Hi All, thanks for joining me in my studio as we make this polymer clay spring heart bouquet necklace. This sweet project uses small amounts of clay to make a swirl base shaped into a heart, roses and leaves. You can do this in pastels, or use all one color of clay for a monochromatic look. Any way you do it, the project is dainty and sweet. Your Mother, Mother-in-law or Grandma would love this. You can make it into a necklace or add a pin back and you have a beautiful lapel pin. See the materials and tools list right after the video.
Thanks again for joining me in my studio, I hope you enjoy this project. Take care.
Tools
Oven
Pasta Machine
Ball stylus
Craft knife
Craft blade
Glass or ceramic tile or acrylic block
Materials
Clay - white base with small amounts of light blue and other pastel colors for roses and leaves
Bail - glue on
Necklace finding
Glue - E6000
Join Maria Yozi of CreativeTube and me as we interpret our theme, "The key to transportation is found in the night sky." We'll each use whatever materials we wish to create an art project using the theme. Very challenging but loads of fun.
Maria Yozie used polymer clay in her project, I did a mixed media altered box. Hope you enjoy.
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Here's CreativeTube's collaboration video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOESUyt2swk
Hi All, thanks for joining me in my studio. Today's project is part of a collaboration with three other Colorado YouTube creatives. Part 2 of the collaboration has us each making a unique and individual project with the goodie bags we received. We each created a focal which measured no more than 4"x4" and then a goodie bag with inspiring bits and bobs. It was so much fun to exchange with each other and see all the wonderful papers, fibers, buttons, gellie prints, mixed media painted paper, rhinestones, and on and on. Everyone was so generous I have enough for about 15 projects!
You'll see in each of our videos how we transformed the three handmade focals we received. From Pam Tanino I received a glittery green spinner, from Shemi a mixed media tile and from Ina a custom first name initial. Brilliant! I loved every piece.
With all of these lovely materials I made a personal (not necessarily religious) shrine for journaling. This is meant to be a way to express your thought about your past, present and future. Journal on custom made tags thoughts you have about events in your past that were wonderful experiences or that need forgiveness. Keep what makes you strong from the past and release the rest. Move to the present where you could journal about what you are grateful for or about those you love, just remember to "be present". We all have dreams for the future, write yours down! I hope you enjoy this unique way to journal. See the tools and materials list below the video links.
See all of the videos at the links below. As you move from one to the next, just click the first link and it will take you to the next video.
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Join me as I collaborate with three other fantastic Colorado YouTube artists. We found each other through the YouTube Creative Arts Collaboration group and have met and enjoyed each other's company as we share our love of art and YouTube. We're doing a collaboration where we each made a special, handmade item and a goodie bag of all kinds of materials for us to use in an upcoming project. This first video shows how each of made the handmade item and the second video will show our final project. My project is handmade polymer clay mini mosaics using acrylic paint, Pan Pastels and pearlescent powder.I hope you enjoy this collaboration. See the links below to Shemi Dixon, Ina Solsberry and Pam Tanino videos. See full tools and materials list for my project below the links.
Tools
Oven
Pasta machine
Clay blade
Baking tile
Paint brush
Cutters - optional various sizes and types
Materials
Polymer clay - Premo! black and white, each tile takes approx. one block of clay
Pearlescent powder
Pan Pastel metallic or chalk pastels
Sealer - only if the piece will get some use/wear, otherwise not needed
#LoveWinterArt How to Make a Polymer Clay Santa's Reindeer Necklace. Join me in my studio and learn to make a polymer clay holiday necklace with Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid, Donner and Blitzen, Santa's eight reindeer. This polymer clay necklace is a fun way to wear the holidays. Hope you enjoy and thanks for joining me in my studio.
Check out all the other great artists participating in the #LoveWinterArt - just search YouTube for the hashtag.
