Assembling a brooch from polymer clay. DIY polymer clay brooch is a bright decoration with flowers. Materials and tools

In this master class, we will learn how to make a bright and memorable decoration - a brooch "Poppy" from polymer clay.


Materials and tools:

  • polymer clay (green, red),
  • stamens are black,
  • base for a brooch,
  • polymer clay varnish,
  • glitter powder
  • acrylic paints (black, white),
  • connecting rings,
  • thin chain 35 cm,
  • pins with an eyelet,
  • bead caps,
  • faceted black beads,
  • metal leaves,
  • round-nose pliers, pliers,
  • toothpick, nail scissors, brush.

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Work description.

We make a large drop of green polymer clay, put it on a toothpick, fix the toothpick on a piece of clay - for ease of use

With help stationery knife for scrapbooking we make notches.

With the help of nail scissors, we cut each sector from below.

Cut off the resulting core of the future poppy from the drop.

We make a small cake out of green clay, on which we attach the stamens.

On top we make another cake and again a few stamens.

We attach the core that was cut off.

Let's start making petals. You need to roll 2 small balls and 3 larger ones out of red clay. Flatten the ball with your fingers and form the petals. Using a toothpick, we add texture by simply rolling it over the petal

We attach 2 small petals to the core.

We fix the remaining petals.

Place the resulting flower on the brooch base.

We bake at a temperature of 110 degrees for 10 - 15 minutes. On a pin with an eye, we put a cap for a bead, a bead, a leaf, with the help of round-nose pliers we form a ring.

We put on beads and leaves on thin chains of different lengths using connecting rings.

We attach them to the brooch base behind the flower.

We tint the core and its circumference with black paint.

Lightly tint the surface of the stamens with white paint. Mix a little varnish with glittering powder and cover the core, but so that the green clay is slightly translucent. We cover the entire flower with a simple polymer clay varnish.

Drying time of varnish from 24 hours. The brooch is ready!

Yet ... Making a flower bracelet!

In this master class, you will learn how to sculpt beautiful flowers and make a bright DIY polymer clay brooch.

Plastic jewelry looks very beautiful, lasts a long time, is not afraid of water and does not fade in the sun. The brooch is perfect for decorating clothes or bags. You can also take a hair clip or a double universal mount as a base. To avoid leaving prints on the craft, be sure to wear medical gloves. The lesson is suitable for beginners.

Materials for modeling

Necessary materials:

  • metal base for a brooch;
  • blade;
  • glue "moment";
  • polymer clay lilac, yellow, brown, green, white.

If you have never worked with plastic, we recommend that you take a closer look at this needlework. Check out other thermoplastic jewelry -, and.

Step-by-step technique for making a brooch

For work, you can choose any basic shade of plastic - make flowers in natural or unusual tones. Lilac is used in this workshop.

Knead the clay well in your hands to make it soft and pliable. Form a small droplet.

Make a scalpel six cuts, dividing the top of the workpiece into equal triangles.

Roll out the petals for a flower brooch.

Stack the "big ball" to smooth all corners and form a depression for the core.

Roll out a small ball of yellow clay, insert the center of the flower and use the same stack to smooth it down.

Use a needle or an awl to form a friability. Pay special attention to the edges, there should not be a brightly delineated line. Also draw veins on the petals.

Insert a small brown piece into the middle of the brooch flower and repeat the procedure.

Make a very small white ball and do the same with the yellow and brown ones.

Cut off the unnecessary mass with a blade.

The first flower is ready, go to the second.

Roll the polymer clay into a layer and use special silicone blanks.

Remember to form beautiful wavy transitions.

Make exactly the same center as in the first case.

It remains to blind the last flower. First, we also form a droplet, but cut it already in five parts... Bend the leaves inward and make sharp corners.

Make the middle the same as in the previous two cases. And don't forget to draw the veins.

All three flowers are ready, now proceed to assembling a brooch made of polymer clay. Blind the green into a circle and pass it through the paste machine so that it turns out to be uniform in thickness. Attach the brooch base to one side and seal well. This is important in order to subsequently know the place to which the fastener must be glued.

Place three flowers on the green blank.

Roll out the small green sausages, sharpening one of the edges. Pass the sausages through the pasta machine.

Make a needle looseness and streaks... You will need three of these sheets, which you attach to each flower.

Then roll out two small petals and use a large stack to fold them inward a little. Draw veins on the inside as well and attach to the empty spaces of the green circle.

The brooch with bright flowers is almost ready. Bake it according to the thermoplastic instructions. Glue the metal base with "Moment".

If desired, the decoration can be varnished. And we also have two key fobs - and, also for beginners.

A master class on making a beautiful brooch from polymer clay with her own hands was prepared by Vera Karpova, photo by the author.

I warn you right away that I will talk for a long time, in detail and tediously, I don’t know any other way, so you have the last chance to escape.

