tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91127962011-04-22T00:23:18.188-04:00My fantastic voyage with polymer clay.Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09242359189419601499noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112796.post-1105234715856667952005-01-08T20:32:00.000-05:002005-01-08T20:38:35.856-05:00

Bottles of Hope are small medicine bottles(usually glass chemotherapy medicine bottles) which are covered in polymer clay and then given out to cancer patients to give them hope in their time of sickness. This is one I've made today: and the back: The bottle is in memory of my mom, who died of breast cancer in 1992. I wish I had known about PC back then. If I remember correctly light blue was

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Here's a pendant I made from the flower mold as seen in the previous post: I can't sand it, because of the Pearl Ex powder on it. I should have worn gloves when working this one so I wouldn't have any prints on it. And polishing it will just bring out the fingerprints even more.. Oh well. live and learn.

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This is the cast for a flower mold I made based on the book "Starting In Polymer Clay", by Monica Resta And this is the mold I got from it: So far, the mold works but I think I was probably seeking more of a STAMPING type thing. I guess that will mean carving images into thick rubber for stamps. I was hoping I would be able to use up my enormous clay stash for stamp making but I keep

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I finally got some of that Pearl Ex pigment powder that everyone in clay-land raves about. A 32-color kit, in fact. It's not bad, the colors are awesome and I like the shimmery effect they give to clay. This jar I made was textured with the handle of a fork! When they say 'go around the house and look for texture' they meant it! I wish I could have gotten the impressions more even but hey, I'm

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I made these last night. I rolled out the clay sheet first and applied the cane slices to it, instead of doing it the way I used to. I think I like covering the item first and then adding slices as needed. I think it provides better coverage and it uses less clay that way. I've got a bottle waiting for slices and the top form is in the oven now. I have NO idea what I was thinking.. I got

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This is a Mokume Gane altoid tin I covered. My first. I could certainly improve on this. I don't like the way the clay is around the hinges.. which is why I didn't show you. this is a view of the side to show the bottom color I want to try again, but with a different pattern.

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Heart pendant made of flower slices over a ball of scrap clay. I got the heart shape concept from the chrysanthemum cane tutorial when I made this: These next pens are the result of mixing some mosaic cane slices and putting it through the PM. I'm afraid I won't ever be able to use that cane for anything but mixing for pen-sheets. Really sad, as that's a lot of freakin clay. But I learned

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!^*)$%$#!!!! I decided to take my pasta machine apart to see if I could determine what was causing the setting notch to not stay in place. I never did find out what caused it per se, but it did go back into it's spot and I managed to get the machine back together again... Until.... I went to use it and it kept snagging the clay. Or clay would get stuck and wouldn't come back out! It took me an

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You know how I was complaining about how my digital camera pics weren't coming out sharp when I did close-ups? Well duh, I wasn't using the macro setting. See, I thought I WAS using it. But I wasn't. So, here are the flowercanes I've been doing the last few days. That middle one is my rendition of a Poinsettia. I hadn't planned on it coming out like that, it just did. I really need to get more

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Yeah, I said Duh. As in, Duh, you're not supposed to try and add cane slices to an item that's already been polished. or.. Duh, don't forget to take your cane OUT Of the freezer if you're not gonna use it. Lately my claying hasn't been up to par. It sucks. My leaf cane looks a mess and my camera is acting up so pics aren't as sharp as they used to be.

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Quisqueya is a sort of nickname for the Dominican Republic, whose flag I have tried to recreate in polymer clay : Not bad for a first attempt. All I have to do now is come up with something to decorate with it. In the meantime it's cooling with some other canes I'll be using to decorate, You guessed it!, another pen. It's for another pen and holder set; though this time I'm not too thrilled.

