A Million and One Polymer Clay Necklace Designs

00:00:03 –> 00:00:09 Hi guys it’s Cindy Lietz your Polymer Clay Tutor, and today’s Show and Tell, I’m going

00:00:09 –> 00:00:16 to show you a million and one polymer clay necklaces. Now a little while ago, I did a

00:00:16 –> 00:00:21 million and one polymer clay earrings video, and it was quite popular so I thought I would

00:00:21 –> 00:00:25 do the same thing again with the necklaces. Now I didn’t include pendants, we’ll do that

00:00:25 –> 00:00:32 in another day. Otherwise, that would probably be two million in one necklaces. So, now,

00:00:32 –> 00:00:36 the reason I wanted to show you this–this is my collection of the stuff that I wear

00:00:36 –> 00:00:42 everyday and that I’ve made throughout the years. I wanted to show you from your point

00:00:42 –> 00:00:49 of view all the different types of ideas and things that you can do with polymer clay.

00:00:49 –> 00:00:54 Many of them are samples from the different tutorials that I’ve done but also, if you’ve

00:00:54 –> 00:00:59 never been exposed to polymer clay, you may not realize just how versatile it is and how

00:00:59 –> 00:01:04 many different cool styles that you can get with it. And then of course this is just my

00:01:04 –> 00:01:09 own personal style, there’s lots of other people’s styles as well. Alright, so I’m gonna

00:01:09 –> 00:01:14 just kinda show you what I’ve got here and tell you a little bit about them and go through

00:01:14 –> 00:01:22 as many of them as I can. Alright, so here I’ve got a necklace that I’ve got some hollow

00:01:22 –> 00:01:29 lentil beads on. These are double-sided beads, one side I put a tutorial that I did on the

00:01:29 –> 00:01:37 reptile cane video and I used the cane that was from that for that side and then the other

00:01:37 –> 00:01:44 side, I used a kind of a faux wood technique. And then of course, I used some real chalk

00:01:44 –> 00:01:51 turquoise and I did a linked wire technique there. Here’s an oldie that I’ve had around

00:01:51 –> 00:01:59 for a really long time but it’s kind of unusual and I really like it. It’s got, it’s done

00:01:59 –> 00:02:06 with an inlay technique which I have a tutorial on and I prebaked different types of polymer

00:02:06 –> 00:02:13 clay samples so the ones that looked like faux turquoise and ones that had like a crackled

00:02:13 –> 00:02:20 finish on it and some that have this red stone. I’m forgetting the name of the stone but I’ve

00:02:20 –> 00:02:28 got it embedded in some faux bone and it has a real kind of first nation kind of look to

00:02:28 –> 00:02:33 it or aboriginal sort of look to it. This necklace here and I’ve kinda clustered all

00:02:33 –> 00:02:37 the ones that have similar coloring together, I realized when I laid them out. This one here

00:02:37 –> 00:02:49 is a neat combination, it has a real abalone shell piece here with a pink dyed shell piece

00:02:49 –> 00:02:59 on top. This side here is turquoise bone beads or bone-shaped beads but this side here is

00:02:59 –> 00:03:04 a polymer clay curbed chain so this is all polymer clay on this one side. I’m probably

00:03:04 –> 00:03:10 laying it down would be best. And it’s a curb chain so it’s individual pieces. I have a

00:03:10 –> 00:03:15 tutorial for that but it has a real kind of rustic, neat look and it has a neat balance

00:03:15 –> 00:03:24 between the real and the faux. Now this one has a real layered look, it’s done with chain

00:03:24 –> 00:03:30 and a cluster of different beads coming out of a bead cone, different strings of things.

00:03:30 –> 00:03:40 I’ve got this here is from a tutorial called faux coral Heishi beads and I’ve made the

00:03:40 –> 00:03:45 beads themselves, it’s not real coral, it’s faux coral with polymer clay. And then the

00:03:45 –> 00:03:54 rest is all seed beads, real bronze, and different length glass beads and turquoise and that

00:03:54 –> 00:04:02 kind of thing or those that can be Magnesite beads actually. This one is quite unusual,

00:04:02 –> 00:04:09 it is kind of a choker style necklace. It kind of has a planetary sort of look, the

00:04:09 –> 00:04:18 pendant at the bottom looks a lot like a planet. I made this absolutely years ago. The way

00:04:18 –> 00:04:26 I did the wiring on it looks a little like the globe on a axis and then just the way

00:04:26 –> 00:04:34 I strung this together in kinda circles with different chunks of stone chips and pearls.

