Make a turquoise hair clip out of clay. Imitation of turquoise from polymer clay. Step-by-step instructions with a photo

We offer you a do-it-yourself turquoise bead making workshop. These polymer clay beads look great in any jewelry, be it a pendant, necklace, bracelet or ring. If you like jewelry with natural stones, and especially with turquoise, read on!

Tools and materials Time: 1 hour Difficulty: 6/10

• polymer clay of turquoise, transparent, white, black and ocher;
• fine grater or small blade;
• base for a cabochon ring;
• clay varnish.

Silver jewelry with natural turquoise goes well with any outfit. Indulge in chic turquoise bead crafts made from polymer clay! Such jewelry will cost much less than the cost of natural turquoise. Moreover, you can create anything to your liking!

Here, for comparison, a silver bracelet with natural turquoise and a ring made of polymer clay imitating turquoise.

Step-by-step instructions with a photo

We start to work.

Step 1: prepare the clay

• For a classic turquoise color, mix 2 parts turquoise, 1 part white and 1 part ultramarine clay.
• For a pale turquoise shade, mix 1 part turquoise, 1 part cobalt, and 3 parts white polymer clay.

Knead the clay well and stir until a uniform shade is obtained. Roll the mixture into a ball and place in the freezer to harden. These manipulations will greatly simplify the process of forming a pattern for turquoise.

Step 2: making balls

Separate a small piece of black and light brown material from the polymer clay blocks. Stir them well as well. Roll the pieces into balls and refrigerate for 1-2 hours.

Step 3: rub the clay

• Rub on a coarse grater or grind the turquoise clay with a blade (both shades in equal proportions).
• Using a fine grater, rub some black and ocher polymer clay.

Step 4: mix the colors

Gently mix all the colors into one pile.

Squeeze the resulting mess into one ball. Do not stir, otherwise it will not work!

Step 5: cut into pieces

Use a sharp blade to cut the desired piece of clay.

Place the cut piece on the base for the cabochon ring. Use a blade to trim off any excess. Use your fingers to lightly smooth the surface of the craft.

If you want to make turquoise-like clay beads, cut them into equal pieces. Form the parts into neat squares or balls. Or give them the shape you want.

Step 6: bake the beads

• Bake the beads or ring with a hot oven for the amount of time specified in the instructions for the polymer clay.
• When finished baking, leave the crafts to cool in the oven.

Step 7: polish the beads

Polish the baked beads or ring and cover with clear varnish. This will give them a natural look and beautiful shine.

I invite you to make a beautiful turquoise. In the form of uncut gems or in beads, she is the most beautiful!

We need the following:
-polymer clay of these colors: turquoise, blue with a metallic sheen, yellow with a metallic sheen (or), white transparent;
- chestnut acrylic paint;
- knife;
- a small vessel;
- sanding paper medium grain;
- electric polisher (optional);
- (optional) varnish.

The method is a little easily soiled, but not very complicated. An electric polisher is optional, but useful nonetheless. It makes work easier. ATTENTION: nevertheless, if you hold a small part between your fingers, processing it with a polishing machine, on the one hand it starts to heat up and you risk burning your fingers, on the other hand your bead is going to "fly away" if you do not fix it correctly! I use a wooden stick that is wider than the hole in the bead, which I forcefully screw into the bead to support it well.

