Rolled Rose And Heart Pendant Polymer Clay Tutuorial

I call these little roses "rolled roses", please let me know if that is incorrect and what the proper name is :)

Materials list:
Polymer clay for the rose. I used a mix of magenta, translucent and pink.
Polymer clay for the leaves. I used a mix of black and yellow - I still can't find the green :(
Polymer clay for the heart. I used pearl.
Something to make a hole in the heart - wire, clay tool, toothpick, whatever you have.
Craft knife or razor blade to cut the heart out.
**Optional**
Something to texture the heart.
Liquid polymer clay.
Mica powder - I used pearl.
Paint brush for the mica powder.

Make the heart.
I flattened my clay and then just rolled it with a glass. I was too lazy to get my pasta machine out.
Cut a heart shape free hand. It does not have to be a perfect heart.

Texture your heart or....not. I used a brass stamping from my Etsy shop.

Make the roses.
Roll your clay into a snake or log. Flatten the clay with your fingers. Roll the clay against itself until the rose is the size you want. Cut the excess clay off in an angle and trim the excess clay off the bottom. Pictured below is the largest rose I made.

Then I made 2 more roses in the exact same way. A medium and a small. Of course, make as many roses as you want.

Make the leaves.

Roll your clay in a ball and then flatten the ball. Shape the clay pointed at one end to resemble a leaf.

Make lines in the leaf to resemble veins. I used the razor blade to make the veins.

Make a hole in the heart if you are making this into a pendant. Keep in mind that the way your heart lays while worn is dependant on where you place the hole.

You can skip this step and use the heart to decorate a journal, jewelry box, etc.

Time to assemble.

I used liquid polymer clay on all my pieces but you don't have to.

Place your leaves on the heart.

Now add your largest rose.

Arrange the rest of your roses the way you like them.

I brushed my heart, leaves and roses with pearl mica powder before baking.

Bake the heart according to the directions on your polymer clay package.

I baked mine at 275 degrees for 10 minutes.

I placed a jump ring through the hole in the rose. I added a chain and then finished the ends of the chain to make a necklace.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

Thank you for visiting my blog :)

Polymer Clay Rose With Bezel Tutuorial

I really like the way this pendant turned out. So...I wanted to share it with you :)

********PLEASE NOTE - TOU FOR THIS TUTORIAL********

You may use the items you make from this tutorial in any way you want. Make it for yourself, as a gift, or sell what you make. Sell the items on any online venue or any off line location you want. I will be selling these on Etsy in my BareMoose shop but feel free to sell them in your Etsy shop as well.You do not have to give me credit for the design. All I ask is, if someone inquires where they can purchase the supplies to make this pendant, please refer them to my Etsy supply shop - Secret Solace Supplies. 

Okay, let's get started!

Supply and tool list

1. Polymer clay - I used Sculpey Accents - blue and Sculpey yellow and black

2. Liquid Sculpey - optional

3. Heart bezel - SecretSolaceSupplies

4. Chain - Secretsolacesupplies

5. Heart clasp - SecretSolaceSupplies

6. Something for texture - SecretSolaceSupplies

7. Jump rings - 3

8. 2 pairs of pliers for attaching jump rings

9. craft knife, piece of wire or toothpick to make veins on leaves                                                  

I already have a polymer clay rose tutorial on this blog and my Bare Moose blog so I am just recapping here.

I have a chart below on making the leaves and tendrils.

I'm sorry, I really should have used black ink. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments.

For the green clay, I kneaded equal parts of yellow clay and black clay together simply because I couldn't find my green clay. It turned out nice so you may want to try it :)

Set the rose, leaves and tendrils aside. We are working on the bezel now.

Apply liquid polymer clay to the inside edges of the bezel. This step is optional. I have made these without the liquid polymer clay and they stayed in the bezel fine. But...I am selling these so I want to make sure they will last a long time.

Make a long snake with black polymer clay.

Outline the bezel with the black clay and press the clay into the bezel. You do not have to cover the entire bezel but mine just happened to work out that way. If you want, add more liquid clay as you go.

Once you have pressed all the black clay into the bezel, add texture.

We are applying and texturing the clay into the bezel so it will not matter if the bezel shows when we are done. Actually, it looks really nice if you can see some of the black textured clay in the end.

So here it is. Covered (with the exception of a tiny line on the left) and textured.

Now we need to apply the leaves. I used 3 leaves but of course, use as many as you want. I put a dab of liquid clay on each leaf and placed them on the bezel.

Time for tendrils! This is really fun, just play with it to get the look you want. I used the wire (that I used to make the veins on the leaves) to wrap the clay around for little curly cues.

I put the tendrils on the bezel, tore off the excess clay and rolled the end into a point. Once finished with the tendrils, I just put a dab of liquid clay under them.

Now put a generous amount of liquid clay in the center of the bezel. This is where we will place the rose.

And...here it is :) Cute, right !?!

Now bake your bezel. I baked mine on 275 degrees for 10 minutes. The clay package says 30 minutes for every 1/4" of clay. DO NOT BAKE THIS FOR 30 MINUTES. Sorry about shouting but I baked one for 30 minutes and it fried my bezel and turned my light pink clay to black. The smell was nauseating!!