00:04:34 –> 00:04:40 I used a SoftFlex wire for that and then some handmade chain at the back part and a handmade

00:04:40 –> 00:04:49 hook so that’s kind of an unusual, neat one. This one was done using wire crochet and chunks

00:04:49 –> 00:04:58 of amethyst, amethyst chips and then the–this is two parts of polymer clay here. The first

00:04:58 –> 00:05:08 part is the polymer clay cone and you can make polymer clay cones–bead cones out of

00:05:08 –> 00:05:14 polymer clay but in any kinda style or size that you like so it’s really can make for

00:05:14 –> 00:05:21 pulling together a whole look. And then this is from one of my tutorials. I believe I called

00:05:21 –> 00:05:31 this one faux enameling but it has a–it’s used with a stencils, and chalk pastels, and

00:05:31 –> 00:05:35 liquid polymer clay and a bunch of neat techniques. I think that one turned out really lovely.

00:05:35 –> 00:05:43 I wear this one a lot. This is from a tutorial that hasn’t even aired yet. It is–I’ve filmed

00:05:43 –> 00:05:52 it but I just haven’t released it yet. It is called faux purple Mohave turquoise and

00:05:52 –> 00:05:59 Mohave turquoise is a type of man-made turquoise that is or they cluster together chunks of

00:05:59 –> 00:06:04 turquoise and make a block. I’ve made a faux of a faux which is an interesting concept

00:06:04 –> 00:06:14 and then I also teach the copper bezel in that tutorial as well. And then on the back

00:06:14 –> 00:06:20 side here, I have kind of groups of different types of necklaces that I’ve made. I’ve done

00:06:20 –> 00:06:26 a lot of chain combined with polymer clay combined with polymer clay. These ones, I

00:06:26 –> 00:06:30 guess I’m gonna have to go faster, there’s so many but this one has a piece of faux Labradorite

00:06:30 –> 00:06:41 on it and some wire lace as part of the necklace. This one here, is got a like a tulip bead

00:06:41 –> 00:06:47 on it and that’s from one of the tutorials as well, most of these are, actually. It’s

00:06:47 –> 00:06:53 got some neat little dangles on the chain. I really like mixing chain and polymer clay.

00:06:53 –> 00:07:01 I think it’s a nice yin yang kind of hard surfaces and soft surfaces. This is one also

00:07:01 –> 00:07:07 is with the same parrot tulip cane but it’s done in quite a different way and on the bead,

00:07:07 –> 00:07:12 it has a little bit of an Asian flare and then I made this chain out of, it’s one of

00:07:12 –> 00:07:22 those chainmaille chains with a bunch of little jumprings. Here’s a cute one. This is from

00:07:22 –> 00:07:26 the fairy door tutorial that I did, I did most of my fairy doors a little bigger than

00:07:26 –> 00:07:31 this but I decided it’d be fun to do a tiny little one to put on a necklace. It’s also

00:07:31 –> 00:07:42 got chain but this one has some gears, some little jade or stone, leaves, and dangles

00:07:42 –> 00:07:48 and things. I wear that one quite a bit. It’s quite whimsical and you’ll see that my style

00:07:48 –> 00:07:54 has–I definitely have a voice, not sure what the voice is but there’s a voice there and

00:07:54 –> 00:08:05 you’ll, it’s in the–all the different pieces. Here’s a big fat vintage trailer bead that’s

00:08:05 –> 00:08:11 from the happy camper cane tutorial and there’s just a couple of little dangles at the top

00:08:11 –> 00:08:18 here that add a little bit to the necklace. Here’s a real oldie but I really love this

00:08:18 –> 00:08:29 one. This is from the faux raku tutorial that I did years and years ago and it’s the deep

00:08:29 –> 00:08:37 crackle raku and I made the chain as well. It’s a hammered copper chain and I made that

00:08:37 –> 00:08:44 out of–and soldered it and stuff. That was fun. Here’s a super old one, I’m not crazy

00:08:44 –> 00:08:51 about the style but I like, I keep it because it was probably one of my first necklaces.

