With inspiration from Christi Friesen, again, and finding a cool drawing of a fish that I liked, I designed this little guy! He isn’t very colorful, just two toned, but effective, I think. Next I will go more colorful ala CF style! I call him Smiley!! He has a peaceful little turned up mouth. Goin’ with the flow of life! Merrily in the stream.
I think this is utter genius! A fellow ‘clayer’ has figured out a way to make canes (ex. flowers) without using translucent in between the petals. The video is a bit longer than need be, but worth watching.
Did YOU know that Play-Doh is water soluable? I guess that is why kids are allowed to play with it, yeah?? and it’s probably edible too, but don’t want to try that!
The video is at the bottom of the page: Easy Cane reduction using Play-Doh
Lisa Pavelca sutton slice on tin lid
There is an example of a Sutton Slice used on top of a tin.
But Look here at this example. Makes me want to go out and buy some deep stamps http://julieeakes.blogspot.com/2009/04/sutton-slice.html
Here is a link to the lesson from Lisa Pavelka . http://www.hgtv.com/crafting/polymer-clay-business-card-holder/index.html
Here is where to order her deep stamps http://www.lisapavelka.com/Texture-Stamps.asp
As inspired by Christi Friesen and her book on birds etc. This is my first finished feather… well not my FIRST feather. As I was in the middle of listening rather than paying attention to what I was doing…. I originally started making the lines on the feather STRAIGHT across… not diagonal. It started looking odd, so I finally stopped and looked again at the directions!! THEN I balled up the clay and started over. I am very happy with this as a first attempt. I’ve had a lot of compliments. I used a couple goldtone powders on it before baking…to give it a metal look. It is hung from a pin/bail on a golden tone round choker.
The one thing I was not able to do (as described in the directions) was to make the center ’spine’ the way Christie did, with just a tool. So instead, I (and all of us attending) decided to make a ’snake’ of clay with a thin end and a thick end, adding it before we baked….. Hopefully, I can find a proper ‘tool’ to try it with soon! The next pic is the second feather I made, along with some tiny earring feathers. Here is a link to Christie Friesen’s site. Well worth looking around. http://www.cforiginals.net/
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