The bead shop outside the village is no longer listing Silver Clay and Polymer Clay as future courses which is a shame. I did find a place via Google, in Dereham, but am not getting any response to emails or phone messages - despite the advert for lessons starting again in February 2012 so perhaps circumstance have changed or something has gone amiss there.
So I am just messing about experimenting really - but I'd much rather have a proper lesson or two. I can't seem to get a good photo today - nothing unusal there On my computer screen the samples look more like a cork colour rather than the lovely rich burnt umber and raw sienna colour with a nice dark bronze subtle sheen and just like leather in 'real life'. I used Premo Burnt Umber, Raw Sienna and Bronze Accents,
It looks like a lovely rich leather - which I could capture it on here.
I scrunched up some paper and pushed it into the polymer clay (after conditioning and rolling it)
I pushed a key stamp into the above
I used A Jo Capper Sandon large bumble bee stamp which I pushed into this one.
One of my all time favourite quote stamps - again from Jo into this one.
You can get the stamps from Happy Daze and all sorts of lovely arty crafty goodies.
You can get the stamps from Happy Daze and all sorts of lovely arty crafty goodies.
I painted each example all over with with Burnt Umber acrylic paint, then rubbed off the excess with a soft rag. When the paint had dried naturally, I rubbed on some Cosmic Shimmer - it's called dark copper but after baking it shimmered like bumble wings do. It looks a bit 'clumpy' in the photos but in natural light wtih the naked eye it doesn't - and you can see the wing veins through it.
Not bad for a first attempt - I got better as I went along - but have not perfected it yet.
I desperately want a lesson on making canes with polymer clay. I now there are books and on line videos - but it's not the same as having someone by my side showing me.
So if anyone fancies giving me a lesson - please email me.
