What I’ve been up to
I can’t tell you about the main polymer clay project I have on the go as it is for my mum’s birthday and she sometimes reads this blog. I’ll tell you about it early May!Whilst I was with family over Easter the kids, my niece and I had a quick polymer clay play. This is what I made having been reading Polymer Clay and Mixed Media– Together at Last by Christi FriesenFimo polymer clay flower with beaded centre The beads were inserted before baking. It was a bit rushed but I decided it was worth baking. I tried out a few...
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You may have noticed I have been unusually quiet this last week. We have been on a holiday visiting friends and relatives all over the country. We live in the outskirts of Bristol which is a large city in the south west of England. We have been up to the highlands of Scotland and back over the last week which was great. The weather has been lovely and it has been really good to catch up with all the people we did manage to visit.Home now and trying to catch up with emails, blogs, facebook, washing and hopefully before too long some polymer...
read morePinched Petal Necklace from Color Inspirations
This is another exercise from Polymer Clay Color Inspirations: Techniques and Jewelry Projects for Creating Successful Palettesby Lindley Haunani and Maggie Maggio. I had trouble deciding on my primary colours as the Kato colour chips I made that matched colours in my collage were fairly equally split between red and magenta and also turquoise and blue so I put this project off for quite a long time. Also I was sure I wouldn’t ever wear it so nearly didn’t bother doing it at all. I opted for magenta in the end and made a custom...
read moreA different play dough way
Riduzione con didò 1Originally uploaded by fimolareWhilst having a stroll through flickr and admiring the work of Fimolare I came across this photo showing the play dough no background reduction technique (as developed by Idit Zoota). The packing is done with the play dough and just a wrapping of scrap clay.This is different from the way I have tried it which is to use a thin sheet of playdough just to separate the cane from the scap clay and then pack with the scrap clay. Hmm my experimenting brain is thinking of trying some different ways...
read moreMokume Gane and Belated Easter Eggs
I had a go at Mokume Gane again the other day. I often see things I love made with the Mokume Gane technique and I have read several tutorials but never come up with anything that has made me go ‘Wow!’. I think next time I shall take a tutorial to the work bench with me and try and follow it more directly and use the same colours too.I used Fimo (trying to use up my stash) in white, gold, and translucent and also used asheet of gold foil, first time I have used metal foils. I made a stack of the different colours and then rolled...
read moreGoogle Reader to help you find stuff!
I am fairly new to blogging (making up for lost time though 😉 I use blogger cause it works well with my other google stuff such as Picasa web albums, that was were I got started, wanting to share some photos with friends and spotting the blog it button on Picassa.I love people’s blogs, they are such a great source of information and inspiration and they help me feel connected to the world (particularly whilst I have been pretty much stuck in the house of late recovering from surgery on my foot). I currently follow 134 blogs (although it...
read morePolymer Clay Tumble Chips
(I really wanted to show you my polymer clay covered Egg (warts and all) I made but the pictures are still in the camera and the camera isn’t with me – I’ll show you after Easter – late rather than timely but never mind. In the meantime I shall catch up with some other things I have been up to.)You may recall a while ago I posted a picture of a polymer clay prototype I made for a flower pendant I intend to make in PMC. Here it is again .I saw a project in a jewellery magazine and it had a Thai Hilltribe silver pendant...
read moreClayworks by Kim Detmers Tutorial
Kim Detmers has kindly shared a tutorial on her blog of how to make this lovely Spring Bouquet. Check it out here http://claybykim.blogspot.com/p/tutorial.html
read moreFlower pendant
I have been meaning to make some texture plates for a while (I don’t have any) but got a bit distracted and ended up making a flower stamp instead.I carved the one on the right (and baked it) and the one on the left is an impression taken from it which has been trimmed. They are both made in scrap clay.I then got out the Fimo Silver Powder I bought a few years ago but still hadn’t used. I covered the flower with it and used some Fimo Deko Gel mixed with some alcohol ink to fill the surface. It needed varnishing to protect the...
read morePivot Tile from Color Inspirations and improved confidence.
I finally got round to making a pivot tile from Polymer Clay Color Inspirations. I had a real mental block on this for some reason. I didn’t have any orange clay when I got to that section and then I kept on putting it off.I quite enjoyed it and was quite surprised how much the colour changed with such small additions. I think it will be a useful tool for colour mixing so I shall make some more with the other Kato block colours.I can see I have quite a lot of air bubbles in the clay. They are such tiny amounts of clay I did a bit of...
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