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Tip: Give your old light bulbs new life as molds for elegant hollow beads.

Elegant Kanji Necklace
By Laura Griffin

Combine stamps and polymer clay to create hollow beads for a handmade necklace that makes a beautiful statement.


Hero Materials:
K5191 Kanji Poem
MS202 Colorbox Chalk Queue - Chocolates & Blueberries

Additional Materials:
pasta machine, black/ecru/red polymer clay (Premo!), chocolate brown/warm white acrylic paint, acrylic rod, damp paper towel, light bulb, scrap clay, drywall sanding screen, 2 rubber thumbs, cyanoacralate glue (super glue), Gloss Glaze (Studio by Sculpey)

Instructions:
Watch as Laura shows how to create the beads from start to finish!

  1. Take several burnt out light bulbs and embed ends into lumps of scrap polymer clay.
  2. Bake in oven according to manufacturer's instructions.
  3. Remove and let cool.
  4. Condition packages of black, red & ecru polymer clay
  5. Roll into three separate sheets using fourth largest setting on pasta machine.
  6. Ink Kanji Poem stamp with dark brown chalk ink and stamp into ecru clay sheet.
  7. Repeat using red clay sheet.
  8. Ink Kanji Poem with Alabaster chalk ink and stamp into Black clay sheet.
  9. Use 1 1/2" circle cutter and cut out two circles from each sheet.
  10. Place two circles on the sides of each light bulb, gently pushing edges to lie flat against light bulb
  11. Bake in oven according to manufacturer's instructions.
  12. While cooling, pop domed pieces off of light bulbs.
  13. Sand edges flat against a drywall sanding screen (helpful hint: use rubber thumbs on thumb and forefinger to better hold beads while sanding).
  14. Use cyanoacralate glue (super glue) on domed edges to form three hollow beads.
  15. If desired, brush acrylic paint onto the surface of each bead ensuring paint gets in crevice of Kanji characters (Using chocolate paint for red and ecru beads and warm white acrylic paint for black beads).
  16. Wipe off excess with damp paper towel.
  17. Add coat of gloss varnish glaze to beads.
  18. Once glaze is dry, use small drill bit to drill holes through each bead, and string onto necklace.