Modeling from polymer clay or plastic is a fascinating exercise for your fingers. You can create various crafts, flowers, ornaments from this material.
Polymer clay earrings
They can be made from plastic of one or two or more colors. It all depends on your desire and imagination. To craft earrings, you must have:
- clay of two colors;
- knife;
- toothpick;
- beads and ear wires;
- rubber gloves.
He will tell you how such jewelry is made from polymer clay, a master class. If you want the earrings to have a marbled effect, then take 2 matching pieces of plastic, for example, gray and blue.
Put on your rubber gloves and get started. Soften the clay in your hands, each color separately. Then roll 2 sausages from the blanks. Let the blue be longer and thinner than the gray. Now wrap it around the gray part. How clay modeling begins can be seen in the photo.
Now, working with your hands, gradually turn the workpiece into a ball.
For the colors to blend well, you need to knead the clay thoroughly.
Divide the resulting ball into 2 parts with a knife, make an earring from each. Let's start with the first one. Use a rolling pin to roll the first piece into a flat circle, then lengthen one of the edges and pinch it.
Turn the workpiece over with the opposite edge towards you and fold it in the form of a bag.
Straighten the edges of the flower so that it looks like a calla, insert a toothpick and bring the other end through the opposite edge, making a hole there. It is needed in order to make this notch, through which you can then thread the clasp for the earring and bead.
After you attach the earring and beads in the hole, the first earpiece is ready. Do the second in the same way, you have beautiful earrings made of polymer clay.
This material is of two types: self-hardening or intended for firing finished products. If you want the earrings to be especially durable, then use the second option. In this case, first place the finished product, but without the bead and hooks, for 10 minutes in boiling water or for 30 minutes in the oven at 80 degrees for firing.
After the earrings have cooled, insert the clasp and beads into them. If you have a self-hardening material, then you need to leave the finished products for a day, during this time in the air they will acquire the necessary strength.
Plastic flowers
Polymer clay roses are very beautiful. Such a flower looks realistic, it will look great in a vase, it will never fade. If you seriously want to engage in this type of creativity, then purchase the necessary materials in the needlework store, but if you wish, the equipment can be replaced with what you have at hand.
To make plastic roses, you need to prepare:
- clay of two colors;
- rubber gloves;
- a tablet;
- rolling pin;
- form for cutting petals;
- wire;
- molds;
- a stick with a round tip;
- clay glue and brush;
- green scotch tape.
Cut a straight line 20 cm long from the wire, bend its tip in the form of a hook. This is the preparation of the future stem. Now mash a piece of clay of any color, first shape it into a circle, then change it into a drop. Put it on the hook, as shown in the photo. If you will be making rose petals using a special mold, then compare the drop-shaped blank with it. The height of the petals should be slightly higher than that of this core.
Now you need plastic of pink, red or another color, this will be a blossoming bud. To further make a rose from polymer clay, remember a piece of colorful plastic in your hands, roll it out and cut a five-pointed flower with a mold. If you do not have such a shape, then draw it on a stencil, then transfer it to rolled clay and cut along the contour with a sharp knife.
Take a stick with a ball, walk it over the petals to make them thinner. If you have a device for imparting texture to flowers, then process them with these molds.
Take the first drop-shaped blank - this is the middle of the bud. Spread it with glue, first wrap the first petal around it, then the second, third, so that they tightly close the bud.
Cut the blanks of five petals so that they split into 2 and 3 petals. Then grease the two-petal part with glue, also wind them tightly around the bud. Wrap the bud 2-3 more times with two or three pieces of 2 petals.
Next, coat the triple piece with glue, also wrap it tightly around the polymer clay rose blank. You will also need several such details.
When you're done with the shamrocks, move on to the five-leafed leaves. Polymer clay modeling continues with the creation of a lush flower.
If you attach another five-leaf to the bottom of the bud, connect the ends of each of these petals with a separate wire, then a polymer clay rose will turn out to be even more realistic.
Connect all the wire together with tape or tape.
We continue to tell you further how to make flowers from polymer clay master class.
In the next step, you need to make a flower bowl from green clay. As shown in the photo, first make it round, roll the edges with a thin rolling pin, then pull the plastic up in the center, then cut out a five-pointed star with a shape or knife. For more realism, make notches along its edges with a knife.
To attach the resulting cup to its place, grease its surface with glue, attach it to the bottom of the flower, passing it through the wire. It needs to be draped with green tape.
This is how polymer clay turns into a graceful flower. For beginners, you can talk about how to make crafts for kindergarten or school.
Polymer clay corn and pumpkin
If an exhibition of vegetables from various materials is held in a children's institution, your beloved child was asked to bring exhibits, then together with him make corn from plastic. It is easy to create, does not require special devices, but it turns out to be very effective.
For her you will need:
- polymer clay of yellow and light green color;
- board;
- gloves;
- small rolling pin.
To make the core of the cob, wearing rubber gloves, take a small piece of light green plastic and knead it with your hands. It is better to entrust this to a child, then he will be able to develop fine motor skills and learn a new interesting craft. Now this piece needs to be rolled between the palms to give it a tapered shape.
Next, there will be yellow clay modeling. After you or the child knead it, you need to roll a thin tourniquet out of this material and wrap it around the cob stalk. Start curling from the bottom, working your way up, pressing the curls tightly together.
To create the two outer leaves, take 2 small pieces of light yellow plastic, roll them out into triangles, first place one leaf on the bottom of the corn, then the other.
Depending on the type of polymer clay, let the product dry in the air or in the oven, after which you can take it to a competition or exhibition.
DIY fruits from polymer clay
This material gives a huge scope for creativity. It can be used to make not only vegetables, but also fruits. These orange slices will decorate a vase or can also be made as a craft for kindergarten.
If you want to make lemon wedges, then use only yellow polymer clay. The more experienced will find it interesting to create an orange treat, so they will need a piece of orange plastic and a little less yellow. Having kneaded both separately with your hands, you need to connect them in a certain way.
To get a smooth transition of two colors, you need to roll a rectangle from each of 2 pieces of plastic, connect them in the center together. Roll the resulting part away from you so that the merge is vertically. Then fold it in half towards you 2 times. Roll with a rolling pin and fold the plastic until the border of the two colors forms a smooth transition. Thus, you will combine yellow and orange polymer clay, create a sausage from the resulting piece. Now take the white plastic, roll it out thinly and wrap the resulting yellow-orange oval with it. Next, roll it out with your palms to make a thin long sausage. Divide it into 8 equal parts.
Now give each part a teardrop shape. To do this, put the sausage on the table, crush it on one side with your palm. Then you will have a sharp corner, on the opposite side there will be a convex part.
Now connect the 8 obtained sausages together, attaching them with sharp edges to each other. Next, you will need another piece of orange polymer clay. Roll it into a rectangle, wrap the orange sausage with it, cut off the excess. Now you need to chop the resulting oval into circles with a diameter of 6 mm.
Place the resulting slices in an oven preheated to 130 ° C. Dry them for 20 minutes.
There is a rule: polymer clay products need to be fired - for every 6 mm of thickness for 20 minutes, unless otherwise indicated in the instructions. Remove the orange circles while they are still hot and cut in half. Next, use a toothpick to give them more realism and texture. How to do this is shown in detail in the video.
In this way, you can make not only fruits and vegetables with your own hands. This technique creates beautiful jewelry from polymer clay, including rings, bracelets, earrings.
How to make an orange out of polymer clay, see this video:
