Easton Arts Trail this weekend
I am exhibiting my jewellery at the Easton Arts Trail this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, from 11am -6pm in the Community Centre on Kilburn Street. There are lots of other lovely things on display there too – I got a great preview whilst setting up last night. I’ll try and share some of them with you when I have more time. Here’s one of my newer pendants – Electric Zebra Flower in Green and Blue. It’s for sale at the arts trail today of course! Have a great weekend! Cara
read moreImage transfer onto polymer clay – experiments
It was the Bristol Polymer Clay Day today and although only 2 other people came along we had a great day playing with lots of different things including image transfers! We tried out lots of different things and found some things that worked and some that didn’t work so well!Rosalind showed us how to do an image transfer using a toner based copy by rubbing off the paper. I hadn’t tried this method before and was impressed how well it worked. The top picture is the original that Rosalind had kindly had copied for us to try. The...
read moreEarrings Challenge and Easton Arts Trail
The Easton Arts Trail is fast approaching so I have finally got round to finishing some of the things on my half finished pile including some earrings for the earrings a week challenge! Next weekend I will be in Easton Community Centre with my jewellery from 11am -6pm on Saturday 30th June and Sunday 1st July. I have plenty of new jewellery including quite a lot I haven’t posted here – I can’t share everything with you or I would have no time to make anything and you would get fed up of seeing it! This has also meant that I...
read moreMy lovely new bag!
I’ve got a new personalised Canvas Shopper Bag from Bags of Love. I must say I was delighted when it arrived, very quickly! It has leather handles which look very sturdy. The sides and the base are made from patent vinyl, I chose cream but there is a range of colours available. I have a picture of one of my favourite pendants printed on canvas on either side – it looks very smart indeed! Inside there is a white waterproof lining and 2 internal pockets perfect for putting your purse or phone so you can find it in the roomy bag....
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I send out a newsletter several times a year, when I have enough news, to people on my mailing list. They are mainly people local to Bristol, UK as that is where I tend to exhibit and run workshops. If you are interested to know what I am doing do feel free to get in touch to be added to have it sent to your inbox. You can also now look at it here – Latest Newsletter – you will find a link up there on the left in the Pages Menu. I’ll try and remember to let you know when it changes, September is my next predicted newsletter...
read moreMelanie Muir’s Rock Cuff class – the results!
I recently stayed up half the night to watch a CraftCast Webinar with the Marvelous Melanie Muir – it’s an online workshop and it was fabulous and the best thing is I have a download of the workshop so I can go back and watch it again when I can’t quite remember. You can purchase a download yourself here – www.craftcast.com. It has taken me a while as I seem to be too busy to fit much polymer clay time in at the moment 🙁 Am trying to rectify that as soon as I can as I am happier when playing with my clay!! But finally...
read moreManly polymer!
Today is my wonderful husbands birthday. Off course I wanted to make him a present but what do you give a man? I have already made him a keyring and a rather special polymer clay covered pen. He would rather something practical and useful than something decorative. So after a look round a DIY store looking for inspiration here’s what I made himYes it’s a screwdriver! The handle is decorated with a black and white geometric cane (which did get a little distorted conforming to the shape of the handle but I hadn’t quite made...
read moreMokume gane colour variations
Turquoise on top Red on topAn additonal black layer on top White on topAll these mokume gane patterns have been made with the same colours of polymer clay; turquoise, white and red just in a different order. It is quite amazing the difference you get just by varying the order of the colours.On the one which had the white on top of the stack the turquoise which was the layer underneath has become muted so it looks more like a teal than the bright turquoise it really is. The red is still bright on this one though. The only...
read moreLittle dragon
So as I mentioned in my last blog post I treated myself to some books one of which was Christi Friesen’s Dragon book.I made my first dragon, which is a largish pendant, with some left over bits of some of my other projects, thinking it might look interesting. Well I didn’t like the look of it but never fear – Christi Friesen comes to the rescue again with Swellegant! a metal coating. I will do some more playing about with it and let you know more about it another time. The little guy got a coat of bronze. Much more...
read moreMore Christi Friesen Inspiration
Inspired by the wonderful stained glass technique I learnt from Christi Freisen I made some earrings for the earring a week challenge. They were fiddly but I was pleased how they turned out and I think they were worth the effort! I also made some heart earrings and a pendant to match, again Christi showed us a neat way to make a heart and she taught us how to make the flower and the leaves that embellish it so it was a good way to practise some of the many techniques I learnt. Thanks to a suggestion from the lovely Chris Pellow I then made a...
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