All the clay I used in both pendants have a small amount of pearl and a small amount of translucent in them. When you see them up close you can see the pearl in the colors and it's really pretty. Guess I should have baked it for at least 10 minutes before I wrapped it up to take it home.
Friday, May 31, 2013
NATASHA, I LOVE YOU
About 7 years ago someone in our guild showed me how to make a Natasha bead out of scrap clay. I made tons of beads. A couple years ago I screwed one up and decided to flatten it and cut out a pendant with a cutter. Since then, I've probably made about 200 of those because I always seem to have a lot of scrap clay laying around. This past Wednesday at our beading clay day, I did my Skinner blend wrong and ended up with pieces and some things I didn't like so I made a Natasha pendant. Then I used the left over pieces I made the night before from the cane to show the girls how to make a pendant using Penni Jo's molds. I just finished sanding and buffing the two pieces. I didn't bake the Natasha bead until I got home and I managed to distort the pattern but I like it. I think I need to sand and buff and mold pendant again, or not.
Natasha beads are so addicting - LOL! I bet your bead gals just loved them too. I bet this are just awesome up close :)
ReplyDeleteI don't know what a Natasha bead I'd, but I totally love this bead. I like the distorted pattern in it. It adds to the design to me. And I love the colors. I just haven't seemed to be able to get the knack to working with clay and making anything worthwhile. Will you be selling this bead? It's gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought about selling it. Did you want it as a pendant? I could put a bail on it if you you would like me to and put it in my Etsy store.
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