Create a Polymer Clay Impression
Create a Polymer Clay Impression

Author: Sarajane Helm

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-01-15

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1440219753

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Discover a colorful new world Polymer clay is truly a medium that has few boundaries. Whether you're planning on beautify yourself or your wardrobe with buttons, barrettes or jewelry, or hoping to give your surroundings a colorful facelift, polymer clay is full of possibilities. Give everyday objects a shiny, eye-catching new look by covering them with clay in a broad spectrum of color and textures. Or create beautiful jewelry and beadwork using techniques that are surprisingly quick and simple. In Create A Polymer Clay Impression, Sarahane Helm demonstrates everything from the basics like baking and carving to advanced home decor themes and jewelry. As an accomplished artist, teacher and author, Helm has a true appreciation for polymer clay and the qualities that make it unique. • 20 creative projects such as miniatures, jewelry, masks, home decor, and gifts. • Discover how simple objects from around your home - from picture frames to children's wagons - can be given a new look, and new life. • Master the secrets and shortcuts of proper preparations, stringing, mold making and surface stamping.

The Art of Polymer Clay Creative Surface Effects
The Art of Polymer Clay Creative Surface Effects

Author: Donna Kato

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780823013623

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Polymer clay has grown and grown and grown in popularity since the publication of Donna Kato’s best-selling The Art of Polymer Clay in 1997. And there have been so many technical advances, too. Now poly-diva Donna Kato presents an all-new look at one of crafters’ all-time favorite mediums. Donna Kato’s Polymer Clay Innovations begins with the essentials of polymer clay, including its working properties, plus tools, curing, safety recommendations, and color blending (with full information on the now-indispensable Skinner Blend). Photo-packed chapters focus on exciting projects—beads, bracelets, pins, pendants, and boxes--and showcase new techniques, including image transfers, surface treatments such as stencils, stamps, paints, and inks, sculpting, inclusions, special effects, and finishing. Finished pieces by some of the biggest names in polymer clay, including Kathleen Dustin, Pier Voulkos, and Nan Roche, plus Donna Kato herself, offer ideas and inspiration.

Polymer Clay 101
Polymer Clay 101

Author: Kim Otterbein

Publisher: Quarry Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1589234707

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"Beginner's guide to crafting with polymer clay, teaching all the basic techniques through easy projects. Includes DVD-ROM"--Provided by publisher.

Making Polymer Clay Beads
Making Polymer Clay Beads

Author: Carol Blackburn

Publisher: Thunder Bay Press

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1645172244

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Learn how to make your own polymer clay beads and turn them into colorful accessories and decorations. Making Polymer Clay Beads offers beginning and veteran artists a comprehensive resource for crafting unique beads of all colors and shapes at home. From selecting the right equipment and working with raw clay to making dozens of different shapes and adding colorful effects, this all-in-one guide will aid you at every stage of your artistic journey. Step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs enable the reader to craft a wide variety of beads to be used in making handmade jewelry and decorations.

Patterns in Polymer
Patterns in Polymer

Author: Julie Picarello

Publisher: Kalmbach Books

Published: 2013-03-20

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1627000674

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With her unmatched eye for color, color mixing and layering, well-known artist and fan favorite Julie Picarello helps beginners and advanced polymer artisans design, texture and finish gorgeous art beads using relatively simple techniques. In-depth introduction sections cover basics, color inspiration and recipes, and needed tools and materials. The book includes 7 mini projects and 10 finished jewelry projects, while callouts at the beginning of each project let the readers know exactly what specialized techniques will be learned. It’s the color that makes polymer clay truly exciting, and this book uses color like you’ve never seen it before.

Freeform Wire Art Jewelry
Freeform Wire Art Jewelry

Author: Gayle Bird

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2015-04-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1440241333

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Twist, curl and wrap wire into one-of-a-kind jewelry! Follow along with author Gayle Bird as she teaches you everything you need to know to create her signature jewelry designs. First learn the basics of color and design, then move into essential wire tutorials. From there, you'll work your way through 20 step-by-step jewelry projects, including earrings, rings and necklaces. By the time you finish the book, you'll be ready to design your own statement jewelry, complete with swirling wire and dazzling gems. Features: • Tutorials on the essential wire techniques, including spirals, curls and more. • Chapter on design gives the foundation for creating unique pieces. • Step-by-step directions for 20 projects.

Polymer Clay Master Class
Polymer Clay Master Class

Author: Judy Belcher

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0307965759

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Learn the Signature Techniques of Top Polymer Clay Artists Polymer Clay Master Class offers you a close-up look at the creative processes of eleven acclaimed polymer clay artists as they share their expertise with one another and you. Judy Belcher and Tamara Honaman bring together these talented artists for the first time, offering their individual techniques and then documenting how they inspire and challenge one another in the creation of collaborative pieces. In five lessons with sixteen guided projects, you will gain an understanding of the polymer clay skills you’ve always wanted to master, such as: • Creating with sculpture, canework, and imitative techniques • Altering the surface with carving, transfers, imprint, and silk screening • Incorporating mixed media, such as metal, wood, and fiber • Designing using cold connections, hollow and lightweight forms, kinetic construction, and jewelry-finishing techniques • Pushing the boundaries of the Skinner Blend technique • Collaborating with fellow artists to open up new creative possibilities With contributors including Leslie Blackford, Cynthia Tinapple, Lindly Haunani, Sarah Shriver, and many others, you have a front-row seat to the world of innovative polymer clay art. Challenge your assumptions about methods, style, and collaboration, and get ready to start on your own creative journey. Also available as an ebook

Polymer Pizzazz 2
Polymer Pizzazz 2

Author: Editors of Art Jewelry magazine

Publisher: Kalmbach Books

Published: 2013-03-20

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 0871167638

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With over 25 jewelry projects from Bead&Button and Art Jewelry magazines, Polymer Pizzazz 2, a follow-up to the praised Polymer Pizzazz, focuses on the various ways polymer clay can be shaped, stamped, sculpted, and textured to make pendants, beads, and other jewelry components. In addition to basic techniques, readers learn how to achieve dramatic effects by mixing in other materials such as paints and pearlescent and metallic powders. This book also includes an introduction on how to use polymer, and is organized by technique for easy reference. Polymer Pizzazz 2 is a perfect progression to the next polymer level.

The Art of Polymer Clay
The Art of Polymer Clay

Author: Donna Kato

Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780823003570

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Shows how to create jewelry and decorative art with polymer clay, teaching basic techniques and offering such projects as floral forms, moldmaking, figurines, and mosaic bowls, in an updated handbook that includes new information on tools, clays, supplies, conditioning, and safety. Original.