I find those polymer clay beads so beautiful and there is a great tutorial on how to make them ;-)
Have fun swirling :)
Links:
Lentil Swirled Beads
Tag: PolymerClay
Making Hollow Tube Beads from Polymer Clay
Ok, the title isn’t the best ever made, but the bead does look beautiful, doesn’t it? ;-)
I have it on my have-a-go-at-it-list for a long time already but it keeps being pushed down by other projects.
Now I place it back to the top ;-)
Links:
At Polymer Clay Central: Making Hollow Tube Beads
Connie Fox’s Brangles
‘Brangles’ is a made-up word that is put together of ‘Bangle’ and ‘Bracelet’.
That sounds quite dry but fact is, that I find her jewelry her jewelry fantastic and I think it’s great that she published in internet an instruction instruction on how to make such pieces.
Links:
Bangle Bracelet
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive:
Bangle Bracelet
Connie Fox’s Jewelry
Page moved to: Connie Fox’s Jewelry
Polymer Clay Letter Cane
I found a very cute idea at glassattic: letter canes from polymer clay.
Somebody writes there: ‘I made a nice letter cane using the mosaic “pixels” method taught by CityZen Cane…turned out nice!
….tip: wrap the letter itself with a sheet of background color before adding mthe rest of the background color, to avoid “chinks” in letter’s edge’
In other words they worked in a similar way than for the Checkerboard Cane: they rolled out two different coloured sheets from polymer clay, cut them into stripes and put those stripes together to a ‘pixelated’ letter cane.
The letters from the Celtic Cross Stitch Generator could be used as templates.
Or, if you don’t want to make a letter, perhaps my Cross Stitch Heart!? ;-)
I already prepared the first letter of my name, but I won’t have the time to make such a letter cane very soon.
Sigh.
;-)
Links:
Note about letter cane (check at ‘WRAPPED:’ => ‘……Mosaic’)
In the Polymer Clay Cyclopedia: Checkerboard Cane
Here at unikatissima:
Celtic Cross Stitch Generator
Cross Stitch Heart
Jewelry from Wire and Polymer Clay
I found a short but good tutorial on how to make beautiful jewelry from wire and polymer clay.
At the moment I don’t have any jewelry wire at home and I’m not working with polymer clay anymore, but this tutorial made me feel like beginning once more!
Links:
At flickr: Tutorial Wire Work and Polymer Clay (photos only)
Bead-N-Bead
There are those beautiful beads where one bead sits in another and I’m always asking myself how they’re doing them.
Desiree shows us how you can make a bead into a bead with polymer clay – wunderful!
Links:
Bead-N-Bead (Lost Wax) Project
Pillow Beads
I once tried to make such hollow pillow beads, but they collapsed. One day I will try it again, but I think I’ll better make filled beads, they seem to be easier ;-)
Links:
Hollow Beads:
clayfulmingles: Pillow Bead Lesson
Polymer Clay Polyzine: Pillow Beads by Carissa Nichols
Filled Beads:
Polymer Clay Central: Barb’s Pillowbeads
Fire Mountain Gems and Beads: Creating Pillow Beads – scroll down
Google image search result for ‘polymer clay pillow bead’
I made the mosaic with the Mosaic Maker of Big Huge Labs.
The images are:
First row:
Polymer clay Mokume Gane Pillow Beads by Beadazzle Me
Polymer Clay Pillow Beads * Winter Garden by Kellee’s Beaded and Clay…
Second row:
Polymer Clay Grape/Lime Pillow Beads by Beadazzle Me
Polymer Clay Teal Damask Pillow Beads by Beadazzle Me
flickr: search result for ‘pillow beads’
Here at unikatissima: entries with the tag ‘fimo’ – with some of them you can make beautiful pillow beads
Cold Porcelaine
With the recipe for cold porcelaine you can mix an air-drying clay with which you can make jewelry, beads and similar things.
I find air-drying a big advantage against fimo and similar polymer clays which have to be baked. I always need a good ventilation for the baking which I find hard to realize with cold weather.
And you can put the jewelry or the beads i.e. into the advent calendar boxes :)
Links:
Cold Porcelaine
Cold Porcelaine (Porcelaine froide) (French)
Here at unikatissima:
Boxes not only for the advent calendar
Entries with the tag ‘advent calendar’
Entries with the tag ‘fimo’
Entries with the tag ‘polymerclay’
Entries with the tag ‘jewelry’
Entries with the tag ‘beads’
Polymer Clay Faux Ivory
One of the beautiful applications of polymer clay is the imitation of precious materials. Therefore I loved the tutorial on how to make faux ivory.
On the photo you see a pendant with faux ivory I made quite a time ago and I still like the combination of this matte shining black and the pale ivory.
Links:
Polymer Clay Faux Ivory
Bargello
While working with polymer clay I found a tutorial on how-to make items with a Bargello-look.
Then I made a little research to know what Bargello is (links see below):
It seems, that the first ‘Bargello craft’ was embroidery, but then the quilters worked Bargello-looking quilts, the polymer clay people made those items with a Bargello-look and the stampers and cardmaking people use this technique on paper. And I made my Bargello digitally as you can see on the picture ;-)
What a versatile technique ;-)
Links:
Embroidery:
Wikipedia: English entry for ‘Bargello’
How-to make Bargello needlework:
Bargello Work
Bargello needlepoint
Quilting:
How To Make Bargello Quilt
Polymer Clay:
Tutorial on how-to make items with a Bargello-look
Bargello Swap
Tutorial on how to make a Bargello pattern as cane and as sheet
Stamped Paper:
Bargello (English) (with explaining pictures)