Crafts from salt dough: brooches, beads

Design: Tatiana Andriyashina Photo Shoot: Dmitry Korolko

Beads

Materials:

• Salted dough
• Large beads
• Jewelry lock
• Acrylic varnish, gold acrylic paint

Tools:

• Toothpicks, embossed buttons.

• Photo 1. Prepare the salted dough: mix in a 1: 1 ratio of flour and salt, add a little water and mix thoroughly. Only fine salt is suitable, otherwise the structure of the dough will be grainy. Knead the dough well and divide it into small balls of different diameters. Sculpt a small bird figurine from one of these balls. Draw a toothpick soaked in water with a screw-like motion through the bird figurine in order to make it easier to work with small parts. Use another toothpick to apply the embossed pattern. It is necessary to make 3 pairs of bird figurines of different sizes.
• Photo 2. To make another part, take a ball of dough, string it on a toothpick and give it a flattened shape. Then, on both sides of the workpiece, make prints with embossed buttons, after sprinkling the “stamp” with flour. Additionally, make 10-14 small balls of the dough, stringing each ball onto a toothpick.
• Photo 3. To make a part “accordion” from a ball of salted dough, it is necessary to mold a “sausage”, then give it a flattened shape and fold, as shown in the photo. Pierce the workpiece with a toothpick. Make 9 similar details. Also from the “sausage” of salted dough, twisting it in a spiral, sculpt 12 parts in the shape of a “snail”.

• Photo 1. To make a spacer bead, take a larger ball and shape it into a flat “brick”. Pass 3 toothpicks sequentially through the parts at a short distance from each other. Then use the embossed buttons to create a pattern on one side of the part. Complete the required number of pairs of beads.
• Photo 2. Insert all the prepared parts on toothpicks into the foam and leave to dry for a day, periodically shifting the parts so that they do not dry on the toothpicks. Then place the parts in the oven, leave them with the door open at a low temperature until they dry completely. Remove toothpicks. With a brush, brush every detail of the future beads with a mixture of egg yolk, milk and salt. Next, place the parts back in the high temperature oven and bake them to the desired color. The color for each piece can range from light yellow to brown. After cooling down, paint the parts with varnish or gold paint using a semi-dry brush. String the beads onto a double folded nylon thread, as shown in the photo.
• Photo 3. Make three of these elements. Pass the strands of each row through the holes in the spacer bead and gather the ends of the strands together to form two main strands. String the remaining beads onto them. Attach the jewelry lock.

Molded brooch

Materials:

• Salted dough
• Brooch pin

Tools:

• Mock knife, toothpicks

• Photo 1. Form a thin oval “pancake” from a puff pastry ball, which will serve as the basis for a future brooch. Lay down half of the other balloon to form a basket. For better adhesion of parts to each other, wet your hands with water. Make a handle for a basket out of thin sausage and carefully place it along the edge of the base.
• Photo 2. Using a breadboard knife, align the edges of the future brooch. Make notches with a knife to simulate the structure of a basket. Form an apple, pear and plum from small balls, giving the fruit relief with a toothpick.
• Photo 3. Attach 6 small balls of dough to the base of the brooch, laying them in the shape of a flower. Work the flower petals with a toothpick. Make another such flower. Complete the composition with small balls of dough. Then you should dry the brooch and bake, as described above. Cover the brooch with lacquer or gold acrylic paint. Glue a special pin on the back.

By the way

To make “bast” beads, collect the bast in a bunch, paint over with gold paint, string the beads. Wrap the ends of the bundle with a waxed cord, secure with glue. Attach metal “bells” for jewelry and a few beads to the ends of the blank. Complete the beads with a brooch made using the “printed” bead technology. And collect simple bracelets from birds or “chocolate” balls together with the children.