Beautiful Leaf Jewellery from Polymer Clay, a Tutorial

From brooches to pendants and earrings, I show how to create this delicately patterned leaf jewellery from polymer clay. With easy to follow techniques, you really can make some of your own. So, sit back, relax, and watch as I show you how, then have a go and make some yourself.

The music from the video is English Country Garden by Aaron Kenny and is available from the YouTube Free Audio Library.

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I also have a number of Polymer Clay PDF Tutorials to buy in my Etsy shop, PolyOriginals - https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/PolyOrig... and as a video tutorial here - http://polyoriginals.thinkific.com/co...

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Here is the link to the Skinner Blends video –    • Basic Skinner Blend Tutorial from Pol...  

Polymer Clay is oven baked, always follow the manufacturer’s instructions for the brand of clay you are using. I used Cernit Polymer Clay for this design.

I used a Pasta Machine dedicated to Polymer Clay use to create blends/thin sheets and condition the clay. My Pasta Machine is an Atlas 180, and it has setting 0 as its thickest and 9 as its thinnest. There is a standard way of calculating the thickness of clay required, by using stacked playing cards. On my machine the thickness are as follows: Setting 0 = 8 playing cards, setting 1 = 7, setting 2 = 6, setting 3 = 5, setting 4 = 4, setting 5 = 3, setting 6 and 7 = 2, setting 8 and 9 = 1 card.
The aluminium wire is 1mm, 18 Gauge and the Jewellery wire is 0.8mm 20 Guage wire.

I really hope you have fun with this one and cannot wait to see what you create.

Thank you so much for watching.