Bandage Jewelry

Yes, I need help. Polymer Clay Anonymous. I was in recovery last Friday after a minor procedure getting the IV removed and looked down at the bandage. I said, "Ooooo, I like that texture, could I have some new pieces of that bandage?" I cut four strips and made a two-part silicone mold of them lying side by side. After pressing the polymer into the mold and removing it, I cut out shapes, baked and highlighted the texture and voila! Bandage Jewelry. I get the biggest kick out of how fascinated I am with these textures and how happy I am with the finished pieces. Pretty funny.

Free Beaded Patterns

Cute little black cat earrings from Bead Jewelry Making (click HERE). Marjorie from Living With Three Moon Babies Blog designed these witch earrings. You can find the free tutorial HERE. Hope you are having a creative weekend. I have been sewing up a storm making a fitted floor length table cover for the table I use for the art fair. Made a new polymer necklace, earrings and bracelet and more polymer decorations and then crocheted some new pieces I am loving. I will post starting tomorrow.

Polymer Bones and ....

I used a stuffed stocking face in the specimen jar, polymer for my witches fingers and broken bones and added some paint to the cheap Walgreen's skull. The "Scrumptious Earth Worms" label can be found at Coco and Bella's (click HERE). I printed and cut it out, stained and painted it, crumpled it and glued it on the jar. Then added some "bloody" fingerprints on the jar.

Lifesize Polymer

The beginning of "Broomhilda". I applied paper mache' over a balloon. When dry, I popped the balloon and cut a hole for the pvc pipe. I applied polymer clay over the paper mache', sculpted the features, inserted the glass eyes and baked. I made this life size polymer head a couple of years ago for a 7' sculpture to go in my art fair booth. I've used it a couple of times, but am liking this the best. The wrecked face fits Broomhilda the best. I definitely need to get her a broom and a hat!

Repetitive Design

It's soothing; repetitive design. I created this brooch using ProSculpt Polymer Clay.

Bottle Molds Conclusion

The above pendant was made by cutting a circle out of polymer clay. Applying the circle to the inside of the lid and applying enough pressure to get an impression of the inside of the red cap (below). I cut a larger circle from black polymer clay for the pendant's backing and bail. After it baked and cooled, I embellished it with paint and beads. Why bother with molds and textures from a plastic bottle when there are beautiful textures and molds on the market? Just to show that you don't have to spend money on expensive molds or textures to produce a one of a kind piece.

Bottle Molds Continued

I cut the bottoms off of a plastic juice bottle and a plastic water bottle and used the inside as molds for the below two pins. Tomorrow I will finish up the Bottle series with using the inside of the red plastic lid (in first photo above) for a mold.

Bottle Molds Continued

So far we have used the outside bottom of the bottle (click HERE) and the outside top (lid) of the bottle to create molds (click HERE). Today, we are using the side of the bottle. I used the side of the bottle to create the pattern in these two pins. This has been an interesting experiment to see how many ways I can use a bottle to produce a mold or pattern in polymer. Not done yet. I will have more on Tuesday and one on Wednesday to complete the Bottle series.

Halloween Snowman?

I keep my molds, cutters, textures organized. I'm pretty good about it. So when this snowman cookie cutter showed up in my Halloween group, I was surprised to say the least. Oh, what the heck, I'll get a head start on the holidays while I'm working on Halloween. But, it kept bothering me; how the heck did I get them mixed up? Then, it hit me.......turn it around! That's no snowman; it's s a skull! The hubby came in to see what I was laughing at. He mumbled something about yesterday's post and where's that extra brain when you need it. Ha, ha, very funny.

A. B. Normal

Meet "A. B. Normal", a little brain food for my gruesome Halloween table. I used a Jello Mold and Makins Air Dry POLYMER Clay. The resulting impression was excellent; good definition and extremely lightweight. I sealed it with a high gloss finish to give it a "moist" appearance. This was really a lot of fun. In the process of doing this, I went through all my air dry polymer clays and finished using all of it on different projects which I will post later. I even used the REALLY old dried up hard packages. Happy October my friends!