Kim Keane's Faux Jade Beads

Here is the first of the explanations of  "how did you do that???" from the 2009 Kansas City Polymer Clay Guild's annual bead exchange. These are Kim's great jade tablet beads. Read how she did them below.






Jade; I used Dotty’s McMillan’s technique in her book Artful Ways with Polymer Clay. I mixed translucent and leaf green with a tiny bit of orange to create the jade color. Barbara McGuire’s beautiful stamps to make an impression. Baked then painted with titanium white. I then rubbed the white paint off leaving paint in the crevasse to look antiqued. Sanded and buffed.