Ready for a brand new project?
How about making faces!
Try this red hot Red Hat Wall hanging, or a make your face into a pin,
or even a doll--start with sculpting the face, and then dress it up.
This four page tutorial starts you out with step by step instructions
on sculpting a face using scrap polymer
clay.
The next part makes replication a breeze with easy to use silicone RTV
mold materials.
Make faces, make texture sheets--and
use them to dress up the faces as shown
in the fourth segment of this fun filled project.
The Bead
Bugle is an online magazine for bead enthusiasts, and I'm very pleased
to be writing for them on a regular basis.
Click here to see the first part of a recent
project for them using blue and white Premo polymer clays to create shower
curtain decorations. Part Two is found here. Be
sure to check out the Bead Bugle
online magazine; published with a new edition every two weeks and chock
full of fabulous bead information and projects of all sorts--seed beads,
precious metal clays--and of course polymer clay!
Make a dozen of these lentil beads and practice your beadmaking and
wire wrapping techniques--and use up some of your collected beads!
Polyform Products
manufactures Premo clay, and has many fun polymer clay projects at their
web site.
I'm honored to be one of their contributing artists.
These currently featured articles include how to get decorative with
my Faux
Cinnabar Project. Perfect for an oriental note
to your home decor! Use the same techniques for
beads and more.
Another project I've done using Premo is Star
Students--a great project for teachers and group leaders as well as
for families. These make fabulous ornaments and gifts for family members
to cherish for years to come.
Try making the Miniature
May Flowers Mask with Premo and rubber stamps. It's sweet and dainty--perfect
for use as a pin or as a decorative ornament.
You can see more miniature masks by clicking here.
There are many pictures of masks from the Internet Mask Swaps in 2002 and
2003. Swaps are a great way to build collections and to participate in
group art!
View the miniature masks made by Columbine Elementry School Students
in the Artist In Residence Project "Best Faces
Forward". This Installation of over 200 masks will be created
by all the students (K-5) and staff with the assistance of the resident
art teachers and Bryan and and Sarajane Helm. Check back to see how things
are progressing with this project!
Some groups also have Challenges on occasion, and participating
members share pictures of their work done in response to the given challenge.
- Click here to see
a recent Rec.Crafts.Beads challenge.
- Click here to see what
some polymer clay swappers did with Ready Stamps and polymer clay.
- Click here to see the
logo pins for the NPCG made with Ready Stamps and polymer clay and the
local Colorado Guilds.
- Click here to see some
examples of polymer clay used with rubberstamps, inks, and embossing powders.
- Click here to learn about
miniatures and scale conversion.
- Click here to see how
molds are made.
- Click here for a how-to
on stringing that combines polymer clay beads with glass, metal and other
treasures to create pendants that really dazzle!
Cover a band aid box (or any
other kind of box!) with polymer clay to give it new life as a beautiful
container. Use transfers to give it style, and make it personal. Try this
for upcoming Mother or Father's Day gifts and use family photos. The Victorian
Treasure Box is a Project of the Moment for Uptown
Design Co., and uses stamps I designed and license for sale through them--so
now you can use them too!
The pin box shown here was made using this transfer technique
as well.
At Uptown Design Co., you will find scads of free project how-to's that
include:
Also featured there at Uptown Designs is a lovely Filigree
Egg project. You can see more examples of these on the Eggs
page.
Shown are transfers made from photos from the U.S.
National Archive, of Baby Doe Tabor and Wild Bill Hickok. Many are now
in Public Domain, and open for use by artists with no violation of copyrights.
Valentine's Day Hearts
Holiday Bears and Stars
Use polymer clay to make Holiday Ornaments using cookie
cutters! It is so much fun to decorate holiday cookies--its even
better when you make them out of polymer clay, and can enjoy them for years
to come!
This featured project can be done with other shapes as well as the bears
and stars that are shown. It is also a good idea to have a separate batch
of cutters to use for clays, and to keep the food and clay tools separate.
Although polymer clays ARE certified non-toxic, being careful is always
a good thing when dealing with art supplies of any sort. You don't want
anyone to get baked clay in their next bite of cookie!
