How do you make candy filled pendants and hard clay pendants?
I’ve been trying to figure this out for ages. Can anyone help?
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The first necklace is made by putting a little resin in a round mold, then adding the candy objects (not sure if they are really candy), and then more resin and some glitter added to the last layer of resin.
The second is probably made from polymer clay using a photo transfer technique. There are a few different transferring techniques. Go to either www.diynet.com or www.hgtv.com and put in a search for "polymer clay photo transfer" to get instructions on the ways to transfer to polymer clay.
Have fun, and be creative!
I’m going to assume that there was a mold and she/he filled it with the stuff and then poured the resin over it and let it dry……looks like she put some glitter at the bottom….
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The first necklace is made by putting a little resin in a round mold, then adding the candy objects (not sure if they are really candy), and then more resin and some glitter added to the last layer of resin.
The second is probably made from polymer clay using a photo transfer technique. There are a few different transferring techniques. Go to either http://www.diynet.com or http://www.hgtv.com and put in a search for "polymer clay photo transfer" to get instructions on the ways to transfer to polymer clay.
Have fun, and be creative!
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As mentioned, the first one is made with a "2-part resin" –probably the polyester or "casting" type of resin. The most common brand of that is Cast ‘N Craft, which you can usually get at a craft or hobby store.
The other type of resin you can find at similar stores is "2-part epoxy resin" (Envirotex Lite, UltraGlo, etc.), but it can’t be poured as deeply in one go, so when using molds the most common resin is a polyester one.
You can read a lot about both types of resin, the kinds of molds that work with them, etc., if you’re interested on this page:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/other_materials.htm
The second one is entirely different. It’s made with polymer clay (the brand she used was one of the Fimos, I think, but the brand wouldn’t be important except that Sculpey III isn’t as strong after baking when it’s thin as the other brands are so not best for thin things like this that will get stress).
The image was "transferred" onto the polymer clay (not "decoupaged," though that could be done too). There are numerous ways to transfer images onto polymer clay –some easy, some really fiddly or with lots of factors to get right)– but it’s fun to do.
If you want lots info on many ways to transfer to polymer clay, check out this page for loads (there’s one section at the top that talks about the "easiest" ways you might want to note for starters) :
http://glassattic.com/polymer/transfers.htm
If you’re just wanting to make polymer clay pendants in general, not necessarily with transfers on them, you might want to check out this page too:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/pendants_cording.htm
HTH,
Diane B.
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