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If your image lacks zest, make yourself a miniature one clay brooch, which will look harmonious on your handbag or jacket lapel. For such a brooch, except polymer clay, you will need a soda can key, sculpting tools, clay glue, and a brooch clasp. Roll out a layer of clay about 3-4 mm thick.

Press the key into the layer and cut around the workpiece, stepping back a couple of millimeters from the key. In this case, a tiny doll will become a brooch, so roll a small ball of white or flesh-colored clay and slightly flatten it. Now you need to do your hair.

To do this, place the doll's head on a thin layer of black clay and place a small piece of clay on top, forming a bang. Using a thin tool, add two lines of eyes and lips, and use dry pastel or blush to tint the cheeks. Place the head in the top cell of the key, and place a fragment of the dress in the bottom cell.

Bake the brooch or leave until completely dry if you are working with self-hardening clay. If some parts are not connected, glue them together with glue. Glue the base for the brooch on the back side and cover it with a neat square of clay, then bake the brooch again.

Here he is, the real one...

To begin with, as in my previous master classes, we look at the animal, and then we start creating a brooch :)

We will need:

Polymer clay black and gray-brown;

Acrylic paints (black, white, red, yellow, brown, blue);

Wire;

Brooch base;

Stack with a ball;

Hands and desire to create!

Go! :)

Drawing a template the right size, we will check with him.

We sculpt a body and head from a piece of black clay.

Separately we make part of the wing and tail.

We stick it to the body and smooth it out.

Using a stack and a ball, we make an oval-shaped indentation for the eye, and with a needle we draw a line from the outer corner of the eye to the back of the head.

We also use a needle to outline the outline of the beak. Making a three-dimensional eye from a small piece of clay

The bird turned out to be a bit flat, so we are adding some belly to it.

And again we smooth out all the joints.

We also create volume on the wing, and use a blade to cut through the feathers.

Using a blade, we cut through the barely visible second wing.

And again we push through the remaining feathers with a needle.

From wire we twist such a structure for a branch and legs.

We cover it with clay and insert it into place, sticking the fingers.

I chose the basis for the brooch with such a round thing.

Bake for 25 minutes at the temperature indicated for your clay (mine is 130 C).

And now the most interesting and important part - painting :) The final appearance of the product depends on it.

Here is my “palette” :) We will need this color scheme to paint the bird’s head. A little black, dark gray with a drop of blue and light gray also with blue, white.

First we cover it with light gray, as shown in the photo below.

Then we paint the top of the head with dark gray and make a stripe from the beak to the lower inner edge of the eye.

Next, using separate strokes of dark gray, light gray, white and black, we go over the top of the head and wing. I did several layers until I was happy with the result. I indicated the rest in the photo.

Then we cover the tummy well with white paint. This way the light colors will be brighter and more beautiful than if we immediately painted over black.

We stretch from yellow to red.

First we paint it in yellow.

Then, using separate strokes and patting, alternately apply all shades of yellow-red. Add more red to the top of the breast and sides, and yellow and peach to the middle and bottom. Next to the paws, draw a white stripe and stretch it with an arc towards the top, as in the photo.

We add brown to the same shades and color the tail. We also draw a red spot on the wing and white stripes. We go over the branch with white paint with a semi-dry brush.

We cover the eye, legs, black part of the wing and the back side of the brooch with glossy varnish for polymer clay.

And finally, the chick is ready! I hope you enjoy my master class and find it useful :) Thank you for your attention! Inspiration and success in your creativity to everyone! :)

I conduct master classes every week in my studio in the KalinkaPolinka store and the girls have long been asking to make something based on Gapchinska. Touching children with rosy cheeks are just asking to become a talisman for good luck) They reek of childhood, tenderness and sincerity.

When I myself tried to sculpt the face of such a baby, I was faced with the fact that it would be difficult for me to teach this to ten people in two hours. Therefore, I came up with a way to sculpt a girl brooch from polymer clay, accessible to beginners, which I offer to you today.

