Resin and polymer clay

I love polymer clay and resin but only recently thought about using them both together.

I had a design in mind so started off by selecting blue, green and orange polymer clay. I added the blue clay first to the pendant blank and then added the green parts...can you guess what it is yet? lol

Thats right its under the sea so I just needed to add a fish and some more sea weed
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Looking good so far, don't you think?  I then baked the polymer clay in the oven at 110c for 30 mins. Once you take it out the pendant blank is very hot so be careful. Once it was cooled down I then added the resin.

I used clear resin and then added some small seed beads to represent bubbles. Then I left it to dry overnight.

Here the final result.  I love how it looks and think the resin makes it look more like water/glass.

This one off piece of resin and polymer clay jewellery is now available in my etsy shop :)

Karen x

Seed Bead earrings

Hi all, Hope you are well.

I have A LOT of seed beads and I've never really known what to do with them. Then I noticed people use them for bead weaving, I've not got the patience for that but came up with another idea...

I decided to use the red and black beads to make earrings. I've since noticed people have used this idea to make chevron earrings but I didnt want to do what everyone else is doing, so decided on this design instead :)

I used different sized head pins to make the different lengths. I then added chains to connect them to the silver plated earwires. I think they turned out good. I love black and red as a colour combination. Don't you?

These earrings are now available on my ETSY

UPDATE ON TREASURIES - I have had a few people make treasuries of my Etsy items lately. As mentioned in my last post, once I get to 16 treasuries made by others I will then do an Etsy treasury to thank you. Still 10 treasuries to go though, so hurry if you want me to include your item in one of my future treasuries. MORE INFO HERE

Karen x