mica shift, leaving plenty of open space, then replace the deli paper and burnish again.
• Place to the side.

• To start with, you will need a sheet of Premo pearl white polymer clay rolled out at about 1mm thick.
• Use your chosen cutter and trim around it to save the excess clay as before.
• Slice some more thin slices from various sections of your Mod Cane and lay them side by side in rows on your pearl white sheet until it is full.
• Cover with deli paper and burnish flat.
• Trim up the edges.

• Cut off a length of 16 gauge silver wire.
• At one end create a coil and then make a 90 degree angle in the remaining wire.
• Use your round nose pliers to bend the rest of the wire back and forth into a snake shape.
• Continue until the snake is the length of your cutter then create another right angle and use a mandrel plier to finish in a loop.
• Hammer the wire with the ball point of your hammer.
• Use your pliers to correct any distortion in the shape.
• See the video for details.
• Polish the wire with a silver polishing cloth.

• Roll both sheets through the thickest setting of the pasta machine.
• Trim one side of each veneer with a tissue blade so that the veneers are ready to join.
• Lay the two sheets carefully together, cover with deli paper and burnish with your fingers until the seam is eliminated.
• Cut out your pendant using your cutter, and lay the wire component down the middle.
• Burnish the wire into the clay and then remove to leave an imprint.
• Use your cutter to trim your clay again, then burnish away any fingerprints.
• Set with your heat gun or by placing in the oven for 15 minutes.
• Roll out a sheet of black clay on the thickest setting of your pasta machine.
• Texture using a texture sheet of your choice. I will be using the reverse stamp of the one I used on the pearl white. This one is called cracked lava.
• Place your cutter on the clay and roughly trim away the excess clay.
• Dust with silver mica powder.
• Use a tissue sprayed with alcohol to wipe away the mica powder from the raised areas.
• Flip the black clay over and place the Kelp and Bubbles veneer on top.
• Trim up and tidy the edges.
• Place on a piece of deli paper, then bake for an hour at the recommended temperature.
• Once cooled, use black polymer clay to finish up the edges using the Jessama Smear Technique.
• Bake for a further 20 minutes.
• Once cool, sand the front, back and sides all the way from a 400 to an 8000 grit.
• Paint the back of your wire piece with polybonder, then place in position on your pendant.
• Allow to dry, then use a tissue soaked in alcohol to remove any excess glue that spilled onto the clay.

• Mix together a small amount of your chosen resin. I'm using Ice Resin. If you need a step by step walk through on using Ice resin correctly, see my tutorial.
• Place your pendant on a silicone resin mat.
• Carefully cover your pendant with Resin. See the video.
• Leave to cure for 12 hours then remove any resin spills from the pendant - see the video.
• Fold two pieces of black rat's tail satin cord in half. Loop through the wire loop on the pendant and thread on a large silver spacer.
• Trim the cords so that they are all the same length.
• Twist two pieces of cord into one cord end, and the other two pieces into another cord end.
• Attach a clasp using jump rings.