How to make a polymer clay pendant in the shape of a heart? DIY heart-shaped pendant Video how to make a heart-shaped pendant with your own hands
Many needlewomen who are fond of beading collect beaded waste: crooked disproportionate beads, broken beads, beads with an overly small hole, or even glass balls or columns without a hint of a hole. Not for the sake of any benefit, but because it is a pity to throw away such beautiful glass balls (albeit waste). Today's article will tell you how to use these unnecessary leftovers from Chinese beads with intelligence and ingenuity. How to do DIY beaded waste heart pendant!
Great lovers of beadwork can save up what is needed for a small heart-shaped pendant of unnecessary and useless, as everyone thought until today, glass beads in a relatively short time, because in each bag of Chinese beads 5-20 such beads are necessarily masked!
When I am beading, I always keep a special jar on hand for folding these beautiful balls, for 6 months I have accumulated about 2 teaspoons of them, so colorful and inviting. But for a small pendant - heart Just one teaspoon will suffice.
To make a pendant, in addition to waste, you will need a transparent varnish and a mold. It can be square, round, star-shaped, or heart-shaped (like mine).
For a simple pendant, you can use any jar (for example, cut off from cosmetics), a box, a sand mold or a cookie cutter as a form. It's fine if the mold has a bottom, but if you're using a cookie cutter, you'll need to tape the bottom of the cookie cutter first. A homemade bottom can leak, so this mold must be installed on a newspaper or polyethylene folded in several layers so as not to damage the furniture and everything around with leaking varnish.
We also line the mold from the inside with polyethylene so that its edges stick out. Already in order to be ready for the pendant to easily separate from the mold.
Before filling the beaded waste into a mold, I advise you to divide it into two parts: the main and the most beautiful. 
First, pour the main part of the beaded balls into a mold covered with polyethylene from the inside, level it (with a toothpick), fill it with varnish so that it covers all the beading waste and there is still a layer of 1-2 mm.
We trim again and beautifully (it can be figuratively and even with tweezers) put the second part of the beaded balls into the varnish. The brightest and most charming, because it will be the front side of the pendant - a heart! 
Now that all the residues are aligned, it remains only to wait for the varnish to dry completely. If the form nevertheless leaked, then when the remains of the varnish dry up, it is necessary to fill the pendant with varnish again and wait for the secondary drying.
The dried pendant is easily separated from the polyethylene, here is the face and the wrong side of the one I got: 
Now you need braid a heart like a cabochon in any technique known to you. 
I will add that in this way it is possible to make not only pendants, but also key rings, pendants for earrings, Christmas decorations. Of course, the size of your products will be different.
If you don’t have a lot of bead waste, then you can put them only on the wrong side and the front layer in one glass ball, and make a layer between them from anything, for example, from paper, tearing it into shreds or in whole layers, well smearing every layer!
By the way, it is not at all necessary to use bead waste, you can take a full-fledged bead mixture. Varnish can be tried to replace PVA.
And a few more words about forms. It is not necessary to use forms, and then braid the product. It is possible to provide a hole in the product already at the stage of filling with varnish. To do this, insert a stick (wrapped with polyethylene to facilitate pulling out) in the place of the future hole in the pendant.
In addition, the shape can even be molded from plasticine! Here you don’t even need a wand, because you can fashion everything that your heart desires and whatever comes into your head!
Well, what is your fantasy that pushes you? Create!
Variety and beauty of products from polymer clay really amazing. This is an unusually interesting and surprisingly simple activity, it is not for nothing that this type of needlework has recently become more and more popular. In this master class, we will tell you how to easily, quickly and simply make incredible beauty - a do-it-yourself heart-shaped pendant from polymer clay. This is a very cute decoration that you can make and decorate with a variety of colors, both for yourself and to surprise your loved ones. What can we say that this is a wonderful sincere, cute and inexpensive gift for many colleagues, classmates, girlfriends for any holiday.
Required materials and tools:
- polymer clay;
- mini-oven for baking clay;
- rolling pin;
- heart shape;
- chain;
- metal wire;
Preparing clay for the pendant
Take pieces of polymer clay in the colors you want and roll them out to the desired thickness.
Making a pendant shape
Now, using a heart shape, you need to cut out small hearts from rolled out clay.
Making holes for the chain
Using a metal wire, make holes in the hearts in order to then thread the chains through them. If this is not done in advance, then after baking the clay will be too hard and it will simply be impossible to do this.
Bake pendant
Place the hearts on a baking sheet and bake in a mini oven at 275 degrees for about 15 minutes.
Coloring
Once you've baked the hearts and they're completely cool, you can color them, if you like, of course. color scheme it is better to think ahead, based on the available colors of polymer clay and the desired colors.
Putting a pendant on a chain
Now that our cute pendants are ready, decorated, you can put a chain on them.
