Polymer Clay Shapes for Necklaces

Pin It Remember a few posts ago when I made a faux metal heart necklace?  Well I got more clay and made some other shapes.  I haven't made them into necklaces yet, but here are the pendants/beads.

You should definitely try this out.  It's a ton of fun to sculpt things out of clay.  The one difficult thing I have fun into is trying to not get fingerprints on the shapes.  I've gotten a bit better with it, but I'm still not totally there.

Faux Metal Heart Necklace

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My little sisters have some modeling clay.  I have seen people make many fun things out of clay, and I thought it would be fun to make a faux metal necklace.  I went with a heart because it's a simple shape :)

Here's what I did:

 This is what the clay looked like to begin with.  I rolled it out to about 1/4 inch thick.

I then used little scissors and my fingers to create a heart shape that I was happy with.

 I used a tooth pick to poke a hole in the heart.  I then baked the clay according the the instructions.  For this particular clay, it was baked at 275 degrees for 15-20 minutes.  I placed it on a pieced of paper while it was baking so it wouldn't be directly on the pan.  I read that this helps if from getting shiny on the bottom side.

I then painted my heart using acrylic paint.  I did a layer of black first and then used silver. 

 I threaded my hemp twine through the heart and I had a necklace.

 Pretty darn simple!

If you end up making some, I'd love to see the different shapes you come up with!

Faux Metal Hearts

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When I went to DI I found these wooden hearts for 50 cents each.  They were painted different colors, and while the colors weren't horrible, they definitely needed some touching up.  I decided to try out some metal looking paint.  I really like how they turned out, though I don't think they look super metalic since the wood grain is still visible.  Here's what I did:

These are what they looked like to begin with.

 I painted them with black acrylic paint first so they had a good base.

 Then I painted them with metallic acrylic paint.  I originally had them set up like this, but it felt too cluttered or something. 

So I changed them to this set up.