Hello dear polymer clay enthusiast!

If you like using resin with polymer clay, especially UV resin, you'll surely love this tutorial. If you're not currently working with UV resin, I strongly encourage you to give it a try. I think you might like the finished result.
I personally love the way resin (or UV), polymer clay and inks mix. You'll certainly end up with beautiful results using these elements together.
For this pieces I wanted a contrast between the faux metal rough look of the background and the faux glass insertions.

I like using templates in my work and this lion sketch turned out to be the perfect pattern for this cut out and see through pendant.

Materials and tools used:
- Scrap clay
- Silver metal leaf
- Alcohol inks (Pinata Baja Blue and Sunbright yellow)
- free template that you can download from the link in the description
- dotting tool
- liquid clay
- rigid blade and flexible blade
- silver mica powder and varnish
- UV resin and a UV lamp
- pasta machine or clay roller
- an oven and an oven thermometer

I hope that you'll use this inspiration in your work with clay!
Happy claying!
Mihaela


P.S. I wanted in invite you to enroll in my Free Mini Class 11 ways to make and use molds with polymer clay! (Visit LearnPolymerClay.com to enroll!)

It’s been a while since I wanted to organize my knowledge and what I’ve experimented during all these years of working with polymer clay.

And I managed to put together a mini-course that is delivered over email during 11 days centered around how to use polymer clay to make tools for your work with clay and also on how to use molds to add a 3D look to your beautiful polymer clay pieces.

I see molds like a starting point. You make the mold of an embossed texture that you like and then you can turn it into a stamp (that’s unique, no one will have that same stamp because you’ve made it for yourself), or into a texture plate, or a texture roller, or something else.

Personally I love to mold faces of small figurines and then tweak them a little bit and use them in my designs. I can tell you that I can use the same face mold and tweak the molded design and end up with an endless number of face polymer clay pieces that do not look alike at all. And you can do this as well. Just think of all the possibilities of using such tweaked molded faces to embellish your clay pieces!

I dedicated the last lessons of the course to silicone molds. I love using silicone molds and there are endless possibilities for using silicone molds in your work to add even more interest to your pieces. I’ll show you some possibilities to get your creative juices flowing!

I can’t wait to see you inside the class! Enroll on www.LearnPolymerClay.com

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