Polymeri Online 12.2.14 | The new polymer mushroom city, Gaudi’s inspired mosaic, Plaster molding tutorial, Hearts flowers & Metal heart embellishment

BunnyX new polymer mushroom city

Bunny X productions is building a little town of polymer clay mushrooms, all decorated, colorful and seems cozy enough to live in ☺

Her slogan “make art, live forever” is a good one. 

Art sure makes us happy and happiness is a key to long life, isn’t it?

In her etsy she is selling her tentacles jewelry along with her mushroom “carnival cottage” buildings. Looking for a new neighbourhood? consider hers...

https://www.etsy.com/shop/societysedso

http://ink361.com/app/users/ig-1329557568/bunnyxproductions/photos

Polymer clay Gaudi’s inspired mosaic

Radada has some original organic pieces in her flickr gallery. 

At first sight it seems mosaic but it’s polymer clay. Gaudi’s inspired this specific piece and she won one of the first places in a contestunder “décor” category, sharing her place with another artist (KalinkaPolinka).

Don’t miss her free polymer clay moss tutorial -

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/505951339358510293/

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

http://radada.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/718/21424

Plaster as your molding material

Have you considered creating molds from plaster? Artmind is a ceramic artist but you can be inspired by her free projects in polymer clay too!

Don’t miss her free 15 art and crafts tutorials that can fit perfectly one of your polymer clay projects!

http://artmind-etcetera.blogspot.ca/2010/08/how-to-make-polymer-clay-brooch-or-ring.html

2 Days before it’s all hearts and hearts and I’ve got 2 lovely links for you -

Hearts as your polymer clay petals

Maddisonmeg Graham’s pinterest photo jumped up when I searched for polymer clay hearts. Even though it’s not a polymer clay project it will sure suit your clay! (Believe me, I know, creating 26 flowers in thinthin clay!)

All you need is several layers of thin hearts, ball tools, muffins baking tray and you are ready to create beautiful blooming flowers!

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/465137467740109352/ (pin link is not forwarding to the correct page)

Heavy Metal heart embellishment

Another link is create your hearts using a teardrop shape cutter/template, add gilders paste and you have a “metal” looking heart to embellish your cards/gifts!

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/355010383099632403/

Wishing you a nice weekend!

Polymeri Online 26.2.14 | Faux Fabric polymer, Moroccan Mosaic on the wall, E.T phone home, Argyle millefiori and LifeSavers duties

Toy-Belle from the Russian group posted a fun project of her - faux fabric brooches/charms. She calls is color therapy. It's a game of canes, snakes and logs, cut, pierced, textured. The final result is oh so cute.
The Russian ladies are known for their color challenges and from time to time you can see pictures posted next to color palettes showing their featured project.
In addition to her polymer clay project you will find felt and miniatures in her blog.

http://polymerclayfimo.livejournal.com/4857154.html

http://toy-belle.livejournal.com/

Polymer clay mosaic by Agnes

Hungarian artist Ages creates jewelry combined with polymer clay and leather. Her jewelry are mixing embroidery, texture, color and patterns. Agnes is a full time translator but her passion-hobby is creating jewelry. While her home decor is changing towards indian-moroccan style, her wall was missing something. She decided to create an elaborated mosaic piece and it was only natural that her jewelry patterns will find their place into her wall piece. Beautiful.  

http://moonsafaribeads.blogspot.hu/2013/07/polymer-clay-mosaic-mozaikkep-sutheto_3.html

https://www.etsy.com/shop/moonsafaribeads

The beloved E.T in polymer clay

When I stumbled upon this E.T figure I remembered my youth days watching this wonderful movie.
This sculpture is a work by I Do Cake Toppers team - Christina Patterson and Shaun Patterson. Christina and Shaun create their cake toppers since 2004, they have been making sculptures for clients worldwide including celebrities such as David Copperfield and pieces are made with polymer clay on a metal armature. Their size is about 8 inches height and about 18 oz weight.

http://www.idocaketoppers.com

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

Follow this link for a fun Mr. Hanky Christmas video tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNiagW7Uyps

Argyle cane tutorial by Kael

Kael Mijoy is sharing yet another of her ideas translating it into a fun easy tutorial, this time an argyle cane combined with flowers.
Kael was featured several times in PolymeriOnline and her site is great for inspiration.

http://kaelmijoy.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/polymer-clay-tutorial-argyle-cane.html

The past week I have been playing with some old and some new. 
These are 1 year old Extrudinary LifeSavers beads, waiting for me patiently since Cabin Fever Clay Festival last year, I made these for one of my demos but haven't had time to finish them since. Not sure if I'll keep them or sell them but they are sure fun to make!

LifeSavers Extruder beads

LifeSavers Extruder beads

Have a great week!

Polymeri Online 10.3.13 | Dancing switch plates, Martha's polymer clay Easter eggs, Lace buttons tutorial and use your drawer mat for...

Diane's Polymer Clay Switch Plates

An artist from Flickr sent me a friend request and I was intrigued. Dmanzi (Diane Manzi) is the artist behind beautiful mosaic pieces - frames, switch plates and jewelry.
She uses a reverse mosaic style and incorporate other canes of clay designs, faces and flowers. Some of them have dancing figures drawn as a stencil first and then cut out of the clay.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/66891631@N05/

http://www.wear-art.com/

Martha Stewart and Liz Smith
Demonstrating an Easter egg project

I have never decorated an egg before so I enjoyed this easy video tutorial which was posted on Martha Stewart website. Liz Smith demonstrated the process of creating a Millefiori Easter egg.
Martha was all excited about this decorating technique but on the same breath said that this takes quite a looong time! :) But she enjoyed every minute as you will see in her video.

http://www.marthastewart.com/967953/easter-eggs-polymer-clay

Polymer clay buttons tutorial

Viktoria Slutsky posted a super easy and fun tutorial for making lace polymer clay buttons. All you need is paint, lace and a real button to measure the holes!

http://www.visart-dali.com/2013/02/tutorial-making-lace-polymer-clay.html?m=1

A new "brother" to Pinterest is craftgawker. This site is a curated photo gallery that allows a visual search and discovery of handmade arts and crafts to inspire your own projects. You can use the search to view all kinds of beautiful photos, inspiration and future projects.

http://craftgawker.com/

Colored Pencils

And an outside inspiration as Sage bray calls it - These breath taking pieces, posted in "Daily Art Muse" website, belong to an Australian artist - Lionel Bawden which uses hexagonal colored pencils as a sculptural material, forming amazing shapes. I can see some extruder work here if you're looking for  inspiration...

http://dailyartmuse.com/page/2?s=white&x=35&y=9

A TIP!
In my last IKEA visit I saw this cool drawer mat and thought it can be super useful as a.... texture sheet!

I tried it and the result was great!

You can purchase a huge roll of this mat and cut it into smaller pieces to use on your clay. It is flexible, non sticky and the texture is nice as well.
You can see the visual effect of this texture on both Sharon and Rose's name tags.

Drawer Mat from IKEA