First, we prepare a drawing of the baby we will sculpt. In the photo I drew a girl. She looks bigger than what I'm sculpting. All photographs are taken slightly larger than life for greater clarity. This is not exactly what I sculpt, this is a template of a girl without an outfit, you can come up with your own design.

In order to get started, you need to print the blank in two copies. In one option, cut out the face and make holes in the eyes, nose and mouth. This sounds kind of terrible, but it will help)

We start sculpting from the neck, then the face on top will be slightly larger than in the picture.

Then we apply a template with holes and mark the points where the eyes, nose and mouth will be. We put pieces of polymer clay into these recesses. The nose can be placed on the gel, the eyes are very small balls, we just press them in. For the mouth I draw a hollow.

Then I do the eyelids. To do this, I roll two tiny flagella with dots over the eyes.

I rub pastel crayons into dust with the back of a knife and apply paint with a soft brush. I make pink cheeks and apply a redder color to my lips, eyelids and forehead. BAKE. Intermediate baking is necessary so that we are no longer afraid of ruining our face when we do our hair and outfit.

After baking, add hair. We think geometrically to imagine what is in the foreground and what is in the background. We start sculpting from the back - legs and arms, and on top there is a dress or suit. I will have a bunny. The drawing can make the clay dirty on the back side, especially white clay. Therefore, to maintain proportion, the drawing can be pressed a little and turned upside down or sculpted without it:

I sculpt the main details with my hands, and add texture with dots. It is difficult to sculpt with white clay due to the fact that any specks of dust are clearly visible on white. Sculpt with gloves. Pay attention to their size, most often size S fits everyone, fits your hand tightly and does not interfere with sculpting. Applying the texture with dots also helps get rid of small dust particles:

If desired, you can add shadows and volume using pastels. I apply blue pastel with a brush to the places of folds on clothes, places where arms and torso touch, etc.:

Now let's work on the back side of the brooch. First I apply a layer of polymer clay. I don’t use a knife, I just stretch a thin layer over the surface of the body, leaving the ears and limbs without a background. Then I press with any texture (you can use scrap stamps, sandpaper or linen fabric). We attach the brooch:

We cut out a patch from a small layer and glue it on top, you can press it with a dots or a toothpick for strength. For reliability, you can glue the layers with gel, but this is not necessary. Bake, be sure to bake!

And on the wave Have a good mood and for inspiration, let's make 10 more of these girl brooches from polymer clay for gifts! We remember that very soon March 8th)

There's no such thing as too much cuteness:

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

Materials and tools:

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

You can buy polymer clay and accessories for jewelry, as well as many other materials for needlework at discounts in our .

Description of work.

We make a large drop of flowers from green polymer clay, place it on a toothpick, and fix the toothpick on a piece of clay - for ease of work.

Using a stationery knife for scrapbooking, we make notches.

Using nail scissors, we cut each sector from the bottom.

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

We make a small cake from green clay onto which we attach the stamens.

We make another cake on top and again a few stamens.

We attach the core that was cut off.

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

Attach 2 small petals to the core.

We secure the remaining petals.

We place the resulting flower on the base for the brooch.

Bake at 110 degrees for 10 - 15 minutes. We place a cap for a bead, a bead, a leaf on a pin with an eye, and use pliers to form a ring.

We put 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 glitter powder and cover the core, but so that the green clay is slightly visible. We cover the entire flower with a simple varnish for polymer clay.

The drying time of the varnish is 24 hours. The brooch is ready!

More . Let's make a flower bracelet!

IN Lately Embroidered beaded brooches have become very fashionable. Today I want to introduce the idea of ​​sparkling jewelry with a similar effect. Instead of beads, I took rhinestones and used polymer clay as a base. The base is covered with rhinestones much like gingerbread is covered with glaze. Let's call this rhinestone glaze rhinestone.

What rhinestones can be used for this work? We need elements that will not melt in the oven at 130 degrees. These can be rhinestones made of glass, metal, a chain with rhinestones, metal pendants, glass cabochons, rivoli, etc. It is worth considering that glass and metal do not stick to polymer clay during the baking process, so it is better to buy adhesive-based rhinestones, the so-called thermal rhinestones. Elements without glue must either be glued after baking with superglue, or before baking, they must be walled up in clay so that they cannot be removed. For example, a chain with rhinestones can be pressed in so that the bridge is inside the clay, and the rivoli can be removed and glued after baking.

