Saturday Meeting 1-26-13

Hi everyone,
   At this point, the weather man is saying the high in Charlotte will be 47 degrees tomorrow and any of the freezing ice should start to thaw around 9 o'clock. So we are still planning to meet at 12 noon.  We will post on the blog if there will be a cancellation by 10 o'clock  if there is a drastic change in the weather.

January Meeting

Guild's art work made at the meeting

This month Maggie is going to Demo Polymer Clay Appliques. There are some great pics of this type of art on Pinterest. Click onto the Flickr websites here to view just a few different artist and there wonderful designs of art. Lets start with  Veronica Jeong at

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/veronicapuzzlecane/6284401726/in/photostream/

Then there is art work by Maryanne Loveless  at http://www.flickr.com/photos/28608662@N04/6926144246/in/photostream/

or wonderful art work by Jennifer Morris

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jennifermorrisbeads/4944914769/in/faves-el_taller_de_gyn/

Here is the Supply List

Clay - I will be using black, silver, white.  You can choose any coordinating colors.

Clay kit (work surface, blades, pasta machine, hand wipes..)

ball stylis,

needle tool or small knitting needle

Exacto knife

liquid polymer clay

medium/small brush for liquid pc

flat back crystals (I will share if you don't have any)

Glue

rubber or latex gloves

corn starch (she is going to demo a new bead baking techinique using this stuff!)

I can't wait to get started and play around with this technique. I've so loved it from afar. Hope everyone's New Year is starting in the right directions. Look forward to seeing everyone on Saturday.

Cheryl

Upated Demo List for Sat Dec 8th

Ok I knew I'd forget a few things which might come in handy-

- Small paint brush
- Something to texture surface - I like the fish filter kind but you could use coarse sand paper or the cheap Velcro type curlers
- Some alcohol
- Deli wrap
- Larger cutters to cut out your final bead shape
- Sand paper 
- Paper towels
- Oh yes and it will work on darker clays too if you want to try that.

 

 

Original list:

- usual clay stuff - pasta machine, work surface, etc
- light colored clay (any kind will do)
- alcohol inks or markers or colored pencils
- latex gloves so you don't get colored fingers
- paint or guilders paste to antique or highlight
- small cutters or tips for adding designs (I use cake frosting tips and brass rods)
- light bulb or some kind of baking surface to curve your pieces (optional)

 

 

Don't worry I am sure we all will have items to share.

Saturday Dec 8th Meeting



Julie Eakes Art Work of "Faux"jardo beads



So for our December meeting we are going to try to get the look of Barb Fajardo beads.  We will call them Barb"faux"jardo beads.  Here is the supply list.

- usual clay stuff  - pasta machine, work surface, etc
- light colored clay (any kind will do)
- alcohol inks or markers or colored pencils

- latex gloves so you don't get colored fingers

- paint or guilders paste to antique or highlight

- small cutters or tips for adding designs (I use cake frosting tips and brass rods)

- light bulb or some kind of baking surface to curve your pieces (optional)

That's all I can think of right now.  See you on Sat.

November meeting Demo LIst

For tomorrow's Mica Shift demonstration, please bring the following:
Polymer Clay kit and tools -

Pasta Machine

Polymer Clay - gold or another mica clay

Transparent Clay

Texture Sheets, rubber stamps or impressing tools

Water spray bottle (release agent)

Tissue blade

Acrylic Roller or brayer

Needle tool

1" square cookie cutter for beads and measuring for blending



Shamballa bracelet - demonstration

Bring 5-9 beads for a braided bracelet and coordinating small beads for the closure ends

Super Glue

Tape to anchor your cord or a clip board

small and medium beading cord or I will have extra beading cord
Sorry for getting this to you so late.



Laurie Prevette

P.S. F you wanted some different colored Mica shift clay. Go to The Art of Polymer Clay Creative Surface Effects: Techniques and Projects by Donna Kato, She has recipes to make Green-Gold Pearl, Teal Green Pearl Blue-violet Pearl etc. Different spin on plain Gold Metallic clay. Can't wait to see everyone!

November Meeting



Left Mica Shift Oval shows a Shell shape and theOval on the right is a checkerboard cane. Impressive!



Happy Thanksgiving all!

 Ready for some Claying fun?  November's meeting is upon us once again. This month's Demo is coming from Laurie Prevette. Mica Shift also know as Chatoyant effect, So bring your Metallic clay, PC kit (will need a sharp blade, can sharpen at the meeting) and some deep etched rubber stamps if you have them. If not, I'll have some for all to use. 

Here is a link: 

 https://www.google.com/search?q=mica+shift&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=PJqpULNRkZDRAanGgcgB&ved=0CDQQsAQ&biw=1536&bih=676

that gives oodles and oodles of pics. Or you can google Mica shift and Voila!  This is one of my favorite PC techniques. 

Can't wait to see everyone! May you all have a safe and great time enjoying Friends and Family on your Turkey Day!

Watercolor Stamped College on PC

Hi all you clayers out there. I have some new pics for you from the October Meeting. Maggie Demo'd an awsome Alcohol ink Watercolor effect on PC. After the PC dried we used rubber stamps and stamped words and designs onto with a fantastic effect. Check these out!