Black & Gold Paisley Bangle Bracelet

Black & Gold Paisley Bangle Bracelet by Cindi McGee

Materials:

Makin’s Clay® - Black

Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder® - 3 hole disc 

Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine®

Wooden bangle 

JudiKins™ Diamond Glaze 

Gold microbeads 

DecoArt® Americana® Multi-Surface Satin™ - Gold 

CreateAlong.com Peacock Borders Silkscreen by Cindi McGee Designs

Paintbrush 

Scissors 

Squeegee 

Beacon™ 527 Adhesive 

Instructions:

Often when I am working on a project and have “leftover” clay I will roll it into thin sheets and allow it to dry. Then I have sheets ready to die cut or craft punch, etc. when I’m ready to create. To create the sheets I simply roll black Makin’s Clay® beginning on setting #1 of the Ultimate Clay Machine®, the moving up one setting at a time and in this case ending at a setting #6. 

Place silkscreen orange side down over the clay sheet. Apply gold metallic paint to squeegee.  While holding the silkscreen in place, carefully use the squeegee to apply the paint over the silkscreen, transferring the image to the clay sheet. Immediately wash the silkscreen and squeegee, and let paint dry on clay sheet. Then repeat to make a second border. 

 

When silkscreening is dry, use scissors to trim around the borders and create two rectangular strips of equal size. I purposely made mine about 1/4” narrower than the width of the bangle as I wanted to add a row of gold microbeads. 

Paint inside of wooden bangle with gold paint. Let dry.

 

Apply 527 Adhesive to back of first strip of clay.  Wrap around bangle. Trim second strip to fill in any remaining space, being careful to match pattern as best as possible. Glue in place. Let glue dry. 

 Use Ultimate Clay Extruder® and 3 hole disc to extrude black clay. Twist three strands. Add adhesive to top edge of bangle, wrap twisted clay around the top edge, trim to fit. Repeat on opposite side of bangle. Let dry 24 hours.

Apply Diamond Glaze to area between silkscreened clay and the twisted border piece. Add gold microbeads.  Repeat all around the bangle, on top and bottom edges. Let dry. 

 

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Easy Extruded Clay Autumn Bangle DIY Video

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Tropical Sunset Bangle (Redo the Redo!) by Carole Monahan

REDO the REDO

or the 3^rd time is a charm: or on this case a bracelet...

By Carole Monahan

Materials:

Makin's Clay® in White, Yellow and Red

Pan Pastels

Beacon™ Tacky Glue

Wooden bracelet blank

Tools:

Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine®

Makin's Professional® Professional Clay Tools®

Makin’s Clay Mixing Ruler™

Stencil of choice

Instructions:

This was intended to be a lesson on using the color mixer ruler which it STILL is but………

It soon became a lesson in resilience and tenacity!

The mixing of the colors as shown below was the ONLY thing that DID go right the 1^st time!

Just follow the recipe on the color chart to achieve the color you want.

I was going for a subtle tangerine/soft orange sherbert.

Using the Makin’s® Ultimate Clay Machine™ roll out the new color keeping in mind you have to cover a bracelet note the size placed into the machine. I rolled it out at a #2 setting.

Then trim the clay with the plain cutter wheel from the professional tool kit.

Note in photo I made a template that I know would cover the length and width of the bracelet.

Lay you CLEAN stencil over your clay and burnish it so it stays in place while applying the colors.

OOPS NUMBER 1 - my stencil left a mark on the clay.

So I turned the clay over to the clean side and cleaned my stencil (DUH moment.)

Add the pan pastels starting with the lightest colors 1^st.

OOPS NUMBER 2 (enter BIG sigh here) - 

Now I messed up the OTHER SIDE!!!!

SOO I started all over again.

OOPS 3!!!!! this one was too humiliating to even photograph - 

I thought HEY maybe I should use a different stencil and make the stencil slightly damp so it stays down on the clay.  Uuummmm DON’T DO THAT, I will spare you now! The clay stuck to the stencil. UGH it was too damp.

But I did let the clay dry completely and slowly peeled it off and it looks pretty good. I see earrings in the near future.

                                                                                                                                    

So NOW WHAT ??????

Back to side 1; yeah the one with the stencil residue………….

I free handed the Pan pastels over the ghost image of the “residue” I think it came out pretty!

Well I FINALLY got my romantic sunset image I was striving for.

NOW to assemble this bad boy!

I let the clay dry for about 1-2 hours before adhering it to the wooden bracelet just so it was still pliable and stretchy.

Cover the bracelet blank with a thin coat of Beacon’s Tacky glue.

Then position the clay on the bracelet.

To make sure the clay stayed put while it dried completely I put a weighted box on it while it dried.

When it was almost dry completely I trimmed off the access clay.

Now I’m all set to wear my sunset bracelet while I watch an amazing sunset in

KEY WEST !!!

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