First Copper Clay Pieces

Just as you can create beautiful pure silver jewelry from PMC (precious metal clay), you can now create beautiful copper jewelry from Copper Clay! There is also another jew product – Bronze Clay – but I haven’t tried it yet. I believe Shauna is working on a bronze clay piece.

Anyway, the copper clay is a dream to work with. You have plenty of time to work with your piece before it starts to harden and refining the piece before it’s fired is…well…easy!

With silver clay you have less time before it starts to harden so you must know what you’re going to do before you open it up and get started. Also, in the hardened state before being fired in the kiln, you must work with great care so as not to break your piece, especially if it’s delicate. It’s a totally different world from working with copper clay, and I suspect, bronze clay.

But, enough going on about that. The first pair shown above are just simple little hearts with a large open bail. It’s a design I’ve had sitting around for a couple of years. I must have known then they were meant for copper clay. Ha-ha! I wish I were that intuitive! Anyway, they are thin and about 1″ tall, including the bail. They hang from sterling silver ear wires.

The second pair are more delicate and are my favorite of the two. They are about 1-1/4″ tall, including the twisted bail, and elongated. This design is also a couple of years old and I actually tried making these out of silver clay but they were just too fragile. They work great with the copper clay. Yeah!

So, if you want to visit our website to see better pictures of these then just click on the Title of this blog entry and it will take you right to them. Have a great weekend, everyone!