Curing experiments part 1
In order to find out how best to make strong bracelets I have a series of experiments planned. The first thing I wanted to find out was if polymer clay is stronger if it’s quenched, that is plunged into ice cold water straight from the oven. I’ve heard people say this makes it stronger, polish better and it will keep transparents more transparent. Well I’m using grey coloured scrap Kato clay so can’t comment on the transparency but my findings were that it doesn’t make clay stronger or polish better. I wanted to...
read moreBlogger down – lost post – bangle problems
I guess many of you bloggers know that blogger has been down for a while (since last night for me in the UK). It made me realise that I have no other record of the information in my blog as I wanted to check back on my – things I want to make post to remind me and couldn’t access it. Can you back up blogs? Must investigate.Also I wrote a long wordy post on bangle problems – blogger has probably chosen not to publish it cause it was too long and boring! I will try and summarise it this time round.I have trouble making solid...
read morePurple Flowers,pendants, micromesh and pens
My mum got more birthday presents made by me. I wasn’t quite sure how my disc necklace would work out so I went back to something I knew would work just in case – a flowery cabochon. Again in purples. It turned out very well, I’m very pleased with it. She ended up with both.I recently bought some new micromesh sheets in the 8000 and 12000 grits. Previously I had the basic hobby kit which went up to 6000. The difference in the shine is marked. Polishing up to 12000 grit micromesh means that you can buff to a glass like shine...
read morePurple discs
I was playing about with ideas for a present for my mum’s birthday. She wears a lot of purple so the colour choice was easy at least! I wanted to incorporate many different shades so it would go with lots of different purple things. I made a bullseye cane using quite a few different layers in differing thickness’s for added interest. I cut some slices and used my favourite texture tool, a texture sponge sheet I bought from the lovely Natalia García de Leániz at Polymer Play Days in Nottingham (UK) last year. There is an email...
read moreCindy Leitz’s Teardrop Blend Shift Video free to view this week
For those of you who haven’t seen it mentioned elsewhere Cindy Leitz is offering free access to her recent Teardrop blend shift video it’s for a limited time, she said a week in her first post. So go check it out now while you can!Sorry I haven’t had much to say recently, April seems to have been a month long holiday this year! I’ve had an excellent time out and about and hardly touched my polymer clay. That’s all set to change in May as I am looking forward to attending 2 events. Carol’s Bangle class that...
read moreCarol Blackburn’s Beaux Bangles Workshop
I have a very exciting time coming up. First of all we are off on a family holiday to Disney World in Florida (very exciting!!!) Then it’s the Royal Wedding which I’m not really that excited about apart from the fact we get a lovely 4 day weekend and are off camping with friends. So I am afraid there will be little clay news for a while.As if that wasn’t enough excitement, in May, in the same weekend I am catching up with my 2 best friends from school and attending Carol Blackburn’s Beaux-Bangles workshop! The...
read moreTulips
This one was a birthday present for my sister in law, to go with the tiny tulip tile earrings she had bought from me already. tulip earrings on Cara Jane card And then I made a very simple tiny choker which was snapped up at my sale last Friday. Think I will have to make some more! I’ve also had enquiries about making another set of cake forks, which I realise I haven’t shown you, and worse I realise I didn’t photograph! The first tulip set I made were for some dear friends who live in Holland as a wedding...
read moreMonkey cake
My little girl was 5 today! Can’t believe she’s so old, I don’t know where the last 5 years have gone!She wanted a monkey hunting party so we had great fun at her party making binoculars from toilet rolls, hunting for monkeys (pictures of them only but that didn’t seem to disappoint the children too much), finding sticks for a fire and toasting marshmallows.Off course she had to have a monkey cake and as I was short of time at the end of the week (had 2 jewellery sales) decided to make a polymer clay monkey to go on...
read moreFeeling square
whilst at Polymer Pamper Play I made a square pendant and in one of those happy accident ways it came out of the oven slightly curved (it was baked on fibrefill). To start with I thought I might rebake it on a tile to flatten it then I realised that the curve was actually lovely. It gives it another dimension and means it sits nicely on the chest rather than sticking to you as a totally flat one might. Here it isSlightly curved square pendant with the frayed demin pattern Carol Blackburn taught us.I decided I wanted to replicate the curve but...
read moreMy almost entirely polymer braclet
I used the spare toggle set to make another new bracelet for me! There are some glass spacer beads, some tiger tail wire to hold it together and 2 crimp beads to fasten the tiger tail but the rest is polymer!The discs are curved, partly to match the curve of the pendant with the same design and partly so that it fits the wrist better. I chose a cookie cutter that fitted over my hand and baked the discs on it. I then lay a sheet of clay on the back, cutting out 2 channels for the tiger tail wire and another sheet of black which I textured over...
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