Comments on: Making Round Beads with Hollow Centers for Fimo Clay Jewelry Projects

By: Phaedrakat

Phaedrakat — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:28:43 +0000

Hi Lynn, I’ve seen some jewelry tutorials featuring flat-back clear marbles, usually with photos underneath. I haven’t tried any of them myself, though. I did a few google searches using variations of these words “tut clear flat back marble polymer clay” and found several projects to choose from. The one you’re looking for is probably among them. Also, HGTV.com had a “photo bangle” tut in both video & written forms – is that the one you were looking for?

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:05:25 +0000

Hi Cindy, Love this weeks tutorial!

I teach Polymer Clay classes to elementary school children. I remember seeing a jewelry site that had a tutorial and samples of bracelet beads made with the flat back clear marbles.I just can’t seem to find any info and my bookmarks don’t help. Does anyone have any info on this technique?

Thank you, Lynn

By: Cindy Lietz@Making Polymer Clay Beads

Cindy Lietz@Making Polymer Clay Beads — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:40:26 +0000

I’ve baked those flat marbles, Mary Ellen. I just put some in with a batch of clay beads and dumped them into water when I took them out. Crackled quite nicely!

By: Mary Ellen

Mary Ellen — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:13:21 +0000

Have you ever baked the marbles to crack them? If so, how long and what temp?

By: Cindy Lietz@Polymer Clay Bathroom Knobs

Cindy Lietz@Polymer Clay Bathroom Knobs — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:53:43 +0000

Great question Shelly! You can embed the magnet into the clay if you want there are no compatibility issues. The only issue is that if there is too much clay over the magnet it will lose strength. So take that into consideration in your design.

If you are talking about just pushing the magnet into the clay and having it exposed you will have to glue it in after baking since the clay and magnet won’t bond to each other.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:49:11 +0000

Ok, another question for you. I did a search and didn’t find anything. Can you bake a magnet into the clay or is it best to glue after baking. Just thinking it would be more durable if it is baked as part of the piece.
**Having way tooooo much fun with this** Thanks, Shelly

By: Cindy Lietz@Jewelry Making Tutorial

Cindy Lietz@Jewelry Making Tutorial — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:02:23 +0000

Yep. Krazy Glue or any other super glue will work for gluing baked clay to baked clay. So go ahead and design a polymer clay bail and bake it. Then glue it to your bead.

By: Rezvan

Rezvan — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:21:37 +0000

Hi again Cindy,

What if I want to use polymer clay as a bail. Would that be possible and would glue holds the piece on prebaked poly clay.

Thanks
Rezvan

By: Cindy Lietz@Round Beads

Cindy Lietz@Round Beads — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:29:50 +0000

Hi Rezvan, I’m so glad they turned out! There are many different types of metal bails that can be glued on with a super glue like Krazy Glue. They are sometimes called mounting bails. A quick search for ‘glue on jewelry bails’ will give you tons of places you can buy them.

By: Rezvan

Rezvan — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:30:01 +0000

Hi Cindy,

Thank you for responding to my email regarding how to make hollow 1″ round bead. I glue them together and looks great. However, I don’t want to put hole through it to string it and since it has glue I can’t attach another piece of polymer clay pierce through it and put it back in the oven. So, how to you make a bail and string this piece?

Thanks