Have you ever created a mokume gane block, only to be disappointed in the color choices? Learn tips for testing color combinations, then turn them into sweet flowers.
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…
These pretty pendants are evocative of graceful, elegant calla lilies. They are surprisingly simple to create out of polymer clay. Once you have the basic form created you can then add paints, patinas and beads to further personalize and enhance them. Depending…
These polymer clay pendants with phrases are so much fun to make, and so very satisfying because they say exactly what you want them to say! If you want to get even more words to fit onto your pendants, just use slightly…
It’s always nice to wear pretty jewelry, and even sometimes interesting or unusual jewelry. Then there is the jewelry that’s meaningful, perhaps because it came from a loved one or has special memories. Today’s project makes jewelry that is meaningful in a…
Today’s project is the result of combining several different ideas I’ve come across in the polymer clay world. Christie Friesen in her book Flourish showed the idea for using silicone putty molds in a variety of ways, including making partial impressions on clay…
There are lots of different ways to hang polymer clay pendants from necklace cord. Some of the more obvious are adding a hole, adding a loop to the pendant or embedding some kind of metal finding. But sometimes the design just doesn’t…
Here’s yet another surface effect for you that can be used in so many different ways. Today I used mica powders but I also experimented with embossing powders, which have a quite different look (more like ceramics) but are a little trickier to…