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Welcome to page 5 of the Polymer Clay Bead Tutorial.
Page 5 of 5
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 I have placed my beads on my polyester batting and placed them on my baking surface. They are ready to be baked.
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 Place your beads in the oven with your oven thermometer and bake according to your clay manufacturers recomendation. When they are done baking let them cool inside the oven.
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 Here are my baked beads. I have placed the toothpicks back into my beads. It gives me something to hang on to while doing the following steps.
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 Now it's time to paint. Get out the burnt umber acrylic paint and a paint brush. I use a paint brush instead of my fingers for this type of bead because you can't get into the v-channels without a paint brush. You can also use a sponge brush for this step.
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 Paint the entire bead but work quickly beacause acrylic paint dries very rapidly.
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 Here's the bead all painted. Do not let the paint dry on the bead. You will be removing the surface layer of paint. So move quickly to the next step.
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 Now you must remove as much paint as possible from the raised surfaces of the clay. The easiest way to accomplish this is by using a beauty q-tip. It has a pointed end that really helps to get into those hard to reach areas. You can get these at the drug store in the make-up isle.
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 My beads are dry and it's time to seal them with Clear Acrylic Sealer. You can also use a number of other sealers on the market. You can use a paint on type like a varnish but I prefer to use the spray sealer. I would give it 3 light coats letting the beads dry between coats.
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 Remove your beads from the toothpick. Here they are, all ready to be implemented into my next project. You can use them for jewelry, macrame, or whatever.
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 Here is a necklace made with the beads we just made. I used a rubber jewelers cord to string it since this necklace has some weight to it. I used small gold ball beads to space my large polymer beads out. I also used a variety of medium and small spacer beads between the gold beads and the polymer clay beads. Click on the picture for a larger view.
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