DIY Polymer Clay Pendant Tutorial: Enchanted Tree
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to make a polymer clay pendant. DIY clay jewelry is absolutely beautiful and you can achieve it with just a few things. Grab your clay and let’s get started.
Tools and materials:
- Brown polymer clay
- Green polymer clay
- Blue polymer clay
- Beads
- A stone
- Dotting tool
- Cutting tool
- Brush
1. Attach the clay to the stone
Attach your white stone and brown clay together and use your fingers to blend the brown around the white elongating it to create the trunk of the tree pendant.
2. Cut the clay
Cut the brown clay to length and then separate it into two.
3. Twist the clay into gnarled branches
Twist each piece of the clay and then wrap them around each other for a gnarled look.
4. Attach a bead
Place a bead into the trunk.
Then wrap a thin rope of clay around it.
Add detail with a dotting tool.
5. Create the texture of the trunk with ropes of clay
Wrap a long rope of clay around the trunk of the tree and use your fingers and a dotting tool to incorporate and blend it into the existing clay.
6. Spiral the ropes of clay and insert beads into them
Use the ropes to create small spirals at the base of the tree, and then insert the beads into the spirals.
7. Create roots with ropes of clay
Twirl the tail end of the ropes onto the stone to look like roots.
8. Decorate the tree with blue and green clay
Decorate the tree with various shades of blue and green clay to appear as moss, leaves, and flowers.
9. Create the bushes of leaves
Crumple aluminum foil around the clay.
Then cover with green clay.
Use a dotting tool to add texture to the bushes.
You can even use a brush.
Polymer clay pendant
Here’s the finished tree, and that’s it for this tutorial on polymer clay pendants! Let me know what you think about this polymer clay DIY down below.
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