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New Flower Pendant for Southbank Bristol Arts Trail

New Flower Pendant for Southbank Bristol Arts Trail

I am exhibiting my polymer clay jewellery and gift items as part of the Southbank Bristol Arts Trail this coming weekend. On Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May from 11am-6pm  I will be in the in the Beauley Room in the  Southville Centre on Beauley Road, Bristol. Here’s one of my latest pendants which will be available for sale at the arts trail. The flower is made up from turquoise, black and white patterned petals with a large and...

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Delft Inspired Bracelet – Free tutorial on the Premo! Sculpey website

Delft Inspired Bracelet – Free tutorial on the Premo! Sculpey website

I wrote a tutorial for Premo!Sculpey and it was on their website, unfortunately now there is only the materials list. You can however find the tutorial on my website here. There are step by step instructions which show you how to make the cane and then the beads and also these cute little tile earrings. Even if you aren’t interested in making them yourself you might find it an interesting insight into my creative process. If you do have a...

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Blue Thing a Days – Delft inspired cane

Blue Thing a Days – Delft inspired cane

It’s all been a bit rushed this week but I have managed to make some canes for my Thing a Day Challenge. I chose blue as a theme as the lovely Sarah of Beadscrumptious was challenging herself to create something blue this week too. Here’s the canes I’ve made over the last few days – inspired by my recent trip to Delft! Day 1 I made a fairly simple flower cane with a crinkly centre  Day 2 I made what I call a flourish...

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Bright Flowers – a new set

Bright Flowers – a new set

The weather here in the UK is horrible today so I have tried to cheer things up with these bright flowers   These are slightly different from my normal flat flower pendants as they are slightly curved and each petal slightly cupped. They also have a dimension centre which looks like little tubes but is actually just little sticks of clay (adhered with the wonderful Kato polypaste) that I poke a pin into to give the illusion of being hollow. I...

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Black and Grey Flowers

Black and Grey Flowers

A good friend of mine was making a new dress to wear to a wedding – so I offered to make her some new jewellery to match. It turned out just beautiful! Here it is If you are familiar with the polymer clay work of Ayelet you will notice my inspiration! I made the grey beads and textured them with salt, they match the colour of the dress. I’m busy working on some Christmas gift and ornament designs, I hope to be able to share some...

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My ‘Charming’ Starflower tutorial published!

My ‘Charming’ Starflower tutorial published!

The latest edition of the wonderful and colourful  ‘From Polymer to Art’ magazine is out, it’s the Black and White edition and I have a tutorial in it! I just received my copy, my kids were so excited to see me in the magazine – I was pretty excited too 😉 You may remember that I also had an article in the Purple Edition too, about my curing experiments. Here’s a little sneak of what else is in the magazine, there...

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