I was just checking it this morning to see how it set up, and this happened. I put very little pressure or stress on it to cause this, which tells me it would have never survived as a piece of jewelry anyway.
I'm not sure why this happened. I tried checking online, but couldn't really find much. It may be that pieces as thin as those petals are just too fragile to stand alone. I have read that very thin pieces remain fragile after baking, unless they're supported by some type of internal framework. I suppose if you were attaching them to something else that would support them, it would also get around that problem.
I'll have to experiment some more. But it's kind of a bummer, because I was interested in making jewelry pieces with very thin parts like that - I had another idea in the works for a steampunk butterfly. I can still do these types of things, will just have to either make the thin parts thicker (which takes away from the delicacy I was going for), or attach them to some type of background.
Oh well. Back to the drawing board. My next experiment is trying out an enameling technique, and a few other holiday ideas.
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