Fopals – Cindy Leitz
There has been a buzz of excitement recently on Cindy Leitz’s blog about her Faux Opal technique. I tried it the Friday I recieved the video but it didn’t really work out at all and I was so disappointed I didn’t even take any pictures! The bake and bond was so soft it wouldn’t really sand at all.Finally I found a moment to try again yesterday and baked them for much longer which has made them harder (and thankfully easier to sand) but I am still not happy with the results. I am posting some images here just in case...
read moreBlogger picture problem and Pledge Finish
I was struggling trying to load some pictures into my post when I realised that the pictures of mine have disappeared from my blog and other people’s blogger blogs. I guess there is a server problem somewhere.I shall give up with that post til later.I tried the Pledge Multisurface Wax (the UK version of Future I believe) today. I painted it onto an unsanded tortoise – no problem but it does emphasise the finger prints (it was a premo one wouldn’t have had finger prints on a Kato one). I tried painting it onto a flat pendant...
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I came across Blogger in Draft thanks to a tip of from Doreen’s Backyard Beads Blog. It is an easy way to change your blog and I know several people have revamped their blogs using it and they look great. I haven’t really played around with my blog design yet but it has a host of other features that are much better than the standard Blogger. For example there is a spell check on the Compose toolbar and also an add video button.When you add pictures you have many more options. You can upload from your picasa web albums, your...
read moreFimo vessel
Here is a little fimo vessel I made about 15 years ago! It is made entirely from Fimo. I found it when I was tidying up my craft supplies – wow there’s a lot of stuff I had forgotten about! I made a series of them with different colours and some with fancy flower petal tops but gave all away except this one.Fimo Vessel
read moreAvoid contaminating your clay in the pasta machine with other colours of clay.
I am sure some of you know this already but I only just worked it out so I thought I would share it in case some of you don’t know either.I clean my pasta machine with a baby wipe between colours of clay. I wipe the underside of the rollers (underneath the machine) where the crumbles sometimes collect and I wipe the top whilst turning the handle to make sure the rollers are clean. Sometimes though I still get annoying streaks of colour across my clay and I couldn’t work out where they were coming from. I decided it was time to...
read moreSandy’s Extruder Experiments
Thank you to Sandy for taking my extruder experimentation a step further and sharing it on her blog.She had the great idea to extrude the square logs in the first place (why didn’t I think of that lol). She has developed the technique one step further, twisting the logs to make these cool spirals You can find out what she did on her blog herehttp://blog.simple-inspirations.com/2010/03/extruded-spirals-week-12-of-canes.htmlI have played around a bit more with this square logs instead of discs technique but haven’t come up with...
read moreGot some at last!
I actaully went out to the shops today (my dad took me as I am still not driving) and I managed to get my own bottle of Pledge Multi-Surface Wax which is the UK version of what was Future! Unfortunately got a busy few days so might have to wait to try it.
read moreSanding experiment
So I have been reading up on sanding and everyone agrees on wet sanding with wet and dry sand paper and also making your item as smooth as possible before baking to reducing the sanding needed. But I still couldn’t really figure out how long I should be sanding on each grade or how many or which grades of sandpaper I should use. I do know that I have had a few pieces that still had scratches on after sanding so I needed to do it better somehow.Today I sat down with some paisley spoons and my usual sanding set up (a narrow tray with...
read moreLentil Swirl Bead Tip for Patterns
Well if you have made a lot of lentil swirl beads you will already know this but in case you haven’t here’s something I learnt about patterns today (I don’t normally swirl with patterns usually it is just a pile of scrap).I carefully placed a flower in the centre of the ball I started swirling thinking it would look nice swirled – but it disappeared!Swirl lentil bead that started with a flower in the centre that ‘disappeared’ Desiree does say in her excellent tutorial on making lentil swirl beads that the...
read morePink from La Fille du Consul
la vie en roseOriginally uploaded by delphineR2MI have just come across the work of Delphine- thanks to Polymer Clay Daily featuring her work.I love these flowers they are so delicate looking. She has a giveaway on her blog and one of the entry conditions is to post something pink on your blog. What better than her own pink flowers!I thought that I didn’t really use pink but actually I do have my pink flowers from the paisley caneMy pink flower.
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