Sunday, February 25, 2007

Class Schedule for March

Here is the list of classes that I will be teaching at ACMoore in Asheville, NC. for the month of March.Friday March 9th, 2007..........6-8 pm.......Faux Wood Cane in Polymer Clay.....$25.00
Must bring a basic tool kit to class: Pasta/clay machine, acrylic roller, clay blade and tile to work on. All other supplies will be provided. We will learn how to make a faux wood cane in polymer clay ( round cane as well as a straight one like the one used in the samples above). We will then make a small plaque similar to the samples shown here.


Friday March 16th,2007......6-8 pm .... Mosaic Cane in Polymer Clay .....$25.00
Must bring a basic tool kit to class: Pasta/Clay machine, acrylic roller , clay blade and tile to work on. All other supplies will be provided. We will be making a mosaic cane from polymer clay and you can choose either bright or earth tones, as well as make something from the cane like beads or a pin.



Friday March 23rd,2007...6-8 pm...Ripple Cane Effect in polymer Clay...$25.00
Must bring a basic tool kit to class : Pasta/clay machine, acrylic roller, clay blade and tile to work on.We will be making a cane and then using a wave or ripple blade to cut into it to get a ripple effect. I will have the wave/ripple blades for you to use for this if you do not own one. We will make earrings from the cane.

Friday March 30th, 2007.....6-8 pm ......Fire Polish and Seed bead bracelet...$25.00
All supplies will be provided for this class. We will be making a bracelet using an off loom weaving technique (with beading needles and thread) with Fire Polish beads and Seed beads. There will be two choices of colors.

There is a limit of 8 people in class at this store, so please sign up early to ensure a seat.
Email me if you have any questions about my classes or teaching. ...
goatmom1@charter.net

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Polymer Clay postcard

This is a postcard made entirely from polymer clay for a swap we did in our local clay guild ( Blue Ridge Polymer Clay Guild in Asheville, NC) . The background is a skinner blend of orange and magenta clays...it is hard to see the colors in the picture. I then stamped a script background with red perm. ink and stamped the main image with black perm ink.I used a purple perm ink to sponge through the punchinella. The hearts are from a spiral cane i made with translucent and purple clay. Once the card was baked the punchinella kinda got lost, so I went back over it with Versamark ink and an irridescent mica powder. The words are printed on copy paper, inked for color and glued into place. The whole thing was then sealed with Polyacrylic water based sealer. I hope Barbara liked it!! :o)

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

More Clay goodies...

This button is made with small pieces of black clay that were torn and applied to scrap clay. once it was cured I then painted it with light grey acrylic paint and rubbed off the excess to give it a slate look.
I love making cabachons because I love to bead them lol. I had a neat looking stack of Makume Gane clay leftover from the button I made so I simply molded it into a cab shape and baked it. I think will buff it up so it has a nice sheen to it instead of sealing it as it would be all shiny. I like hte look of the matte clay on this one.
I have a cool stamp of small Geisha faces in squares ( 9 in all on the stamp) that I thought would be fun to make pins from so I took slices from a wood grain polymer clay cane I had made and pressed them into the stamps. After they were cured I painted them with brown acrylic paint which really made the images pop out. Going to add other things to them to make them into pins.(Will share the pics of them when I do) BTW, the stamp is from Stamp Magick.

And last but not least for today, I wanna share my box-o-beads that made this week. These are the result of one night's playtime. I used canes I made to decorate them with and tried to make sets of at least 4 each. Will share pics of the finished bracelets that I am going to make with them so you can see the designs better. Thanks to Donna Kato as she has beads on her site that got me inspired to make these!Love hers and if you haven't been to her site do so!

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More clay buttons...

These buttons were made with scrap clay and stamped with Asian images. Once they were cured I painted them with Micaceous Iron Oxide paint from Golden and then when they were dry I rubbed on three colors of Perfect Pearls mica powders. This gives the ma Raku look. The pictures do not do them justice as in person they are rather sparkely.
Here is another button that was made with the same colors in a Mokume Gane stack but the stack was distressed with a paintbrush , scallop blade and a metal scoop to get the impressions you see here. Then I cut thin shavings off the top of the distressed stack of clay and layered them onto black clay. I really like this one.

More polymer clay Buttons..

This one is approx. 1" long and was made from golden yellow clay. The impressions are ginko leaves. I painted the button with Deep Burgandy acrylic paint but it was still too light for what I wanted so I used some Burnt Umber paint next mainly in the impressions. I like the color now!
This one is the same size as the one above and it was made with white clay. I crumpled a piece of copy paper and impressed the creases into the clay. Once it was cured grey paint was used to accentuate the creases.
These were made with the Mokume Gane technique that had hunter green, burgandy and gold clays. The impression used was of an Asian script. The oval button design was made with the scraps that you cut off of the original Mukame Gane stack.

Recent Art time!

The past few days i have been working on Polymer Clay goodies. A friend asked me if I would make some handmade buttons for her OOAK Knit wear...and here are some of them!
This one is approx.1" square made from black and red poly clay and gold leafing accents.

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Feb 2nd new beadies..


These brick stitched heart charms were made on Feb 2nd. These are very adictive..lol...gonna make a matte black tube bracelet to hang them from..and of course i will prolly have to make more charms ! LMk what ya think ?

Trying to create everyday...


I am late with posting this..as usual.. lol.. but I want to TRY to post a new creation for each day.
This heart beadie is a pin for the local bead society meeting next week..LMK what ya think !? This was made on Feb 1st.