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Winter's Morning Polymer Clay Canes

Published: 11-18-2011 05:39pm
Posted In: Polymer Clay Canes
Friday, November 18, 2011 Winter’s Morning Yesterday, big heavy and wet snow fell from the afternoon until evening, blanketing me in almost a foot of soft white snow. Branches bent under the weight and the white made the night bright and crisp. This morning, I was greeted by a beautiful sunrise on the snow. The blues, greys, browns and pale oranges began to shed light over the fields and because this was a treat for my eyes, I grabbed my camera and tried to capture the colors. The mountains lit up with the morning sunlight and because it was s... » Read More

New Polymer Clay Flower Canes for November 2011

Published: 11-12-2011 04:44pm
Posted In: Polymer Clay Canes
New Polymer Clay Flower Canes for November 2011 New canes! I have been so busy doing so many silly things that I have gotten zero clay work done, so, I made it a point to take a lot of my extra clay pieces that I have had sitting here and make flowers. I ran into some problems with sticky clay when I started working on my kaleidoscope canes, so I went with flowers, they were not annoying me. :) I have a half a dozen kaleidoscope cane designs created and I am determined to get them done, but I have to leach my clay and that requires me to know what the heck colors I am going to work with first. This is more trouble t... » Read More

Backgroundless Canes Continued

Published: 11-12-2011 04:37pm
Posted In: Polymer Clay Canes
  As I previously posted about the backgroundless canes, I told you I would post some photos of them as I finished them. I was surprised at the size of the purple flowers when I finished them. They were smaller than I had anticipated, although ALMOST the size I needed for the project. The thing that keeps throwing me, and I mean throwing me, is the bulk of the play-doh in addition to the outer wrap of scrap clay. When I cane now, I use a thinner wrap of translucent or color that I can not only see, but can visualize as my project. I know how much clay it takes to get a 20mm face or a 10mm face.  And ... » Read More

Backgroundless Polymer Clay Canes

Published: 11-12-2011 04:37pm
Posted In: Polymer Clay Canes
I am trying my hand at the backgroundless canes using the playdoh as seen on Backgroundless Canes by Idit Zoota. I needed a boatload of little 10mm flowers that I could cut for small beads and this is perfect for that. I had to go out and buy playdoh and should have shopped price before I picked it up at Jo-Anns when I got my micro crimper today. I paid too much for it and used my 40% off coupon and still paid too much. It's less than 2 bucks at Walmart and I paid 3 bucks WITH the discount. But I digress. The smell of playdoh will take you back to your childhood, but the real shock is the difference in consistency whe... » Read More

Playing with Palettes

Published: 11-12-2011 04:34pm
Posted In: Polymer Clay Canes
Playing With Palettes   I have a book that is fast becoming worn around the edges as I spend a lot of time simply leafing through it. I take it with me when we go somewhere and I glance through it while riding along in the car. I like to look at the photos and the different beaded images and then look at the scenery around me and find a palette based on what I see. Margie Deeb has put together this book, The Beader’s Color Palette, to inspire us to take a good look at the world around us and find the natural palettes to use in our art. Whether beading or playing in clay, I am always trying to find new ... » Read More

Happiness is a box of flowers!

Published: 11-12-2011 04:30pm
Posted In: Polymer Clay Canes
Polymer clay canes have a way of both multiplying and scampering off to far away corners of a drawer somewhere. There they get forgotten, overlooked, a bit mangled or abandoned. For awhile now, my boxes of flowers have been conveniently sitting under my desk, where I prop my feet up on them, drop my blade on them, drop my clay on them, and many times, drop all my beads on them. But, I knew where they were if I got the time to create more beads.   In perusing ebay and etsy, I see people selling beautiful floral canes and I admire them and favorite them, and ooo and ah over them. Occasionally, I will buy some canes... » Read More
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