{"id":3406,"date":"2009-03-30T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2009-03-29T12:26:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T19:26:43","slug":"dried-flower-jewelry-bead-techniques-inclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/dried-flower-jewelry-bead-techniques-inclusions\/3406\/","title":{"rendered":"Dried Flower Jewelry Bead Techniques, Plus Other Cool Inclusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2009-03\/30-polymer-clay-inclusions-90051-15.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Dried Flower Petal Inclusions\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Inject Some Fun Into Your Polymer Clay Using Flower Petals, Kids Crayons and Kitchen Spices:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Mixing anything into polymer clay that adds visual interest, color or texture, is called an inclusion. Here are some ideas you can try<\/span><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> out:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>1) Flowers:<\/strong><\/span> Add crumbled up dried flower petals to translucent polymer clay for an interesting effect. Using flowers from special occasions and memorials can be a very personal way to bring special meaning to your jewelry pieces. See the following articles for more detailed information:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/flower-petal-bead-keepsake-jewelry\/81\/\">Flower Petal Bead Inclusions for Memorable Keepsake Jewelry<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/memorial-jewelry-flower-petal-beads\/114\/\">Memorial Jewelry from Polymer Clay Flower Petal Beads<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutorial-making-keepsake-flower-beads\/1498\/\">Polymer Clay Tutorial | 4 Tips For Making Keepsake Flower Beads<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">2) Crayons:<\/span><\/strong> Adding crayon shavings to polymer clay is a simple and cool technique. The wax melts while baking, and the beads have a colorful mottled look. More info here:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/creative-techniques-for-polymer-clay-inclusions\/79\/\">Creative Techniques for Polymer Clay Inclusions<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>3) Spices:<\/strong><\/span> Mix spices from your kitchen into polymer clay. This is a wonderful way to make richly colored and somewhat aromatic beads. They often end up resembling different colored stones. To learn more about spice beads, here is a link:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/spice-beads-polymer-clay-inclusion\/80\/\">Spice Beads and the Polymer Clay Inclusion Technique<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There are many other inclusions you could add to your polymer clay beads which I will list on another day. But first I would love to hear about some inclusion projects that you have already tried out. Share your thoughts below&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inject Some Fun Into Your Polymer Clay Using Flower Petals, Kids Crayons and Kitchen Spices: Mixing anything into polymer clay that adds visual&#8230;&nbsp;<span class=\"cmtcnt\">17<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2718],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techniques","tag-inclusions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}