Learning as I Go
Finished! After 2 days of trying several techniques, this necklace is finished! I started out thinking it would be cool to make links from polymer clay with some brownish clay, some cutters for the links and complete a quick project. Cutting the links was the easy part. Deciding how to attach the links and what to combine with them was more difficult. The links were baked. I drizzled Sculpey Bake and Bond and dabbed Pearlex Powder on the baked links to add interest and baked again. Holes were drilled for metal rivets and the links are ready. Later I realized I needed to put color accent on the back sides and again drizzled the Bake and Bond and Pearlex Powder. Baked the links a third time. Next came stringing the group of beads with flex wire and using crimp beads to attach the group to 18 g jump rings. Testing by pulling the flex wire parted the jump ring. GRRRR! Maybe soldering the jump rings closed would solve the problem. When I tried that I b