00:08:51 –> 00:08:59 Here is and I didn’t do the best job on the mica shift but it’s there, you can see it.

00:08:59 –> 00:09:08 It is a little dragonfly in a mica shift technique and then it’s just on some light chain. I

00:09:08 –> 00:09:13 think it’s not the design that I don’t like, I think it’s just the quality of the chain

00:09:13 –> 00:09:18 and the beads. I think if I’d use a little bit better quality beads, I would like the

00:09:18 –> 00:09:27 design better but it’s an old one. It’s where you start. Alright, so here’s one from the

00:09:27 –> 00:09:35 owl charm, wise owl charm necklace tutorial. I guess something named like that. And I showed

00:09:35 –> 00:09:40 you in that tutorial how to make this cute little sassy owl, a little book bead and also

00:09:40 –> 00:09:46 how to stamp on some metal charms and to make that fine thing there that you can swap out

00:09:46 –> 00:09:51 for different ones. These ones here are also on chain but they’re much longer. There’s

00:09:51 –> 00:09:59 another version of the same owl tutorial but it’s more rustic-looking in copper rather

00:09:59 –> 00:10:05 than silver. Here’s a few more here of the happy camper cane done in just slightly different

00:10:05 –> 00:10:14 ways. Here’s one done on a ball chain with the faux rust technique and then I layered

00:10:14 –> 00:10:21 some, a key and a few other things. You can really layer polymer clay into a lot of cool

00:10:21 –> 00:10:26 different things. I want to show you this but I don’t know if it will–here I’ll take

00:10:26 –> 00:10:36 this off. This is something that I really like. Now, it’s a lariat style necklace so

00:10:36 –> 00:10:42 I’ve got a dangle at the bottom of this chain that’s got a whole bunch of little flower

00:10:42 –> 00:10:48 beads from the lilac bead tutorial and then I’ve got a single large loop at the top. And

00:10:48 –> 00:10:53 then what you can do is pull the loop, the chain through the loop and then wear as a

00:10:53 –> 00:11:00 lariat necklace so that it hangs on your neck wherever it’s gonna hang, whatever size neck

00:11:00 –> 00:11:08 you have and it has quite a neat look. It’s kind of a balance between delicate and clunky

00:11:08 –> 00:11:18 or quite like that. There are a bunch of necklaces here that are all kind of done on leather

00:11:18 –> 00:11:29 and real kind of earthy in style. Almost masculine but not quite. It’s got, here’s one with a

00:11:29 –> 00:11:38 echinacea flower tutorial that I made in that one on a leather cord. There’s the one that

00:11:38 –> 00:11:46 we made recently or I made recently using some silk screens. I have a tutorial, a free

00:11:46 –> 00:11:53 tutorial on that one, on the silk screens and then I strung this one on a multiple cords,

00:11:53 –> 00:12:04 linen cords. I just attached them at the top with the finding things. This one here was

00:12:04 –> 00:12:10 done with some scrap clay. The scrap one I pulled out of the pasta machine just happened

00:12:10 –> 00:12:15 to look really cool so I thought well why not just leave it as it is and then I put,

00:12:15 –> 00:12:23 I riveted it and used a rivet and put like a copper disc and a little tin disc, put it

00:12:23 –> 00:12:29 all together there in the corner and you can kinda see the rivet at the back here. The

00:12:29 –> 00:12:37 camera may or may not pick up but I riveted right through and then I hung that on a leather

00:12:37 –> 00:12:44 cord as well with a handmade clasp. I do have tutorials on making the clasp like the wire

00:12:44 –> 00:12:51 cord ins and wired S clasps and stuff and putting beads on them. That’s really a nice

00:12:51 –> 00:12:55 skill to have if you do it, making your own jewelry, to be able to make your own findings

00:12:55 –> 00:13:03 as well. Aww this one, I love this one. This one is a leather one but it’s got a little

00:13:03 –> 00:13:11 birdhouse bead from the tutorial on it and I shaped little dangles to look like leaves.

