Polymer Wood Effect & Copper Wire Earrings

The other day I was blogging and discussed the materials that I thought would be great for mens jewellery. Now the great thing about polymer clay is that, by combining colours and using different textures you can create almost any effect you want; stone, wood, leather, amber. You name it you can make it.

So I sat down this afternoon with ideas flying round my head and just started to mess around with the clay. When I start working with polymer I never really know what I’m going to end up with, sometimes it’s great and other times I end up really frustrated not really being able to put my ideas into the finished piece. My first thought was what colours do you find in wood? I sat down with the colours I had chosen and after an hour or so ended up with a pendant and set of earrings. I finished off the earrings with copper ear wires and hey presto! Not bad for my first wood effect piece.

 Spurred on by this I thought I’d have a crack at something with a leather effect. The hard thing with leather I found is creating the right texture. I picked out a colour fairly easily but had problems trying to create that “leather look”. I messed around folding the clay, twisting it this way and that until I was happy with the overall shape but it still didn’t look right. So I started messing around with the edges and came up with a torn ragged effect, I didn’t have an exact idea of what I wanted but carried on until I was happy with the results. T0 finish off the pendant I added a different coloured and textured centre piece and popped the pendant on a copper coloured cord.

Caroline