How to make earrings with your own hands made of polymer clay

It seems that there are a lot of jewelry on the shelves of shops, but more and more people are interested in how to make earrings themselves. For their production an excellent material is plastic - polymer clay. It has a different color, it is easily modeled and after a certain temperature treatment it becomes very hard.

On sale is most often domestic plastic "Tsvetik", which is sold in sets of flowers and packing is like plasticine, and imported polymer clay "Fimo", each shade is packed separately. The advantages of Russian products at an affordable price, but its color is not very stable: if cooked, such plastic becomes paler.

I suggest two variants of how to make earrings with your own hands made of polymer clay.

Sunflowers

For work you will need plastic black and yellow colors, 2 earrings for earrings (sold in fabric stores and accessories), 2 pins and 2-8 rings (ibid.), Lacquer with a glossy effect (can also be colorless for nails).

From the tools we use glass or 1 tile with a smooth surface, a sheet of paper and a stack. You need an oven. To understand how to make earrings yourself, imagine what they consist of. Firstly, it is a decorative element, in this case a flower-sunflower, and secondly, a shvenza, with which the earring is attached to the ear, and thirdly, the elements that connect one to the other.

The flower is made from a flat cake of black color and yellow petals. All work takes place on a smooth surface of glass or tile. In the core of the sharp end of the stack make points - seeds, and on the petals, draw shallow longitudinal bands from the center to the edges, imitating the natural relief of the petals. To get rid of fingerprints, rub them with a small piece of paper. When the flowers are ready, insert a pin in each of them (into the black part, it is thicker and stronger), and then pull it out. There must be a hole in which the attachment will be pasted.

Directly on the glass place the work in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. Look through the glass - the figure does not need to change colors and blot out! Before making earrings, read at what temperature you should bake the purchased plastic, because different manufacturers have this parameter different: from 110 to 130 degrees.

Remove the prepared flowers from the oven and cool at room temperature. Are you cold? Begin the assembly. Insert the pins into the prepared hole with the instant glue, attach to them from 1 to 4 rings, depending on the length of the petals, and in the last ring, fix the holder of the shvenza. Cover with varnish and wait until it dries. So the sun flowers are ready, which can not leave any passer-by indifferent.

Chocolates

How to make earrings with your own hands so that everyone would like to bite off a piece of them? Decorate them with chocolates! Yes, not simple, but those that can not be distinguished from the real ones. Do these delicacies will be made of chocolate-colored polymer clay, using the same tools as the previous model, as well as blades and matches. From a flat flat cake in a pattern (rectangle 2 by 2.5 cm), cut 2 pieces. Keep the blade strictly vertical. Divide the "tile" into 4 slices, putting a match in the middle and slightly pressing it into the clay. First make a groove along, and then - across.

If you want more realism, you can make an imitation of a bite on the corners of chocolates. To do this, using a lid from the marker, cut first 1, and then 2 semicircles. It will look like someone has already regaled your adornment. Wipe the fingerprints with paper, make a hole for the pin and send the work to the oven. All further actions are similar to the manufacture of earrings-sunflowers.

Knowing how to make earrings yourself , you will not only always look bright and unusual, but also be able to cook an unusual gift to a friend or relative.