Polymeri Online 24.6.14 | Graphic polymer clay bangles, Baby jar village, Grass is greener on the other side, Carving chips, Nail your extruder and Mix and match

Lora & Jan's graphic bangles

Lora strong line of jewellery is the result of her collaboration with her partner Jan. Together they are a Slovenian couple that likes working with polymer clay so much that they decided to share it with the rest of the world.
Their first attempts with polymer clay go way back, but they started working with it seriously on 2011.
Some of their bangles are created in sophisticated techniques such as back filling, you can check it out in her 3D design - http://www.lorasrobas.com/3d-tiles/

Don't miss their Pinterest gallery for more -http://www.pinterest.com/lorasrobas/lorasrobas-jewelry/
http://www.lorasrobas.com

Build your own village with baby food jars

Could you guess what these are made of? Baby food jars!
Not only snow globes can be made from these small jars, we can build a whole new village with it!
Russian artist Toy Belle is taking her jars and building a fun and colourful neighbourhood. You are welcome to see more houses in her blog - http://toy-belle.livejournal.com/
http://polymerclayfimo.livejournal.com/4852296.html

Toy Belle mention Belkomor as her inspiration to the grass technique on her jars.
This is a very time consuming technique but the final result is very impressive.
http://belkomor.livejournal.com/56650.html

Grass mirror/pond/beautiful design
Tutorial included!

The technique class can be found here - http://kopilka.rv.ua/?p=6930

Belkomor's carved chips necklace

Take a look at Belkomor piece posted on April this year. She mention the design was inspired by a colour palette posted from time to time in the Russian group.

The techniques used in the decoration are chips, carving, stamps and tinted wax varnish.

http://belkomor.livejournal.com/70158.html

Use a nail when you need
a hollow extruded bead?

Need hollow extruded beads? 

Don't have the core adaptors? Have you thought about using nails?

Isabel really wanted to create hollow beads for a little flag project but didn't have the extruder core adaptors. I haven't tried this solution but it's worth trying, and it's free!

http://www.tambienbordo.blogspot.com.es/2013/11/intercambio-ape-los-colores-del-otono.html

Thank you the girls from the Israeli forum for this link.

Tampinha's miniature goods

Mix fabric, crochet, metal, findings and clay and what do you get? Super cute miniatures and designs!

Portugal's Tampinha flickr gallery is full of sweetness. 

You can see miniature food with crochet decorations with scarfs and felt. Beautiful colours and combinations.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tampinha/

http://www.tampinha-tampinha.blogspot.co.il

Have a great day and rest of the week!

Polymeri Online 10.2.13 | Tectonic bangles, Filigree patience, Polymer "Valen-Tins", Domed heart pendants and Illuminated smiley purses

Techtonic Polymer Clay

Have you seen Izabela Nowak's latest Tectonic bangles? I was open mouthed! So unique! Izabela is always keeping us intrigued by her beautiful designs and ooak innovations. Don't miss her "tectonic" pendants as well, it's "Earth-Quaking"...

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/izabelanowak/8398187997/in/photostream 

Filigree Polymer Clay Tutorial

Marusic said she promised a master class on making filigree and she is keeping her promises (yay!) tedious - yes, time consuming - yes, but not difficult. All you'll need for this project is clay in two colors, liquid clay, cutting tool (knife, blade, etc.), toothpicks, needle and metal powders (and lot's of spare time!)

http://polymerclayfimo.livejournal.com/1068524.html

Another similar design of this delicate, tiny art form was posted in Sage Bray's blog featuring Olga Shukova. Admirable.

http://www.thepolymerarts.com/blog/intricacy-is-in-the-details/

"Valen-Tins"

MaryAnne posted lovely tin covers especially for Valentines, she calls it "Valen-tins" :) Playing with textures and colors is common in her flickr gallery, Jewelry, journals, beads. don't miss her beautiful looking bracelet

and bangles.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28608662@N04/8444751528/

Valentine's Heart Pendant Tutorial

Here is a fun tutorial by Becky from "PoshPinkGiraffe" for heart pendants for Valentines, using the Mod Podge Dimensional Magic to create a domed effect. This material is definitely worth checking, I'll have to look for it when I am in USA next week.
http://poshpinkgiraffe.blogspot.co.il/2013/02/sweet-heart-polymer-clay-jewelry.html

4 days to my trip and I am finalizing my preparations with one final experiment, a glowing smiley purse (without glow in the dark clay) using translucent clays and tiny illumination. These can be so cool as atmosphere lights, hanging around the house, in case of loss of power (Beware Nemo Blizzard!) or even as Christmas tree ornaments!

Keep your fingers crossed for me that Nemo won't come back....

I am not sure posting in my blog will be possible while I am traveling, so you are welcome to follow me on FaceBook.

See you in another continent!

Polymer clay purses - Brocade Collection - Illuminated

Polymer clay purses - Brocade Collection - Illuminated

Polymer clay purses - Brocade Collection - Illuminated

Polymeri Online 26.11.12 | BW polymer-wood bangle, Reindeer Brooch, Doodling on IPAD, More Synergy surveys and Stay tuned to my next tutorial...

