Faux agate polymer clay bracelet – DIY tutorial

I saw that is a nice trend with polymer clay faux stone. For today we’ll learn to create a faux agate polymer clay bracelet. Actually after learning to create faux agate, you’ll be able to create any jewelry you have in mind!

Tools and materials you need for this faux agate clay bracelet:

– polymer clay – white and translucent blue
– cutter or a knife
– sandpaper
– sanding machine
– drill 1 mm
– glue
– diamond file (cone)
– varnish
– brush for lacquer

For this tutorial the author first baked the beads of the bracelet and after created the holes. It’s easier to do so, but you can carefully create them before baking. Depending on the variant you choose, you may not need some of the tools listed above.

Tools and materials for a faux agate bracelet: Fimo clay, drill, cutter and elastic cord

Let’s get to the actual process:

Step 1:

Take the translucent blue polymer clay and sculpt out of it a medium sized cylinder. Than cover the cylinder you just created white polymer clay. If you have a pasta machine you can use it, but it is not necessary, the natural stone usually are imperfect.

Turquoise clay cylinder for the faux agate core

Wrapping the turquoise core in white translucent clay

Step 2:

Pull the cylinder out and gradually transform it into thin roll. Don’t worry it’s no need to be the perfect same size, as I said the natural stones are usually imperfect.

Rolling the wrapped clay into a long log

Stretching the agate log thinner

Step 3:

Cut the resulting thin edge into small pieces and then gather them into one piece. From that new piece create a rectangular shape. Slices from this shape will be the beads from the bracelet.

Cutting the thin log into small pieces

Pile of turquoise and white clay pieces

Pressed faux agate block with turquoise veins

Step 4:

Cut the clay rectangle you created in the beyond step into slices. Now is actually perfect time to choose if you’ll make holes before or after baking. If you choose after then proceed to baking the result at the temperature set by the manufacturer.

Slicing the faux agate block into tiles

This is how the blocks looks after baking. The translucent clay created an amazing gradient blue color.

Turquoise faux agate tiles after baking

Step 5:

We will now polish our slices to remove the cutting imperfections. The author used a sandpaper number 600. After the polish you have to wash the pieces with water. Only after washing and proper drying cover them with varnish. Cover with varnish alternately, first one side, and after drying cover the other side.

Rows of polished faux agate tiles

Varnished faux agate tiles

Step 6:

It’s time now to drill the holes. If you created them before baking just add the elastic cord, otherwise follow the pictures to create the holes.

Drilling holes in the faux agate tiles

Threading elastic through a faux agate tile

Gluing the elastic cord knot

And here is the result: our first faux agate polymer clay bracelet! Hope you enjoy this faux agate polymer clay bracelet tutorial. You can find here the article from where I got my inspiration.

Finished faux agate polymer clay bracelet in turquoise

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