Polymeri Online 7.2.12 | Curly lady, Carving leaves, Lizard hearts, Polymer angels and Purple millefiori cane tutorial

Marie Guiderdoni is a talented mix media artist, she is combining many materials in her work - acrylic paint, encaustic paint, oil pastels, stencils, etc...

This doll is made of scrap clay and she's wonderful! I love her hair ;)

http://mariesel.canalblog.com/

http://www.mariesel.com/

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

Take a look at Maya's oak leaves stamps, she is tracing her favorite leaves and using Staedtler's Mastercarve block (never tried it!)

You can also see a video here on how to work with it. The video is taken from ElvieStudio YouTube channel.

http://mayamade.blogspot.com/2011/11/oak-stamps.html

Mr. Jan Montarsi is into lizard-mania these days, he found polymer clay on 2008 when he was looking for a hobby that he could do in the cold ohio winter inside the house vs. doing stained glass in his garage! He do not tend to produce quantity but strive for a professional quality. His heart is just in time for Valentine.

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

Kamino is a multi talent artist from Poland, working with fimo, porcelain, salt mass and other materials to create jewelry and cute looking fairies and angels. A lot of nice creations can be found in her blog as well as in Picasa.

https://picasaweb.google.com/Kamino70/AnioKiMasaSolna#

http://kamino70.blogspot.com/

Kael Mijoy who was featured in July's post has another millefiori cane tutorial at her website - this time it's a purple flower

http://kaelmijoy.blogspot.com/2011/11/polymer-clay-tutorial-purple-flower.html

How a trip to the gardening nursery gave birth to 14 new canes

The Enchanted Garden project was born after a visit to a gardening nursery.

My friend was celebrating her birthday and when I asked her what is her preferred gift, she said - "buy me a nice plant for my living room, something to grow indoors".

While looking around for the right plant, I noticed one special plant with unusual leaf shape and pattern. This leaf almost looked like plastic! I couldn't believe such a plant is real, so I asked the salesman and he told me it's name was "Maranta", "Red Maranta" plant.

That sparkled an idea in my mind -

I'll create a special tutorial for unique, fantasy leaves canes!

I started a quest in search for exotic flowers and leaves, transforming them to polymer clay canes.

Advanced, sophisticated, un-usual, imaginary designs with surprising colors you won't see in nature.

When I sat at my clay table, I started with the traditional "greens" and slowly found myself "wandering" towards vibrant colors and "delicious" patterns. Planning is one thing and muse is a whole different matter.

All these fun experiments produced 14 quality classes for creating magical leaf canes.

After creating several leaves, I started playing with them, shaping them into flowers and they looked beautiful! Leaves that turn into petals that turn into flowers!

Create one cane - get 3 options! Leaves, petals & flowers!

In this new set of tutorials, there are no traditional everyday flowers!

In the "Enchanted Garden" you will discover imaginary, marvelous canes that will spark your inspiration and give you endless new ideas for your next designs and polymer clay projects.

Click here to read (and see) more

P.S - There is a great holiday giveaway as well!!

4th in the autumn leaves pcagoe challenge!

ya! my ring came 4th in the autumn leaves pcagoe challenge! that was fun!

don't forget, this ring is given as a gift to my next Etsy buyer - it's a gift for MY 37th birthday which was on November 3rd!

Thank you all voters!

http://pcagoe.com/2008/11/05/autumn-leaves-challenge-winners/

PCAGOE monthly challenge

It’s time for the PCAGOE monthly challenge. The November theme is Autumn Leaves!

When you vote for your favorite entry, you’ll automatically be entered in a random drawing to win one of two prize packs! don't miss!

http://pcagoe.com/2008/11/01/autumn-leaves-challenge-vote-here

thanks!

PCAGOE November Challenge - Autumn Leaves

My Entry to the http://www.pcagoe.com/ November Challenge is a leaf ring, a bouquet of leaves shaded green , gold and gold leaf, with some millefiori leaves, they were inserted into polymer clay using a thin wire. It's base is a copper ring.
it's a big ring but no one can miss it :)

Vote for your favorite at http://www.pcagoe.com/ from Nov 1 to Nov 3rd (my birthday, by the way)
All voters are entered to win free prizes!

oh, and another thing, i am giving this ring as a gift (for my birthday) to the next buyer from my etsy store!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16644998

Thank you!