Faux Jasper Polymer Clay Saber Tooth Necklace

How to Make Faux Jasper Polymer Clay Cabochons and a Saber Tooth Necklace Step by Step

• To start with, you will need a strip of translucent Premo polymer clay rolled out on the second thinnest setting of your pasta machine.
• Rub your chosen Gelatos one at a time, in a random graffiti like pattern, over the strip of translucent clay. Make sure you get cross over of the colors.
• Accent the sheet with a few rubbings of Inca Gold gilders paste.
• Cut the strip in half and lay one half over the other, pressing down to eliminate air bubbles.
• Cut in half again and stack. Repeat.
• Distort the stack using your fingertips. Turn it over and repeat. See the video for details.
• Push the stack back together.
• Cut the stack into slices.
• Run each slice through the third thinnest setting on the pasta machine and then through the second thinnest setting.

• Smear your translucent clay strip with gelatos as before, but this time add quite a bit more Inca Gold gilders paste.
• Roll your strip up in a jellyroll.
• Squish into a log.
• Condense into a slab shape.
• Distort using your fingertips as before, and push back together.
• Cut into slices.
• Run each slice through the third thinnest setting on the pasta machine and then through the second thinnest setting.

• Roll out a sheet of Premo white clay on the thickest setting of your machine and stack it so that you have a sheet twice the thickness of the thickest setting.
• Lay a Mokume Gane slice on the white clay.
• Trim around it, round off the edges and mold into shape to create a cabochon. See the video for the process.
• Smooth out any fingerprints before baking.
• Repeat with the rest of the Mokume Gane slices.
• Bake your cabochons for a full hour at Premo's recommended temperature.

• Roll a small piece of Premo white clay into a log.
• Wrap a Mokume Gane slice around it.
• Trim off excess at the seam and fold over the ends.
• Roll in your hands to smooth out the seams.
• Create a point at each end to make a torpedo shape.
• Smooth off fingerprints.
• Bake your torpedo beads for a full hour at Premo's recommended temperature.

• Once cool, sand your beads and cabochons to a high shine using wet/dry sandpaper or polishing papers, starting from the lowest grit to the highest. I start from 400 all the way up to 8000. Alternatively, you can use the Polyfast sanding tool starting from the 500 grit to the 8000 grit.
• Drill holes through each torpedo bead using a pin or push drill.
• Add a light layer of Renaissance Wax using a soft cloth. Give them a good buff.

• String one end of your leather cord with a charlotte crimp and a crimp. Add a jumpring and a clasp. See the video for details.
• String your pendants on the leather. I am alternating mine with small bone beads, but you can add any spacers.
• Finish off the other end of the leather cord in the same way as you did the first end.