Bird Series Clay Pendant

Hi!

Here's a little sculpey clay necklace which is part of my bird series pendants. It's on my art scraps for Jan. 18th, which is a blank template. I used it for a get well email greeting to a friend.

You can pick up the art scraps at www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com. They are free to use, but all credit for their creation goes to me.

I hope you have a clay-kind-of-day!

Enjoy!

Cj
http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com
http://homespungraphics.blogspot.com

Clay Pendants For 1/7/12

Good morning,

Flower Portrait was made yesterday, and I instantly fell in love with this pendant. I started with a plain white base clay, Sculpey III, and added the part under the flower first. The stem and one leaf is a shade of blue and emerald green.

The flower is red and white mixed, and was made from one of my starter flower molds. I then reshaped the flower, and indented each petal. I filled that with red, and then the same color of the leaves of top of that. I indented the center dot, and added a black seed bead. I have some kind of gold leaf powder, and surrounded the center going out along the raised part of each petal.

I wanted it to look like a portrait, so I carved an area around it and textured it. I was going to leave it like that, as I liked it then; but decided to bring it out a little more by adding some ground blue and purple chalk around it and in the creases. This made the creases more visible.

I added blue seed beads for the bail that closely matches the blue in the pendant. I baked it, cooled it, and glossed it.

I could not wait to slip this on my silkie necklace, which I did and wore the rest of the day.

Like I said, I love this one!!!

This second necklace is called Flower At Dusk. I also love the art scraps in this picture. If you don't know, you can pick up art scraps over at http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com. They are great for scrapping projects and card making. I make those for you to freely use, except that you admit WHERE you picked them up. Just direct people to my home page to pick up their own.

In fact, as a side note, if you sign my guest book on today's menu page, as a thank you, I give you the url to 15 additional graphics that I didn't offer on the other days. It is called SET 1, and will stay up a couple of weeks, and later, replaced by another set. Set 1 will then leave my site, so grab them while they're up.

This pendant was a terrific idea, but very noisy. I don't know what I like about it except that I find I do. It was an experiment, but I do like the final result.



This third necklace was made ... expressly for me. It was inspired by viewing this site:
http://katherine.rs/NenaBlog/

She had a video, which I didn't watch, but saw her design on a red background. It was on the front of the video, before you start it. It caught my eye, and I thought, that would make a beautiful pendant.

My favorite color is red, and the white and black together is striking. Match that to the red, and extraordinary. My husband said it needed a base, and I thought a dark charcoal base would be terrific.

I can't wait to wear this one. Sometime this week, I imagine.

Head over to Katherine's site. It is in a foreign language, but the pictures of her items are so, so cute! She was featured on the Polymer Clay Daily site, and I get their emails. Fantastic place, too, so go sign up. I love looking through all the artists' s items they feature. The newsletter comes out Monday through Friday, and is the first thing I look at each morning.

Those are my items for today. I hope you enjoyed them, and will leave a comment.

Till next time: HAPPY CLAYING!

Cj
http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com
http://homespungraphics.blogspot.com

Clay pendants, necklaces, set: Christmas gifts for family and a friend

Good morning,

And more of my little clay creations: pendants!

Female family members will shortly receive their little pendants that I made for each one.

Kathy's necklace was a fluke kind of experiment. I had some clay scraps laying around, and didn't know what to do with them. This is often the case. I never throw them out, as sometimes I'll pinch off just a bit from it, and introduce it into another color. The base has a coating of glitter glaze on it, but it was added after this picture was taken.

Believe it or not; these often tend to be my most favorite pieces when finished. The colors blend into the new colors, making new shades that are striking. I love this one (heck! I love them all!).

Hillary's necklace is an owl, and it is shimmery with glitter here and there. If you look closely, you can see it's eyes at the top, and the little orange beak down and centered below the eyes. He is really striking.

Lillie's pendant sat on my desk after I made it. I didn't want to part with this one, but thought my mother in law might really enoy it. The colors are for Christmas, and there's a little face that sits atop.

Shay's pendant was just a fun piece. I had already made the top butterfly shaped piece. I made the flower to sit on top of it. The bottom section was made separately, and I really didn't know what to do with, but saw the butterfly sitting on my desk, popped it on top, and said, "Okay. Now I know where to put you!" I love the combination of orange with red.

Ali's necklace set did not photograph as well as I'd hoped. It is a skinner-blend of red, white and blue. The whitish-blue does not show real well. It is speckled with glitter as I used FIMO EFFECTS. The backs are done in white FIMO EFFECTS. A very patriotic color set.

Katie is getting my belowed owl that I made about 2 weeks ago. The feathers on his breast are very small, and each one was shaped and layered onto him. Start at the bottom and work up to just under the beak. Cute for a teen. I love doing owls.

Leslie's pendant is another one I love because of the colors. I took this one to work; well, I took them all to show off, and this one was loved because of the color combination. The center of the flower has a little star in it that the pearl sits in. The petals below the star have black seed beads in each petal. The red in the larger petals is blended slightly with white to give it a slightly different look. The white is the FIMO EFFECTS clay again. For base, I mixed a little green into the FIMO EFFECTS white again, and shaped the back. A striking necklane, and I hope my mother likes it.

Keithann is an online friend. She sends me little card kits each month. I had joined an online group, and she started this little club. I asked to join, and I have so many little kits. She sends them absolutely free.

After we all receive our cards, we are to use the items she packs into the kit (often there are 2 kits in each mailed; isn't she amazing???), and design a little card. We take photos and share them online, but shortly after we got started, the site changed. I went to the new site, but didn't find where to post the new cards, so I stopped.

But not Keithann. She continues to send the kits to me, regardless of lack of participation. Like I said. She's an amazing person. So for Keithann, two of my beloved pendants. Both were made last year, and again; I just love them. Ok, ok! I know I did them, but what's not to love?!

The black based one is truly gorgeous. I stuck some nail art flowers on it, and I love it's pop-deco kind of look! The colors are outstanding. It is beautiful.

The green one looks like a garden shot, and again a little nail art on it. This was my first wire-wrap, and I really love how it completed this creation. Another beautiful creation!

I hope all these gifts are loved and worn by each receiver.

What do you think of them?

I do have a sculpey clay section on my website over at www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com, so if you want to see more; go check it out. Much of it has also been featured on my other blogspot,
http://homespungraphics.blogspot.com. It's woven in through the art graphics I create.

I hope you'll check out some of my pages. Leave a comment on my webpage, and I will post it. I can just use your intials, if you wish. If you want your info known (meaning name), please let me know that in your email. If you have a website, I'll be happy to post it as well, with a live link. And feel free to add me to yours.

Have a wonderful clay kind of day!

See you soon.

Cj
http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com
http://homespungraphics.blogspot.com
PS: I made the cards, too, with my graphic art! And you can, too!