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Tools
Oven
Pasta machine
Jewelry pliers - chain nose
Cutters - round 1-1/2 and 1-1/4", various mini cutters 3/4" and 3/16" tear drop, 3/16" round, leaf cutter
Craft knife
Needle tool
Ball stylus
Extruder with medium round disk
Hollow bead maker or light bulb
Texture sheet or rough sandpaper
Materials
Clay - Premo! light blue, white, burnt umber, raw sienna, red, green, black
Genesis medium or liquid clay
Jump rings - 10mm and 5mm
Chain - approx 9"
Snowflake buttons - optional
Tiny jingle bells - optional
Toggle clasp
There's a Christmas baby due - our first grandchild. To commemorate the event and to celebrate the Christmas season, I created an Advent Charm Bracelet for my Daughter, Emily. Learn to make this simple bracelet with various charms and green/red holiday clusters. Use simple jewelry making tools and materials to create the bracelet and I'll also show you how to turn a dollar store holiday tin into a personalized jewelry box to keep all the charms in. Your loved one can open a mini package for each day leading up to Christmas and add the charm to the bracelet. Usually there are 24 surprises in a traditional Advent calendar but in this one I added the 25th as a special charm for the baby.
You can use these techniques to make a charm bracelet to count down for any special event. This would make a really nice gift. Hope you enjoy and thank you for joining me in my studio.
Tools
Nail - choose a size comparable to the size of the knob
Hammer
Screw Driver
Stamps - number or use number sticker s
Jewelry pliers - round and chain nose
Wire cutter
Paper punch - round or ribbon type
Materials
Tin - the size I used was approx 5" long, 4"deep and 4" wide
Mini envelopes
Charm bracelet blank
Various charms
Glass beads - green leaves, 4mm red faceted
Ribbon (to tie the envelopes closed) or could use Washi tape
Head pins - 4 per cluster
Spring rings - 1 ea for each charm and cluster
Stamping ink
Jump rings - may or may not need if the charms come with them, otherwise 1 ea per charm
Clear Command mini hooks (Optional, I used them to hold the bracelet to the top of the box
Sharpie - gold metallic
I love all kinds of arts and crafts and have tried so many different techniques over the years. Scrapbooking - Yep. Painting - Yep. Jewelry Making - Yep. Mixed Media - Yep. Crochet, knitting, weaving - Yep. Sewing - Yep. Jewelry making, metalsmithing, beading - Yep. I enjoy working with all materials and am always on the lookout for cool new art and craft products. Some of the things I've tried, I do over and over again. Some are a one time thing. So, I'm starting a series called "Try It Once" where I'll try out new )to me) or rediscovered techniques. Some I'll use over and over again, some will be a one time thing.
In the first two projects in the series we'll use doodling and collaging techniques to create custom, personalized mini messenger bags. I was inspired by all of the collage and art journaling YouTube videos made by my fellow Creative Art Collaboration members (hey Shemi and Ina) who do so much great mixed media, collage and journaling. I knew I would love to explore making colorful art works but didn't know what I would do with all the paper I would end up with. So, in keeping with my mission to create wearable art, I took the techniques and applied them to something to wear!
Learn to doodle and collage these fun bags that can be used as a mini purse, cell phone bag or gift bag. This would be a fun project for kids as all of the materials are simple and readily available. Use painters tape, acrylic vinyl/leather paint, and fabric paints to create a splashy and bright background along with clear stamps, Sharpies and paper to doodle and collage these personalized wearable art bags. Find the tools and materials list below the video links.
Hope you enjoy and thanks for joining me in my studio. If you enjoyed this video, please consider giving it a thumbs up and subscribing to my channel. I'd also love hearing from you in the comments. Thanks for your support, take care.
Tools
Scissors
Paint brush
Materials
Mini messenger bag - Dollar Tree
Paint - acrylic vinyl/leather paint (Leather Studio - Leather & Vinyl brand by Plaid), acrylic (Golden Gold Fine)
Fabric paint - sprays, dimensional (Tulip Sprays and Metallic Dimensional fabric paints)
Paper scraps - scrapbooking paper and printed tissue paper
Mod Podge for Fabric
Stencil
Tape - low tack such as blue painters tape
Sponge - cosmetic sponge or can use paint brushes
Pitt Big Brush - Burnt Umber
Sharpies - various colors (black, magenta, blue, red)
