Friday, February 13, 2015

Carve Your Name On A Necklace

Customize your necklace with your name carved on a pendant.


Provided you wish something carved on a metal necklace, you normally bear to correspondence it elsewhere to a known however there is a approach you can complete this Homewards. You can appliance polymer clay which is little to donkeywork with and alone requires a conventional oven to cure it. It comes in many colours so you should be able to pride one that Testament match with the necklace that you requirement to personalize. Effort it in your hands to soften it and roll it into a short peristyle. Section off another lot that is a contrasting colour to the ahead one and soften it in your hands. Roll it into a support and roll it Apartment lodgings with a rolling pin until it is approximately 1/8 inch thick and twice the span as the post.2.



Polymer clay can be purchased from a Art store.

Instructions

1. Abbreviate a lot of polymer clay that is approximately one inch Broad.


Place the pillar in the middle of the flat piece and carefully roll it so that the flat piece covers the pillar. Go slowly and press gently to make sure there are no air pockets. Press the edges closed and smooth them with the tips of your fingers. Gently press the roll down so this it is a little flatter. Poke a 1/8 inch hole through the clay near the edge so you can hang it from a necklace.


3. Place the clay on a cookie sheet and bake it in a conventional oven at the time and temperature specified on the package for your brand of Polymer clay. When the time is up, remove it from the oven with an oven mitt and let it cool for at least one hour.


4. Write your name on the surface of the hardened clay very lightly with a pencil. Carve slowly and carefully along the letters with a bamboo skewer or the tip of a sharp knife. The contrasting color underneath the first layer of clay is now visible as the carved letters.