Faux precious stones with polymer clay

One of my new favorites books is Making Polymer Clay Beads. It features several solid techniques and how to turn clay into faux gem stones. Here is the result of my malachite cane:

I used a mica shift (also explained in the book and very easy) to create the gold in the square pendants. The swirly gold in the rectangular pendant was rolled from hand-made snakes of both black and gold. The other rectangular pendant is simply stamped. Each are pre-drilled.

To get the rounded triangle shape, I used a bendable blade.

These will be fun to turn into necklaces!!! Up next: Faux jade? Wire? Who knows!