Polymeri Online 10.11.14 | 3D polymer illusions, Ziggy the whimsical mask, Free geometric jewellery patterns, Find your findings, Miniatures stories and Animal charms donation

3D polymer clay bracelet by Tanya

Take a look at Tanya’s 3D bracelet. Looks like the shapes are popping out – right?

Tanya Mayorov is playing with shapes, textures, colors, illusions and creating big beads, small beads, big bracelets, small mosaics, all in vibrant, heavy beautiful antiqued techniques. Her colors are dark and earthy. Love it. 

http://polymerclayfimo.livejournal.com/4803575.html

Don’t miss her gallery on livemaster site –

http://www.livemaster.ru/tattta

Wonderful necklaces patterns
for your polymer clay designs

Geometric jewelry patterns are a great option when you’re out of ideas for a pendant or necklace designs. Circles, triangles, squares, pentagons and other shapes can easily and beautifully create a harmonic design.

Kokolat blog posted several options for you to try. Just print and trace!

http://kokolat.canalblog.com/archives/2014/08/03/30346667.html

Wendy's Wall hangings masks

Masks! A bit late for Halloween but these masks will inspire you to use yours as wall hangings.

Ziggy, Joy, Bali and Forrest are all mysterious creatures with a face, expression and a lot of humor. 

Wendy Sollod has been working with polymer clay since 1993. She is a self-taught artist, she combines her delicate patterns of polymer clay into whimsical riots of color- masks, sculptures and wearable art that are each as vibrant and individual as the customers who collect them.

http://fixationsart.com/portfolio-masks.html

Belkomor hollow polymer clay end caps

Belkomor, already featured several times in this blog, posted several of her recent designs including ink stamping; carving and creating gradient chip beads. Her inspiration for this piece was paper.
Note the hollow cone (end cap) at the end of her necklace, which she created herself. That can be an option when you are looking for matching “findings” and cannot “find” it.

http://polymerclayfimo.livejournal.com/4833035.html

Kseniya's animal kingdom

Kseniya Dolgopolova’s art room is full of fairytales and animals.

Each pendant/brooch of hers is a full story in miniature dimensions. 

Note the small details, every little thing is being planned carefully into a perfect creations.

She is a “frequent poster" in the LiveJournal forum, which is great because we can enjoy more of her creations and her previous feature was her turtle pendant.

http://ksenia-artroom.livejournal.com

http://polymerclayfimo.livejournal.com/4824759.html

http://polymerclayfimo.livejournal.com/4830022.html

http://polymerclayfimo.livejournal.com/4823039.html

http://polymerclayfimo.livejournal.com/4820840.html

polymer clay animal charms
donation to 269life sanctuary farm

I have been playing with some of my old designs. A sanctuary farm in my town organised a fair to raise money to help rescued farm animals. They are just starting their way and already have young cows, hens and baby lamb. 

It's amazing how friendly, peaceful and kind these creatures are. 

In all my 40 years (43 but not counting) I've never seen them so close.

To help raise money I've donated charms, keychains and pins.

They are a similar version to a set I made a year ago to a theatre show finale. Here is a video showing how I made them last time.

In every day that goes by I feel obliged to do something so the world will be a better place for us, for the animals; dog, pig or cow they all deserve respect as living beings.

polymer clay animal charms
donation to 269life sanctuary farm

In the next couple of weeks, I will be donating 10% of my site sales to the 269life farm. If you're interested in helping you're welcome aboard.

http://www.polypediaonlineexpress.com

See you soon!

Polymeri Online 8.1.14 | Polymer clay stamped, carved, painted, textured beads, Ron's heart canes hearts, Ahlam's Saudi Arabia clay cakes and my granny project update

Apologising for my long absence. My dear 84 yrs grandmother suffered falling and broke her hip bone. Now that surgery is behind her and thank god all is well, my mind is more relaxed.
Please take extra care of yourself, especially now when it's so cold and slippery outside....These unexpected accidents are never welcome in anyone's home...

Lorraine's beads

Lorraine Vogel is an artist creating beautifully made polymer clay beads - pendants, earrings, stamped, carved and painted in an elegant, organic and peaceful colours & patterns. With background as a graphic designer, her inspiration is the tropical nature of south florida.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/WiredOrchidJewelry
https://www.etsy.com/shop/lovobeads
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiredorchid/10300613764/

Elena's beads

Another beads artist, Elena Fadeeva from Belarus is the designer behind Swirlbeads selling "rustic", ethnic, almost metal-like beads and jewellery. In her collection you can find unique beads and jewellery - hollow, antiqued, patinated, ethnic, textured and really beautiful. These beads are sold in her Etsy store and featured in her Flickr gallery.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/SwirlBead
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76425695@N02/10448856613/in/pool-justbeads/