	Here are the proportions of the original polymer clay colors I use to make these beads. This is just an example and you are not required to use white or ash. As always, take the initiative by trying out different combinations. I'm just giving you a hint.
	Mix both blue colors well into one very smooth sausage.
	Add the transparent white, coarsely curling it, it should show up in some places after baking.
	Cut into pieces of different sizes with a knife.
	Place in a bowl and add the pieces of yellow polymer clay.
	Add a drop of chestnut acrylic paint.
	Mix the whole mixture well with a knife. Try to keep the paint well distributed. You can "cut" the pieces of plastic with stirring.
	To finish, use your hands to firmly mold the entire mass into one piece. Ay-ay, did you wear rubber gloves? Nothing, the paint is easily washed off with water.
	Polish the sausage with your hands and separate the piece. You will see brown streaks of paint between the pieces of plastic.
	If you wish to make a rough gem like this, flatten a piece of sausage and shape it into the shape you want. If you wish, make footprints in the mass with a small stone.
	With the rest of the mass, you can make the beads in the shape of stones. You just have to make holes in them.
	Since I have the intention of hanging these beads on a leather cord, I didn't have enough holes from the needle, I enlarge them with a wider stick.
	When the beads have cooled down after baking, you need to sand them with sanding paper in order to remove excess paint. Then the veins will be better visible and the turquoise will look more luminous. I recommend sanding under water to avoid dust and see results. Electric polishing is ideal for the final result.
	After polishing, rewash the turquoise and make it sparkle with a pleasant shine.
	You can varnish the beads. Here the beads were made with a different mixture of colors, then varnished.

Turquoise from Ursa Major

1. Mix the plastic until the desired shade is obtained, I took fimo "pacific blue" No. 37 and cernit "turquoise".

2.Cutting the plastic into pieces of different sizes;

3. We take black acrylic paint, drop it a little into an unnecessary yogurt glass;

4. a couple of drops were enough for my pile of "turquoise", put on a glove or just a plastic bag and roll the pieces well in the paint, don't take a lot of paint, the pieces should be covered with a thin layer!
5. Form a sausage from the pieces;
6. After cooling, cut the sausage into plastics;

7. for the base, you can take "junk" plastic, I formed a round cabochon;

8. put the turquoise plastic on top;

9. level, press the edges with a blade or a stack;
10. for the beads, I rolled the remains of the plastic into a sausage about half a centimeter in diameter;
11 cut it with a ruler into equal pieces;

12. Roll each piece in the palms in a circular motion;
13. wrap each base bead with a "turquoise" piece;

14. form a bead;

15. Let's make as many beads as we want! :) It's good to do this with some movie!

In an amicable way, each bead then needs to be polished and polished, because all the same there are fingerprints, which cannot be on real turquoise, as a way out - to work with gloves, but it turns out very, very similar!

I also tried the second method - a little more laborious.

1. The beginning is the same - we mix different colors to the desired one, this time I wanted the turquoise to be a little more greenish, and I added a drop of green to the mixture;
2. cut into pieces;

3.4. roll the pieces on the board with our hands to smooth out the sharp corners;
5. from the pieces we will form beads, do not squeeze too much, there should be obvious streaks;

6.7 In this case, I formed the cabochon using film and lipstick cap. The beads and cabochon prepared in this way are baked in the oven;

8. In a glass, mix a whisper of ordinary earth from a flower pot and a few drops of fimo gel;

9. Thoroughly rub this mixture into the veins, wash the excess with a napkin, send it back to the oven for 5 minutes;

10.After everything has cooled down, the beads must be sanded with fine sandpaper. Before that, I rubbed a little gold acrylic paint into the "cracks" (remove the excess with a napkin) - but this is not necessary;
11. grind and polish with a piece of cloth;

12. if you wish, degrease and varnish.

Turquoise by NATAXA

We are waiting for the paint to dry, and we combine the balls into one lump, form a sausage and cut it into plates with a thin sharp knife or blade.

We make balls of the required size for the beads from plastic of a slow color and cover them on top with the resulting turquoise plates.

Beads for turquoise are ready, it remains only to connect them into beads.

my version of imitation of turquoise is sausage :) because I don't like fiddling with paint. and I love building keyes :)

the meaning is precisely in incomplete wrapping (picture 3 - if you wrap it completely, you get the effect of a grid or honeycomb), adding sausages of different diameters and deliberately distorting sausages :)

The method is a little easily soiled, but not very complicated. An electric polisher is optional, but useful nonetheless. It makes work easier. ATTENTION nevertheless, if you hold a small-sized part between your fingers, processing it with a polishing machine, on the one hand it starts to heat up and you risk burning your fingers, on the other hand your bead is going to "fly away" if you do not fix it correctly! I use a wooden stick that is wider than the hole in the bead, which I forcefully screw into the bead to support it well.