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The PCAGOE of Etsy May Challenge - Winners

... and the winner is: ZudaGay and her amazing Cherry Blossom Spring ACEO. Congratulations!!

You can read about it more on the website of PCAGOE.

The Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy May Challenge

The Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy May Challenge is up, and there are two cool prizes to be won.

This time the theme was FLOWERS!

Check it out and vote at http://pcagoe.com/.

Thank you!

Today's Etsy finds - Polymer Clay

Spiced Cider by humblebeads

Antique Barn Buttons by saltandpaper

Winters Sleep Post Earrings by blockpartypress



Stacker Necklace by ovenfriedbeads

Butterfly Princess by dcdesigns

New line with mica effect

I created a new line of rings, using the "mica effect". It's very complicated to explain for me :), what it is exactly, so I borrowed a good explanation from the best collection of clay techniques, the Glass Attic:

"The metallic clays contain small flat flakes of mica, which after manipulation allow them to appear as either of two tones of the basic color used. If the particles in the clay have been "aligned" (with all their wide sides flat and facing the same direction), light is reflected from the clay in that area and it will appear to be very bright, shiny and pearlescent. If, however, the mica particles are randomly distributed thoughout the clay, or if the aligned clay is placed on its side so that what's seen is the edges of all the flakes, very little reflection will occur and that area will appear darker, dull and not pearlescent."

My favorite artist in this field is Grant Diffendaffer, you can check out his amazing work in his portfolio, especially his mica effect beads, or how he call them, the ghost image beads.

Chrysanthemum

I have this little chrysanthemum in my garden, I look at it every day in the last couple of weeks wondering how is it possible to have such lovely flowers in this freezing cold. Yesterday it finally hit me: hey, this is inspiration! So, here it is my own interpretation of the chrysanthemum. I'm very happy about the way it turned out, because I'm very "cautious" with using purple and yellow together (I don't know why, must be some kind of a "childhood drama" with colorful candies or crayons :)), and now I finally realized that with choosing the right shade there is really nothing to be afraid of :)

Reconstruction

I had this necklace what I made a couple of months ago, with three flowers on it (see first picture), it was very beautiful, but a little bit too "busy". So I took it apart and made a simple yet elegant necklace from it and matching darling earrings. I am very pleased with the results.

The faux ceramic technique

I read about it on the polymer clay web months ago and I liked it very much, but I didn't really have the time to try it. But now! :) I just made for little beads, just to practice, and I was so happy with the result, that I turned them into earrings almost immediately they dried.

As you can read in the tutorial , you need alcohol based inks to do it, but I don't have any yet, so I used Pearl Ex powders, and I think it's very pretty like this, too. But off course, I just have to try it with ink, too!