Ghosts Necklace by Irit Shalom

Ghosts Necklace 

Designed by Irit Shalom

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to Makin's Clay® Halloween month!  Let me first say that I don't celebrate this holiday, but I sure love it.  I love the colors, the images and the overall feeling of those ghosts, bats and pumpkins, and I like them so much that I create a lot of projects using those images even without any tight connection to the main meaning of Halloween.

Materials:

Makin's Clay® - Black
                         - Ultimate Clay Extruder™ - Disc #7
                         - Clay Roller
                         - Texture Sheet Set C
                         - Halloween Cutter Set B
Pearl Ex Powders
Liquid Resin/Glaze
Clear glitter
Magnetic closure
Jewelry glue

Instructions:

1. Using your Makin's® Ultimate Clay Extruder™ and the disk with 7 round holes (Disc #7) make 5 long round strips from black clay. For now let them all air dry a bit and move to the second step.

2. With Clay Roller make a flat piece from black clay (about 1/8'' thick). Make the texture with Brick and Waves texture sheet from Texture Sheet Set C. Now make a pendant shape with Clay Cutter - I made it free hand. You sure can change the shape to more triangular or circular one if you like it more that way. Roll the top of your hand cut shape to the back before it's dry and try to leave a space inside the rolled back to insert your clay strings later. Now let it dry for a couple of hours and move to the next step.


3. Use Halloween B cutters set with another texture sheet from the very same set over the black clay sheet and cut some Halloween shapes. Cut a couple of ghosts from white clay. I wasn't sure if I want black or white shapes over my necklace, so I made these and those and as I finally used the white ghosts I used the left overs for another project. I only used one black bat on the top of the pendant later.

4. Roll all 5 round strings together and cover them with a mix of shiny pigments.

I used Pearl Ex ones, but you can try any
pigments you own.  Cover the ghost with a thin layer of liquid resin /glaze and add some clear glitter and let it dry. Add a simple magnetic closure to the back with good jewelry glue.

My tip: buy a cheap $1 store jewelry piece with magnetic closure (bracelets usually cost around $1) just to use their closure as at least here, in Israel, the closure only costs more than $1 for a piece.

Arrange your fancy scary necklace as seen and enjoy!