Purple And Turquoise Skinner Blend Cylinder Beads

These purple cylinder beads are made with a lovely Skinner blend in Plum and Turquoise clay. They are cut, rolled, textured and embellished. Sounds complicated? It is not! As a matter of fact, these beads are very easy to make, and can be enhanced further by using most of the other polymer clay techniques, like Mica shift, Mokume gane or Brocade.

Want to give it a try? OK, lets start!

What you need to make these beads:

• Fimo Soft Polymer Clay in Plum and Peppermint
• Pasta machine
• Swarovski crystals point back
• cutting blade

Cut the two clays in two equal sized squares. Cut each square in half diagonally about 1 cm from the corner. Stack the two plum colored sheets on top of each other, and do the same with the peppermint sheets. Then put the two sheets together as you can see in the picture.

Step 2:
Put the sheet in the pasta machine, as shown, and run it through on the thickest setting. Fold it in half and run it through again. Repeat until you have a smooth blend of the two colors.

Step 3:
Run the sheet through on a medium setting, but turned,so that you run from pepperming to purple. Cut it in two horizontal, so you have two sheets that blends from plum to peppermint.
Cut the sheets into triangles as shown.






Step 4:
Dust a bamboo rod or knitting needle with cornstarch, and carefully roll the first triangle onto the rod, starting with the wide end.






Step 5:
With a tool, make small marks along the edges of the bead, so that it looks like stitches.

Bake the beads for 30 minutes, and they are done. You have made some beautiful cylinder beads.
Easy wasn't it?

If you want to see these beads used in a necklace, click here.

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