We will need a lot of things, but first of all, polymer clay. In this case, there are no special requirements for it, like a certain brand, hardness-softness or something like that - any will do, for me, mainly, Premo and Pardo (just in case, suddenly someone is interested).

Colors. You can use any colors and in any combinations, I took a bunch of multi-colored pieces of all colors of the rainbow + black. If you have the same dubious propensity for variegation, as I do, I still recommend the following thing: usually, when it comes to bright shades, the colors of polymer clay "from the pack" have some "chemistry" and unambiguity - bright red, heart-rending fuchsia, chemical lemon, etc. If you combine many of these chemical shades in one product - as a result, we get a thing of a straightforward adolescent scale. Therefore, I recommend to "complicate" some colors, to mix them with a drop-drop of plastic of the opposite color in the spectrum, or just black or brown. This will give the color great complexity and naturalness, for example, I mixed a drop of blue-green polymer clay to fuchsia, and a little red to the light green color, as a result I got a complex lilac-pink shade (the first in the top row) and wasabi color (the last one in lower). If it is still not clear why this should be done, adding a couple of such shades allows you to remove a touch of approximation, to make the scale a little more difficult to perceive. Yes, I'm a bore, but you were warned)
So, I have 9 small pieces of colored polymer clay and 1 black one.

We decided on the colors, now we need to roll the prepared plastic into layers. I do this using a pasta machine, if this is not a useful device, you can torment yourself with rollers, rolling pins or any other cylindrical objects.

Now we take a blade from an ordinary clerical knife and cut off small stripes from the layers. The width of the strips is arbitrary, I like it more when strips of different widths - from 2 to 8-10 mm, length - about 4 cm

We connect the cut strips into a single canvas.

Until you get a rectangle of about 4 by 5 cm (you can have a little more or a little less)

Take the blade again and cut the rectangle diagonally.

We leave one half in its original position, turn the other half upside down and connect the halves along the cut line

Cut off excess plastic at the edges, giving the blank the shape of a leaf

Now we take a black layer and put our blank on it, trying to prevent air bubbles from entering between the layers.

We need to slightly align the relief of the workpiece, for this I will use an acrylic block for stamps, sprinkled with starch or baby powder (it is needed so that the block does not stick to the plastic). If there is no block, you can use a small piece of glass, for example, from a photo frame, or in general any object with a smooth, even surface.

We press the sheet, press on the glass and watch how the surface of the leaf is flattened and leveled. Cutting off the excess plastic around the edges again - this is what we should get.

Now we need to mock the leaf to make its surface more interesting. You can do it different ways... For example, you can sprinkle some salt on a leaf and imprint it on the surface with your fingers or with the same acrylic block.

Or you can poke the surface with a toothbrush or a hard brush.

This seemed to me enough, and I proceeded to the next stage - pressing the grooves. We do this with the back (blunt) side of the blade.

We bake the leaf for 15 minutes at a temperature of 120-130 degrees, take it out of the oven, cool it down.

We grind the edges and the front surface of the leaf with fine sandpaper, rinse, dry and coat the wrong side with a thin layer of liquid plastic (gel) - it is needed for better adhesion of the already baked plastic to the raw one, but if there is no gel, skip this stage.

We put a layer of any color on the wrong side of our sheet, cut off the edges, press with our fingers.

We take a suitable base for the brooch, press it into the raw plastic ...

And with the help of any tools that come to hand, we smooth the hole in the polymer clay onto the base so that its (base) lower part is hidden under a layer of plastic. For this purpose, I use manicure tools such as curettes and spatulas or dental instruments.

We make a relief on the wrong side. I have an interesting and very handy thing - a silicone thimble with some pimples. It's actually for felting, but I'm using it for polymer clay. We put the thimble on our finger and squeeze along the back of the brooch, leaving craters on the relief. If there is no thimble, you can use any textured fabric, toothbrush, foam rubber or dots.

From what it is!

Again in the stove for another 15 minutes, again we take it out and grind it (if necessary), we get this from the inside out ...

But this is from the front side.

Dissolve the remaining salt in water, take acrylic paint(I have black, to match the color of the intermediate layer), and paint over the entire brooch entirely - from the face and from the inside. It is better to take a brush with a hard, synthetics or bristle in order to get into all the holes and cracks in the surface.

We wait 10-15 minutes until the acrylic dries, then moisten the fine sandpaper with water and grind off the excess paint. We need it to remain only in the depressions of the relief.

We wipe off the remaining paint and water, dry it, cover it with any suitable varnish - I have a matte Varatan. We cover ALWAYS on both sides, in 3-4 layers.

And voila! Ready)

And you can make not a leaf, but a fish ...

Or oval earrings)

Something like this, thank you for your attention!

