Having familiarized yourself with how to make jewelry out of polymer clay, you will make earrings, figurines from this material. You can make a vase, a mug using the sgraffito technique. Polymer clay can be used to make many original interior items, jewelry for yourself and your friends.
How to make a polymer clay vase?
The vase is made using an interesting technique called sgraffito. It originated in ancient Greece, and in the 15th century migrated to Italy. Here sgraffito began to be used in the creation of frescoes. Modern craftsmen use this technique to create various objects, to decorate rooms inside and out.
Before making a vase from polymer clay, decorating it using the sgraffito technique, take:
- art paint in several colors;
- plain polymer clay;
- glass vase;
- scratching tool (you can do it yourself);
- dry napkins;
- gloves;
- rolling pin;
- knife.
Roll out the polymer clay into a layer, wrap a vase with it, transferring it to that with a rolling pin. In this case, the material is overlapped, but end-to-end. Transfer the rolled clay to the base using a rolling pin. The same tool will help "drive out" bubbles that form between plastic and glass.
Now you can start the creative part, but at the same time - do not try too much, since the paint is applied as you please, but it is important not to damage the plastic layer. It can be applied even with gloved hands.
For such creativity, do not take acrylic paint. When it begins to dry, a film forms on the surface.
Now you need to remove excess paint by blotting it with napkins.
Let the leftover dry. Then scratch on the surface with a special tool or take an improvised device for this.
Show your imagination and do not worry if you get some flaws, because then you will need to bake the product, after which you can carefully cut them off with a blade. You will have a wonderful vase. Other products can be made using the same technique, for example, a gift mug. Moreover, it is easy to turn the old one into such one by wrapping it with polymer clay.
This polymer clay mug will look like new. To do this, decorate with plastic not only the outer part, but also the inner, as well as the upper edge.
If you have a suitable base, then make an original vase with a handle. It is made in black and white and looks original and stylish.
Polymer clay figurines
Cockerel
This is the kind of Christmas gingerbread cock you can make with a child from 7 years old. Such an item will be a great gift or source of income. Since additional earnings will not hurt anyone.
This polymer clay figurine will require:
- white and dark brown polymer clay;
- breadboard knife;
- Toothbrush;
- liquid polymer clay;
- knitting needle or stack;
- cardboard cockerel template;
- a cylindrical object for rolling;
- tea spoon.
Knead up the brown plastic, roll it into a 4 mm thick layer. Attach the cockerel template, cut with a sharp knife. Smooth the cut slightly with your finger. To make the surface a little rough, tap on it with a toothbrush.
Using the same technology, the second cockerel is made, but in a mirror image in relation to the first. Also, to roughen the clay figurine, tap it with a toothbrush bristle.
Now you need to arrange both cockerels. To do this, roll a 1 mm roll out of white plastic, attach it along the edge to the first workpiece. At the same time, lightly press your fingers on this "sausage" so that it sticks well to the base.
To mark the comb, roll 4 balls out of white plastic - 3 identical, the fourth a little smaller. Attach them to the comb. The same flattened circle will turn into a cockerel's eye.
Elements in the shape of a drop will become ornaments for the neck, for the tail, turn into a beak, a poultry beard.
Frame the neck of the polymer clay figurine with a white plastic edging, and attach other decorations made of this material.
Bake the decorated and unadorned poultry halves in the ovens. Check the time and temperature on the packaging for this material.
Then remove and lubricate the inner parts of the workpieces with liquid polymer clay. Roll a circle out of white plastic, attach it to the top of a teaspoon. From the same polymer clay, make a thin edging, make an incision with a knife at one end.
Thread the shaped end of a teaspoon through here. Attach a piping along the outline of one of the cockerels. Attach a second piece. Squeeze them lightly so that they adhere well to the rigid base and to each other.
Now you can wrap the lower part of the spoon in transparent plastic, tie it with a ribbon and give such a wonderful gift or sell this author's thing.
Hen
If you liked this kind of needlework, make a chicken for the cockerel. She will be beautiful, colorful and bright. Here's what you need for the creative process:
- baked polymer clay of different colors;
- knife;
- varnish designed for polymer clay;
- rolling pin;
- white acrylic paint;
- brush.
Knead the white plastic, roll it into a layer 0.5 cm thick, cut out a pear-shaped figure from it. Roll out a sausage from brown polymer clay, cut it into 2 mm pieces. Roll them into balls.
With the sharp end of the brush, make holes on the surface of the chicken's body, put brown balls in them. Secure them to it by rolling with a rolling pin.
Make a piece for the head out of orange clay by cutting it out at the bottom with teeth. Attach this piece to the small side of the pear-shaped body. Roll 3 teardrop-shaped pieces of red plastic, form a comb out of them, attach it in place. Make a beard in the same way, but from two parts. For the tail, you will also need drop-shaped blanks, but in different colors: red, black, orange. Blind the yellow nose, black beady eyes.