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It was just an experiment but I think I've got a better handle on covering script bottles.. I don't know how the slices on the holder turned out more pinkish than the ones on the pen; they're from the same cane and the background on the pen was NOT white.. hmmmm I do know, that somebody is getting one of these jimbobs for Xmas :))

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Here's the run down: The pens are left to right, Chrysanthemum cane pen over a sheet of black clay; slices of the same cane run through the Pasta machine and then the sheets are applied to a plain pen; some Scrap clay sheet I cant remember where I got it from; translucent daisy cane slices over black clay; slices from this cane were run through the PM and then mixed a little for the last

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I finally got the sharper blade for slicing canes. With it, I also got some Premo Translucent, as well as a ripple blade. I can't wait to try them. I've been brainstorming new cane design ideas. I enjoy canework and you KNOW I love pens but I'd like to try making up a cane of my own instead of always following someone else. I've been catching up on my knitting lately so I haven't really clayed

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Finally, a pen I REALLY like. I couldn't resist. I had to try slicing my flower canes. Well, the going was ok but it would have been better with the better blades. So, I'll just have to wait til they come before trying again. This is a pen made with slices of translucent canes over a solid yellow sheet. I contemplated rolling out a sheet and applying the cane slices but I admit I was afraid I

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This isn't exactly what I had in mind but now I know that I should cover the can in a sheet first and THEN apply the cane slices. I guess I could also roll out the sheets necessary for the piece and apply the slices before putting the whole thing on the item but I'm kinda wary of that..

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Well, actually it's technically still fall, but all the same the 'flowers' are out of season.. I think I got the hang of making flower canes using translucent clay. It seems in order to get those really pretty flower cane-covered items you have to make the canes and surround/fill them in with translucent. This way, when you make slices they blend in with the background for better overlapping.

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I've found another way to combine my two crafts: I made faux jade buttons for my wool mittens I've made: these are the buttons pre-baking: They're cooling off. Since they're going to be on something that might get banged around I'm not sure if I want to polish them. They look like regular buttons as they are now.. and polishing them might take away from their 'realness'. I should have made a

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Mosaic Cane attempt number 2: I don't know what I did wrong but it's so big it's gonna be hard to reduce! I could probably kill somebody with it. I'm having problems keeping the spacing of items within canes symmetrical or even. This cane is made entirely of Fimo Classic(ok, the Pearl outlining, the black and most of it is Fimo. There's a bit of Premo translucent in there, as well as bits of

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I made these on Sunday. Well, except for the one with the 'strawberry' on it. I've got some earrings and pendant pieces cooling.. Will sand and buff them tomorrow!

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I ordered some more Fimo Classic(yes I'm a glutton for punishment) from Polymer Clay Express not 48 hours ago and it already arrived!! WOW! That's what I call fast service!! Here I was thinking, 'Ok, they're going to email when they're shipped/charged, so I can then get a tracking number for UPS...' and meanwhile the UPS man is knocking on my door :). I ordered black, white, and white pearl.

Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09242359189419601499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112796.post-1100376230091200062004-11-13T14:57:00.000-05:002004-11-13T15:03:50.090-05:00

This is the mosaic cane I made. It's not quite what I thought it would be and there's a little booboo in there where one side is thicker than the other and it affects the cross-cut. But hey, I can always try it again sometime right? These beads come from the scrap-ends of the cane: Plenty more where that came from. And last but not least, the PENS!! the first three pens from the left were

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And I'm a clay-oholic(Hi Ladybean...) As I sit here on some translucent and white Fimo classic(yes, I said SIT), I await the baking pen I just made. I did 3 others last night and this morning I sanded and buffed and varnished and eventually I will buff some more. I still have to wait for some extremely fine grit sandpaper that I ordered from PCC. I can get the 220-600 grits locally with little

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I finally got some finer grit sandpaper today. But I'm a bit pissed cause the package said, Assorted grit, and on the back it has the listing from 220 to 600. So why when I opened the package, does it only go up to 400???? GRRRRRR. Farkers. So now I still have to search for the higher grit papers. But all is not lost. I found a pretty tile to work and bake on!! ThangQ Home Depot for being so

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Gruesome, aren't they? Ok they haven't been sanded and buffed as yet. I'm thinking about making my pens and THEN when I get a bunch together sit and have a sanding session(you say that 5 times really fast).

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Hello! I know some of my knitting blog readers are getting SICK of me posting about my work with polymer clay so, I thought I'd just go ahead and make a seperate blog. It gives me a chance to learn a new blog service, and when I get into my claying mood I can post ad nauseum!! A little about my clay work: I'm really new, Less than a month in. I got into working with polymer clay when I got some

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