Some More Autumn Makes

Some necklaces  that I have made.The top necklace I have combined a semi precious stabilised chalk turquoise square pendant that I bought in a bundle of four that were on offer.I wanted some large matching beads but was unable to find any. So I made my own matching beads out of good old polymer clay.And Hey Presto they matched quite well. I used Fimo Soft in white with Fimo Translucent.  After conditioning the two clays and loosly swirling them I chopped them up into small pieces and painted them in a pale yellow acrylic paint. I set it aside for about an hour and a half. While the paint was drying I used up my scrap clay and rolled it out and made up some large beads.  Then came the messy bit (not for the faint hearted).I squooshed up the painted clay into a ball ,rolled into a fat log and cut vey thin slices and covered the balls of scrap with these thin slices.

Completed the necklace with glass pearls in shades of white and antique gold and Chinese crystal rondells in shades of pale green ,bronze ,light topaz and smoky brown.

Below is a close up of the polymer clay beads and the semi precious stabilised chalk turquoise pendant.

Below is another of the pendants that were in the bundle that I bought and I made the large beads the same way as I did with the ones in the two top photos. The only difference is the colour of the paint that I used. I used burnt umber and violet. With this necklace I combined semi precious mookait round beads in lovely autumnal shades with Swarovski crystal bicones in the shade of mocha.

The method I used to make the two afore mentioned polymer clay beads I can thank the talented polymer clay artist Linda Peterson. She demonstrates this method in her book How To Make Polymer Clay BEADS. She uses this method to make faux marble. I purchased this book about two years ago and have found it to be quite invaluable.