Friendship Vase
Designed by Anita Behnen

Materials Used:

• 1-2oz. Bar of Gold Premo! Sculpey
• Glass bottle approximately 4” tall, 2” wide
• Black Pigmented ink (StazOn by Tsukineko was used in this project. It is a solvent type ink that doesn’t smear after it’s dry)
• Rubber Stamps of choice
• PearlEx Powders (Ancient Gold was used in this project)
• Alcohol swabs
• Paint brush or cosmetic sponge
• Toothpick or needle tool
• 30 gauge wire (12” long)
• Glass Seed Beads
• Clay Dedicated Pasta Machine or Acrylic Roller
• Work surface
• Oven
• Oven thermometer and timer
  
  

Instructions:

• Clean the surface of the bottle with alcohol swab.
• Knead and flatten a 2oz.bar of Gold Premo so that you have a sheet about 7”long, 3”wide and 1/16th” thick.

• Using the inked rubber stamps, stamp the sheet of clay 3-4 times. Stamp 5 hearts. Allow the ink to dry before handling the sheet.
• Once the ink has dried, tear the edges of the sheet and around the hearts.

• Wrap the stamped sheet around the bottle so that the Expression is facing the front.
• With the toothpick or needle tool, poke a hole on the top of three hearts and place the others on the sheet of clay.
• Using a paintbrush or cosmetic sponge, powder the torn edges with PearlEx powder.
  

• Bake the bottle and cut hearts in the oven following manufacturer’s instructions
• Allow everything to cool before handling.
  Embellishing
• Take 12” of 30-gauge wire and fold in half.
  String the wire thru one of the hearts to the fold.

• Place the ends of the wire together and string 3 seed beads.
  Separate the wire and string 3 seed beads on each wire. Then put the ends together again and string both thru 3 seed beads.
  Place the string around the neck of the bottle to determine the desire length. Once that has been established, string beads thru each piece of the wire, adding the other hearts until you have reached the back of the bottle.
• Twist the two wires once and then sting them both thru 3 seed beads.
• Separate the wires and string 3 seed beads on each. Do this until the desire length. After stringing the last bead, string the wire back thru the second and third to the last bead.