Polymeri Online 27.11.14 | Pam's Millefiori haute couture, Molds and cookies and buttons, Make your own sculpturing tools, Polymer belts, Masking tape to the rescue & De-stashing sale in my "garage"
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| Pam's Millefiori haute couture |
Pamela Carmen’s flickr gallery is full of colorful animals
decorated with endless blooming millefiori canes.
Fish, owls, birds, hens, frogs, all of them gets their coat
of flowers.
In her owl sculpture she mentions ceramic as her base while
only the veneer is canes.
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| Molds and cookies! :) |
Nerd Ecrafter posted a video for creating your own molds
using only liquid translucent clay (she is using TLS by Polyform). She took an
oreo cookie, embedded it into the liquid, baked it (twice) and created her mold
instantly. You can use this technique to create any mold of your choice from
your found objects as long as they are oven proof! yay!
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| Molds and buttons |
Talking about molds, here is another example by artist Elena
Semin, taking a button with a nice pattern and creating 2 molds/casts to form a
double-sided bead with a pre made channel –
Don’t forget to take a look at the glowing snowflake
tutorial– fun and easy project just in time for winter!
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| Make your own sculpturing tools |
Ever wanted to create your own sculpturing tools? Diane
Foster published this PDF file on the “Polymer Clay Tutorial Collectors” FB group
showing how to transform simple tools into sculpturing tools! The ebook is
written by G. Schellert.
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| Polymer belt necklace |
Ingrid Ulrich’s belt accessory is beautifully adapted to
polymer clay. Stamped and antiqued it is giving the impression of the real
thing. Located in Germany she is playing with various techniques in her
designs.
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Masking tape to the rescue
Remove excess polymer clay powders
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Christelle Van Lingen shared in her Pinterest gallery a tip
she credit Christie Friesen. By using a masking tape you can take off any
excess powder left on your stamped image. I learned this trick from Laurie Mika
when I was her student several years ago, when she used it on extra foil left
on a design. That is really a neat trick.
I am de-stashing some of my extra tools and findings, if
you’re interested you can take a look of what’s left, in my FB gallery –
Have a great thanksgiving holiday if you're celebrating, and
a great rest of the week :)
