Make A Glittered Trinket Dish With Polymer Clay

In this tutorial, I'll show you how I transformed a simple piece of polymer clay into a sparkly moon-and-stars ring dish that's perfect for holding jewelry, crystals, loose change, or other tiny treasures ✨. For more ring dish ideas, see my ring dish round-up post!

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Materials Used

• White polymer clay

• Metallic craft paints

• Glitter

• Star stickers

• Gloss varnish

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Tools used

Rolling pin

Spatula

Something to cut a circle shape

Ceramic bowl to make shape

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Step 1:

Knead your clay until soft

Step 2:

Roll the clay till it’s as big as you want it.

Make sure the thickness stays at about a quarter inch.

Step 3:

Cut your clay in a circle shape

I used a pot lid with a sharp underneath. It was perfect.

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  cutting clay for diy ring dish

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  getting clay shape for diy ring dish

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Step 4:

Gently lay your clay circle inside of another dish to form the shape

Step 5:

Bake your clay according to the instructions

Mine said 20 mins at 300 degrees for a quarter inch thick piece of clay

For more polymer clay ideas, make sure you see my polymer clay plaque and polymer clay key cover projects.

Don’t have polymer clay? You can also make a similar version using air-dry clay. Just allow it to dry completely before painting and sealing.

Step 6:

Paint the inside of your hardened dish a dark blue

Leave the top edge unpainted for now

Step 7:

After the blue paint dries, cover it with a coat of glossy varnish and move on to the next step while it’s still wet.

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  using glaze on diy ring dish

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  spreading glaze on diy ring dish

Step 8:

While the varnish is still wet, cover the inside of your bowl with matching blue glitter so it coating the whole inside.

Then let it dry

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  pour glitter on the diy ring dish

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  cover the diy ring dish with glitter

Step 9:

Collect and put back the excess glitter into its container

If you love glitter projects, you must see my post on how to make a psychedelic glitter painting.

Step 10:

Do another coat of gloss varnish

After your glitter coat is all dry...

Step 11:

Flip the dish and paint the bottom metallic gold

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  paint the diy ring dish with gold

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  gold bottom of diy ring dish

Also paint the flat ridge going around

Step 12:

Start sticking on your gold star stickers to the inside of your your dish

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  dazzle stickers for diy ring dish

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  arrange stickers on the diy ring dish

Step 13:

Seal the stickers with another coat of the gloss varnish

And when it’s dry, you have an amazing out-of-this-world place to keep your pocket change!

To start the conversation - what other dazzle sticker themes would be good for this project?

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