Here are some tiny clay flowers ready to be made into a necklace. I usually make all the pieces before assembling them. Lumina Clay works best for my jewelry because it’s flexible, waterproof, and becomes like plastic when dry. The clay only comes in transparent white, which is great because I like to have complete control over the color scheme. Acrylic paint mixes in nicely and creates vibrant colors. Here’s a closeup of the finished product:
The leaves are imprints of actual leaves, in this case, from a climbing fig. The fig leaves work well because they have very defined veins.
This necklace was great fun to make. The color palate includes some of my favorite colors.
I am amazed at the beauty of these flowers and my mind is buzzing with the possibilities..what is the price range of these pins…we are planning a big wedding and this may be somethng we would like to use…
Hi Camille!
I like very much your pieces. I love the texture and flexibility of them. How you color the lumina clay?
Thanks and please excuse my limited English.
I just bought my first package of lumina clay. I used a little, wrapped the remainder in plasticwrap and put it back in the plastic bag. When I went to get it out about a month later, it had black and brown mold on some of the fiber strands. What is going on, do you know?
Sue
I also have this problem! It’s been a really hot and humid summer here in Tucson, and every package I opened got moldy in about two days. Not wanting to waste any, I washed the mold off and hoped for the best. It smelled bad, and other than tinging the clay a brownish-pink color, it didn’t really affect it much. It’s probably pretty unhealthy working with moldy clay though.
Lately, I’ve been putting the clay, wrapped tightly in plastic wrap, in the refrigerator. I haven’t been doing this for long, but so far it seems to be working. I let the clay warm up a little before using it because it’s hard as a rock when cold. Perhaps we need to write the manufacturers about this problem!
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Jeanne