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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Beauty in Bloom Pendant by Lucy Reese



"BEAUTY IN BLOOM" PENDANT 
Designed By Lucy Reese

I am so excited to be apart of the Makin's Clay® 2016 Design Team. When it comes to creating with clay, oven-bake polymer may often be the choice of most. However, Makin's Clay® has some very fascinating characteristics of it's own that I find very interesting. For an air dry/no-bake clay to be as flexible as Makin's® blows my mind. When it has fully cured, it feels like an oven-bake polymer clay, without having to go through all the baking and rebaking. I hope you enjoy the project I have created for you!
Makin’s® Tools & Supply List:
Other Supplies Used:
  • Flower/Bird Silicone Mold of your choice
  • CaBezel Mold by Wendy Orlowski
  • Embossing folder of your choice
  • Ice-Resin
  • Primary Elements: Cool Water and Jasmine
  • Lumiere Paint: Halo Blue Gold
  • Viva Inka Gold in desired color
  • Chain of your choice
  • 2 Jump rings
Instructions:

LETS GET STARTED!

Using your Makin's® Clay Mixing Ruler™ and color chart, mix the Neon Yellow and Red Makin's Clay®.  The combination I chose creates a beautiful coral color that you see in my largest flower. For the hummingbird, I used White to form the body and the Concord Blue from the Vineyard Tones for the wings and blended them together using a wet finger. Lastly, using the Floral Push Mold and the Grape Leaf green from the Vineyard Tones, I formed my smallest and largest leaves. Don't forget that you need to create 2 holes in largest leaf, so that it will be jump ring ready.
Once all your moldable pieces are made. Grab your Black Makin's Clay® and roll it out to your desired thickness. Choose an embossing folder with a design you like and emboss or deboss your clay by laying the desired side of your folder on top the clay and add pressure with your Makin's® Clay Roller. Peel off gently to reveal your design.

​Next, take your CaBezel and form your bezel. And again, I used my Makin's® Clay Roller for an added, even pressure.

​Now trim away your excess clay using the Makin's® cutting tool. At this time, you may create your hole in your bezel 

Using your Viva Inka Gold color lightly add some color to the texture on your bezel and also to the texture on your flower and leaves.

​For the hummingbird, use a little bit of the Lumiere Halo Blue Gold paint to add some color to the wings and tail. Then, I also mixed up a very small amount of the Primary Elements Cool Water and Jasmine with my waterbrush to add a hint of color where ever I thought needed it.

​Almost done! Time for the Ice-Resin!! (If your scared of resin, I would suggest trying Diamond 
Glaze or Glossy Accents - both also work wonderfully with Makin's Clay®.) After mixing up your resin add a small amount of Primary Elements Cool Water. Gradually and slowly add to your bezel being careful not to overfill. Then, place your large flower, small leaf and hummingbird and let cure for at least 24 hours. After, your resin has cured, place 1 jump ring through the hole in your bezel, connect the bezel to your largest leaf, and add your last jump ring through the top of your leaf then connect to your chain. 

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4 comments:

Pat Krauchune said...

Wow Lucy, INCREDIBLE, beautiful...very nice first project!

Krauchune said...

Well deserved...you go girl!

Cindi McGee said...

This is stunning - love that you made the clay bezel too!

Steph Ackerman said...

This is amazing!

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