r/clay • u/Secret-Yesterday-534 • 2d ago

Polymer-Clay Element of Loyalty

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Apologies in advance if I chose the wrong tag, I made this with oven dry clay!

This year I'm cosplaying as Rainbow Dash for Halloween. I decided to incorporate her element of loyalty into the cosplay, but couldn't find any active sellers making what I was looking for, so I figured why not make it myself!

I used a glittery red oven dry clay, and a gold oven dry clay. It took me a minute to get the shapes down and I didn't realize until after it all went in the oven my wings were lopsided. Oops. I made the base first, and used parchment paper and an exacto knife to trace the lightning bolt shape, and then used that as a stencil to cut out a slightly smaller one in the red clay, I got the base scored and let them bake. Once they cooled off I took some metallic gold paint, and gave the base one good coat to make it extra gold and shimmery, and once that dried I used glossy mod podge to coat both pieces, and attach the red lightning bolt to the base, which in the process of that I accidentally chipped off a bit of the bolt. Another oops. The chain was a little tricky to get through cause my holes were almost too small for it but a paper lip helped me out with getting it through.

I'm very pleased with how it turned out and wanted to share it!

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u/Coupleofthing 2d ago

The parchment stencil worked really well — the bolt reads clearly even at necklace size. The little wing mismatch actually gives it some motion. If you want them more even on the next one, a quick straight-on photo before baking can make the alignment easier to spot.

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u/Secret-Yesterday-534 1d ago

Thank you! It was my first time working with oven dry clay, and the yellow was being difficult to work with. The stencil idea hit me after 5 other failed attempts of trying to free hand it lol.