Polymeri Online 15.7.12 | "Not for the serious" jewelry, Simple truths pendants, Millefiori house cane tutorial, Crochet cabochon and my new rug in process

Polymer clay "Flip my pages, Honey" Bookmark

Nelli Kivinen from Helsinki Finland says her jewelry are for the not so serious people, she creates a world of cute polymer clay animals - penguins, bears and other adorable animal earrings, she is also working with recycled paper.
Take a look at her polymer clay bookmark in a speech bubble comic geek text - "Flip my pages, Honey!"
http://www.etsy.com/shop/NellinShoppi

Polymer clay "Make a wish" pendants 

TesoriTrovati is the creator of "Simple truths" - pendants and charms carrying an inspiration message or an image. Something to think about when wearing.
I love inspirational quotes, they are all so touching and true :)
http://www.treasures-found.blogspot.co.il/p/simple-truths.html
You can see her process - working with white clay and painting with alcohol inks -
http://www.treasures-found.blogspot.co.il/2012/07/simple-truths-celebration.html
and her Flickr gallery - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tesoritrovatijewelry/

Polymer clay millefiori house cane tutorial 

This website was spotted at the Israeli guild website - A fun colorful and abstract house millefiori cane tutorial made into a beautiful bangle and pendant -
http://www.livemaster.ru/topic/93495-sostavlenie-risunka-iz-polimernoj-gliny?msec=1?

Polymer clay crochet pendants

Crochet cabochon in polymer! Pilar created a wonderful design using extruded strands wrapped around a polymer clay millefiori bead, how lovely!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amatista/7378880288/

My crochet "sheet" rug

Speaking of crochet, I took several days off polymer to create a crocheted rug using old colorful bed sheets of mine, it's a fun project and everyone in the house is complaining about the noise I am making when tearing off the sheets into strands. These strands are connected into a big "sheet-yarn" ball and crocheted like regular yarn. I will keep you updated on my final project when I am finished.

Have a great week!

Polymeri Online 24.4.12 | Polymer knitted kitty, Millefiori owl & peony canes tutorials and Faux vinyl flower

Danielle Hof originally from Switzerland, now in the Netherlands shared with us the process of creating her millefiori owl cane.
She is working at a laboratory, both working in clinical diagnostics and doing research on blood tests and on her free time she enjoy making jewelry made of polymer clay.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fimoli/5173799097/

Take a look at the next creation by Enchantress from Moscow, Russia. Isn't this amazing?
As a child she loved to sew and knit, it was the same as modeling,
only patches and threads. She secretly dragged from her mother's drawer needles, lace, crochet hooks, and all of those quietly moved to her room.
In her recent creation, she made this amazing kitty, it is 49 mm, not an ounce of textiles and paints, polymer clay only. No stamps, too, only 100 meters of different "plastic yarn" with a thickness of 0.1-0.2 mm.
http://polymerclayfimo.livejournal.com/4218553.html

Here is a video peek to see the kitty closely -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XDjIJrlDQWw


Another short flickr tutorial is by Carole B "CeeEee" on her creation of a polymer clay peony millefiori cane. Millefiori is probably her favorite technique, lot's of millefiori creations in her photo stream. You can find the packing of the cane in one of the links and the final cane after reduction on the second link.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64384664@N00/1696388627/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64384664@N00/584339963/in/photostream

A simple and easy new tutorial by Kael - this time it's a faux vinyl flower pendant. The flowers were inspired by a pair of black vinyl sandals that she purchased a couple of weeks ago. Kael was mentioned in PolymeriOnline blog before, with more of her tutorials. You can check them out here and here.
http://www.kaelmijoy.blogspot.com/2012/04/polymer-clay-tutorial-vinyl-flower.html?m=1

Polymeri Online 28.12.11 | Irregular polymer earrings, Particles necklace, Nuna the cat and Naive jewelry

Jillian Moore designs has special irregular amorphous shapes, earrings, beads, brooches, no standard beads and jewelry in her gallery, she works with polymer clay, resin, paints and sometimes foam to build her ooak designs.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jillian_moore/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/phlaznatch

Veruschka is the artist behind Veru Designs polymer clay jewelry, There is a very unique story that precedes the birth of every necklace, bracelet or ring which determines its shape, size, coloring and meaning. According to her, In the necklace shown here, it's "the beauty of tiny creatures in the microscopic universe: particles, bacteria, viruses, etc. Each of the five "bulbs" in this necklace are inspired by a handful of these strangely creatures, in an effort to make this invisible world visible to the human eye".

