If you enjoy my designs, then perhaps, like me, you love creating distinctive and unusual pieces to wear. Today’s project combines a beautiful fanciful design with an unexpected element: It glows in the dark! My first thought was to make these into…
Making things that glow in the dark is always a fun prospect. It kind of brings you back to your childhood. A couple years ago I got the idea to make these cute little fairy lamp posts with the flower lights that…
This week several orders of glue came in and it got me to thinking about the different types of glue we use in different applications: jewelry making, beading, polymer clay and other crafty things. In fact, there are so many adhesives out just…
Adding teeny, tiny painted details to our polymer clay and jewelry work can only be accomplished with teeny, tiny paint brushes. I do lots of work in miniature, so I was intrigued by this set of 15 brushes by Arteza. I really…
Most creative people love their tools! And polymer clay artists, in particular, seem to enjoy seeking out unexpected and unusual things to use for creating textures and shapes. If you work with polymer clay, have you ever considered using tools for sculpting…
When Arteza contacted me asking if I’d like to review some of their products I was excited. When I calculated the price of the clay set they were sending me I became less so. This set of 42 colors of polymer clay with…
Think about all the different times and places you’ve seen images of bird’s wings, butterfly wings, angel wings or even fairy wings. Whether in art, fantasy or nature, wings are very beautiful and popular things! I have a little fairy sculpture who…
If you’ve ever used alcohol inks with polymer clay, carefully choosing colors and applying them just so… only to have them look completely different when coming out of the oven, then you’ve experienced the disappointment of color shift. I’ve been using Ranger…
An extruder is a fantastic tool to use for creating in polymer clay. With it you can make perfectly even ropes of clay with any cross section shape that you have a disc for. I love to use an extruder for making…
Here’s a fun way to use smaller beads as focal points in your jewelry. Not only do you get make those not-so-large beads the center of attention, you get to fiddle and play with them, too! They’re kinda like fidget spinners, only…