First, let's prepare a sketch. You can print a picture from the Internet or draw a sketch by hand. Today we will make a heart. Below are some images of hearts. Choose what you like, print it or draw it yourself and cut out the resulting heart. When baked, polymer clay does not change size, so there is no need to make the template a little larger.

We begin work by preparing the base. Any baked polymer clay is suitable for rhinestones. I have Chinese DMO clay. On our live broadcasts on VKontakte the most frequently asked question about my review about the quality of Chinese clay. It is softer than more expensive alternatives, but flexible and durable after baking. DMO is excellent for rhinestones, since its softness makes it easy to press rhinestones into it.

Roll out a layer of polymer clay with a rolling pin or on the thickest part of a pasta machine. We apply the template to the clay and trace it. Using a knife, cut out as close to the design as possible. You can use a breadboard knife or a regular blade. After this, the edges of the brooch need to be smoothed with your fingers along the entire contour, both on the front side and on the back. The front side can even be made flat, depending on the design. We draw auxiliary lines according to the sketch. In order to glue rhinestones, you need to prepare a “tool”. Take a toothpick or skewer and wrap a thin layer of cotton wool fibers around the very tip. We wet this cotton tip. When we apply the tip to the rhinestone, the rhinestone is glued to the cotton wool, carried onto the clay and lightly pressed into the surface.

We begin to apply rhinestones along the auxiliary lines. First the contours, and then fill inside the contour. It is important to fill the space in such a way that there are no gaps between the lines that are too large to accommodate the rhinestones.

Do not attempt to reproduce the drawing exactly. Even rhinestones laid out on paper will not give an accurate result. Adjust the pattern as you work. Special attention It is worth paying attention to the edge of the brooch. Carefully press in the rhinestones located along the edge, because they are most subject to stress due to friction against clothing, etc.

After the drawing is ready, smooth the rhinestones with your finger to even out the height, press a little if the rhinestones stick out too much. Send for baking. Brooches made from polymer clay should be baked in a horizontal position. In a vertical position, when the glue melts, the rhinestones may slide off. If vertical surfaces are being decorated, then the rhinestones need to be pressed in deeply so that they do not run off; in general, the rhinestones need to be pressed in as much as possible so that they hold on tighter.

Chinese clay is baked at 130 degrees, thermal rhinestone glue also melts at this temperature. If the product is well baked, the rhinestones will not come off after hardening! If the brooch has cooled down and the rhinestones do not hold tightly, then the temperature is insufficient, bake the rhinestone brooch one more time.

Practice by making several small samples and pressing the rhinestones into them with different forces. Bake and you will get an accurate idea of ​​how hard to press the rhinestones and how long to bake the product.

After this, we attach the clasp to the brooch blank as shown in the photo below.
Fragments of polymer clay can be fastened together using a special gel, but if this is not available, the fastener can be glued epoxy resin. If the fastening is on gel, then the product needs to be baked again. In this case, you can put the brooch on a paper accordion so that the brooch is even, because the glue will melt again. I first sanded the base itself a little with sandpaper, giving it a rough texture.

Now let’s talk about how to make a three-dimensional brooch from polymer clay. If you initially make the base of the brooch twice as thick, and then round the edges by cutting off the excess, you can get a voluminous heart (in the photo below, the two lower hearts are made in exactly this way). The voluminous brooch looks very impressive.

Everything is ready, enjoy wearing it!

I would like to show you a few photos of embroidered heart brooches from Pinterest. The authors are different, the brooches are embroidered with beads, but I know for sure that you will have ideas on how you can make something of your own and original. The strassing technique provides a huge field for experimentation. After all, in your work you can use not only rhinestones, but also metal elements, stones, and you can decorate them with modeling. What scope for imagination!

Feb 22, 2018 abraxams