Liquid Sculpey® Marbled Copper Bracelet

Getting Started with Liquid Sculpey:

Please make sure your work area is covered and you are not working on an unprotected surface. We recommend working on the Sculpey® Oven Safe Work Mat, wax paper, metal baking sheet, or disposable foil. Uncured Liquid Polymer Clay may damage unprotected furniture or finished surfaces. Be sure to cover your crafting area appropriately. - Stir Liquid Sculpey® completely. Thin with Sculpey® Liquid Clay Softener as needed - Wash hands after use (we have found that baby wipes work best)

Baking:

• It is important to use oven thermometer when you bake the liquids so that you can ensure your oven is at the correct temperature. • Do not microwave the liquids. They must be baked in a Preheated oven at 275 ºF (130 ºC) for liquid colors and 300 ºF (149 ºC) for Clear – Do not exceed baking temperatures. • If your piece is less than 1/4” bake for 15 minutes. For thicker pieces that are 1/4” or above bake for 30 minutes. • If your liquid project has become yellowed or discolored in the oven, when you remake it, tent it by placing either – folding an index card in half and placing your project under it or by using aluminum foil over your project.

The bezels that I used came in a pack of ten so I filled all of them so I could pick my favorite ones.

Place a drop or two of Copper Metallic Liquid Sculpey® (LS) into each of the oval shaped bezels.

Place a drop of White LS into each bezel as well. Your drops can be as uniform or as random as you like. My patterns are completely random.

Place a drop of Black LS into each bezel as well. Don’t overfill the bezels because we don’t want the LS to spill out during the next step. You can see that some of my bezels even have open spaces in them which will fill up during the swirling.

Dip the tip of the Needle Tool into one of the dots of color. Without lifting the tool, swirl the tip through each color. You can swirl a little or a lot but pay attention to the patterns that you are making so that you can stop swirling when you like the way they look.

Carefully lift the tool out of the design and clean it with paper towel before going onto the next bezel.

Repeat for each bezel.

Bake the bezels following the baking instructions for LS.

Please note that I chose not to use any type of adhesive to keep the baked LS inside the bezels. It really is not necessary to glue the pieces in. They will stay in as long as you don’t intentionally try to peel them out.

Allow the bezels to cool completely before assembly.

Connect all the bezels together with the jump rings using flat nose pliers. Attach the toggle to one end and the loop to the other to finish the bracelet design.