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Since Bead Star’s competition has the special theme of hearts to support the American Heart Association, I thought I’d share a few tutorials this week to get you thinking in that direction. 

To start off the week, here is a glazed heart…

Did you see the announcement for Beadworks’ new contest, Bead Star?  Enter a jewelry design that uses simple stringing techniques and you could win some major prizes along with a trip for two to Bead Expo in Santa Fe next year!  The winning…

Poking around Polymer Clay Daily tonight I ran across the Color Stripes blog.  Is it wrong to love a blog, my heart is a-flutter?  She takes these awesome inspiring photos and translates them into little color palette stripes, hence the name. …

I enjoy making beads…

One of the reasons I began working with polymer clay is because I wanted different beads for the jewelry I was making. I live in a very small town with not alot to choose from for craft…

A great cuff bracelet with bead embroidered polymer clay buttons by Libby Mills, one of my new favorite polymer clay artists.  Be sure to check out her website, blog and flickr albums.  Her flickr albums show some very drool-worthy studio…

We’ll start off this post with a free projectfrom Fire Mountain Gem, designed by Tammy Honaman. It’s a great multi-stand bracelet in lovely shades of spring green beads mix with stamped polymer clay charms.

Here is an overview of using alcohol inks from my…

I’m so smitten with Elizabeth Bonura’s latest flower creations!  What I love about them is that they are like 3-dimensional paintings. 

This is the description of how she created this incredible little piece of art work, “Inspired by nature, I sculpted this…

I have studios and work spaces on the brain, so I thought I’d share some links with you about creating a polymer clay workspace.

Studio of Sandra McCaw

Stonehouse Studio

Libby Mills Studio

Mossy Owl wrote a great post of her dream studio.

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Top o’ the mornin’ to you!  Well, it’s not morning, but that’s the extent of my St. Patrick’s Day hoopla.  I was searching around for something to celebrate the day and knew this cane would be perfect.  If polymer clay…

Today’s post features guest blogger Linda from PapernClay sharing her version of Mokume Gane. 

1-choose your colors. I chose 6 but I more frequently go with only 4 colors. The colors I have chosen are inspired by craftymoose’s photo from her recent trip to Italy and…

Polymer Clay seashells inspired by my first Bead Cruise.  Where have I been the last two weeks?  Getting ready for the cruise and then sailing from tropical island to tropical island while I taught bead and jewelrymaking classes.  It’s a…

Tina Holden has an interesting new tutorialon her blog for faux ceramics.  She uses chalks to color her pieces and finishes them with Liquid Kato Polyclay and alochol inks to create a glaze.   Thanks for the tips Tina!

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