Silver Honey Bee Pendant

Adding the patina

Final piece

Polished Pendant

Adding the patina

Pendant being fired to pure silver

Different sized sketches and templates

Pendant in clay form

Is this your project? Can you share instructions or a pattern with the Craftsy community?

Category: Jewelry

Type of item: Accessory

For: Unisex

Style: Ethnic, Casual, Funky

Materials

Started with Silver metal clay, final product is fine silver. And a sterling silver chain.

What was your inspiration?

This was a gift for my sister Melissa. Her name means honey bee in Greek and she is also a huge fan of Egyptian history and art so I combined the two and create a Cartouche for her that depicts an Egyptian honey bee with a lotus flower.

It's also my first project using silver clay and was a bit of test to see how I liked using it. This stuff is pretty awesome, I love how you can work it just like pottery clay but it becomes fine silver after its fired allowing you to work with it like silver. I will definitely be doing more projects with it in the near future :)