https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/pumpkin-necklace • Posted by Mona S.
Autumn is here and if you're anything like me you love pumpkins in every shape! Here's a little how-to for your very own pumpkin pendant/necklace! It's made from polymer clay and you don't need any special tools to make it!
Autumn is here and if you're anything like me you love pumpkins in every shape! Here's a little how-to for your very own pumpkin pendant/necklace! It's made from polymer clay and you don't need any special tools to make it!
To make the pendant you need 2 different colours of polymer clay. One colour could be orange if you're making a traditional pumpkin, and the other colour could be a brown-ish green. You also need an eye pin and a toothpick.
Roll the orange clay into a ball.
Press the ball slightly between your thumb and finger to flatten the ball a smidge. It should be a ball with a flat bottom and top.
Take the toothpick and gently make creases in the flattened ball.
I like to make the creases to each quarter of the ball, and then continue until it is covered in grooves.
It should look something like this. It doesn't need to be perfect. Imagine what a pumpkin looks like - it's perfectly imperfect!
Use the toothpick to make a small hole (dimple) in the top of your "pumpkin", it doesn't need to go deep.
Now it is time to use the other colour of clay. Take a very small amount and make it pliable.
Roll the "other" colour into a little cylinder that is thinner on one end.
Place the cylinder of the other colour with its fat end into the dimple you made in your pumpkin. And press it down a little bit.
Use your toothpick to give some texture to the pumpkin stem. It's all in the details.
The pumpkin would look something like this. Now get your eye pin (or eye screw).
If you're using an eye pin cut it so that it is the proper length. You don't want it sticking out of your pumpkin.
Add the eye pin gently behind the stem, and then bake your polymer clay pumpkin in the oven according to the polymer clay packaging. This differs between different brands of polymer clay, so make sure to read on the packaging. Your pumpkin pendant is finished!
Lastly add the jump ring to the end of the eye pin sticking out of the pumpkin, and add a chain through the jump ring. You now have a finished pumpkin necklace.