http://www.flickr.com/photos/veebeads/4746461581/in/set-72157623921674160/

http://verudesigns.com/

Kathy De WitSint-Pauwels from Belgium is an illustrator, designer and dreamer lives in a little village in the northern part of Belgium. NUNA was born out of polymer clay and hand painted with acrylics. I admire such kind of painting, it's amazing how many details in such a small piece!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/88969680/nuna-brooch

http://www.flickr.com/photos/_eldibujodelgato/

Matilda Broz is from Stockholm, but living in sunny Montenegro, like many of the artists she got an university degree in another field (law), but upon realizing that law is not for her she dedicate her energy to design. She works as a graphic designer in an advertising company, but in her spare time she plays with fimo and wire. Her Etsy and Flickr are full of hand painted delights, cute designs that reminds me children books. I loved her birds studs!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/matildabroz/6573966259/in/contacts/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Ribizla

Hope you're having a wonderful holiday!

Polymeri Online 23.9.11 | Millefiori sandals, Radial pendant, Polymer gaz pump and Angry bird tutorial

Maria Ivanova (vokade) has posted a cool pair of sandals with polymer clay canes decorating it. Maria was featured in PolymeriOnline several months ago with her beautiful pendants. Don't you find these sandals creative? last days of summer to try your own!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vokade/6169460783/in/photostream

Wolfschmuch latest designs of pendants are radial and rounded, carving, mokume, layering. Her carved pendant shown in this photo, used with black acrylic (I believe so) is so unique and somewhat hypnotizing?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfschmuck/6119498335/

Nicolas (ANVRecife) is a designer who loves photography. This passion became more intense when he started working with design and Graphic Design many years ago. My eye caught his polymer clay gaz pump, making me take a 2nd look.

the little pump nozzle is about 2 inches long and all made of polymer clay, same for the question mark. not of the ordinary - isn't it?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anvrecife/6068924283/

Tracy Rogers from "Cremedelagems" blog posted a super cute angry bird magnet tutorial. Tracy is a jewelry designer. Business owner & a blogger with lot's of goodies in her blog.

http://cremedelagems.blogspot.com/2011/08/angry-bird-tutorial-polymer-clay.html

check out her other polymer clay tutorials (click the tag below the post)

And also in my blog post - a FULL FREE how-to video for creating these cute creatures
http://polymerionline.blogspot.com/2013/02/polymer-clay-angry-birds-how-to-video.html

And a minute before we celebrate "Rosh Hashana" which is the jewish new year, I wish you all a sweet as honey year with nothing but good health and happy days! "Shana Tova Ve'Metuka"! :)

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"ThatBluCat" is the artist behind these wonderful shawl pins, the special structure, form and colors, you can almost feel the texture! don't forget to check out her beautiful bracelets.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/thatBluCat?ref=pr_shop

Another amazing jewel purse by Tanja using my "Brocade Collection" tutorial, Tanja is taking this tutorial to her own unique style with carving, bats and skulls - love it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sturi/5653752404/in/photostream

Olga's flickr gallery is full of graphic designs using polymer clay: stripes, curls, dots, retros & skinner blends over one shaded clay sheets - a celebration of colors.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/disenyarte/5449600992/in/photostream

Croatia polymer clay artist - Sandrarts creates these colorful one of a kind polymer clay jewelry, buttons and miniatures - small street pendants, a vegetable necklace - so beautiful!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/SandrArts?ref=seller_info

p.s. - PolymeriOnline blog is mentioning 601 posts! thank you all for being part of it :)

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Marmelinhas / Ana Kuhnen gallery is full of yummies and cuties! miniature food, figurines, animals clay toys - all made with colorful clay and put a big smile on my face!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marmelinhas/

http://www.marmelinhas.com.br/

Don't miss her YouTube channel for more inspiration and instructions how-to's, it's in Portuguese but it's worth it!

http://www.youtube.com/user/marmelinhasoficial

Rebekah Payne is a self taught artist. works mainly with polymer clay creating handcrafted

pendant necklaces, beaded bracelets, earrings with sculpted dragons, romantic winged hearts, skeleton keys, rustic trees, horses...and much more.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/TreeWingsStudio

Blog - http://www.treewingsstudio.com/

Winter is slowly leaving my country but it's always great to see a scarf decoration made of polymer clay, I love scarves, especially fabric ones.

