With a little extra time last week, I finally delved into the fun world of polymer clay bead-making. I've had Erin Prais-Hintz's Fabulous Facets tutorial for well over a year and was able to take the time to use it.
First, it's a great tutorial. She's very thorough and for someone who has never worked with polymer clay before, it was all useful knowledge. And even more important than working with the polymer clay, I thought the painting tutorials were very helpful. I've had the alcohol inks and patinas for awhile but never used them with such great results.
The end results were very 'fabulous'. The beads have a lot of depth. And some look like rough cut stones. I used different size metal space to make different sized beads, since I'm more partial to smaller beads.
Some learnings: - first, my hands must have been pretty warm when working with the clay and kept softening the faceted cuts. And they are so hard to see until after you bake and paint them. And some of the cuts were a bit wonky, so I had to sand some of the edges down after they baked (which I also learned is better to do before painting them or it creates a lot of rework. =} =}
All in all, more beautiful and unique beads to make jewelry with. Can't wait to include them in some designs!
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