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31

Hearts Galore

March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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 tutorial from Christy Sherman.
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Mar

29

The New Bead Star Could be a Polymer Clay Artist!

March 29, 2008 | 1 Comment

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 designs will be featured in Bead Star, a special edition magazine.  The winning designs will [...]

Mar

28

Color My World

March 28, 2008 | 2 Comments

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.  Scroll away and get out that clay to start mixing some amazing and new [...]

Mar

27

Guest Blogger - GingerBellsGifts

March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment

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 supplies and I wasn’t on line at that time. I started goofing around with the [...]

Mar

26

Libby Mills

March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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 spaces!  Speaking of studio spaces, Libby is currently featuring Studio Snapshotson her blog of artists studios. 
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Mar

25

Alcohol Inks & Polymer Clay

March 25, 2008 | 3 Comments

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 favorite Craft Goat.
And leave it to Mossy Owl to come up with a handy [...]

Mar

24

Happy Spring!

March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments

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 Brazilian Kapok Tree Flower out of an air dry polymer clay. Each petal was [...]

Mar

19

The Polymer Clay Studio

March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments

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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Mar

17

Polymer Clay Rainbows

March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment

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 is the pot of gold at the end of your rainbow, you’ll enjoy this fun [...]

Mar

13

Mokume Gane Tutorial

March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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 for the creative challenge on etsy.
2-make sheets of equal size.
3-stack and run through the pasta [...]

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