If you haven’t checked out Tamara’s Etsy shop lately, you are missing some gorgeous work. I absolutely love how she does her own thing and has honed it to perfection. She has some new designs I haven’t seen before which … Read More ...
Spider Bracelet Close-up
Polymer Clay Collaborative and Mixed Media Retreat 2009
Attention All Artists! Polymer Clay Artists! Fiber Artists! Beaders! Bookmakers! Collage Artists! Painters! Stampers!
SAVE the DATE!!
Follow your muse to the groundbreaking, first annual
Polymer Clay Collaborative
and Mixed Media Retreat 2009
June 1-6, 2009 on the campus of … Read More ...
And the winner is……
Ms. Linda, if you would so kindly email me with your address, I will send the Claying Around Lisa Pavelka DVD right out to you. You can send it to me at [email protected].
I hope you enjoy it … Read More ...
Hearts for Heroes
September 11th is upon us once again and I wanted to share with all of the clayers a great way to remember our fallen soldiers.
If you don’t know about the Hearts for Heroes already, it’s a group of people … Read More ...
An Etsy find – Christmas Baby Bauble
This is the cutest Christmas I have found on Etsy yet. It’s in ClayinAround’s Etsy shop along with several more similar to it. She also makes earrings, very cute figurines and has a variety of other work in her Etsy … Read More ...
Butterscotch garden pendant
This is a gorgeous pendant by Jennifer Morris. I am in love with her work. It looks like a lot of work though. I wish I had the patience to … Read More ...
Sanding polymer clay… oh joy…. Not!
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 … Read More ...
PCAGOE Monthly Challenge – Texture
The time for voting is almost over, we have until midnight tonight to vote for our favorite entry in this month’s texture challenge for the Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy. I get to actually vote for my favorite … Read More ...
Frogs on Pumpkins
Clay Babies has geared up for fall shows in her area and she has some awesome holiday pins to show for it. I just love these frogs on pumpkins. I … Read More ...
Mosiac holiday ornament
This colorful ornament would be great in anyone’s home this year, no matter what the celebration was ! I just love the rainbow of colors that were chosen for it. I wonder if I can dig out room in a … Read More ...
Boo and his friend
Halloween is creeping up on us and I want this adorable little ghost and bat friend for my own. It would make anyone smile to see it sitting on their desk. Lynn … Read More ...
Mokume gane pendants
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 … Read More ...
Mokume gane – tutorials, plus a show and tell
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 … Read More ...
Website review – Covered in Clay
The Covered in Clay website offers a small variety of items to cover with clay, such as blank metal tins, business card holders, journals and ceramic mezuzahs. You can also find pendant blanks, bezels, and other jewelry settings that are … Read More ...