Yes, I am about to do my best impression of a broken record. Are you ready for this? So, you must know by now I love a bit of polymer clay. No way right!? If you’re a regular, occasional or just one time reader of Fall For DIY you’ve probably come across my love for the stuff. And you know the other thing I love? A good pattern trend. At the moment my obsession for marbling is becoming a little uncontrollable. I have contact paper ready to cover any surface at a moments notice but I wanted to do something a little more subtle. So after featuring a couple of other polymer clay marbling projects here and here I wanted to give it a go as well.
You’ll need:
Gem Mould (used in cake decorating)
An Oven
Instructions:
1. Warm a ball of white polymer clay, then slowly add tiny chunks of black clay. Work the clay together rolling into a ball and stretching out again, add more black flecks until you’re happy with the results.
2. Pull off sections of clay and firmly pack them into your mould.
3. Pop into the freezer for half an hour to set.
4. Once hard carefully remove the solid stones from the mould and bake on a low heat for half an hour.
You should now have some gorgeous little gem stones now! If you take a little look at the pictures below I’ve got some instructions to make your stones into pendants and rings. You’ll also see what happens when you forget about polymer clay in the oven! I was working on another project and my clay got a little over baked…. Hence the slight pinkish colour. I don’t mind, I quite like it, but if you want to keep yours black and white keep your eyes on the time! (and set a reminder on your phone)
Marble Pendant Instructions:
Using a good all purpose glue secure your stones to a bail (or as I have done flatten a cord end and cut to fit) and use a jump ring to attach to a necklace chain.
Ring Instructions:
Use a good all purpose glue to attach a stone to a ring blank.
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these are brilliant! ive got to admit i like the one with a little pink as well!
Thanks Lauren! Good to know I didn’t mess up too badly ;)
Love these, especially the pendants! the molds give them great shape.
I like your work, very interesting and pretty. You do very nice work, One suggestion though, get rid of those ads for the games. they are very offensive
Gorgeous diy!
Just lovely! I have to find one of those gemstone moulds now!
These are so lovely!
The gemstone mould looks like it’d be really useful – must look out for one
This is lovely! I’d love to try it using quick-dry cement :)
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Great minds! I’ve been trying out a few cement designs myself. You can see my progress in my Instagram account: http://instagram.com/fallfordiy
I’d love to see them if you make some :)
this is one of the greatest looking finishes of a gem diy like this wow! super psyched to make my own ;D thanks for the inspiration
This is so clever! I pinned this to my DIY board and I can’t wait to try it!
brilliant! love the creativity!
brilliant! love the creativity!
brilliant! love the creativity!
Yes the possibilities of polymer clay are indeed unlimited!
Hey it is very beautiful!!!
If you want your clay to stay grey (and not become brown in the oven) you can bake the clay in boiling water for 15 to 30 minutes :-)
Use a small pan that you will not use anymore with food
:-)
Hey Caroline! Thank you so much for this advise! I’m trying it out right now for a tutorial coming up later this week. Just about to boil the clay. Can’t wait to see how it works out!
Where do you buy the gemstone mold?
Hey James,
I got mine from Ebay, but I believe they may have sold out. Alternatively you could use a mold like this one and pop it into the freezer to harder the clay shapes before popping them out and heating them.
Fran
Where did you get that mould? I need it!!!!;(
Hey Elle,
Here’s a link so a very similar mould:
Gemstone Mold
:)
Where do you get your findings? These are gorgeous! I’m psyched to make them for presents this year. :)
AHHH i love this. I love you for making this tutorial. I am absolutely obsessed with marble.
Wow! I will try it on my hand, its really good.
Hi,
it’s looking pretty cool diy marble gemstones
Knowledgeable Article
Nice Blog. Loved the mold.
Amazing stone and jewelry
Raksha Bandhan is an indian festival celebrated across the country wherein sisters tie Rakhis on their brother’s wrists.
Gemstones are used in jewelry and also for healing and self-empowerment.
Fantastic!
Thanks for sharing really mamba nastori!
I like your Amazing collections of Precious Stone. Nice information sharing. thanks.
Many thanks for your valuable content. You are an inspiration with your hard work.
Keep up the awesome work and know that you’re appreciated!
Thanks
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I’m not the first to tell you this, but you really helped a lot of people putting all this information down. Thanks so much!