Creative Connections

Creative Connections

Dress Up Fun Faces

polymer clay ladies

Previously I posted about the two millefiore face canes that I just made using Kato polyclay.

I spent a couple of days playing “dress up” to create Victorian style ladies, dancehall girls and some honkytonk angels (as well as miniature masks for the upcoming swap and more lentil beads–its been a very [...]

New Faces For Spring

face cane made with kato polyclay

I’m in polymer clay mode this May, making lots of new beads and pins and faces–both in cabochon form and canes. I’ve made face canes before, but only using Fimo and Premo brands of polymer clay.

Here’s a picture of some of the ones I’ve made throughout the years.

I dress them up using [...]

Upcoming Polymer Clay Classes

millefiore canes in polymer clay

I do love being in the art class rooms at Front Range Community College, whether it is as a student or as an instructor. I always learn a lot either way, and have a great time doing it. The rooms there are warm in winter and cool in summer, big, well lit, [...]

Upcoming Classes

home decor with polymer clay

Want to learn more about polymer clay? In addition to the upcoming Cabin Fever Clay Festival event in February, I’m also teaching four one-day classes at Front Range Community College, through the Continuing Education Department.

For full class listings and online registration links, click here.

This series of four classes can be taken together [...]

Cabin Fever

Making Faces, Molds & Forms

The winter is barely started, but Cabin Fever is coming right up! Cabin Fever Clay Fest, that is–February 18-23,  2011 in Laurel MD. This fourth annual celebration of polymer clay has a fantastic line up of instructors including:

Christi Friesen Cindy Silas Doreen Kassel Ellen Marshall Grant Diffendaffer Jeffrey Lloyd Dever Judith Skinner Julie [...]

The Sun And The Moon

Helen Hughes-polymer clay sun moon mask

It’s still feeling very summery here at 95 degrees this August day…but at night there’s a hint in the air that Autumn is coming. And it’s here right now in this picture!

Pictures, pictures,  all day long…I edited them all morning, and finished 35 pictures, and then took 50 more. I reshot 2 [...]

Masks & More Masks

Frida polymer clay mask by Suzanne Ivester

School starts up again for me at Front Range Community College in just two weeks, so I am pushing hard to get photographs taken and edited for my upcoming book “A Collection Of Polymer Clay Masks”. I expect there will be somewhere between 400 and 500 mask images once I get them all done. [...]

You Know The Drill…..

babushka faces before antiquing

I’ve been making babushka faces and lentil beads all week. Sounds like a horrid recipe, doesn’t it? but the “lentil” part refers to the shape, and even though I’ve been sticking my heads in the oven all week long, things are looking good here. I’m committed to using up old scrap clay for “bead [...]

Bagged And Beaded Babes

bead the doll with its head in a bag to keep hair out of the way

Sounds like some sort of adult video title, doesnt it?? But its really just about a doll whose head and feet are bound up while she’s decorated.

Hmmm, maybe that doesnt really sound any better….perhaps its time to show pics instead.

Last week I saw the beaded spirit doll (using my polymer clay face) [...]

Spirit Dolls and More!

Judith Skinner and I will be at the 37th annual International Quilt Festival in Hoston Texas October 14-18 at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

We’ll be there in booths #1848 and #1850, with Fun Polymer Clay Jewelry By Judith Skinner and Sarajane’s Polyclay Gallery. We’re bringing jewelry, beads, faces, spirit doll kits, face [...]