Celtic-Look Pendants
Design by Syndee Holt
Materials | Directions | Other Examples
Materials:
Premo! Sculpey in the following colors:
Black 5042
Gold 5303
Copper 5018
And...
Translucent Liquid Sculpey
Needle Tool
Pasta Machine
Soft-Flex bead stringing material
Viton or Buna-N rubber cording
E-6000 Super Glue
Directions:
Cut triangles and place together as shown in the photo below. Note that the outside pieces are just one triangle cut in half. This is known as the Skinner Blend (thank you, Judith)!
Fold this assembly in half from top to bottom. Roll through the pasta machine FOLD-FIRST on a #1 setting. Keep folding and rolling, always in the same direction. This will take about 20 times
Now you have your final blend. See how the colors flow! Now, fold in half and roll with a brayer or rod to remove any air bubbles. You now have 2 layers of clay in a #1 thickness.
Cut a thin slice off the long edge (about ¼ inch). Roll each edge in different directions. NOTICE: The size of the swirl can be determined by how you slice this piece!!
Here is the basic pendant. The bottom piece is just the whole slice rolled up and the edge trimmed off to form a bead!
There are endless variations of these two patterns. Here I added a whole swirl to the top of the pattern. See how cutting the slices thinner created smaller pieces?
The swirls are pretty difficult to pierce holes in, but it's possible with patience. On most of the pendants, like this one, I put Translucent Liquid Sculpey* between the two swirls and the bottom piece to create one large pendant. Then I only have to partially pierce the top of each swirl to glue the rubber cording in after baking. The circular swirls at the top of this piece would be pierced completely and threaded onto the cording before the final gluing.
Other Examples:
<- This necklace is strung on Soft-Flex, so each piece is completely pierced.
<- This piece has the center three elements affixed with TLS and the top two swirls and accent beads are completely pierced.

*Translucent Liquid Sculpey is available through the following mail-order sources:
Clay Factory of Escondido 800-243-3466
Midwest Clay Company 888-240-0198
Creative Wholesale 800-347-0930
More projects can be found at http://www.sculpey.com/projects.htm