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Winter is gradually giving way to spring, and the warmth is getting closer and closer. However, nothing prevents you from remembering snowy days - for example, adding a cute winter accessory to your look, a brooch-mittens made of polymer clay. Polymer clay provides unlimited possibilities for creating jewelry and accessories. This amazing material will let your fantasy unfold for real! Thanks to step-by-step master class You can easily create such a cute brooch - the miniature mittens look just like real ones, and it seems as if they were actually tied by little winter elves. Surround yourself with magic all year round!

For work we need:


1. Draw the outline of the mitten on the sheet for patterns "Gamma", art .: PSM-01, cut out the template.


2. Roll out blue clay“Craft & Clay”, ref .: CCH with an acrylic rolling pin “Craft & Clay”, ref .: CCQ-04, very convenient to use due to its transparency and perfectly flat surface, allowing to roll out an even layer.


3. Using the template, cut out the outline of the blue clay mitten with an art knife "Craft & Clay", ref .: CCQ-05. Flip the template over and cut out the second mitten.



4. Let's outline the contours of the future pattern.


5. Roll out a layer of white polymer clay "Craft & clay", put a rubber stamp "Craft & Clay", art .: CCQ-08 on top, then carefully remove it so as not to damage the resulting relief.




6. Select the desired pattern and cut a rectangle to fit the middle part of the mittens. Using the template, we will align the contour of the mittens.




7. Roll out the blue Craft & clay into two millimeter thin sausages.


8. Twist the two sausages together to create an imitation knitted texture. It is necessary to twist several flagella - first in one direction, then in the other.


9. Lay out the pattern, alternating flagella. We'll try to connect them together, but don't press too hard to avoid damaging the texture.



10. Put the resulting blanks on the mittens and cut along the contour using a template.



11. Make a hole with a toothpick. Then bake for ten minutes at 120 degrees.



12. After baking, tint the white pattern with VISTA-ARTISTA pastel, ref .: VASP-36, to make it more expressive. Carefully "stain" the finger and lightly walk along the upper surface of the relief.

Today we want to tell you how to make a polymer clay brooch in the form of miniature hot drinks with your own hands. These decorations are perfect for fall and winter. This master class provides instructions on how to create brooches in the form of cups of coffee, tea and frothy cocoa. If you wish, you can diversify the assortment and make your own accents in their production.

Tools and materials Time: 2 hours Difficulty: 6/10

  • polymer clay of milky, white, red-brown and chocolate shades;
  • glossy or matte varnish for plastic;
  • oval and round incisors;
  • round roller;
  • hot glue;
  • round stack;
  • pins for brooches.

Do you like hot drinks? Surely, many will answer in the affirmative! Delight loved ones and present them with adorable decorations in the form of miniature cups of hot cocoa, tea or coffee, and they will warm their hearts on rainy days!

Materials and tools:


Step-by-step description with photo

Now let's get down to creativity.

Step 1: make coffee

  • Form a ball from polymer clay of a milky shade, which then roll out into a thick sheet.
  • Using an oval cutter, cut a figurine out of the sheet.
  • Cut the figurine horizontally in the middle. From one half there will be a cup, and from the second, form a handle, for which you push two arcs with an oval incisor on the free half.

Attach the handles to the cup and turn the craft over (it looks better this way). In a round stack, write the words "Coffee" on the cup.

To make coffee, roll the chocolate-colored plastic into a ball, which is then rolled into a thick sheet. Use a round cutter to cut a circle out of the sheet.

Cut the circle with the wide edge of the oval cutter as shown in the photo.

Stick the coffee onto the mug.

Step 2: make the cream

  • Form thin snakes from white plastic.
  • Fold these snakes in a creamy spiral (see picture).

Place the cream on a flat surface and roll it out with a round roller.

Step 3: make cocoa

Roll a ball out of white plastic, which then roll out into a thick sheet.

Cut a circle out of the sheet with a round cutter. With the blunt part of the oval incisor, cut off the top of the circle so that you get a cup-shaped figure.

Cut a small arc from the scraps of the circle, which you then attach to the cup in the form of a handle. Turn the figurine over.

Use chocolate-colored plastic to make cocoa. Roll it into a ball and then roll it into a thick sheet. Cut a circle out of the sheet. Use the wide edge of the oval cutter to cut this circle into a thin oval.

Using a round stack, draw ribs on the cup. Place the chocolate oval on top of the cup. Place the cream above the oval.

Step 4: make tea

  • Roll the white plastic into a thick sheet. Using an oval cutter, cut out a shape from the sheet.
  • Cut the sides of the circle thinly with the wide edge of the oval cutter, and cut the upper part a little thicker (see photo).
  • Take one of the thinly cut arcs and fold it into a handle. Attach the handle to the cup and flip the craft over.

To make tea, roll out a circle of red-brown plastic, which is then cut off with the wide edge of an oval cutter in the form of a thin oval. Place the brown oval at the top of the cup.

To make a tea bag, roll out a thin white cane and cut a small piece from it. Bend the cane into a hook. Cut out a figurine in the shape of a house from white plastic. Attach the hook to the house and place the figurine on the cup.

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