Polymeri Online 20.11.11 | Treasure box pendant, Christmas tiny magnets, Experimenting with translucent clays and an Elephant cane

Russian EvraZhka (Karina) posted a cool treasure box pendant tutorial along with diagrams and detailed info. You'll need to translate this page, I am using my chrome translator to translate the page from Russian to English.

http://evrazhka.blogspot.com/2011/09/blog-post_24.html

Cathy DiGiovanni is making Christmas magnets & pins for over a month now, take a look at these cute magnets decorating her fridge!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cathytx2001/6364919567/

Italian Francesca Di Cesare (MoKuCrea) experimented with translucent clays and shows her results in her flickr gallery. Her experiment is showing different clay types, in various curing temperatures over a sheet of book showing us it's translucency. Pardo, Kato, Cernit, Premo, Fimo - all the polymer "gang" is there.

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

among her tests she is also enjoying her time with polymer clay art

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mokucrea/4624546351/in/photostream

Take a look at this amazing elephant cane tutorial by kalinkapolinka. According to her it is not as good as she expected (I disagree!) and it's for those who already tried to make pictured cane and understand the basic techniques.

http://www.kalinkapolinka.ru/publ/master_klassy/master_klass_po_lepke_kejna_slona_iz_polimernoj_gliny/2-1-0-16

Polymeri Online 25.12.10

Biliana is from Sofia, Bulgaria. She is 31 years old illustrator and painter and a graduate from National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria. Her talent for illustrating works perfectly with polymer clay. In the specific piece (shown here) you can see Alice, a lovely art doll, a one of a kind piece.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bilui/3785045852/in/faves-49117171@N02/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/biliana

Joojoo made cute little trees with sea salt as a "snowy" ground - so cute!

http://www.joojoo.me/2010/12/merry-christmas.html

Petalcove has a unique way with roses, her petals are millefiori canes which makes the roses look very interesting. she loves to paint with acrylics, and handcraft jewelry out of polymer clay, sells her work all over Southern California, mostly at art shows and different music events.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/petalcove?ref=seller_info

ZiZou ArT's photostream has a cool bag collection that you can wear as brooches!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52144917@N05/5246182869/

Merry Christmas! :)

A quick holidays freebie! make your own polymer clay tree decoration :)

Even though it's still hot & dry in Israel, i am joining the festive atmosphere of upcoming Christmas.

Snow? i don't think I'll see any where i live, but the weather man promised rain this weekend! let's hope for some showers :)

Enjoy this free video on making a Christmas tree decoration using a snowman figure, tree cutter and holiday colors!

Polymeri Online 25.6.09

Clay illustration - Tammy Durham sculptures wonderful trees and birds, to her they represent freedom and she tries to capture that moment.
http://www.tammydurham.com/

Susan Averello from Fantazy Clay is sharing her pixie tutorial with us, this cute figure is just asking me to try!
http://saverello.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-make-pixie.html

Claire Maunsell is a professional glass blower for almost 20 years, since the family move around a lot, she have been working with a medium that is much more portable for her -polymer clay has many of the characteristics of hot glass - malleable, brilliant colours, ability to build millifiori canes and more!
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=65426

Look at this cute Dog cane by Israeli artist Ben-David !
http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=1499471
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26896606

Dumauvobleu from france, is a self taught polymer clay artist since 2007, jewelry designer
and painter. Her unique pendants are made from canes, blends, sheets, textures, stripes and interesting designs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dumauvobleu/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5518984

Polymeri Online 22.1.07

Andrea Beeler is working with polymer clay for 6 years, her grandmother inroduced that material to her, her family is a huge support! When her mom calls and ask what I'm doing, she just say "Clayin-Around".
http://www.clayin-around.com/

and somthing sweet - Sue Heaser tutorial for making ornamental trees
http://polymerclaycentral.com/orntrees1.html