Ilenia Moreni from Italy made a polymer clay scarf "buckle" to wrap her scarf in it, made with coiled polymer clay and a bit of antiquing if i can guess correctly.

http://leggendesegrete.blogspot.com/2011/02/scarf-buckles.html

more in her facebook page

Mommaschickens was born because of Helen's 4yr olds love of her cuddly toy chicken - Mommas chickens are hand-made figurine chickens made with Fimo, each chicken takes around two hours to complete and, because they are hand-made, each is unique

and slightly different.

Read about their story in their "about" section, it's pretty cool!

http://www.mommaschickens.com/index.asp

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59318343@N05/

have a great weekend! :)

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Celine makes adorable decor made entirely of polymer clay, she is also into mosaics, she loves creating using various materials, and the final piece is a wonderful mix media jewel.

http://celinemosaik.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/celinemosaik/5107340756/

chickiegirlcreations / Janet specializes in unique handmade accessories, currently focusing on hairsticks and polymer clay jewelry, i loved her pendant line!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8823440@N07/sets/72157610979085920/

http://chickiegirlcreations.blogspot.com/

fliepsiebieps1 / Esther has been creating all sorts of figures (a lot of penguins!) and slowly started doing more and more custom wedding cake toppers. Her toppers travel all over the world :) they are sooo cute!

http://www.fliepsiebieps.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fliepsiebieps/

Martina Mahdavi from Austria, has a wonderful tutorial for an origami ship! so cool! follow the photos for each step, you can move to the next/previous photo by clicking the arrows on the right side of the flickr page.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinamahdavi/4327699627/

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Sorry for the delay posting, i was a bit sick with a flu, feeling much better today!

I found Mellisa Hanmer beaded necklace with a polymer clay pendant and underlying thread inlay. she consider creating her form of meditation (i couldn't agree more) and after working in seed beads she started with polymer clay too.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37873936@N05/

You can see more of her work in her Etsy store

http://www.etsy.com/shop/melsartbuffet

Italian artist Miriam is inspired by all form of creating - knitting, crocheting, sewing, decoupage and many more. She mostly make cake toppers according to her flickr but you can find other cuties as well - especially this heart!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirietta77/4699514298/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirietta77/

Looking for creative ideas for your next jewelry display?

This one by wegart from Czech Republic, is made from a box wrapped in cross stitch fabric, red rope, wooden pegs and grill scewers. Additional sign "hand made" is cross-stitched and framed. great to hang your earings and necklaces!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wegart/3596188162/in/set-72157605825457061/

and you can find some polymer clay art in her Etsy too -

http://www.etsy.com/shop/weggart

and last - Here is a simple tutorial for making a quick cookie cutter from a can, just bend the sides and you can have a flower, i don't know how easy it is to remove the clay from the "cutter" but it may be useful to you

http://www.instructables.com/id/Quick-And-Simple-FlowerClover-Cookie-Cutter-From-/

or another tutorial from a Soda can

http://www.instructables.com/id/Dog-Biscuit-cookie-Cutter-from-soda-can/

Polymeri Online 18.3.10

I am so busy with Passover holiday preperations, making more items for my craft fairs, i was planning on extending my PolyPedia resources and it's still in my chore list... meanwhile here are some nice links for the weekend -

Trendy retro bracelet and necklace by Madreselva61 / Silvia Ortiz de la Torre from Spain - they are so stylish and colorful!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46799817@N07/4440673207/

BUZ Handmade / Alessio Busanca is an illustrator, cartoonist and graphic freelance. In addition to the design she devotes herself to the handmade, since 2009. She uses only FIMO soft. Her favorite subjects are the little animals, and lately dedicating the manufacturing of miniature more realistic dollshouse and Roombox.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arteebijoux/

Eugena's new jewelry line design includes pendants with intricate scroll-work design, sterling silver bezels, and glass-like surface, aren't they so elegant?
http://eugenascreations.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-2010-line-i-am-working-on-new-line.html

Iain Reekie is "Number 28", from the UK and do wonders with painting, photographing and sculprutings. He uses Super Sculpey and his figures have his own unique style of work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31439631@N04/
http://www.iainreekie.co.uk/

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LizardsJewelry / Liz Hall is a silver and polymer clay artist, she combine them both into beautiful jewelry pieces, her designs are both organic and geometric forms, usually with colorful stones, glass or found materials. The majority of her pieces are pendants, necklaces and earrings. more about her in her etsy store profile.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizardsjewelry/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=29276