Now that you have baked and cooled your pendant, let's make it into a necklace.

I cut my chain, using wire cutters, into an 18" length. Use your pliers to open a jump ring, place one end of the chain and the heart clasp onto the jump ring. Close the jump ring.

Open another jump ring and place the other end of the chain onto the jump ring. Close the jump ring.

Open your last jump ring, place the pendant and the center of the chain into the jump ring. Close the jump ring.

Here is the completed necklace.

I made 3 other pendants. 

For the large heart, I used this bezel - SecretSolaceSupplies which is a very large heart bezel. I made a loop at the center bottom of the heart with the tendril. I selected a pretty, light blue briolette and topped it with a nice copper filigree end cap. I wire wrapped the whole thing with lovely square copper wire and attached it to the tendril circle with a jump ring. Of course, you could wire wrap it directly to the tendril but I wanted the briolette to have more movement.

The pink rose was done in the exact same way as the pendant in this tutorial.

The blue rose in the oval pendant was made using this bezel - SecretSolaceSupplies .

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Thank you so much for visiting my blog :)

Polymer Clay Rose Tutorial

I did a few polymer clay rose tutorials on my other blog - BareMoose. They seem to be fairly popular so I thought I would share one here. I will do my best to guide you through making the rose and then turning them into earrings.

Here are the finished earrings. I am unable to make 2 roses exactly the same so I didn't even try. I think they are cute and fun even though they aren't identical.
If I'm desperate to have roses that are the same, I make about 25 of them and select the 2 that look the most alike.

Materials:
Polymer Clay - I used Sculpey Premo Accents - Magenta Pearl
Earring Wires
2 Head Pins
Wire Cutters
Round Nose Pliers
Chain Nose Pliers

Start by conditioning your clay. You can use a pasta machine or just knead the clay with your hands.
Once the clay is soft and workable, roll it into a ball and then into a long snake.
Pull small pieces of the clay off and roll each piece into a ball.

Now flatten all the clay balls with your fingers. I am never concerned with the shape of the flattened pieces, it just doesn't matter for this project.
I am making a large rose for this demonstration because I can take better pictures of each step. In the background of the photo above, you can see the tiny pieces of clay used for the earrings.
The tiny roses are made the exact same way as the large roses.

Select one of the smaller pieces of flattened clay and roll it in a tube. This creates the center bud of the rose.

Here's the center completely rolled up. Once you finish rolling the tube, use your fingers to roll the top edge slightly backwards. You can see an example in the picture below.

Lay the next piece of clay in the center of the bud seam.

Now wrap it around the bud and slightly curl the top edge backwards.

The center of the next piece of clay goes over the seam left by the last piece.

Wrap it around the rose and roll the top edge slightly backwards.

Just continue laying the center of the next piece of clay in the seam left by the last piece of clay. Roll it around the rose and curl the top edge slightly backwards.

You may add as many or as few petals as you want.

I keep adding petals until I like the way the rose looks.

I have spent a long time sculpting a rose, carefully placing each petal only to roll it up and start over because I didn't like the way it looked.

If I need more clay, I will pull it from the underneath of the rose where the clay builds up.

Once you are happy with your rose, roll the excess clay underneath into a thin snake.

Cut the excess clay off.

Here's the finished rose. I'm not sure how many petals I added. Maybe 13 or 14?

Now decide the way you want your rose to hang and insert a head pin through the rose.
If you want your rose to stay the same as you made it then cup the rose in your hand while inserting the head pin. I kind of like the way it flattens slightly if I insert the head pin while the rose is laying face down on my work table.

Let's make the tiny roses for the earrings. Make them exactly the way the large rose was made.

Since we are making earrings, I lined up the flattened pieces of clay from smallest to largest.
I know I can't make identical roses but I felt that if I lined the clay up like this then perhaps the roses would be close to the same size.

Here are the 2 tiny earring roses. I think I added 7 petals.

Insert a head pin in each rose.

Remove the head pins and bake the roses per the instructions on the clay package. Since baking time depends on the thickness of the clay, I baked the larger rose about 5 minutes longer than the smaller roses.

Once the roses are cool, insert the head pin in the same hole you made before you baked it.
Using your round nose pliers, bend the head pin at a 90 degree angle.

Wrap the head pin around one side of the round nose pliers to form a loop.

Now hold the loop with the chain nose pliers and use the round nose pliers to wrap the head pin around itself.

Using the chain nose pliers, twist the loop open on the earring wire and attach one of the roses. Close the loop. Repeat for the other earring.

Your all done!!!!

So what became of the large rose???
Here it is! I inserted a head pin and wire wrapped just like the small roses. I added a chain and using jump rings, I added a clasp on one side of the chain and added just the jump ring to the other side of the chain for closure.

I hope you find this tutorial useful and will enjoy making polymer clay roses!
Don't forget to check out BareMoose for more polymer clay tutorials as well as other tutorials.

Happy Crafting!