I was very nervous about using some gold metal clay given to me for a gift, but I finally got up the nerve and realized that you don’t need a ton of gold metal clay to get a lot of bang for your jewelry buck. For these earrings, I used less then 3 grams of metal clay to make the star charms (actually, they were made from my leftover clay after I had made another jewelry piece with it).
You’ll need:
*PMC gold metal clay
15mm Star-shaped cutter
Olive oil
Roller
6 playing cards
Non-stick surface
Corsage pin
Sandpaper or emery board
Hot Pot
Burnishing brush
**2 – 5mm Golden Shadow Swarovski crystal beads
2 – 22-karat gold ear wires (#625722 from www.riogrande.com).
4 inches of 22-karat 22-gauge gold wire
Wire cutters
Round-nosed pliers
Chain-nosed pliers
*You can use the Art Clay equivalent, but you’ll need to fire it with a torch rather than a hot pot according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
**They came from JSbeads.com, crytal no. 5301.