Polymeri Online 12.11.11 | Chain bracelet, Felt & polymer ring, Chess set, Christmas ornament and Rolled beads

I'm home! Italy was wonderful! a little bit rainy on the beginning but after that the weather was great - Milano, Florence and Tuscany, Venice, Murano, Ferrari Museum (plus a real ride on a Ferrari car!), Piza, San Gimignano, Siena, Roma - an amazing trip and an amazing birthday!

But's it's always good to be back home :)

So back to work!

Spanish artist Mariana Constantinescu made an interesting chain bracelet

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marianna700/3288206081/in/faves-51136446@N06/

she is mostly working in the millefiori technique but you can find more intriguing designs in her gallery such as this black and white necklace -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marianna700/3375659491/in/photostream

Zuzzik is working with Fimo and felt in her polymer clay designs, this ring, called "fire", is using polymer clay and orange felt bursting out of it - I love it!

She is from Prague, Czech Republic.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zuzzik/4493786194/in/photostream

http://www.zuzzik.webgarden.cz/

Ana Kuhnen - Marmelinhas' was featured before in PolymeriOnline but this chess set is so cute I had to share it with you.

My DH is still waiting for his personal polymer clay chess set and every time I see one that I like I remember that I have to make one for him as I promised long time ago.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marmelinhas/5960892058/in/photostream

Getting ready to the holidays here is a tutorial for covering round ornaments by Eilaine of Tooaquarious -

http://www.tooaquarius.com/learn/tutorials/covering-round-ornaments/

Luisa's flicker gallery has some cool beads and a cool tool to make beads using self-made 2 rollers made of plastic pipes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/-_lu_-/6325635575/in/photostream

See you soon with more news, links and new tutorials!

PolyPediaOnline - Wave your magic wand and paint on clay! NEW tutorial!

I don't know why many polymer clay artists are intimidated by liquid polymer clay :)

This white, gooey, sticky material is some how too scary to deal with? I keep stock of all liquid polymer clays brands but i use them seldom. why? i don't know! i am more attracted to those vivid clay blocks with their intensive colors :)

BUT! we are missing a world of options over here!

In my new tutorial I am demonstrating how to transfer a drawing or a sketch using color pencils or oil pastels into clay - it can be an artistic sketch, the name of a friend, a

photocopy, your own drawing - anything!

We can paint on clay and use it as our canvas!

My tutorial demonstrates 3 eye catching designs -

a sophisticated symmetric square bracelet (the technique of course can be applied to other designs) OR a barrette using the same technique;

a necklace with chic "pastels-silver leaf" style beads;

a quick "canvas" ring with your own drawing - don't worry, you don't have to be a piccasso for it ;).

Each project has it's own tricks and tips for drawing, building (beads), layering, cutting, attaching and many more.

SO... get your hands a bit sticky :) the best way to understand a new or un-familiar material is to try it out! don't think twice and jump in, you may be surprised where it takes you :)

Want to see what you are about to learn?

Click here for more details AND about my 39th Birthday special!

:)

PolyPediaOnline FREEbie for Halloween!

My daughter is so scared of Spiders! we have lot's of them over here, not inside the house of course, they are in our back yard with special colors and wonderful webs!

I've got a new Free tutorial for the upcoming holiday -Halloween, which i am sure is a grown-ups & children's favorite :)

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SPIDERS!

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and this time a magical mommy spider with a baby on her back plus, a 5 minutes spidery ring!

Hang those enchanting spiders on your walls, car, or as a magnet on your fridge or wear these bewitching rings :)

If you already Joined PolyPediaOnline, an email is waiting for your with the URL to download the PDF tutorial, no need to register again.

If it's your 1st time - Join the fun!

BIG p.s.

- in about a week i am celebrating my 39th birthday (oh MY, i'm almost 40!)

AND... I am working on a beautiful, new, artistic tutorial....

Get ready for Birthday surprises! more details soon!

have a wonderful holiday with lot's of scarrrrrrry & crafty fun!

Polymeri Online 19.4.10

Rings using wire and polymer clay by Elvira López del Prado from Spain, her pieces are based on the creation of unique handmade beads using a variety of materials including polymer clay, wire, felt, resin, paper, textiles.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elviralopezdelprado/page2/

Barbara reid is an illustrator, i found some great tutorials in her site to make plasticine creatures - worth checking!
animals -
http://barbarareid.ca/plasticine/PlasticineProject01.pdf
cat -
http://www.barbarareid.ca/plasticine/PlasticineProject02.pdf
setting a scene -
http://barbarareid.ca/plasticine/PlasticineProject03.pdf
http://barbarareid.ca/makingpictures.html

This is a cute tutorial for making a polymer clay cat on Wikihow site
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Polymer-Clay-Cats

Dave fimo figures from Canada was featured in my blog but in this link you can see the process of his work -
http://www.davesfimofigures.com/How%20To/Rachel.html

Polymeri Online 13.11.08

Noa Oron does cute sculpturings that fits both sugar paste and polymer clay - check her site for some cool tutorials, instructions in hebrew but the photos are easy to follow:
http://www.noyaart.com/index.php/--26/monkey-tutorial

And another monkey by Garie sim, this monkey likes to swing!http://gariesim.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-swinging-polymer-clay-monkey.html

Libby has a great post about her favorite bezel forms, i love her work with bezels, it makes the piece so much elegant.
http://libzoid.net/blog/2008/10/10/5-friday-favorites-bezel-forms/

not too tired for another tutorial? here's a great mokume gane pumpkin tutorial by PCAGOE member papernclay
http://papernclay.blogspot.com/2008/10/mokume-gane-pumpkin-tutorial.html
http://www.papernclay.etsy.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/papernclay/

The Carrotbox is for anyone who loves glass rings, lucite rings, wood, agate, plastic, resin, acrylic, polymer, jade, etc. - anything, as long as there's no metal, i can sit for hours, be inspired and enjoy her huge collection of rings, some of them are polymer clay too.
http://www.thecarrotbox.com/news/0810.asp#29

One of the artists i found in the Carrotbox blog was - Arsmania - Ivana Molinari Schwab, has italian origin. She was born and grew up in Zurich, Switzerland.http://www.arsmania.com/pages/indexpag.html

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!

Polymeri Online 23.3.06

Some History about the Millefiori?

From Wikipedia - Millefiori is a glasswork technique which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware.The term millefiori is a combination of the Italian words "mille" (thousand) and "fiori" (flowers). A. Pellatt (in his book "Curiosities of Glass Making") was the first to use the term "millefiori", which did not appear in the Oxford Dictionary until 1849. The beads were called mosaic beads before that time. While the use of this technique long precedes the term millefiori, it is now frequently associated with Venetian glassware.More recently, the millefiori technique has been applied to polymer clays and other materials. Because polymer clay is quite pliable and does not need to be heated and reheated in order to fuse it, it is much easier to produce millefiori patterns than with glass.

Here are some glass-millefiori inspiration sites -

Murano Glass Millefiori Pendants

http://www.soulfulliving.com/tools/millefiori_pendants.htm

http://www.jennibick.com/paperweight-millefiori.html

Millefiori Ring -

http://www.xinamarie.com/pages/mosaic-tiles.asp?cat=MILLEFIORI

http://www.ijgroupe.com/products.php?cat=85&pg=3

http://www.venetianbeads.com/Millefiori.htm

and save last for last - a colorfull Polymer Clay site from Brown Dog Designs - Pierrette Ashcroft -
http://www.pierretteashcroft.com/