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Build this as a round flat medallion brooch with five concentric color rings (hot-pink outer, orange, white, cobalt-blue, then center field) and a yellow Greek/Roman-style profile bust pressed onto the center as a high-relief cameo. The bust is the visual punch and reads best from a silicone push mold (cast from a vintage cameo or carved-original). Build the ringed plaque first, mold or sculpt the yellow profile separately, bond it to the cobalt center with liquid polymer clay, and bake. Sand the back flat and glue a flat-pad brooch finding with label-checked jewelry adhesive after cure.
A round medallion brooch with five concentric tiered color rings (hot-pink outer, orange, white, cobalt-blue, then center field) and a raised yellow Greek/Roman-style profile bust pressed onto the cobalt center field. The bust is a high-relief cameo with curly hair and classical features. Surface is smooth with a satin sheen. The lifestyle image confirms collar-pin scale on a blue chambray shirt.
Use the list to check tool size, pin-pad width, dome placement, and slab thickness against the piece you want to make before you buy.
The color stock and clay body choices that carry the visible design.
Matches the strongest outer ring and keeps the medallion loud enough.
Useful for the warm ring bands around the center profile.
Needed for the cool ring band that makes the target pattern read clearly.
Covers the raised profile bust and the brightest central contrast.
Useful for the inner ring contrast so the cameo profile stays readable.
Useful for bonding raw-on-raw applique, layered details, and small joins without crushing the shape.
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.
Bake surface and oven check tools for the finished brooch.
Keeps the round medallion flat during cure.
Useful for checking the real shelf temperature before baking detailed or supported polymer clay pieces.
Useful for tiny marks, seam cleanup, piercing points, and crisp separations before baking.
Adhesives and attachment choices when the build needs them.
Optional surface products if you want to shift sheen, sand, or coat.
Useful if you want the rings to finish with the same bright coated surface as the product image.
Useful for smoothing baked edges, backs, and rims before finishing or attaching hardware.
Optional satin finish to test on baked scrap when the guide calls for a calmer protective sheen.
A lightweight clay with a cohesive suede finish that holds fine textures without sticky residue.
Useful add-ons that sit outside the main build tasks.
Build flat concentric ring layers stacked tier-style and bond with liquid polymer clay. Make the central bust from a silicone push mold (cast from a vintage cameo or carved original) for a consistent profile. Attach the bust to the cobalt center, bake flat, and sand the back before gluing a flat-pad brooch finding with label-checked jewelry adhesive. Keep the relief shallow enough to bake evenly; if you lock a plain base in an early bake, add later raw details with compatible liquid clay or the bond product your clay line supports and rebake only before paint or glaze.
Condition your hot-pink, orange, white, cobalt-blue, and bright yellow polymer clay. FIMO Professional is recommended for crisp, clean nested rings, while Sculpey Soufflé provides a lightweight, velvety matte finish.
Roll the pink, orange, white, and blue clays to a consistent thickness of 1.5 mm using a pasta machine or acrylic roller with thickness guides.
cut a pink outer ring, an orange ring, a white ring, a blue ring, and a solid pink center oval that fit snugly inside one another.
Roll out a 1.5 mm white clay backing sheet. Assemble the nested rings from largest to smallest on top of the white backing sheet, wiping the raw seams with a damp cotton swab to ensure a strong bond.
Place parchment paper over the assembled medallion and burnish with an acrylic roller until the surface is completely flush. Trim the outer edge with your largest oval cutter to reveal the clean white backing layer.
Lightly dust a silicone cameo mold with cornstarch. Press conditioned yellow clay into the mold, release the cast profile, and trim any excess flash with a craft knife.
Open these when you want more depth on a technique behind the build, not another supply row.
Face plaques, cameo-style shapes, and portrait drops stay cleaner when the silhouette is solved first, the facial planes stay low relief, and the topper or brooch hardware is planned as part of the front design rather than as an afterthought.
Brooch fronts can tip or lose grip when the rear contact is curved, too small, or glued over a finish. Prepare a flat zone, match the finding size to the scale, and place it on the visual balance line before the adhesive cures.
Domed statement studs stay cleaner when the blank starts as a matched round plaque, the dome stays shallow enough for a flat back, and the metallic detail is pressed in without turning the surface into a lumpy foil patch.
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