Faux frosted glass earrings polymer clay tutorial (click CC for instructions)

This effect can be obtained only with really good translucent polymer clay. Your best options are, in order,
1. Cernit translucent/Pardo translucent (both are the same, best quality)
2. Premo translucent (doesn’t matter if it’s regular translucent or translucent
white)
3. Fimo translucent
4. Kato translucent (really really undesirable)
If you are working with Cernit, Pardo or Fimo, you can use the colored translucent from these brands to create the Skinner blends (color gradients)
If you do not have colored translucent or if you’re working with Premo translucent, then you can make the gradient by using alcohol inks. I personally prefer Pinata alcohol inks as they are water resistant.
Essentially, you can use any color for the gradient, as long as one side of the Skinner blend is pure uncolored translucent, and as long as ALL your Skinner blend is translucent overall.
You CAN use mica clays for the flattened version, but you must make sure that the color of the mica clay is very noticeable on the translucent base; For best effect though, use either black or even white.
For the raised pattern version, make sure that your pattern clay is also in a color different than the Skinner blend, i.e. do not use gold mica clay on a Skinner blend with yellow or orange. You CAN use regular colored clay but the effect will not be as striking.

Recommended color combinations:
Skinner blend with warm colors (i.e. yellow, orange, rust, red, brown, some
warm hues of purple/fuchsia) – use a mica clay with cold tones (blue, green, hematite/graphite). Use black for the flattened pattern. On a dep red or deep rust/brown, you can use white pearl for the raised pattern or white clay for the flat pattern.
Skinner blend with cold colors (i.e. blue, green, cold violet, black) use warm hues of mica clay for the raised pattern (i.e. gold, copper, bronze). You can use both black or white for the flattened pattern version.
A few examples:
Cernit:
Skinner blend created with blue turquoise translucent, raised pattern use
(from the metallic line) rust, copper or bronze (like in the tutorial), flat
pattern black.
Skinner blend created with violet (the translucent violet is a warm hue),
raised pattern use (from the metallic line) turquoise, silver, steel, hematite;
for the flat pattern use black
Skinner blend created with sapphire blue translucent, for the raised pattern use (from the metallic line) rust, copper, gold, champagne gold, rose gold; use black or white for the flattened pattern.
Pardo
Skinner blend created with red translucent, for the raised pattern use (from the mica clays line or the jewelry line) silver or (from the jewelry line, that has pearlescent colors) sodalite, blue aventurine, aqua aura, blue crystal. For the flattened pattern you can use onyx or even mother of pearl or platinum from the jewelry line, or black or white from the Art line.
Skinner blend created with blue translucent, for the raised pattern use gold or copper (from either mica clays or jewelry line) or (from the jewelry line
only) tourmaline rose, rhodochrosite, Andean opal, rose chalcedony, and for
the flat pattern use either onyx or white/ivory from the jewelry line or black
or white from the Art line.
Premo – here you will have to color your translucent with alcohol inks. Use the same pattern as above, if your Skinner blend is with a cold color, use Gold, Copper, Magenta Pearl or Sunset Pearl for the raised pattern, black, white or even White Pearl for the flattened one; if your Skinner blend is with a warm color, use Peacock Pearl or Graphite Pearl for the raised pattern, and black or white or even White pearl for the flattened pattern.
Fimo – same as Premo above. Fimo HAS colored translucent but it’s not as
translucent as the others, the pearlescent clays are very related to the Cernit metallic colors.
To note: You can use Cernit Opaline White (alabaster white) for the raised pattern over any color of translucent Skinner blend, or even simple uncolored translucent. The effect will be like alabaster sculpted lace over frosted glass. It is stunning.
I recommend in the tutorial that you sand + buff your pieces. You can decide to varnish them as well, but you will still need to sand the flat version, to make sure the surface is even. With the raised pattern, make sure you don't have varnish pooling in the low areas of the pattern.

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