You'll
need: 
- 1 ounce Premo orange, or Sculpey III sweet potato
- 1 Ounce Premo cadmium yellow, or Sculpey III yellow
- 1/2
ounce Premo Black
- A small piece of your choice of color for the leaf and stem,
I used Premo gold with a pinch of red pearl, and green
pearl for
the earrings.
- A pasta machine, roller, brayer or jar to roll out thin sheets
of clay.
- A toothpick
- Needletool or pin
- Sharp blade, I used the Sculpey Super Slicer
For the necklace:
- Beads
of your choice, I used polymer beads made from the leftovers
of this project, and glass beads.
- Beading wire or thread.
Directions:
1. Condition
all your clay well.
2. Roll
your yellow clay into a log about 2 inches long, patting down the
edges to keep them flat. With your pasta machine
on number
5 roll out your black clay (or as thin as you can get it with
other rolling tool). Wrap this around your yellow log and
trim the edges,
reserve a piece of the leftover sheet. Cut this log in half,
so you have two identical one inch logs.
3. With one
half of your log, slice in half lengthwise and cut out a small
notch.
See picture.
4.
Take some of your leftover sheet of black and cover the exposed
yellow edge, using your toothpick pack the notch gentle with a thin
layer of the black
clay. Finish it off by packing the notch with your pumpkin (orange)
color. See picture.
5. With your
other log of clay, start reducing it down. Squeeze and roll the
log down till it's around 1/4 inch around. Then gently pinch
and cylinder into a triangle shape, it helps if you cut off a
couple inches of your cane and work with that.
Reduce your mouth cane in a similar way, pulling and tugging,
reducing as your would a triangle.
6. Now, divide
your orange clay into 8 equal balls. Insert a toothpick about ¼ of
the way into the ball. Using your needle tool gently press in lines
starting from the bottom, and curving up to the toothpick.
Put aside.
7.
Take your stem/leaf color and roll out a little teardrop,
a thin snake, and a log with one end pinched, keep
these small. Use your
needle tool to impress little
vein marks into the leaf.
8.
Now it's time to put everything together! Put your
pinched
log stem into the opening where the toothpick was.
Attach your little leaf
beside it, and I've added a thin snake of clay twisted for a vine.
Using your sharp blade slice off two thin slices from the triangle
cane, and one from the mouth, press these onto your little bead.
And using your needle, poke a hole through the very top.
9. Bake Premo!
Sculpey bake for 30 minutes per 1/4 inch at 275 Degrees F (130
Degrees C). Bake Sculpey III for 15 minutes per 1/4 inch at
275 Degrees F (130 Degrees C). You should use an oven thermometer
to make sure the oven temperature is accurate. Overheating polymer
clay can cause it to become discolored. Use your precious sculptural
bead in jewelry as a mini ornament, or for whatever else you can
imagine!
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