Roll a pair of orange, red and black balls. Turn them into drops, flatten them, form colored wings out of them. Make notches on the edges and on the tail with a knife.
Now, for this figurine from polymer clay, you need to make legs by rolling 6 balls from plastic. Attach these details down the torso. If you want to make a sign, roll out light brown polymer clay, cut a rectangle out of it, cut off its edges. Attach this plaque to the bird's paws.
Bake the figurine in the oven, then cover it with white acrylic. Use a soft cloth to wipe off this paint so that it remains only in the notches and between the parts. Write on the sign what you want. This may be the name of the person to whom you are giving the toy, a wish. Cover it with varnish and after it dries, the product is ready.
Cat
If you enjoyed decorating spoons, check out another way to decorate them.
To make a cat out of polymer clay, you will need:
- polymer clay;
- tea spoon;
- needle;
- knife;
- rolling pin;
- toothpick.
Roll a 2x3.5 cm pear-shaped figure out of blue polymer clay. Make a 1 cm deep incision in its thick part to secure this blank on the spoon. Do it.
From another piece of blue plastic, roll a ball for the head, make a depression in it to put on the body. To do this, smooth out the joint with a toothpick.
Make a shape similar to an acute-angled triangle out of white plastic, smooth its corners. Attach this piece to the cat's tummy. Use blue polymer clay to make 4 legs that look like sausages thickened on one side. On this part you need to wind a small strip of white plastic, wrap it around the thickened places of the legs. Use a toothpick to mark your fingers here.
Make 2 identical balls out of white plastic and the third will be slightly less data. Form cakes from them. Attach these "cheeks" and mouth to the face. And make the ears from a layer of blue polymer clay, rolled out to a thickness of 2 mm. On top, attach the same pink parts of the ears, but made from slightly smaller triangles.
Poke 2 narrow holes on the head of the toy with a toothpick, put the ears here. Roll small circles out of pink plastic, attach these fingertips in place. And two circles of a slightly smaller size will become paw pads.
Form a triangular nose out of pink plastic. Cut out eyes from yellow polymer clay, rolled into a layer, attach them to the head. Turn black into round pupils, and form highlights from white. A thin oval of black will help frame the upper contours of the eyes.
Stick circles of white plastic on the blue fur to give this color to the animal. Make the fur visually fluffier by running a needle over it.
Roll out a lilac piece of plastic, giving it the appearance of a collar, attach this piece in place, as well as a red heart from the same material. It remains to bake a toy from polymer clay. After which the gift is ready.
DIY polymer clay jewelry
If you want to know how to make polymer clay earrings so that they look like knitted ones, then the next master class is for you.
To make these polymer clay jewelry, put next to you:
- baked plastic;
- a wooden skewer or knitting needle;
- a toothpick;
- knife;
- square cutter;
- extruder with a nozzle;
- rolling pin designed for rolling out polymer clay;
- rings D 4 and 6 mm;
- stack;
- hooks.
Extruder - a device for giving various shapes to polymer clay. In this case, it requires a nozzle with small holes. Take a piece of plastic in beige, light and dark beige. After kneading them, fold them side by side, placing the dark one in the center. Roll this blank to make a "sausage", place it in the extruder. If you do not have this tool, mix unevenly the above shades of beige polymer clay, cutting off little by little, roll thin sausages from these particles.
Now these elements need to be cut into pieces - the length of each is 1.5 cm. Using a stack, bend each with a loop. Place a plastic sausage over them, press it with a toothpick to the grooves of the loops.
The lower parts of the loops must be made thin using a wooden skewer or knitting needle. If they are stretched out, trim them off. Attach the second row of stitches. Then reattach the sausage, and so complete the entire canvas so that it has the shape of a square with sides of 4 or 5 mm.
It turned out to be a purl knit fabric. To make a facial, twist 2 sausages into a tourniquet. Twist a couple of such elements in the other direction. Form a pigtail from the two resulting bundles.
From two sausages, make another such tourniquet, and then the second. Form another pigtail, and then a few more similar ones.
Attach these knit loops to the purl loops. Using a boat or a regular knife, cut out a square from the given blade. You will also make a second earring.
Use a toothpick to make one hole in the corner of each earring. Form a couple more braids as wide as the thickness of the squares themselves. Cover the ends of the earrings with these elements. Then bake the jewelry in the oven.
After that, you need to thread the hooks into the holes in the squares, putting in 2-3 rings. Here's how to make polymer clay jewelry that you can give or sell.
If you want to watch the process of making such plastic jewelry, then open the video player.
The raspberry bracelet will help you make the first video tutorial.
A delicate decoration with lilacs is the second.
