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Jewelry
I have mostly done things like barrettes and rubber bands for my hair, and lots of beads that haven't yet been made into
any jewlery.
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I have long hair, so I use a lot of rubber hair bands, and from there I got the idea to attach polymer clay decorations to them. I use this rubber band with the dragon and the next one with the moon quite a lot. The dragon and the moon are both from Sue Heaser's book Making Polymer Clay Jewellery. |
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The blue background is metallic acrylic paint. The moon and the colors in the dragon hair band are Fimo gold and silver powder. |
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The design for this barrette is inspired by the book Nostalgische Broschen aus Fimo by Marlis Meyer. The stone is made from a tutorial on Polymer Clay Central. My stones didn't quite turn out as the ones in the tutorial, but I really like them. |
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This barrette is a good example how I tend to have a problem with 'Good Enough'. Since I'm only doing these things for myself, I do things in a bit of a hurry, and don't do them properly. Anyway, I really like how this one looks in my hair, so I think I will do another one, this time properly. |
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I got a hint on rec.crafts.polymer-clay, when I was complaining that I haven't found any mica powders in Finland, that I could try to dry brush metallic paint to get a similar effect. I didn't get that to work, but I certainly will continue to try. Instead I made by chance the first of this type of beads, and then I had a whole bunch of them. They are white Fimo mixed with red, blue, and green metallic paint. |