31 Days of Halloween - Day 22 - Pretty Please with an Eyeball on Top!

It's day 22!  It's day 22! And you are hopping onto the Smeared and Smudged Forum's 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop! Yea!  I love all the wonderful projects that I'm seeing on my daily hops!  Take a bow, Wicked Bloggers!

Below are all the fabulous bloggers:

Terra,Tori,Kristy,Kapree,Alison,Christine,Kelli,Windy,Susan,Alex,Monique,Jane,Sugar,Black Dragon,Lisa,Shell,Jean,Julia,Jennifer,Loren,Christy,Vee,Lady Brayton,Lindsay,Little Black Kitten,Celeste,Leigh,Pam,Donna,Valerie,Helen,Sharon,Lisa,Karen,Carolyn,Pam

Today's Halloween treat is a polymer clay cupcake zipper pull a la Smeared Ink. The cartoony cupcake is from a collection of cool digital stamps called Candy is Dandy. My cupcake is a nod the incredible group of artists I was blessed to hook up with recently through Smeared Ink. The group is the Smeared and Smudged Forum and they are a hoot!
Materials:
Polymer Clay - purple, brown and orange
Colorful micro beads
Glossy sealer
Needle tool 20 Gauge wire
Accent beads
Eyeball bead
Round nose pliers
Chain nose pliers
Wire cutters
Lanyard clip

	You can see here the simple shapes required to make a cupcake shape. Make a hole in the cupcake with the needle tool. Bake according to directions.
	When the cupcake bead is cool, paint some glossy sealer on the orange icing. Drizzle some micro beads on the icing while the sealer is still wet. Allow to dry.
	I chose an orange accent bead and stacked a tiny green bead on that to make a little pumpkin dangle. Cut a 4" piece of wire. Fold 1/2" over the round nose pliers to form a loop. Slide the dangle onto the loop.
	Slide the folded wire into the cupcake bead from the bottom up.
	Add the eyeball bead.fold the wire over, just above the eyeball bead and make another loop. Slide the loop on the lanyard clip.
	Wrap the wire tail around just below the loop to secure it. Click here for detailed photos of the wire wrapping techniques described in this tutorial.

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