Colour Palette Challenge – week 7 – coffee
Being as I am working on my mokume gane technique at the moment I used this weeks colours from the Color Palette a Week Flickr group to play about with it some more. You may I have seen the sheets I made, here’s some of the jewellery I have made. Got some beads too but I haven’t polished or strung them yet.Textured domed disc with a centre from the stamped mokume gane sheetDomed disc pendant made with the shavings from the stamped mokume gane, it has such a different feel to itPendent made up of 2 oval pieces, one plain colour...
read moreRemeber these extruded stripey beads?
A while ago I posted a tutorial for making these beads It never really occurred to me that people actually used it until recently when someone commented on another post to say thank you for the tutorial. If you have tried it out – how did it work for you? Did you get the crumbles? I haven’t tried it with new formulation Kato yet, I might need to do some leaching to get it to work. If you have photos of beads you made can I see them? I’ve only made them in brown and green for some unexplainable reason. Would love to see...
read moreMokume gane – again….
Bracelet 672Originally uploaded by Angela.BFor a long time I have been admiring other peoples mokume gane but never quite managed to get results I was equally stunned with myself.Here’s one of the pieces I love by Angela.I was determined that I too was going to master this technique. I had already read several tutorials and played about with it a bit but still wasn’t quite getting it how I wanted it. I reread some tutorials and played about last night until I cracked it! Having a decent deep texture definitely makes it easier so I...
read moreTexture in shapes
Whilst making up some pendants I thought I would be clever and try and do 2 jobs at once. Well it didn’t work out how I thought but I quite like what happened.I wanted to make a circular pendant with a textured back, I decided to cut out the circle whilst the clay sheet was over some rough sandpaper thinking it would get textured as I cut. As usual once I saw what happened it was obvious that’s what would happen but you don’t always think about these things late at night.I picked up the sheet and discovered that of course it...
read moreGift vouchers now available
There are now gift vouchers available either for just workshops, just purchasing jewellery or one that is valid for both. This is what they look like. They can be purchased online and emailed to you, or bought from me in person. I will have some available at my next sale.
read moreThis weeks colour palette creations
In my last post I told you about the Color Palette a Week Group on Flickr. Well here is this weeks colour palette – it’s bright and I didn’t think I liked it but you have to try these things.I mixed up the colours with some pearl clay included to make them a little softer and because I was in a shimmery type of mood. I also used the opportunity to try out some of the things on my ‘want to try’ list.Here’s what I madeThin stripes, yes all 3 colours are in there but it’s hard to see the pink especially....
read moreColour Palette Challenge
I thought about taking part in a Thing a Day challenge this year but decided I would only get behind and frustrated when life got in the way. The last couple of weeks I’ve had plenty of creative time but January I didn’t really touch my clay at all :(I did however happen across a Flickr group (I watch Flickr instead of TV these days, much more inspiring) called Color Palette a Week . Every week Chris who started the group posts a palette of colours and the idea is that people create something using that palette then share it with...
read moreChokers oven friendly!
Whilst I was ordering some more chokers I saw bracelets the same, nylon coated wire with a screw closure. I am often asked to make matching bracelets for my floating wire necklaces which is a problem as I don’t think floating wire bracelets work so I normally add more beads as shown below. I realise as I write this I haven’t actually tried a floating bead wire bracelet – hmm perhaps I should. Any other suggestions welcome.Wire floating bead necklaceBracelet to match necklace (had to get creative to make the pattern repeat...
read moreWhat will I make next?
I have so many ideas of things I want to make with polymer clay my head has’t got room for much else! I am in such a creative place at the moment that jewellery designs just pop into my head all the time (especially in bed trying to sleep it would seem). I am not complaining about this but I do wish I had more time available to play with my clay so I could make them all before the ideas fade (I’ve tried writing/drawing them but it seems to kill the idea rather than preserve it for some reason). I am enjoying my curved disc shape...
read moreMy workspace and my new friend
When I first started my polymer clay journey I was working on the kitchen table. It was a pain having to get everything out and pack away again, often a few short hours later when my daughter was at preschool. Before the children were born I had a craft room, but it had become a playroom. Mention of the desire to move house so I could have a craft room again got my husband worried and we found a solution. We put my old craft bench back in the playroom with a set of shelves above and a chest of drawers below to store all my stuff. The kids...
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