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Showing posts with label cz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cz. Show all posts
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
small & shiny...
just a quick peek at some of the pieces from this post. They've all been tumbled & these ones are staying shiny. The other pieces from this batch have been given a patina & are still being finished.
oh, & if you were wondering where the large green cubic zircona went - my youngest sister claimed it as soon as it came out of the tumbler :)
Sunday, June 14, 2009
work(s) in progress...
Today I thought I'd blog a little bit about my jewellery making.
I make my silver jewellery using PMC (precious metal clay), which is basically tiny silver particles in an organic binder - not actually 'clay' as such. While it's wet, I roll, shape & texture the piece, before leaving it to air dry.
You can use almost anything to create a texture in the wet clay, I have used leaves, lace, seedpods, straws, toothpicks.....& I've also made myself some texture plates & stamps. You can see some of the plates in the photo above & the photo below shows some of my stamps, all made out of polymer clay.
Once the clay has air dried (at this stage it's referred to as 'leather hard'), I can refine the piece. I sand the edges to make them smooth & attach the bail (for pendants). Sometimes I embellish the piece further, by carving or adding raised decorations.
I also set many of my pieces with lovely sparklies - lab created cubic zirconias. I have lots of different shapes & colours....
Once I'm happy with the finish, I fire the pieces in my kiln. The pieces in these photos got fired last night...I'll take some photos to blog soon :)
I make my silver jewellery using PMC (precious metal clay), which is basically tiny silver particles in an organic binder - not actually 'clay' as such. While it's wet, I roll, shape & texture the piece, before leaving it to air dry.
You can use almost anything to create a texture in the wet clay, I have used leaves, lace, seedpods, straws, toothpicks.....& I've also made myself some texture plates & stamps. You can see some of the plates in the photo above & the photo below shows some of my stamps, all made out of polymer clay.
Once the clay has air dried (at this stage it's referred to as 'leather hard'), I can refine the piece. I sand the edges to make them smooth & attach the bail (for pendants). Sometimes I embellish the piece further, by carving or adding raised decorations.
I also set many of my pieces with lovely sparklies - lab created cubic zirconias. I have lots of different shapes & colours....
Once I'm happy with the finish, I fire the pieces in my kiln. The pieces in these photos got fired last night...I'll take some photos to blog soon :)
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