I haven’t written a blog post or anything at all in the past few days. I haven’t been too inspired. It looks like my elated mood of the past few weeks is diminishing a little. That being said, I still find my creative juices haven’t dried up completely, far from it in fact. Over the past couple of days, I have finished several things. I don’t really call them “projects”, as they’re relatively simple, but that’s beside the point. One such crafty thing I finished is my polymer clay fantasy tricolor “rainbow” pendant.
Over the weekend, I had been looking at making polymer clay earrings. I am not yet good enough with plain slabs to make those, but one of the ideas I saw was a rainbow. I checked my colors and found that I have some clay at least remotely resembling each color except for indigo. I might be able to mix indigo myself, but then again making an actual, seven-color rainbow would use up so much clay and what if it was a massive fail? For this reason, I decided to make a tricolor “rainbow”.
I also shied away from mixing my own colors, because I have none of the classic primaries. I mean, I do have a shade of red, yellow and blue, but I didn’t know what these shades would do together. So I asked my staff for feedback on colors that looked good together and that’s how I came up with the three colors of clay I used for the “rainbow”: Fimo Professional #6 (purple), Fimo Soft #42 (tangerine) and Fimo Soft #39 (peppermint).
I made the three layers of the “rainbow” using a half-round disc in my extruder. Oh, I haven’t even told you all yet that the same staff who brought me a pasta machine a few weeks back, brought me an extruder last Saturday. I’m so totally over the moon about it!
I also decided at the last minute to try to insert the eyepin. That way, I will be able to make a pendant out of this. With this particular piece, my staff did the actual inserting of the eye pin. However, I have been practising doing this myself and can now do this too.
I baked my piece on a tile yesterday. Unfortunately, since I’d used a glass oven dish lid to cover the piece, the first time it wouldn’t cure. The second time around, I decided not to cover my piece and it turned out pretty nice. It is slightly shiny at the back, but well, that’s okay. And best of all, the eye pin didn’t fall out!
What do you think of this piece?
Linking up with Party in Your PJ’s.
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that’s pretty
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Thank you! 🙂
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I love it! Great idea, it looks really good 😀
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Thank you so much. 🙂
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I think it’s a fantastic pendant. Cool colors too
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Thank you. I’m glad you like the colors.
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You’re welcome
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That’s very nice! It looks like you’re really enjoying your new artsy fun.
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I am, thank you. I’m glad you liked it.
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Kind of strange to say but I am not crazy about the rainbow of colors. I love all the colors individually but seeing them all together is almost too much…except when they exist together in nature in a rainbow. Therefore, I really like the colors you selected for your piece. Beautiful soothing, uplifting color palette. Glad you second attempt fired better. This would be a cute piece to hang on the wall or even on the Christmas tree!!
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Thank you for the compliment. I completely get you about the full spectrum of colors being too overwhelming when not in an actual rainbow in the sky. As for hanging my “rainbow”, I decided to attach it to the ribbon of a present I have been making for someone.
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Such a fun project!
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Thank you so much. 🙂
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Such a fun project! Thank you for sharing at Party In Your PJ’s.
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Thank you for commenting. Yes, it was really fun to do.
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This is lovely, I really like the colours you chose and I’m a firm believer that rainbows can be any colour you wish, they don’t have to imitate real rainbows except in shape. I’m so glad your pin stayed in and your staff sounds really lovely.
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Thank you. I’m so happy you liked my rainbow. And yes, all my staff are really nice.
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