To begin with, let’s start with a dough recipe: take 2 glasses of flour, 125 milliliters of water and 1 cup salt. Mix all this thoroughly or beat with the help of a food combine, and, wrapping in wet fabric to avoid drying, put in the refrigerator. Now it can take off as much dough from your lump as you need and do anything you want. And the salty dough is remarkable in that it dries, it is not inferior even by the stone.
You can really make anything out of it. But we will talk about female jewelry. In particular, about beads that you can easily do with your own hands.
To do this, you must roll a sufficient number of balls from salt dough, and put them in a circle on the table so that the size of future beads becomes visible. When the balls are enough, take a gypsy needle, and, dipping it in sunflower oil, string it on the ball. Then you can give it the required shape and apply the desired pattern using a stack or toothpick, pressing or scratching. Practice a little and you will succeed.
Now carefully remove the bead from the needle and put on drying. This is your note from 12 hours to three days. But then you may not be afraid that something will happen to your bead.
In addition, now it can be painted. It is better to do this all with acrylic paints that you can buy in any art store. Their charm in the fact that when drying, they sparkle, giving your bead such a look as it is made of glass, semiprecious stone, or even silver or gold – it all depends on the paint you make.
You can also cover the bead with paints, gouache and even watercolors. The main thing is after that, be sure to apply a thin layer of varnish on it, which to protect the applied pattern from erasing.
Well, you can make beads in any style, starting from ancient and ending with modern glamor. Only your fantasy will limit you here, and we hope that you have no problems with imagination.