The owners of my local bead shop took one look at them and offered to sell them for me in the shop! Another success thanks to Cindy! I’m very happy with how they turned out – you can’t see in the picture but they really shine and look a bit like dichroic glass. I also made some little disc beads in the same way which I’m using to make bracelets and earrings. To add more depth to the pendants I used another layer of the gel, baked, then finished with Klear (Future Floor Polish).
Once they were cool I trimmed any rough edges with a craft knife and applied a thin layer of Fimo Deko gel with a paintbrush then rebaked. I added leaf and ink to the black clay and crackled it, then cut out pendants and baked. They looked nice, but not what I wanted, so I thought I’d substitute liquid clay instead. I loved the look of your pendants but I had problems with getting the translucent clay thin enough – my pendants ended up very milky and pale rather than bright. I thought I’d show you my version of your ink on crackled leaf pendants. Related links for this Spotlight feature include: (1) Ink Effects on Crackled Gold Leaf (2) Translucent Polymer Clay (3) Future Floor Polish (4) Making Disc Beads. It is very exciting to see someone take what they have learned, put their own spin on it, and turn it into something that people want to buy… like today’s Spotlight guest did. Spotlight: “The owners of my local bead shop took one look and offered to sell them for me!” ~Silverleaf
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