Supplies
Tools
- Sewing needle
- Shape cutter (flower)
- Wire-haired paintbrush
- Wooden stick (or a long, fine nail)
- Oven
- Cloth
- Optional: gloves
Materials
- Polymer clay (in the color you want your strawberry to be).
- Flower cane with 6 petals
- Sandpaper
- Green acrylic paint
- Optional:
- Greaseproof paper
- Clear varnish
Directions
Make the shapes for the strawberry jewelry
- Form a little ball with the modelling clay for the strawberry, and cut a thin slice from the flower cane for the flower.
- Cut the flower with a cutter.
- Make the clay into a strawberry shape, and then place the flower on the top.
- Pierce the strawberry through the centre, and leave it on the stick.
NB: If you have left fingerprints, they will be removed at the end.
- With the help of the needle, mark the ‘grains’ on the strawberry.
- Heat the strawberries in the oven for 30 minutes at 130°C.
Finishing Touches to the strawberry jewelry
- Once completely cooled, coat the strawberries with paint.
- Leave to dry for at least 30 minutes.
- With soapy water and gloves, sand the strawberries to remove paint.
- Polish the strawberries and apply 1 or 2 layers of varnish.
- Put the strawberries together however you like.
Tips
- Working on baking paper will make it a lot easier and quicker to clean up.
- If the fimo clay is too soft, place it in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes, then pierce it.
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