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Creating polymer clay earrings

So chances are you're here because you love a good statement earring (yay!) and as I hand-make each and every pair I have for sale, I thought you might like to know a bit of the process behind creating them. The whole process is quite time-consuming so this'll be a condensed preview but enough to give you an idea of how I create your new ear candy!


Step 1: Condition the clay

Polymer clay is sold in hard blocks and in order for the clay to soften and be useable for shaping into earrings, it must be conditioned. Conditioning the clay is done by either hand rolling or passing batches through a pasta machine (sorry to all the Italians out there, I'm sure you'd cringe at it not being used for delicious carb-y goodness!)



Step 2: Make the shapes

Every earring design is made up with a selection of different shapes. These are cut from the rolled out clay by hand with a craft knife or using shaped cutters.


Step 3: Remove as much lint/dust as possible

As you can imagine, polymer clay when unbaked is soft and sticky which means whilst crafting, fragments of lint and fibres are very much attracted to it. Although sometimes impossible to remove it all, every effort is made to ensure the clay is as pristine as possible.


Step 4: Bake the clay

Polymer clay is soft until baked (yep, just like a cake in the oven) so in order to achieve a nice hardened finish, each piece has to reach a high temperature.


Step 5: Sand the clay

When cutting out the shapes for each pair of polymer clay earrings they can have slightly rough edges and therefore need to be sanded to get them looking nice and smooth.



Step 6: Drill the pieces

Small holes are needed to pass the metal rings through which connect each section together so drilling every single piece is one of the most time consuming but most essential tasks in making polymer clay earrings.


Step 7: Assemble

Adding the metal rings that join everything together and adding studs or hoops if required to the polymer clay pieces is what really makes it all take shape and remotely resemble something you'd actually like to put on your ears!



Step 8: Quality check

The upmost care is taken during all of the above steps but of course they are handmade items so I think it's really important to quality check every pair of earrings before packing to be sent to the customer.


Step 9: Package it up

Our product packaging is all 100% recyclable and so much time has been put into ensuring everything is as eco-friendly as possible. Packing up our earring orders is a really rewarding process and I love getting them ready for their new homes!


Step 10: Post/ship

Yes I do spend most of my life in a post office, but I'm totally ok with that!


And there you have it; a rundown of the main steps I take to make your new polymer clay earrings. Of course there are extra little bits here and there but I don't want to totally bore you... All in all polymer clay is a wonderful product to work with and I'm incredibly lucky that my hobby turned into a business, I have you all to thank for that!


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