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
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