I almost forgot- before the tiles were sprayed with clear glaze, I edged them with a Krylon metallic marker to match the metal of the bracelet. Not necessary, but I think it gives them a more finished look.

Gorgeous!! The colors are fantastic!
Does Michaels carry the bracelet blanks, d'you know? I wonder if my local bead shop has them...
Thanks for the detailed instructions. Could I just use the chalks and a pearl white pearlEx on top? I don't have many colors.

I know your niece/nephew's mom is gonna love this gift!

Lia- I am not sure if Michael's has them or not- you might want to chek their online store to see if it is in inventory. My stamp store has them, and I know Stampington & Co. has them online. I ordered a dozen online this spring from The Powder Keg, but I don't think they carry them any more.
The most likely places to look would be probably be Rio Grande, Jewelry Supply, Fire Mountain Gems, or Eloxite. A Google search for "bracelet blank" will bring up some resources.
As far as the pearl-ex, just white would be fine, and will soften the intensity of the chalk color a wee bit so keep that in mind. We used another brand of mica powder & had a variety of colors, so I picked powders that matched the chalk underneath. You see the sheen of it more than anything- gives it that glass-like shimmer.
Later I will post another picture of a copper and gold one I made without the colored chalk- gotta use my scanner at work, though.
Doesn't it look like Skinner blend, only without all the work, lol!

Guess you were right about the poly clay ;-)!
"Aunt Karen"

Oh, faux Skinner-blend! I love it! (I'm too lazy to do the real deal!)

What other kind of mica powder? I'll keep that in mind about the white. 'Cause I've gotta try this! Maybe without the bracelet blanks. I saw a bracelet I liked on tv done with multiple jump rings joining the ...whatever you call it --the main pieces! LOL!

Is that a Dawn Hauser stamp you used?

Lia- I forget what brand of mica powder the teacher had- it is the same thing as Pearl-ex only different companies have their own names. I just happened to drop in for the new Expressions issue & the owner talked me into jumping into the class, lol! So I missed some of the info.
I would not link these with jump rings because the poly clay might not hold up too well to the stress- especially Sculpey III. You would have to put the holes so close to the edge. Now if you made thick tiles and pierced thru from side to side to string elastic, that would probably work. You could make a sandwich- front layer, back layer, and a spacer layer in the middle with 2 parallel grooves to accomodate the elastic.
I don't know for sure whose stamp it was, but the owner carries it- maybe a Stampington & Co design. I thought I had the same stamp here at home, and when I checked mine is the same little tiles but the pictures are not the same ones. I think mine is Dawn Hauser... it says Collage Pieces- Time2Fly by Uptown Design Company. I posted a pic in the gallery & it is just about the same size as the actual stamp.

Here is a link that might be useful: collage pieces stamp

Guess a person could use the mini-dominos on a blank bracelet too..........

Rosie, I love dominoes for bracelets!

Karen, I didn't think about the stress factor; thanks for pointing that out! I did link up one I made using homemade S links and it's done okay.

I don't think that's the same Dawn Hauser stamp I saw in Michaels. I like yours much, much better!

Karen! Look what you've started!! This chalk thing was my project for today. I made some tiles using the white pearl clay and chalked with a rainbow of colors. Ahhh... Rainbow is my FAVORITE color! :-) I really like how they turned out, but I didn't make enough to do a bracelet or anything, so I haven't scanned them yet.

Then, since I had some black scraps on my work surface from yesterday, I had to find out what would happen with bright chalks on black clay. I used copper PearlEx, too, and left a heavy dusting of chalk on the clay. Below is the link to 2 of my finished experiments.

Thanks SO much for sharing this technique! I LOVE it! There were my clay and my chalks just a shelf away from each other in the craft closet and I would never have thought to put them together!

Here is a link that might be useful: My chalked black clay things

Lia- you were right, the class stamp was a Dawn Houser stamp.
Your black clay necklaces look great! It reminds me of beautiful raku pottery. Hmmm... faux raku using a crackle stamp on pearly white clay, then accented with black clay....time to dig out my college pottery and take a closer look!

Here is a link that might be useful: Dawn Houser

Karen, I didn't think about the raku resemblance. Actually, my experiments w/ the black clay look better in real life. That's not always true --sometimes scans are flattering-- LOL! but in these the copper doesn't really show.
It takes a lot of chalk dust to get any color to show on the black clay, though; I think just straight up PearlEx would be better!

Hate to sound dumb-BUT....what is pearl-ex? I also want to say that I love your bracelet!

~Jennifer

Jennifer- Thanks! Pearl-ex is one brand name of mica powder. They come in many different colors and it is the stuff that they also put in eyeshadows and nail polish to give that pearly shimmer, or the two-tone effect where the color changes as the light hits it. You can buy a set of powders at the craft store in the polymer clay section. You can apply it with a cotton swab or brush as a powder, or it can be mixed into paints to make them shimmer.
Here's the website.

Karen

Here is a link that might be useful: Pearl-ex

Karen,
Thanks for the information. I am going to check this out.

~Jennifer

Sorry, one more question. Are the tiles just glued to the bracelet link, or are the links pushed into the tile? Thanks again.

~Jennifer

Jennifer- just glued on with E6000 which sticks to metal very well.

Karen