00:13:11 –> 00:13:17 They are little copper headpins that I torched then I hung a few of them in a row here. So

00:13:17 –> 00:13:24 this necklace, you can hang this hook at different spots so if you want the dangle to hang way

00:13:24 –> 00:13:31 down like down your shirt, depending on what type of shirt you’re wearing. Anyways, you

00:13:31 –> 00:13:41 can hang it at different lengths and wear it different styles. Here’s a–this is from

00:13:41 –> 00:13:48 the Celtic heart tutorial and I’ll show you how to make the Celtic heart as well as the

00:13:48 –> 00:13:53 faux wood veneer and then we do the veneer over the Celtic heart so that the heart itself

00:13:53 –> 00:14:00 almost looks like it was carved straight from one solid piece of wood which is a neat technique.

00:14:00 –> 00:14:04 It’s a lot easier for me to do that in polymer clay than it would be for me to do that in

00:14:04 –> 00:14:11 a wood working ’cause my wood working skills are minimal at best. Here’s a necklace I made

00:14:11 –> 00:14:21 for–it’s a man’s necklace and I’ve got kind of a piece of the faux burlwood technique

00:14:21 –> 00:14:29 on there, some wire working. And another cord with a nice, heavy, chunky, masculine-looking

00:14:29 –> 00:14:37 clasp at the top there. Here’s an oldie with some–they almost look like balloons to me

00:14:37 –> 00:14:47 so I called it the circus necklace and it’s got some neat little Skinner blend canes and

00:14:47 –> 00:14:53 this is from the mitered corner cane tutorial and if you do it in these strange with the

00:14:53 –> 00:14:59 contrasting colors, it has quite a dramatic effect. And then the scraps, I made into a

00:14:59 –> 00:15:08 little swirly lentil bead. And this is hanging from kind of a balloon-shaped charm holder.

00:15:08 –> 00:15:15 These are entirely different. These are completely light and airy looking. This one is done from

00:15:15 –> 00:15:22 the frosted bead or frosted petal or frosted flower tutorial and it’s done with translucent

00:15:22 –> 00:15:28 clays and it has an inks and things it has a very frosted, beautiful look. It’s done

00:15:28 –> 00:15:37 on SoftFlex wire with a magnetic clasp at the top here and it’s just so light and airy.

00:15:37 –> 00:15:41 It’s really summery and this is the same sort of concept just as far as the way it’s been

00:15:41 –> 00:15:48 strung but these are some beads that I did with the, which one is this, the torn paper

00:15:48 –> 00:15:57 tutorial, sort of a water color look and it has little bit of sparkle and stuff in there.

00:15:57 –> 00:16:04 What else? I’ve got a couple of longer necklaces here. I know, this is a ton but if you, hopefully

00:16:04 –> 00:16:11 you’re getting lots of neat ideas here for your own beads and your own style. Now here’s

00:16:11 –> 00:16:20 a necklace that I made. I did the links in a rosary kind of style and these are from

00:16:20 –> 00:16:26 the holly and berry cane tutorial so I wear this a lot around Christmas time. It has a

00:16:26 –> 00:16:34 real antique-y kind of look to it. I used the cane in this sort of–oops, sorry–pendant

00:16:34 –> 00:16:41 medallion kind of thing at the bottom here with some chain and then I also used the same

00:16:41 –> 00:16:49 canes on some of the smaller beads up here on the side. And then scraps can always make

00:16:49 –> 00:16:52 some pretty great lentil beads so you might as well throw them in there ’cause they match

00:16:52 –> 00:16:58 so nicely so I did that and it has kind of a real Christmas-y kind of thing to it. There’s

00:16:58 –> 00:17:08 a huge pile piling up. Alright, here’s another one done strung similarly and even with the

00:17:08 –> 00:17:16 tassel at the bottom so it’s similar but this is done with the Easter lily cane tutorial

00:17:16 –> 00:17:22 and this little cane is really neat, you could, you can make it well you make the cane, it’s

00:17:22 –> 00:17:26 about that big but when you reduce it down, you can reduce it down to different sizes

00:17:26 –> 00:17:32 and the beads have quite a different look so you can see here I’ve got like one size

00:17:32 –> 00:17:41 of the lily here then I’ve reduced it down smaller to this size here and even smaller

00:17:41 –> 00:17:52 to this one and this little one looks like a floral fabric or something. It’s so tiny.

