Here’s a combination of a nifty idea, lovely workmanship and a fellow artist’s latest venture! iKandiClay has recently opened up on Artfire with her beads, canes and jewellery. Her style is graphic and bold and a lot of fun, too.… Read More ...
A Rose
Make Valentine Heart Charms – a Tutorial
Alma Stoller directs us to her blog where she has shared this sweet tutorial for Valentine’s Day Charms. More hearts!… Read More ...
Polymer Clay – Mice with Heart
Cara pointed me towards another clayer making cute hearts. These wee love mice are big on the adorable scale even if they’re teeny on the physical scale.… Read More ...
Polymer Clay Lace Imprints
Continuing on with my lace and clay theme for the week, RedStitchLab from the Netherlands uses clay as a unique way to preserve the delicate print of antique lace elements she has. This brooch is simple and the focus remains … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Lace One Way
For polymer clay cane makers “lace” is a type of cane. Often it’s a bullseye cane reduced and recombined to achieve an effect that is lace like. The picture above shows an orchid style flower I made this summer with … Read More ...
Monday Mosaic: Polymer Clay Lace
In polymer clay lace can be a lot of things. It’s a popular and simple cane. It can be a texture. A transfer. Here’s a variety!
1. Valentine Heart Beads by BarbiesBest
2. Pink Pattern Earrings by DanClark
3. White … Read More ...
Cats
So while I look for awesome clay stuff – even before CraftGossip it was a serious hazard to my productivity – I often marvel at just how different the interpretations artists have of subjects. For example, all of these came … Read More ...
Meet CDowdle Designs
1. So, introduce yourself to us!
So here I am!
My name is Cindy Dowdle-Schoen. My company name is CDowdle Designs and my blog name is Purple Froggie Clay Stuff.
I have been doing polymer clay for a year … Read More ...
Merry Christmas!
In our household, it’s Merry Christmas but to everyone out there I wish you the very best this season and in the coming new year!
Carolyn of 2GoodClaymates offers us the gift of a new, free, tutorial to play with:… Read More ...
Polymer Clay – Nativity Scenes
A whole treasury of polymer clay nativity scenes! How neat! Even if nativity scenes don’t figure in your holiday decorations there are some cute samples of polymer clay work. I’m particularly taken with the complex nativity scene cane, myself. … Read More ...
Monday Mosaic: Holiday Celebrations
Here are some lovely table setting ideas for the holidays – wine glasses, markers, coasters, beautiful glassware.
1. Faux Ceramic Colorful Coaster by XOCC
2. Floral Napkin Rings by Ayeletbeads
3. Festive Wine Charms by GimpyVicki
4. Lovely Millefiori Plate… Read More ...
Friday Five: Polymer Clay for the Kids
I’ve had small – and now not so small – hands helping me almost from my first day with clay. She’s always used what I’ve had and made similar projects to what I’ve made. In fact, this has been the … Read More ...
Polymer Clay – Filigree Ornaments
I’ve never really tried polymer clay filigree – caning has been “my thing” so far – but I’ve seen some absolutely beautiful works done with it and here are some lovely examples of Christmas ornaments done with it. The first, … Read More ...
Meet Gingerbell
1. So, introduce yourself!
Hi! My name is Ginger Gonzalez and I live in rural Indiana with my husband Jose, our 2 cats and a little dog Chuy. We are the happy parents of 1 son and we have 2 … Read More ...