Winters Night Polymer Clay Bib Necklace Tutorial

How to Make My Winter's Night Polymer Clay Bib Necklace Step by Step

• Option 1: Mix together 5 parts Kato Pearl, 5 parts Kato translucent, 2 parts Kato magenta, 1 part Blue Kato concentrate.
• Option 2: Mix together 2 parts Premo Ultra Marine, 7 parts Premo Pearl.
• Option 3: Mix together Premo Pearl and Amethyst or Indigo Alcohol Ink.

• Roll your clay out on the thickest setting of the pasta machine and dust it with corn starch.
• Lay your clay over your texture stamp, and press in with your fingertips working from one side of the clay to the other to create an imprint.
• Remove the clay from the stamp.
• Shave off the raised areas using your tissue blade.
• Cover with a piece of plain paper and burnish with your fingertips to flatten it out.

• Reduce your translucent snowflake cane from the Silent Night tutorial, until it is quite small.
• Roll out a sheet of pearl white clay on the thickest setting of your pasta machine, cover with very coarse sandpaper and burnish to texture it.
• Dust with Sparkle Blue mica powder.

• Trim your two sheets so that they will fit nicely together.
• Cut thin slices from your snowflake cane and lay a few slices randomly on your mica shift.
• Roll flat with your acrylic roller.
• Overlap your snow sheet slightly over your mica shift sheet and use a craft knife to cut a wiggly edge.
• Join your two sheets together and lay slices of snowflake cane along the join.
• Gently flatten using your roller, without flattening the textured snow sheet.

• Make a second sheet of snow clay, as before. We will use this for the backing of the necklace.
• Place it textured side down on a piece of plain paper then lay your veneer over it.
• Gently smooth them together checking for bubbles as you go.
• Use your Pointed Bib Necklace Cutter to cut out a piece with the snow at the bottom and the mica shift at the top.
• On the video I show you how to use the leftover pieces to make a new veneer so that you can make earrings too, and how to salvage the leftover clay so that you don't have too much waste.
• Smooth the edges and then bake for a full hour at your brand's recommended temperature.

• Sand your pieces lightly on the blue mica shift to remove any mica powder residue, and then sand the edges.
• Place your pendants onto a silicone waffle mat and apply a layer of Ice Resin. (You can also use Magic Gloss or other UV resin.) Let this cure for 24 hours.
• Once cured, use a pin drill to drill a hole through each side of the bib.
• Thread a jumpring through each hole.
• Thread a length of your chosen cord onto each jumpring. I am using bugtail with crimp ends on either end for attaching.