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Oct

25

Image transfer method hunt and I’m not sure who’s gonna win!

October 25, 2008 | 3 Comments

I managed to save enough money for a new all in one printer…. YAY! So, I’ve been looking for a good transfer method for polymer clay to do transfers to clay. So here’s a bunch of links you can help go through too :) Hey it’s the least I can do
http://www.thimble.ca/?p=121 
http://www.squidoo.com/inkjetimagetransfer#module3026266
http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/imagepaper.html
 http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/image.html
I’ve also heard of [...]

Oct

21

“PolymerCafe” Review and Call for votes to win one

October 21, 2008 | 1 Comment

Polymer Clay Central is holding a very special challenge this month, it’s their 106th  PCC Challenge anniversary, so they went BIG. Instead of a theme that you go by, you get to send in anything, AND they had 2 sponsors this time which means twice the prizes. The sign-up date has past, but there’s plenty of eye candy [...]

Oct

16

REVIEW - PolymerCafe December

October 16, 2008 | 1 Comment

We will be giving away the December issue of PolymerCafe magazine, and each issue thereafter. I received the December issue yesterday and will be reviewing it (today) before I put up for grabs Friday and from what I’ve seen, it looks like it’s a great issue. Some that I’ve bought wasn’t, hmmm, you could say wasn’t worth carp
I just love the eggs on [...]

Sep

5

Sanding polymer clay… oh joy…. Not!

September 5, 2008 | 13 Comments

I finished up my mokume gane pendants a couple nights ago by hand sanding and buffing them. I hate to hand sand my work. It causes my hands and wrists to cramp, my neck to spasm from the tension in my arm, and not to forget, my fingertips were almost raw! I ended up having to cut my fingernails because [...]

Aug

28

Mokume gane pendants

August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Okay, so I had a little camera trouble, yesterday. The batteries were dead, so of course I had to charge them. Well, better late than never!
These are the pedants I made using the mokume gane technique I talked about in my last post. I still need to do the sanding and buffing on them, but all in [...]

Aug

26

Mokume gane - tutorials, plus a show and tell

August 26, 2008 | 4 Comments

 Mokume gane is a technique of layering thin sheets of contrasting clay into a stack, then distorting the stack and shaving off the resulting patterned clay with a tissue blade. There are many, many variations on this technique. Some use objects and press them in the clay. Others use the clay itself and push balls of clay into holes [...]

Aug

6

Stacker bead tutorial

August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Amy of Ovenfried Beads has made a tutorial for her famous Stacker Beads. And it’s free! How’s that for generous? Here are her exact words -
” Hey folks…….
Ok I just can’t keep it to myself any longer.  In the event I should croak before I’m an old old lady, I want people to keep making them. [...]

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