Chocolate Mousse Earrings with Sculpey® Soufflé™ Polymer Clay, Acrylic Component and Zebra Wire™
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Design Idea RB2Y
-- Designer --
Elaine, Jewelry Designer, Exclusively for Fire Mountain Gems and Beads®
To learn more about Elaine Young, read her jewelry artist success story here.
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- Wire, Zebra Wire™, color-coated copper, antique bronze, round, 20 gauge.
- Polymer clay, Sculpey® PREMO
- Component, acrylic, translucent frosted clear, 17x12mm flower.
- Liquid polymer clay, Liquid Sculpey®, transparent clear.
- Polymer clay, Sculpey® Soufflé™, igloo.
- Polymer clay, Sculpey® Soufflé™, cowboy
- Bead cap, antique gold-finished "pewter" (zinc-based alloy), 7x3mm cone, fits 6-10mm bead.
- Bead light Colorado topaz, Preciosa Czech crystal 6mm bicone
Instructions
Step 1
Cut off 1 ounce of cowboy (brown) Sculpey® Souffle™ polymer clay. Place and form the clay inside an acrylic flower bead to make it look like chocolate mousse. Insert a piece of Zebra Wire™ through the mousse so that it comes out the other side. Remove the wire, leaving a hole in the clay. Remove the clay from the flower bead and, if needed, finish shaping it. Bake it for 15 minutes at 285 degrees Fahrenheit.
Step 2
Mix a drop of liquid polymer clay in a pinch Sculpey Souffle igloo (white) clay—enough to make the whipped cream on the mousse. Mix until you get a “whipped cream” consistency. Carve a mint leaf out of a small, flat piece of green Sculpey Souffle clay. Set aside. When the chocolate mousse is cool, add whipped cream and mint leaf and bake the entire dessert for 10 minutes.
Step 3
Cut 4 inches of Zebra Wire and thread it through the bead cap first, then the 6mm bicone bead, then the flower and then through the clay. Make a 90-degree bend in the wire 2mm from the top of the chocolate mousse. Use round-nose pliers to make a wrapped loop. For instructions on making a wrapped loop, watch the video or read the instructions.
Step 4
Cut 6 inches of Zebra Wire. Using Wubbers® 7-inch extra-large round mandrel pliers , form the wire around the barrel of the pliers to make a round ear wire. Bend the wire and crimp it about an inch from one end of the wire. Using small round-nose pliers , create a simple loop next to the bend. For instructions on making a simple loop, watch the video or read the instructions. Slightly bend the other end of the wire to create a hook shape.
Step 5
Attach the dangle to the simple loop in the ear wire.
Step 6
Repeat Steps 1 through 5 for the second earring
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