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WestTNMaker. •. I make poly clay earrings. Most makers on a budget use “common” cutter shapes, but those are just cookie cutter earrings for $10 a pair. That’s completely different than mixing your colors, forming and sculpting flowers, images and food with polymer clay. Done well, $18-$50 a pair.
Polymer clay earrings can be any shape, size, weight, style, etc, at all however! If you're thinking of cutouts though, you'd just want to avoid any of the brands/lines that'll be brittle after baking in any thin and/or thinly-projecting areas that get stressed later (e.g., Sculpey III, BakeShop, regular CraftSmart, no-name brands & other cheap ...
The most secure way of attaching polymer clay to the front of the pad of a post/stud type earring finding is to use a mechanical hold of the clay on the flat or curved part of the post finding, usually encasing it between two pieces of clay. That creates a hold that would only come apart if the clay itself broke, etc.
If you’re going with glue, use superglue. I use Locktight Gel but any gel superglue works. EC 6000 will break down the clay. Any hobby glue does the same. Most jewelry glue as well. I’m looking for a glue for polymer clay. After I’m done baking the earrings, I need to glue earring posts on the clay.
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As for using a pasta machine, many clayers use them for making sheets (and use multiple sheets if they need to be thicker than 1/8"), but others (especially those who don't have a pasta machine) may just use a hand roller--plus often "guide rails" on each side to get an even-thickness sheet. My pasta machine goes from 0-9. 0 is the thickest.
I find I can fit two-three pairs in there usually, but if someone orders many pairs then I usually take the stuffing out and pack them without it. I also cut out a small square of bubble wrap and stuck it in there. I find the earrings are more than enough secured that way especially also packed in a bubble mailer. 3.
So you can use Sculpey III, etc, for earrings as long as they don't have too-thin areas that will get stressed too much with normal handling and wear (stressing is easy to do with earrings since they can pull, will be taken off and on frequently, may be stored next to other things, etc), and especially if they're cured thoroughly.
So those are not best for earrings or for anything else made from polymer clay that won't be thick-and-rounded in shape (e.g., many roundish polymer clay "beads" used as earrings would be strong even if made with Sculpey III). Sculpey III is also one of the softest brands/lines of polymer clay which means it also can't do crisp fine detail as ...
Most clear liquid finishes are only water-resistant so may still become temporarily cloudy and/or sticky with too much or too long moisture exposure (except for epoxy resin). If you use a liquid polymer clay though, for example, when attaching and/or coating, it'll be water-proof after baking just like solid polymer clay would be. 1.