Ron's hearts

Ron Lehocky, the "Heart Pins" Doctor posted lovely photos of his recent hearts using the new CZ extruder heart disc.
He was sharing with us his frustrating (past) attempts where he wanted to create heart canes for Valentine's Day themed pins and the canes were not reducing accurate enough. Now he says that the canes are beautifully made and no more frustrations or disappointments, BUT! when he takes the long extrusions out from the extruder, trying to straighten them out, some of it break due to dry clay.
One of the commenters on his Facebook post was Jan Mortansi suggesting a solution - She suggested to load the extruder, place it on top of a hot lidded bowl of water, allowing the steams heat the extruder content, cover with a towel and then the clay will be soft and pliable after extruding it. Sounds interesting!
You can link to Ron's FB here
https://www.facebook.com/ron.lee.louisville
Or visit Jan's FB - https://www.facebook.com/jan.montarsi
If you're interested in one of Ron's hearts, aiding children from the Kids Center for Paediatric Therapies click here and your purchase amount will be donated -
http://www.kidscenterky.org/HowToHelp/

Ahlam's beautiful clay cakes

The love to polymer clay crosses borders and continents.
One of the biggest Instagram accounts in the arab world belongs to Ahlam Alnajdi, a woman from Saudi Arabia - a clay artist with more than 1 million followers.
She is entirley self taught and creates small life like sculptures made of clay (I think it's polymer!), particularly food (mostly cakes). With 2 written books in her resume, she is enjoying the popularity of her designs in Saudi Arabia and moving forward with her passion!
http://instagram.com/ahlamalnajdi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-25261427


Want to see how I progressed with my granny square project? (rhetorical question, you'll have to see it ;)
97 squares ready, now being surrounded with black border and then connected together!
(most of it finished at the hospital while nursing my grandmother, granny project with my granny, if it wasn't sad it was funny...

Wishing you all a warm, safe and creative week!

"Beauty in Bitterness" featuring Jean Nordmann and his lovely polymer clay creations

The polymer clay community helped the ones in need so many times since I became a polymer clay artist : Wendy Moore and Cynthia Tinapple's aid to the Nepalis women, Ron Lehocky medical kids center project, Melanie Muir recent donation for women organization and more charity donations that sometimes we are not aware of.

In this spirit, of assistance, compassion and desire to help the ones less fortunate, I want to introduce you to a very special person, a dear friend that I met via the internet a while ago while chatting polymer clay language.

His name is Jean Nordmann, and he loves art, fimo, creativity and most of all - to help people.

After a career in neurobiology Jean Nordmann decided to leave his research institute at the age of 44 and devote himself to humanitarian work.

Jean, Melanie Muir and myself at Switzerland

For more than 20 years he worked as a delegate and head of mission for the International Commitee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and various nongovernment organizations, stationed in African countries (Republic of Guinea, Congo, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Somalia, Sudan, Chad, Central African Republic), in Papua (Papua, West Papua, Indonesia), Afghanistan und Ex-Yugoslavia.

A Nikon camera accompanied him on his missions, which Nordmann used to portray his closest colleagues and the people around him, capturing their seemingly unspectacular everyday life, which after taking a second glance- reveal very normal madness as regulated extreme situations.

About a year ago he had an exhibition called "Beauty in Bitterness" which focused on this Janus-faced phenomenon, these moments of light heartedness in times of despair, which Nordmann came across again and again on his missions and which is the common bond in all the various situations, ethnic groups and countries portrayed. The twinkling moments of beauty within all the bitterness of war and its contradictions. Curator was Alexandra Staheli.

The aim of the exhibition and of his photo book is to raise money to assist a school for AIDS orphans in the Republic of Central Africa.
Nordmann travels to Central Africa on a regular basis and brings directly the funds to the school where it is used to build and improve the classrooms, the kitchen, the dormitories, the well etc. and to purchase school material.
These people are going through such difficult life, it is beyond perception or logic.

As a polymer clay enthusiast he loves to work with polymer clay and teach children of all ages how to work with it.
In his trips he takes several packages of clay and plays with the children and with fimo in the middle of Africa, where there is no TV, internet or commercials, making canes, animals and giving these children a moment of Joy.

To raise money Jean is selling a unique line of wall puzzle magnets, a beautiful idea for a clever game anyone can play with kids or... adults! :)
His dream was to sell polymer clay work and give that money to the school, but as you all probably know that isn't an easy task.

His puzzles (12x12cm) are created with a specific design whether it is an animal, figure or other, drawing a draft on paper to fit each of the 9 parts and then creating them one by one using polymer clay.
After the tiles are cured he is gluing them on wood and each tile is glued to a magnet.
Isn't that wonderful?
Wouldn't you agree that this is an amazing gift?

For the complete collection of Jean's puzzle magnets you are welcome to visit this gallery -
https://picasaweb.google.com/nordmannjj/PuzzlesAvecAimantWithMagnetMitMagnetJeanNordmann2012?authkey=Gv1sRgCPrRra6Ou6CJowE

The owl puzzle was given at the raffle on our Switzerland event. I am not sure who was the fortunate winner but it is simply wonderful.

If you are interested in sending Jean's school a donation, or purchasing one of his puzzles (if still on stock), please contact him at nordmannjj{at}yahoo.fr and I am sure he will be happy to hear from you and chat a bit.

We take our life too much for granted, that was my first thought after browsing his book. I thank god or all the high powers for giving me everything I have. It is not always obvious.

Thank you for being here with me :)
Iris.