How To: Polymer Clay Book + Key Charm

Hey guys!

Unusually warm weather today from the Land Up North ^.^
And yet I stayed in and worked at my craft table for the whole day. XD kids these days.
Any-who, I updated my story on Wattpad if you want to check it out. It's a fantasy, but I've only put up two chapters so far, leave any ideas or comments on the story there! I'd love some inspiration.

And without further ado, a picture tutorial of a book charm with a teensy little key. The book was inspired by this video Www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k9QAJv7w5w and I decided to make a key as well to finish it off! Let us begin!

Materials
Translucent clay
clay in the chosen color of book (choose a darker color to make it look older)
Either Silver or Gold depending on which goes best with the book color
Optional - to make the book look older or antique, grab some chalk pastels and a paintbrush

Tools
X-Acto knife
Roller
pointy/dotting tool
clay-safe work surface/ceramic tile
Oven (not a microwave!!!)

Translucent polymer clay

 I have the weirdest silver clay; it doesn't look sparkly on the outside but it shimmers like crazy on the whole inside :) MAGICAL XP

                 

 I mixed red with a bit of brown and black to get a maroon-ish color. Oh, and I'm using silver to line it.

 Mix translucent with a bit of white to get the color of the pages.

This clay is weird. It's almost almost unconditionable! And its hard to mix with other colors, that's why in the next picture you can see swirls of white. And it was so hard to properly incorporate I just gave up cuz you'll barely notice it later anyway.

 Roll out the color of the book cover, and stick the pages in the center, cutting around the shape until you have a proper book cover.

 Don't do what I did! Add an eye-pin to the page-part of the charm before adding all the details! 

Use an X-Acto knife or a pointy tool to make markings on the three visible sides that would be pages. Don't worry if you make the cuts too deep, and you can never make too many cuts! (Unless, of course, that results in the falling-apart of the book :P 

 Roll out thin snakes of your second color. (gold or silver)

 Wrap 'em around the whole perimeter of the book, adding ropes for the spine of the book.

Use a pointy tool to poke little dots on the accents. I also cut a tiny lock shape out of the silver clay.

 I made this tiny key by wrapping a short eye-pin in silver clay, rolling out a thin rope and cutting out three pieces for the key part. One flattened ball on either side of the eye-pin helped finish it.

 Use a paintbrush to brush on shades from the soft chalk pastels. Use browns for the cover and gradually get darker, and paint yellows and grays on the pages.

Attach both pieces to a chain after baking them at the right temperatures according to the package. 

And you're done! Hope you like this tutorial!