Diy Fang Earrings

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  Step 1

  What you will need:
  - Polymer Clay (maybe you can use other clay too)
  - Craft Knife
  - Plastic Card (like old phone card or credit card)
  - Sandpaper
  - Paintbrush
  - Golden Paint (or any other metallic paint of your choice)
  - Earring Hooks (matching to the paint you are going to use)
  - Eyepins

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  Step 2

  Now you are only going to need Polymer Clay, Craft Knife and Plastic Card.

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  Step 3

  Cut off a piece of clay. You can take less clay, as I took enough clay to make 5 fangs.

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  Step 4

  To make it easier to work with your clay, you must warm it up, so it gets soft. Hold it in your hands or place it somewhere warm. While it is warming up, have a piece of candy! ^-^

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  Step 5

  When your clay gets warm, roll it into a log.

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  Step 6

  Then roll it out, so it's longer.

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  Step 7

  Then roll this log using a card, to make it smooth.

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  Step 8

  My finished log was about 1 cm in diameter, but you can make it thicker or thinner, your choice.

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  Step 9

  Then I cut this log in about 2,5 cm long pieces. As you can see, I had enough clay to make 5 fangs.

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  Step 10

  But you only need 2 pieces for one pair of earrings. You may even make a necklace using these fangs, it looks very nice, too!

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  Step 11

  Then squash each piece into small, fat cylinders. You need to do it, so the finished pieces aren't too thin. You rolled your log smooth and measured it afterwards, so both fangs turn out to be the same size.

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  Step 12

  Now, this might be a bit confusing at first, but using a card, roll one end of each cylinder at an angle. This means you roll your clay like before, only hold the card at an angle.

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  Step 13

  The end result should look like this. You get two perfect cones. :)

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  Step 14

  This is optional, because I repeated this step afterwards, but you can do it now. Slice off end of each cone to make them even.

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  Step 15

  I did it again after baking, because when I did it with soft clay, both fangs lost their shape a bit and I had to re-shape them.

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  Step 16

  Then you can form your cones into fang shape. Just bend them to one side.

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  Step 17

  (Skip the following steps if unnecessary,continue on step 21)
  What to do if your not satisfied with your fangs and want them to be thicker? Do as I say:
  - Bend them back

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  Step 18

  - Squash into fat cone shape

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  Step 19

  - Roll at an angle again using card, shape as you go

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  Step 20

  - Bend back to fang shape again (see the differeence between these two?)

  (Continue on from here, if you didn't do last steps or if you are done with the last few steps)

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  Step 21

  Take your eyepins. (As mine were too long, I had to crop them a bit.)

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  Step 22

  Then push them into top of the fangs.

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  Step 23

  Bake your finished pieces according to package directions.
  Then sand with some rough sandpaper and then use nail file or finer sandpaper again.
  Paint your fangs with different color nail polish if necessary (skip the sanding part).

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  Step 24

  (Do this before applying nail polish!)
  Chop off top of the fangs with craft knife. As you can see, if you do this after baking, the edge will look neater after slicing, rather than doing this with soft clay.

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  Step 25

  Cover each fang with a piece of tape for a clean edge after painting.

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  Step 26

  Paint top of the fangs with golden paint.

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  Step 27

  Remove tape and reveal a nicely painted edge.

  (I still managed to smudge one fang,so check if your hands aren't covered with paint or the paint has dried completely)

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  Step 28

  Attach earring hooks and your done! :)

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  Step 29

  Done!

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  Step 30

  This is a necklace I made earlier.

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  Step 31

  Have a nice day! :)

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aneniine · 58 projects 14th November 2012

Thanks! I'm wearing them now!

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Cat Morley · London, GB · 1432 projects 14th November 2012

These are so cool and they look really realistic!

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