Polymer Clay Bangle by Melody Tallon

Australian artist Melody Tallon posted her black and white polymer clay bracelet using bulzeye canes on a wooden bangle blank.
she used slices of the canes, pushed onto the white surface in organic groupings, then, the whole piece was cured. Later, she used a permanent marker to color the black outlines and made the dalmatian-like spots. Love B&W.
http://www.making-jewelry-now.com/white-barnacles-polymer-clay-bangle.html

Reindeer Brooch by Yoluni

Hitatura is the artist behind "YOLUNI handmade multicolor jewelry" etsy store, She (hope it's a she) is from Japan and loves to create things, polymer clay made and others. There is something about Japanese art that always amazes me with the fresh, light and clean feeling to it.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/YOLUNI

Doodling on your IPAD

Libby posted her list of "Apps for Doodling on an iPad".
I tell you, even though I am not a painter/drawing person myself, they really seems appealing!!!
http://libzoid.net/2012/10/24/apps-for-doodling-on-the-ipad/

Anke Humpert is collecting data for her Synergy presentation, you probably noticed several surveys collecting important polymer fact, news and data to be presented on Synergy.
Her subject is "European Polymer Clay scenes".
Would appreciate your assistance! Thank you!
http://www.anke-humpert.de/4synergy3.html

Soon...My New Tutorial

I am in my final stages of finishing my new tutorial, 15+ projects, 14 videos and infinite working hours :) Stay tuned, or join the guessing game in my Facebook :)

Polymeri Online 14.3.12 | Dots and circles, Manicotti beads, Jungle bangle and Little red riding hood necklace

Nataliya Solonchuk's tiny dots and circles are so sweet and naive, she is all into small microscopic details that makes a larger design. She recently joined Flickr so I am guessing her photo stream will be soon filled with more goodies.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/natashka_ribkin/6835467996/in/photostream

MaryAnne treats her jewelry designs as if they are canvas and paints. The richness in details is wonderful. I loved her journal covers, and take a look at her "Manicotti" beads! a piece of art!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28608662@N04/6214124046/

MariaEva - Niná Ramos is in her personal imaginary zoo - blue and purple leopards are a part of her jewelry line! Jungle-Bangle!

She is from Venezuela, her daughter gave her clay and materials for Christmas, her brother sent her books and that was a start of a great journey!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninanefertiti77/sets/72157628041520485/

Filoecoloridiila from Italy creates whimsical costume jewelry, full of color, irony and craziness here and there and uses resin, polymer clay, pannolenci, felt and upcycled materials to create unique and often one-ok-a kind accessories.

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

Get ready, tomorrow I am posting a new guessing game for my upcoming tutorial, this time I promise - no tiny photos! See you soon :)

Polymeri Online 18.11.10

Look at this! it's so cool! This artist, Jen Dott made this box as his first attempt at making a box out of polymer clay. He made a tissue box where you have to pull the tissue out of the nostril!

http://polytalk.blogspot.com/2010/11/polymer-clay-tissue-box-by-jen-dott.html

http://artbistro.monster.com/albums/97177-polymer-clay-boxes

These christmas ornaments made me smile, the cute animals on the glass are a wonderful! Doreen Kassel creates her quirky creatures in her NJ studio. She crafts each one out of polymer, and her images have been used for books, magazines, toys, puzzles, greeting cards, Christmas ornaments & textiles. Her Etsy store is full of goodies.

http://www.doreenkassel.com

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

Garden4arts has some wonderful cake toppers in her etsy store, she (i guess) has learned painting and art crafts making since her childhood and consider art a major part of her past, present and future.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Garden4Arts?ref=seller_info

Claire Wallis galaxy bangles makes me want to go out and look at the stars... made of polymer clay over a scrap clay armature, backfilled, sanded and buffed.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51136446@N06/5079930647/

http://www.artmajeur.com/cwart/

At first they looked like pills to me, so original! NiQui's art has a unique design, each has it's own charm. i especially liked her a-symmetric necklaces.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38795758@N06/3586603818/in/set-72157619105416610/

http://en.dawanda.com/user/NiQui

http://www.niqui.web-log.nl/

Polymeri Online 23.5.09

It's saturday today and i am breathing a bit, had to post my polymeri weekly list before i fly (not sure i can do it next week!)

MaryLClayPainting / Mary is making 'paintings' from clay. each clay 'painting' is made of 100% Polymer Clay, her 'Canvas' is Premo polymer clay (selected for its stiffer qualities) and her 'paints' are the softer, buttery clays of Sculpey III and Fimo soft. she has written a tutorial explaining the process that can be see on Polymer Clay Central. read more about her in her flickr profile...
her etsy shop 'Wonderful Wire'

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6592108

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marylclaypainting/collections/72157606719504258/

Chama Navarro from spain (which i am going to meet in UK), she has a cool and simple project for some paper clips and pen holders, there is a youtube film in her site to show it all, and the spanish sounds to me like a song (even though i can't understand a word!) :)http://chamanavarro.blogspot.com/2009/05/utilisima-bien-simple-conjunto-de.html

Kerryn Jean Online is a sculpturer from Australia, she sculpts doll, animals, fantasy creatures, wish there was more info about her and her work in her site.
http://kerrynjeanonline.com.au/

Stephanie Scheetz published a nice tutorial in CRAFT blog for paper beads that can be easily adopted into polymer clay too! a paper clip bangle using safety pins - try it!http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/05/how-to_paper_bead_bangle.html?CMP=OTC-5JF307375954