Doubleparlour is an art collaboration between Ernie and Cassandra Velasco. Both are artists who like to explore a variety of subject matters with different mediums. Some works are done as a joint effort and others are solo works. Current work includes drawings, prints, paintings and polymer clay sculptures.
http://doubleparlour.etsy.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doubleparlour/

Toni Ransfield from NZ sponsored a Fimo Nail Competition for nails decoration, the competitors used her beautiful canes to design a winning nail design, choice was hard but the finalists were so colorful! Winning design was from New Zealand! Just thinking of these long nails, must be very hard to work at home or even clay with those long ones! but on the otherside, let's give DH do some house chores :)
http://www.nailtips.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2954
Toni's link to her store is http://toninz.mybisi.com/

One of my hobbies over the years was balloon sculpturing, i was hooked by that fast and colorful art of twisting balloons and making a beautiful piece out of it, i bought books and magazines and had a great time! and look what i found - a balloon dog pendant by roscata, she is a biologist, chonchologist, mesmerized by miniatures, and curiosities accumulator extraordinaire - this cutie brings me back to those balloons i love!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31281455

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Carrie Goller is using a variety of medias, this keeps her endlessly inspired — oil, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, mixed media and encaustic — the ancient process of melting, applying, then fusing beeswax. Goller is currently enjoying exploring a new media -- figurative sculpture with polymer clay too.
http://www.carriegoller.com/carrie_about.htm
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5706223

Polpette Clay - is creating Handcrafted polymer clay creations, she is currently enjoying her time chasing two little guys around the house. her older son loves working with polymer clay, as she does, so they have lots of fun cooking up new ideas together. Most of her creative energy is focused on chalkboards and polymer clay at the moment.
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5150803

Some cool tutorials from polymer clay italia blog, a cute figurine -http://polymerclayitalia.blogspot.com/2008/04/tutorial-signorinelle-di-diana-crialesi.html
and a wire frame for pendants!
http://polymerclayitalia.blogspot.com/2008/02/tutorial-cernit-in-cornice-di-marina.html

It's all about what you hold on your key chain! cute and funny holders, faces, skulls, makes me smile!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/keykritters/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7509761

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Alice Stroppel is a polymer clay person. she enjoys working with the clay, the colors and the challenge, she recently retired and now have time to really work with polymer, She is also a part of PCAGOE guild.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alicestroppel/
http://alicestroppel.wordpress.com/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6806730

Tanya's Pendants-Flowers are so colorful! makes the spring look better!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanya-belle/3508069780/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37919061@N03/
Tanya is also making polymer clay buttons, she is from Ukraine.

Dorit is 34 years old, living in Copenhagen, Denmark With her husband and two children, The polymer clay is her main occupation in her daily life, she loves the possibility to work in various techniques that can be used in this media, because of the renewal and elation feeling. She was introduced to the material for the first time at her cousins “bridal party” three years ago and it was like obvious magical matching for me.
http://www.doritart.dk/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doritart/

Look at this Mermaid cane! by Zoeowyn / Laura M
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23398795@N07/sets/72157604115319627/
and don't miss her clay bra!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23398795@N07/3461979121/

Hamsa and matryoshka? Dafi from "Mastikim" Blog (which means bubblegum) made a beautiful job combining those two together which resulted - "Hamsitryoshka" :)http://mastikim.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post_28.html

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A great project by Zu - covering altoid tin with polymer clay
http://zuclay.blogspot.com/2009/04/covering-altoid-tin-with-polymer-clay.html

Tilov (boris and dinko) etsy store makes me want to learn Chess! my husband is asking me to make him a chess set for about 5 years now, well, i think i will send him tilov link, maybe he will buy himself a real fancy one!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7458262
and his blog -
http://mythcritters.blogspot.com/

Israeli Independence day is coming soon, blue and white is our color - this site has some nice projects for sugerpaste or other clays but you can surely use it for polymer clay as well.
http://www.kesem.biz/Article.aspx?ID=192

and talented Tal's tzafrir project for a girl holding a flag (hebrew but follow the pictures) -

http://www.amosisrael.co.il/Site/he/pages/inPage.asp?catID=6&subID=37&sub2ID=44&sub3ID=424&docID=4726

Lisa Pavelka has a new Faux Dichroic Pendant Necklace project - and it's on friskar's crafts tv!
http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tv/

For those of us who needs business tips - here's a great blog (and article) of how to price a product.
http://www.sparkplugging.com/craft-boom/craft-fairs-how-to-price-profit-part-1/