The text on these earrings was imprinted with the tear-away texture sheets I made last week. Tear-away texture sheets can be used a number of times, but eventually, the polymer clay that adheres to the toner-copied text on gloss paper will wear away from the paper, leaving blank spaces. However, the sheet of polymer clay that was originally pressed onto the tear-away paper/clay sheet will last indefinitely, and from this polymer sheet, I will be able to texture a multitude of pieces. The difference will be that the baked polymer clay texture sheet will put raised text on any metal or polymer clay I roll or press onto it. And that’s just fine!
The bronze clay in the above earrings had fired to colors that were mismatched so I removed the color with a brass brush and torched the bronze until each earring was medium brown. I then placed them in a tumbler for an hour which imparted a rich, dark bronze before assembling the earrings. The earring shown at right were simply tumbled for a bright bronze finish. Both pairs of earrings are shown on an earring stand that I made from 14 gauge steel wire and polymer clay.
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