00:17:52 –> 00:18:01 And what else do I got. I’ve got a couple of really long ones here, these are lanyards

00:18:01 –> 00:18:08 and things. They kinda fit in the necklace category. These are lanyards, I use–I haven’t

00:18:08 –> 00:18:13 been to the Y for a while. I walk with my girlfriend now around the neighborhood. When

00:18:13 –> 00:18:20 I went to the Y, I put my Y pass on the bottom of it but it has some pirate beads on it from

00:18:20 –> 00:18:27 the pirate cane tutorial and I like the sassy-ness of this. From far away, you’re not sure what

00:18:27 –> 00:18:33 it is ’cause it kinda looks–it doesn’t look like little bones but if you move closer,

00:18:33 –> 00:18:38 you’ll realize they’re bones. I would say that this necklace is kind of in the same

00:18:38 –> 00:18:48 sort of feel because of the nautical kind of thing there. It’s got the larger anchor

00:18:48 –> 00:18:54 cane from the anchor cane tutorial. It’s got a bunch of charms and things at the bottom

00:18:54 –> 00:19:02 all sea-related and I wear this necklace an absolute ton specially with my striped kinda

00:19:02 –> 00:19:08 t shirts in the summer time. This is from the same sort of collection only I’ve used

00:19:08 –> 00:19:16 some rope instead and I found an anchor finding that was–I had all these little spots on,

00:19:16 –> 00:19:23 it’s like a dangle things from it which is kinda cool. This one here is just the–probably

00:19:23 –> 00:19:30 my first lanyard so it’s a little hokey and the quality isn’t that great and the–even

00:19:30 –> 00:19:36 the techniques that I did isn’t that great but I keep it for sentimental reasons. Just

00:19:36 –> 00:19:41 because you start something–like I said, you start somewhere and I can see my improvement

00:19:41 –> 00:19:47 over the years. Lastly, I just have a couple of little clusters. I won’t go too much into

00:19:47 –> 00:19:55 this but these are more kinda like Bohemian style necklaces with–done on fabric, little

00:19:55 –> 00:20:09 polymer clay charms. There’s one with a little starfish on there. This one has a Daisy and

00:20:09 –> 00:20:19 this one has like a little faux stoneware type charm on it. And these ones here are

00:20:19 –> 00:20:25 all ones with some Kumihimo cord on it. I learned how to do Kumihimo a while ago and

00:20:25 –> 00:20:33 I taught that one in a tutorial. It’s fun to do. Kumihimo and this one has a Celtic

00:20:33 –> 00:20:41 knot on it. That’s a little bit more detailed. It has kind of a stone look to it. Here’s

00:20:41 –> 00:20:52 a super fine kumihimo cord with just a bezel filled with a polymer clay and stamped. And

00:20:52 –> 00:20:57 then lastly, here’s another kumihimo cord done with some fuzzy yarn so it’s all kinda

00:20:57 –> 00:21:05 fuzzy. It’s got a Renunculus flower from the Renunculus tutorial and then it’s got a little

00:21:05 –> 00:21:11 bit of chain and another little Renunculus flower with it, has a dangle on that end.

00:21:11 –> 00:21:16 So that one kinda combines all bunch of different things. The cording, the polymer clay, the

00:21:16 –> 00:21:26 wire work, and chain. So I hope you enjoyed that. There’s so many things you can make

00:21:26 –> 00:21:30 with polymer clay, honestly. I don’t know if that’s anywhere near a million but I know

00:21:30 –> 00:21:36 it took me a long time to show you–all to you and I hope you were inspired by that and

00:21:36 –> 00:21:41 gave you some ideas on what you can do with your polymer clay. Also, check out some of

00:21:41 –> 00:21:45 the tutorials, I’ll try to leave links. If there’s one in particular that you are dying

00:21:45 –> 00:21:51 to have a link to, I will–If you put that in the comment section, I’ll get back to you

00:21:51 –> 00:21:59 and if you have any suggestions for future videos, leave those in the comments section

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