JHB International has some of the most amazing and artistic buttons imaginable. Walking through their headquarters is like being a kid in a candy store. I have an incredible stash of buttons I'm dying to create with, but with so many hours in a day, I have yet to make a serious dent in the ideas I've got waiting in the wings. Today's lid features one of these amazing buttons (#50107). I backfilled the button's openings with metallic mica-based polymer clay. After trimming the excess clay and leaving it flush with the button's surface, I textured the backfilled area with a needle tool. A large SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS chaton crystal was added to the center and framed with two layers of black and gold clay. The side of the lid is made using the Sutton Slice technique (found in "The Complete Book of Polymer Clay") and my "Stripped Tube" texture stamp. Lastly, I glued SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS plastic banded crystal (#50 002) around the edge for a glittering border.
Comments