Ethnic parure in polymer clay and Miyuki Delicas

With this tutorial, you will be able to easily create a long necklace and a pair of polymer clay earrings with geometric patterns. The combination of Miyuki pearls, diamond patterns and blue and mustard yellow colors give a bohemian chic feel to this adornment. It will be perfect to bring an ethnic touch to your outfit of the day.

Before you start

Before you start making the tutorial, you must make a geometric pattern cane. you will find all explanations on the technical sheet: "How to make a geometric pattern cane?" .

EARRINGS

STEP 1

Take a bar of gold dough and half a black bar. Condition the pasta and make two plates separately. Cut two slices into your ethnic cane. Be careful, your slice thickness should be approximately the same as your slab thickness. You must work with a good thickness even to double the thickness of your black and gold plates.

Take the 19mm diameter cookie cutter to take two rounds in the gold paste, then with the 16mm round, take two more rounds in the black plate.

2ND STEP

Work your cane strips around the largest cookie cutter. Remove the cookie cutter and put in its place a round of gold paste. Place baking paper on your work and smooth the surface to erase the connections using a stiff card or roll.

STEP 3

Bevel the edges, remove about 1 cm on each side being careful to cut your drawings symmetrically.

With the smallest cookie cutter, take a part of the golden circle leaving only a few millimeters. Then, replace with the black circle.

STEP 4

Smooth your surfaces as for the previous step. Take a 10 mm cookie cutter to pick a round of black dough in the center. Cook your earrings for 30 minutes at 110 degrees.

THE SAUTOIR

Step 1

Take 2 slices of ethnic cane of the same thickness, about 3mm. Position them side by side and cut the dough up and down.

Make a black plate of the same thickness as the slices of cane. For that, you have to double the thickness of your plate without forgetting to pass the roller not to enclose air. Make a kind of formwork by surrounding your slices of cane.

2nd step

Smooth the surface to erase the fittings with paper. Cut the sides and the top leaving 3 to 4 mm of black and cut out forming a tip down. Cook your sautoir piece at 110 degrees for 30 minutes.

ASSEMBLY OF THE PARURE

STEP 1

You need to sand your loops and your 1000-grit salt pan under soapy water. Then you can either polish with micro-mesh or varnish. Drill 8 holes with a 1.2mm forest in the center of the rounded loops, then place your 4mm rings. Then drill 9 holes at the bottom of the jumper and 2 more at the top, place rings of 7mm.

2ND STEP

On drop head nails, put on a white Miyuki Delicas pearl, a black, a white and then seven blue ones and again a white pearl, a black one and a white one. Leave 1 cm of stem, cut off the excess and reform with a round-nosed pliers a loop

You have to make 4 for each loop and place them on the rings in the center. You still have to make 4 stems by loops with 3 blue pearls then one white and one black that you will place on the rest of the rings. Place 1 ring of 7 mm in each black circle.

To help you, you can read our technical sheets: how to form a loop on a nail? and how to open a ring to make a jewel? ).

STEP 3

Put one Miyuki Delicas white, one black, then another white, followed by 10 blue pearls, one white, one black and finally one last white. Leave a 1 cm cut and reform the loop. 5. Place these rods on the rings in the center of the jumper. Form 4 other stems for the sides following the same order of beads but putting only 3 blue ones.

STEP 4

Thread on 4 rods (recovery of the lengths of stems drops cut for the earrings) to head buckle in the order a pearl white, a black, a white then 7 blue followed by a pearl white, a black and a last White pearl. Reform your loops and put a 4mm ring at each end. Cut in 2 your length of ball chain then cut again one of 2 lengths in 2 parts. Place end caps for this chain at each end, ie 6 end pieces. Attach a Miyuki bead interlayer to each end of the longer length and then insert one side only on the remaining 2 ends of the chain. Assemble the chains and connect them to the jumper as in the photo.

STEP 5

Connect your earrings to the stand with a 4mm ring.

Your earrings and necklace are now finished.

So, what do you think? We love the combination of colors and patterns. This adornment can bring a true urban ethnic style to your outfit. To you to vary the colors, to choose a silver finish to stick to your style.