Charms knock against each other on a chain, so keep them flat and pierce each one where it hangs level. This diy necklace charms method cures a whole batch in a single oven run, whether you are making three or twenty. Charms sit differently from pendants because several hang together and knock against each other,…
Piercing the hole before the clay cures is what separates a tassel that hangs straight from one that pulls the pendant sideways. These clay necklace ideas cover ring sizing and hole placement, both of which decide how the finished piece sits. A tassel that hangs crooked ruins an otherwise clean pendant, and the fix is…
Rolling one even log and slicing it is how heishi beads polymer clay makers produce hundreds without shaping a single bead by hand. Chill the log before cutting or the slices squash flat under the blade. Heishi beads are cut from a rolled log, not shaped individually, which is the only reason making hundreds of…
How to make clay beads at home without a single specialist tool. A skewer for the holes, a baking tray, a kitchen oven. The only thing that actually matters is conditioning the clay properly first, and that is hands and time rather than equipment. Clay bead tutorials tend to open with a list of tools…
Polymer clay beads made in batches, because one bracelet’s worth takes the same oven run as forty. Roll the whole log, cut it down, pierce and bake everything at once. The bracelet is the quick part. Making enough beads to stop rationing them is the point. Flat disc polymer clay beads stacked by color create…
How to make clay bead bracelets, starting with the part people skip: laying the beads out in order before a single one goes on the cord. Threading first and rearranging later never works. Everything else follows from that. Heishi clay bead bracelets built from two colors are one of the cleaner ways to use up…
Clay bracelet ideas worth the effort of making your own beads rather than buying a tub. Marbled beads, uneven hand-rolled shapes, colors you mixed yourself. The ones that look bought are not on this list. Ideas to work through when you have an afternoon free. Rainbow disc beads combined with shaped clay charms make this…
Polymer clay and glass bead bracelets work because the two materials behave differently in light. Clay stays matte and holds colour flat, glass catches and throws it back. Alternate them and the bracelet has depth that a single material never gets. A bracelet made entirely of clay beads reads soft and flat, and one made…
Striped clay beads made by stacking sheets of clay, pressing them into a block, then slicing across the layers so every bead carries the same stripe. One stack gives you a whole bracelet’s worth. Easier than rolling stripes onto beads one at a time. Painting a stripe onto a finished bead is fiddly and never…
How to make clay bead bracelets from the first step, covering which elastic cord actually holds, how much slack to leave, and the knot that stops the whole thing scattering across the floor a week later. Everything a beginner gets wrong the first time. Almost everyone’s first clay bead bracelet breaks, and it is nearly…