Little Mermiad Inspired Necklace

As I told ya'll in an earlier post, I promised that I would make a tutorial for my seashell necklace. So without any delay let's get started!

Materials Needed:

Polymer Clay (in colors of your choice)

Thick needle

Ribbon, yarn (or whatever you choose to hang your pendant on)

First you will need to select the colors that you want your necklace to be. As for me I chose red, purple, and green to represent Ariel's outfit and hair and blue and white for accent colors. ***NOTE: Each of my colors were approximately the size of a dime and I was able to make three seashells, if you don't want to make three, you can always work with smaller amounts of clay or make your shells larger.***

After you have chosen your colors, the next step is to roll your balls into "worms" (that's what my family calls them!)

Twist them all together and roll on flat surface to even out lumps

Keep twisting and rolling on your flat surface. You'll notice your "worm" will start to get really long. If this happens fold "worm" in half and twist together.

Repeat until you get your desired look (I did this process about 3 or 4 times before I was happy with it!)

Next you want to divide your clay into sections and (mine was in thirds), roll into a cone as shown, and finally roll the cone (starting with the small end) and rolling towards the bigger end.

You should end up with something that looks like this:

YAY!!! We're almost done, the last step is to create a hole for the pendent to hang on. You can do this two different ways.

The first way is to poke a hole through the seashell. To do this simply find a large, thick needle and stick it through the clay

(This one I poked a hole from left to right)

The other way is to poke a hole from from the front to the back. I tried to get a picture of this one, but it was impossible from the angle I was at.

The second way (and my personal favorite) to hang your seashell pendant is to create a loop with polymer clay.

First you roll a small piece of clay and roll it into a "worm", then fold the worm in half, leaving a loop. (Make sure to press the ends together so they don't fall apart!)

Finally, attach to the back of pendant firmly and bake according to package instructions.

Here they are all finished!

Here's one that I made in an alternate color scheme

Thanks for taking the time to read my blog post. If you make any of these necklaces please send me pictures! I would love to see your creations! You can comment down below or email me at summerrosevan@gmail.com