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Construct the cat face as a flat, yellow base slab first to ensure the ear points, cheek blocks, and expression align perfectly on the pixel grid. Add the pink ears, cheeks, and nose details, then place the black facial pixels before piercing the top hole.
Each earring showcases a graphic, yellow cat face with pink inner ears, pink cheeks, a pink nose, and delicate black facial pixels, crowned by a tiny white forehead highlight. Hanging from sleek silver ball studs, these flat, stepped drops combine lightweight wear with retro pixel-art charm.
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The color stock and clay body choices that carry the visible design.
Covers almost the entire cat face and sets the overall sprite shape.
Needed for the ears, cheeks, and nose blocks.
Useful for the eyes and mouth pixels that make the expression work.
Only a small amount is needed for the forehead highlight square.
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.
Posts, jump rings, chain, and connectors that finish the piece.
Adhesives and attachment choices when the build needs them.
Optional surface products if you want to shift sheen, sand, or coat.
Useful for a softer satin sheen after sanding without burying small details under a heavy coating.
A lightweight clay with a cohesive suede finish that holds fine textures without sticky residue.
Build these as layered face plaques, not miniature sculptures. Cut both yellow cat blanks first, add the pink color fields while the sheet is still even, and save the black eyes and mouth for the end so you do not distort the face. The top hole belongs in the yellow tab above the face, not through the ears.
Condition FIMO Professional clay in yellow, magenta, light pink, black, and white. Roll or extrude the clay into precise square strips to form the individual pixels of the cat face design.
Assemble the square strips into a pixel-art cane, following the pattern for the ears, eyes, nose, cheeks, and forehead highlight, surrounded by yellow border pixels. Wipe the raw contact surfaces with a damp cotton swab to remove any dust or oils before pressing the strips together.
Gently compress the cane to fuse the pixels, then slice it into thin, even sheets. Press each slice onto a thin yellow backing sheet of clay to give the earrings a solid, clean backing.
Trim around the pixelated silhouette with a sharp blade, using a light dusting of cornstarch on the blade as a release agent. Pierce a hanging hole at the top-center of the head using a needle tool.
Bake the pieces flat on a ceramic tile. Once fully cured and cooled, sand the edges with fine-grit sandpaper to remove any rough spots, then wipe clean. If sealing, use a water-based polyurethane glaze rather than solvent-based sprays.
Clean the silver ball stud posts and jump rings with rubbing alcohol. Use pliers to connect the cat face drops to the ball studs using two jump rings linked in series per earring, ensuring they hang straight and face forward.
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.
Graphic lips, eyes, mushrooms, and badge-like brooches are often easier to build as flat or gently domed pixel slabs. This guide covers crisp staircase edges, stacked layers, and ways to keep left and right pieces matched.
Your slab cracked at the edge or the cane squished because the clay was still stiff in spots. Condition until every color folds in a similar way, then do the fold test before you roll the working slab.
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