Category Archives: Beads

Hidden Flowers

12 Wednesday Sep 2012

Posted by in Beads, eggs, Jazzydoodledesigns, Life in general, Pendant, Polymer clay, Tutorial Links

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Hello again.  I hope that your week is going well.  We are halfway through. WE CAN DO IT!

This last weekend I purchased a tutorial from Clay Lessons.  This website provides great lessons on working with polymer clay.  Some of the lessons are free. Always a bonus.  So anywho, I saw one called Hidden flowers.  It was reasonably priced at $6.00. So not one to turn down a good deal 🙂  I bought it.  And here is what I made with the technique.

If you click on any of the photos they will enlarge and become a slide show.

The pictures really do not do these justice.  You simply cannot see the metallic sheen that gives these depth and shine.  I need to work on my camera techniques.  You know in my “spare time”. LOL

There are so many possibilities with this technique.  I can’t wait to explore some more. In fact… alas I must go to work…sigh.

Talk to soon.

Wendy and the doodle dog!

Beads from the sea

10 Monday Sep 2012

Posted by in Beads, Jazzydoodledesigns, Kaleidoscope canes, Polymer clay, Sarah Shriver

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Happy Monday All.

Our local Polymer clay guild had our 1st Annual retreat.  It was two days of claying, playing, eating, learning and fun.  We are a fairly new guild, but we are growing all the time.

Here are some of the beads that I worked on while there.  These were made from a cane I made from Sarah Shriver’s Big Bead Kaleidoscope cane workshop last year.

These are just some beads I made for fun.  The one on the left was a joint effort by my friend Laura Schiller and myself.

I am pretty pleased with this one.  It is two sided and completely hollow- so though it looks big, and it is (1 3/4 inches,) it is very light.

I like how this one turned out as well.

I have no idea how I am going to turn these into jewelry- that is the part I don’t really enjoy.

Oh one more photo- this is the bead I made at the Sarah Shriver workshop mentioned above.  I donated it to our polymer clay guild auction to raise money for new library materials.  It went for over 40.00 dollars.  I was shocked! and more than a little flattered.

This one was probably 3 1/2 inches long but made from sculpey ultra light.  It is also very lightweight.Sorry for the photo heavy blog and as always thanks for looking.

Jazz sends his regards

Wendy

Beads from Arabesque Cane

26 Sunday Aug 2012

Posted by in Beads, Jana Robert's-Benzon, Jazzydoodledesigns, Life in general, Polymer clay

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Hey Guys!  Thanks for coming back.  That wasn’t such a long wait was it?

Without further ado:

and here is a close up of the main bead:

I still need to string these beads and make a necklace from them.  Making Jewelry is not what I love to do but I do like these beads and I learned a lot while making them so I would like to finish them, so to speak.

Polymer clay is such a fun medium.  There is so much that you can do with it. I am constantly amazed by the different things that you can make. So much that I find myself rushing through projects so that I can learn the next step or even next technique.

I am realizing that I must slow down and take my time.  Enjoy every step and do the very best work that I can, because it really shows in the finished project.  For those of you that know me personally, I can hear you laughing because I am not known for my patience.

I am going to try to focus on every project and treat it as though it is a gift for someone else. I hope that this will allow me to create better quality things, be it beads, canes, eggs whatever.  The funny thing is, when I make cards I do not have this problem.  I am slow as dirt.

Does anyone else do this too?

Jazz says he doesn’t mind when I rush, just means less time to wait for dinner.

Thanks for looking.

Wendy

We’re back with some fun little beads

24 Friday Aug 2012

Posted by in Beads, Jana Robert's-Benzon, Polymer clay

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Well Helllloooo again my litlle bloggy friends.  I have missed you.  Jazz and I have been super busy with polymer clay.  Everyday I mean to sit down and blog but I start messing with the clay and next thing you know it’s bedtime.

But over the next couple of days I do have some fun things to show you.

Today I am going to post a few fun beads that I made using scrap clay and my extruder.These are called Jupiter bead and you use scrap clay and dry scrap clay to make them.  My clay ended up not being very dried out so I didn’t quite get the look I was going for, (if you see the parts that have a ragged type of look to it, dry clay is creating that and I hoped for a little more of it) but I think that they are fun anyhow.

These three were done the same way but with dried pearl clay.  They are prettier in person, I promise!

Tomorrow I will post a cane I build using Jana Roberts-Benzon’s arabesque caning technique.  She is really amazing. Click on her name and check out her AWESOME stuff.  I just took a  laser cut workshop from her and will post the pendant I made later in the week.  As well as some of her fabulous stuff for some yummy eye candy!

That’s it for today.  Jazzy says he hopes you have a two bone weekend!!

Wendy and Jazz