Love cats
Well the inevitable happened – the hearts and the cats collided on my workbench and here they are ….The Love CatsPin ItDon’t forget you can find the free tutorial to make your own little cats here http://www.carajane.co.uk/2012/01/my-sleeping-cat-tutorial.htmlI am really happy to email you a PDF, couldn’t find an easy way to share the PDF for download – must look into that (feel free to let me know if you know one!!!).Thanks of those of you who have got in touch by email, comments here or on Facebook it’s...
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Along with the heart earrings I also made some brooches. These took a bit longer to finish as I discovered I didn’t have any badge backs the right size, didn’t think about that when I started making them! I forgot to take a picture of the back which is a shame as they are very neatly finished. I will try and show you another brooch back when I have made some more. They were lovingly hand polished to a glass like shine with wet and dry sand paper and then micromesh polishing cloths.Pin It They have gone off to Tenderfoot, a...
read morePick a Pinterest tutorial…..
On Sunday night I decided I had worked hard for the last few days and instead of getting on with the things on my ever increasing to-do list I would do something just for me! I went to my Pinterest Polymer Clay tutorials board and picked something that wouldn’t take too long. I picked thisfrom http://polymerandmetalclay.com.au/flowerpetaltute.html . This is a free tutorial and I really appreciate people sharing them for free. I know how much effort it takes to take all those photos and try and find words to describe what you are doing...
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I called in to visit Penny Vingoe who runs www.clayaround.com just before Christmas and we had a play with some Lisa Pavelka Magic Glos resin. I really liked it so bought a bottle. It’s a UV cure resin and luckily I had a suitable light at home already, we don’t get enough sun in winter here in the UK!!I tried it for the first time earlier in the week on a flat polymer pendant but it was pulling away from the edges a lot, which doesn’t look good. Penny and I had been using it on a bracelet made up of metal bezels linked...
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Well people are starting to think about Valentines Day and I am seeing many other people creating hearts so I decided I would play with hearts too. I have a fair bit of work in progress but here are some finished earrings. They will be my earrings for my week 2 of the 52 pairs of earrings a year challenge I am taking part in on Flickr. The middle ones are studs, I finally got round to ordering some earring posts! I often see people put little collages of their jewellery and think how great they look so I gave it a go. I ended up using ...
read more52 pairs of earrings a year challenge – week one for me
I was wondering what type of earrings I should make first – then it became obvious – little cats of course!(You can find my free tutorial to make them yourself here – I wouldn’t recommend starting so small though, they are very fiddly small!)They are 2cm across, I had to make 3 cats as I realised after I made the second identical to the first they would look better mirroring each other.If you like to make things why not join the challenge? They don’t have to be made from polymer clay, just be earrings. It was...
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Follow my blog with BloglovinI was reading an article on Craft Blog UK (which if you have a craft blog is a brilliant resource and you should check it out!) about Bloglovin which is the new thing for following blogs apparently. Thought I’d give it a whirl. I am following The Craft Blog UK blog there and have listed my own, it’s linked to my personal facebook page. I will feedback a little on what it’s like after I have used it for a while. I’ve been kept away from creating the last few days and I am getting twitchy so...
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I am so thrilled that you are enjoying my cat tutorial and delighted with the results I am seeing! I have had a few suggestions for further improvement which I shall implement but they are fairly minor changes. I wanted to share some of the results that people have been kind enough to photograph and share, I loved seeing them! Please do let me see a photo if you’ve had a go.Beautiful little cat by Pippa – love the colours and the flower she has added petal by petal!Adorable! Love this cat by Lupe Meter ! Really love the markings...
read moreMy Sleeping Cat Tutorial
Here is the promised cat tutorial, I hope you enjoy it! It is also available as a PDF document which I can send to you if you email me, I am really happy to do so – just couldn’t find an easy way to have it as a download online. If you use it I would be really grateful for some pictures of your cats, and as always a comment, or like here or on my facebook page really makes my day. I would also appreciate any feedback you have to help me write even better tutorials in future. Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. Have fun...
read moreTutorials – photos or video?
So having had a busy weekend doing non polymer clay things I am now free to get back to my clay – hurray! First on the agenda is that cat tutorial, only 2 more followers to go! I am struggling a little to make some of my explanations clear (I might just send it out to some of my faithful followers for testing- don’t worry Bonnie – you’d make that list!) and am wondering about perhaps trying to make a little video instead/as well. How do you like to learn new techniques? Would you rather a video or written instructions...
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