Sure it’s fun to make your own jewelry, but how much better to make even the beads!  In this video I’ll how you a simple technique for adding sparkle and color to translucent polymer clay.

Although I’m quite pleased with how this project came out, it wasn’t my intent to make a green bracelet. The plan was to make beads in blues, purples and greens, but the blue turned more green and the purples were a weird muddy pink.

However, the greens are rather nice, so all’s well that ends well. 🙂

That’s one tricky thing about using translucent polymer clay: what you see before baking is not necessarily what you get afterwards. Since now I know the Premo Translucent clay has a bit of a yellowing effect, next time I’ll make it work for me and try using autumnal shades instead.

Also, I need to get some Pardo Transparent Clay to experiment with, as it’s clarity & transparency is highly regarded among other polymer clay artists.

Tools & Materials:

• 1/2 package translucent clay
• 1 sheet Gold Simple Leaf
• alcohol inks such as Stream and Bottle
• 16 inches chain for bracelet
• 14 eye pins
• 28 3mm beads
• clasp
• 2 jump rings
• Bone Folder
• Acrylic Clay Roller or pasta machine
• Clay Blade
• Acrylic Block
• ruler
• Doll Needle
• 1-Step Looper or round nose pliers
• chain nose pliers

Enjoy and happy creating!

You can watch the Emerald Isles Beads & Bracelet Video Polymer Clay Tutorial over at YouTube.

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