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Begin with square white eye tiles and assemble a radiating hot-pink pixel sunburst design centered around a yellow-ringed iris and deep black pupil. This geometric starburst can be built using individually placed square elements or a precise template, keeping the front flat to maintain a sharp, graphic appeal.
A striking pair of square white earrings adorned with a centered yellow iris, black pupil with a white highlight, and hot-pink pixel zigzag rays radiating in all directions. Suspended from classic silver fish-hook ear wires with short connectors, the earrings feature a flat, beautifully glossy finish.
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The color stock and clay body choices that carry the visible design.
Matches the iris color that makes the eye readable from a distance.
Useful for the pupil and the smallest graphic line work.
A firmer polymer clay ideal for crisp details, pixel grids, and canes to prevent distortion during slicing and assembly.
A polymer clay safe glaze that seals the piece without becoming sticky over time.
What you condition with and how you keep the slab even.
Stencils, blades, and cutters for cleaner outlines.
Hole placement, bake surface, and oven check tools.
Needed for the full eye tiles and the clean border around the motif.
Matches the corner blocks framing the eye tile.
Keeps the square tiles flat during cure.
Useful for tiny marks, seam cleanup, piercing points, and crisp separations before baking.
Posts, jump rings, chain, and connectors that finish the piece.
Keeps both eye tiles matched and light enough for hooks.
Matches the hook-earring assembly visible in the worn image.
Lets you recreate the short connector run above each eye tile.
Needed for opening and closing jump rings cleanly during jewelry assembly.
Adhesives and attachment choices when the build needs them.
Optional surface products if you want to shift sheen, sand, or coat.
Build these as graphic tiles. Roll one white sheet for both squares, cut the yellow ring iris and black pupil from thinner sheets, place a tiny white square highlight on the pupil, and either lay many small pink pixel rectangles in a zigzag pattern or place a pre-cut pink-pixel pattern sheet around the eye before final pressing. The white border needs to stay even all the way around or the motif looks off-balance fast.
Condition FIMO Professional clay in white, black, bright yellow, and hot pink. Roll or extrude the clay into square-profile strips of equal thickness to prepare for grid assembly.
Chill the cane, then slice thin, uniform pixel tiles using a sharp tissue blade. Place these slices onto a 2mm thick white backing sheet that has been wiped clean with a damp cotton swab. Burnish flat under parchment paper.
Dust a square cutter with cornstarch, cut out the tiles, and pierce a hole near the top center of each tile with a needle tool. Clean off any cornstarch residue with a damp swab.
Bake the tiles flat on an unglazed ceramic tile at 110 degrees C (230 degrees F) for 30 minutes, then allow them to cool completely.
Coat the tiles with UV resin or Varathane water-based polyurethane for a high-gloss, domed finish. Clean your silver findings with rubbing alcohol, then assemble the tiles to the fishhook ear wires using jump rings and short silver link chains.
Metal findings like posts, hooks, and jump rings may contain nickel or other allergens. If your wearer has sensitive skin, choose surgical steel or titanium findings and test any sealant or coating on a small spot before wearing.
Open these when you want more depth on a technique behind the build, not another supply row.
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