Pitaya dragon fruit earrings in polymer clay

Take 3 bars of red and 3 bars of pink polymer clay and make 2 long cylinders. Place them side by side and roll.

Pass the resulting rectangle lengthwise through the M.A. P., folding the clay in 2 at each pass, at least 10 times at the wide end. Place a new green cylinder next to your gradient, roll it out and then roll it lengthwise about ten more times in the M.A.P. machine.

Cut your length into 4, place your sheets on top of each other and roll.

Apply pressure with your hands on the green and red sides to condense the width of the gradient.

Pass your gradient through the M.A.P. with the green to your right at the wide notch and then at the medium notch.

Take 2 bars of white clay and one of black clay. Make very thin cylinders about 6cm long, by rolling and stretching them on a support. Blacks are thinner than whites.

Wrap 4 white filaments around each black filament, and join them together to form a new cylinder.

Take your cylinder in the palm of your hand, press to condense your cane.

Make a ball with a bar of white clay, pinch the top and remove a triangle of clay with your blade. Bake for 20 min at 110 degrees.

Mix half a bar of pink clay with half a bar of red to obtain a dark pink. Pass the mixture through the M.A.P. with a wide notch.

Cut the white ball in 2. Place a small amount of liquid fimo on the flat sides, then cut 2 slices of duck and place them there. Roll with a rolling pin. Wrap the domed side in pink clay, filling it with liquid Fimo, and cut off any excess clay.

Cut 20 drops from the length of the gradient using acookie cutter. Follow the drop cutting diagram for a loop.

Place your drops starting at the top. Cut 2 rounds of 11mm from a slice of duck using the cookie cutter. Bake all components at 110 degrees for 30 min.

Pierce the top of the loops with a tool, and insert a round-headed nail cut to the right length. Glue the nails, then the rounds, to the loop holders. Connect them with an open ring.