Gift box
If you are making pendants for a gift, be sure to dress them in a beautiful wrapper, add a little fantasy and decor, so that these hearts really carry love. Believe me, not a single person can remain indifferent to such a sincere handmade gift.
Today we want to offer you a way to make polymer clay pendants in the form of hearts with your own hands. This master class includes several options for making pendants, but in a different design. Get creative, use whatever tools you have and create your own unique pendant!
Tools and materials Time: 1 hour Difficulty: 7/10
- polymer clay Cernit blue, black and gold;
- mother-of-pearl dry paint of gold, blue, violet and emerald shades;
- thin awl;
- glass crystals and beads;
- thin wire;
- 2 rubber stamps of your choice;
- lace;
- corrugated cardboard;
- stone texture;
- thin knitting needles;
- wire cutters.
Give your family and friends a charming necklace with a pendant on the occasion of the holidays self made in the shape of a heart, made of polymer clay!
Step by step master class
We begin to conjure over our pretty pendant.
Step 1: roll out the clay
To make such a heart, take a piece of black clay measuring 2x2 cm and twist it into a ball. Then draw out this ball in the form of a tear.
Step 2: form a heart
Press down lightly between your thumb and forefinger. Smoothen the edges a little.
To give the craft a heart shape with a knitting needle, make notches in its upper part.
Step 3: pierce the craft
With a thin awl, pierce the heart through, starting from the middle of the top and ending with a pointed end.
Pull out the awl, then insert it into the figurine from the other end. Leave the awl in the craft for now.
Step 4: print the stamps
Take the rubber stamp with the letters and press it against one side of the heart. Press gently but firmly. Slightly press the stamp to the edges of the figurine.
Remove the stamp and check the pattern. If it was not clear enough, crumple the clay into a lump and start over.
On the back of the figurine, press a stamp with a different pattern and print it on clay as well.
Step 5: paint the craft
Pour a small amount of dry mother-of-pearl into a plate.
Insert your finger into the paint, shake off the excess and lightly walk it over the pattern with the letters in soft circular motions. Rub the powder into the craft gently and without any pressure.
Continue to rub in the paint until you cover the entire figure from the front and back sides.
Step 6: insert the bead
Take a small glass bead and thin wire.
Insert the wire into the bead and twist it tightly. Cut off the protruding ends of the wire with wire cutters. Bend the end of the twisted wire into a small hook.
In order not to hook the hole previously made with an awl, carefully insert the element into the heart on its left side,.
Step 7: send for firing
Bake the figurine in the oven for the amount of time that is written on the package with clay. After firing, leave the craft to cool in the oven.
To make a similar figure, but with a texture, follow all the steps described above, up to the moment of pressing down the stamps. Next, instead of stamps, press a flexible silicone texture in the form of a lava stone to the heart on both sides.
On the eve of St. Valentine's Day, we offer you to make a gift for your loved one with your own hands. This decoration is pendant in the form of a heart.
Now we will show you how to make this original for lovers. We think that your other half will appreciate your gift.
For this we need:
-1mm. copper wire,
-0.3 mm. copper wire,
- pink beads
- red beads
- red cabochon
- pliers, round nose pliers, wire cutters.
Cut off a piece of thick copper wire (about 18 cm).
We fold it in half to determine the half, on this half we make a loop with round-nose pliers and twist it a little (see photo).
We form the halves of the heart with a cap of nail polish (or a large marker), now our detail has become like a heart.
We twist the ends in different directions (see photo).
We fix the tips by wrapping the protruding parts with a thin wire.
We cut off another small piece of thick wire (about 3 cm) and twist a curl out of it.
The curl should fit well into the part of the heart.
We fix the lower part of the curl to the bottom of the heart and begin to braid the upper part of the heart with the curl, adding to the thin wire.
You can not repeat the location of the beads after me, but give free rein to your imagination and choose for yourself where the beads will be.
We move on to the second side of the heart, where we will attach a cabochon (for my part, a rectangular cabochon came up, but if you have a different one, that's fine too). The cabochon has large holes, let's take advantage of this and go through the thin wire several times, thereby creating a small web, as it were.
With her, ours will become more interesting. It remains to bend the ends, biting off the excess wire with wire cutters and pressing down a little so that it does not prick the skin. Our pendant is ready!
By the way, I will say that you can beat off the part of the heart a little with a hammer, it will become a little flattened (experiment), for this you need a hammer and an anvil (instead of an anvil, you can use the side of a large hammer). If we experiment, then to the end, to the finished pendant you can add the effect of "aging". To do this, you need to put an open bottle of ammonia in a large non-food jar and our pendant there, close the lid. Get it out after 2 hours and grind all available places, thereby highlighting the light “notes” in the pendant. If you don't feel like messing around with it, don't worry, I'm sure the person who received this unique handmade heart pendant will appreciate all the warmth and love you put in. After all, every thing made by one's own hands keeps the warmth of the master's hands. Good luck with your creativity!
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