Dollar store hack. Use a dollar store facial brush in your art studio. All the scrapbookers, card makers and mixed media artists, take a look at how I'm using this facial brush to apply ink shading to a card. I love the look of inked edges but didn't want to pay the relatively high price of the felt and velcro ones you can find in the craft stores. These facial brushes apply the ink perfectly and smoothly at a low cost. You can have several for different colors. Love this dollar store hack. Hope you do as well.
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Polymer clay tutorial for a faux leather, faux rivet pendant. Learn to make this polymer clay pendant with a faux leather, faux rivet look. This versatile pendant can be strung on a variety of materials. We'll use polymer clay, scrapbook brads, a cool texture plate and paint for the patina. Go casual with this pendant or dress it up. Hope you enjoy. Thanks for joining me in my studio.
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Tools
Oven
Pasta Machine
Cutters - 1-1/2", 1" and 3/4" (Ateco Cutters)
Texture Plate - Darice Embossing Folder "Fall Leaf Background"
Needle tool
Paint brush
Hand drill or electric drill
Light bulb - round vanity style
Materials
Clay - Premo! any color for the center cabochon, bronze or other to simulate leather
Scrapbook brads - small 7 ea, color of your choice
Jump ring - 9mm or large enough to accommodate bail or stringing material
Bail - large enough to accommodate stringing material
Necklace finding
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Create a mixed media altered teapot. Join me as part of the #CoArtCoKitchen collaboration with Pam Tanino, Shemi Dixon and Ina Solsbery as we take an ordinary kitchen item and transform it. The only rules were to use fabric/lace, metal and a kitchen item. I chose a thrift store teapot, fabric swag from Pam, lace, grosgrain ribbon, plastic pearl trim, paper rose, metal buckles, scrapbook paper and a handmade polymer clay button. Love the way this mixed media teapot turned out. Thanks for joining me in my studio.
Cool Tools Alpha Disc Lettering System Un-boxing and product review. Join me in my studio to see how this new to me lettering system works. I've been using the traditional metal stamps you can find at the craft store or Harbor Freight and really wanted something else with more variety in font style and size. So, I came across a recommendation for this lettering system from Cool Tools. You can order sets that include 5 different fonts and includes capital letters, lower case and numbers/symbols. Let's see how these work.
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Hi All, Thanks for joining me in my studio. Learn now to make a handmade polymer clay interchangeable bracelet in this video tutorial. We'll use a leather bracelet and make our own unique bracelet components to change out the look of our bracelet. Learn to make the bracelet component, use jump rings as the connectors, add pearlescent powders or acrylic paint to add unique, colorful patinas.
This is a great project to use with the teenagers/tweens. You can create all kinds of fun accessories with this tutorial. Hope you enjoy.
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Hi
All, thanks for joining me in my studio as we learn how to make these really elegant
articulated dangle earrings from polymer clay.
These earrings measure approximately 3-1/2” and have a lot of
movement. Use your own templates or
download mine (link to my blog below) for this simple project that has endless
design possibilities. Hope you
enjoy. Thanks for joining me in my
studio. Take care.
Jewelry
looping pliers – Wolf Groovy Looping Plier-3 Grooves -
PLR-751.00 - http://amzn.to/1UYOaEj These are great as they have 3 grooves for
consistent loops
Texture Sheet –Judikins Clay Squisher 1960s Design - http://amzn.to/1VYAxVp These go great through the pasta machine!
Stencil
sheet – EZ Quilting
882670027 Quilter's Template Plastic Assortment, 6-Piecehttp://amzn.to/1M6Ishb The quilters use these but they are so
helpful for making templates for polymer clay.
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Template
– see links above to my blog for the template; make this from paper or stencil
sheet
Jewelry
pliers – round nose and chain nose
Materials
Clay –
Premo Black
Texture
sheets – Squishers, Kato
Ear
wires – 2 ea
Eye
pins – 6 ea
Acrylic
paint – your choice of colors
Sandpaper
Stencil
sheet (optional) Disclosure: All opinions are my own. I participate in several affiliate programs. That means I receive a commission when products are purchased through links posted on my videos. (At NO additional cost to you.) This allows me to bring you more videos! This is how I earn compensation by sharing tips, techniques and projects with you. The affiliate programs I use include Simon Says Stamp, Amazon, and Michaels. These are all stores I shop at for the products I use.
Hi All, thanks for joining me in my studio. Today' we'll make our own portal into the fairy world with the sweet polymer clay fair door earrings. These simple earrings can be embellished any way you want by changing up the color and beads.
The legend is that these fairy doors are the portal to the fairy world and true believers can enter through these doors. I hope you enjoy this project. See the tools and materials list below.
Kemper Klay Cutter - 3/16" 4 basic shapes - flower, teardrop, circle and heart http://amzn.to/1MuNH4W
Tools
Oven
Pasta Machine
Craft blade
Craft knife
Needle tools
Embossing tool
Jewelry pliers - round nose and cutters
Cutters - 3/16" heart and flower; 1" and 3/4" circle
Materials
Clay - Raw Sienna and various colors for flowers. I use Sculpey Premo!
Paint - Burnt Sienna or other dark brown (optional)
Earring findings - 2 ea of ear wire, ear nut, eye pin and head pin
Beads - 2 ea
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