![Odile Marchais and Nikolina Otrzan team up for early spring flowers on PolymerClayDaily.com Odile Marchais and Nikolina Otrzan team up for early spring flowers on PolymerClayDaily.com](https://i0.wp.com/www.polymerclaydaily.com/wp-content/uploads/nikolina_otrzan_flowers.jpg?resize=409%2C301)
France’s Odile Marchais uses techniques she learned from Croatia’s Nikolina Otrzan to make these stylized springy brooches. Nik teaches a surprisingly simple way to fill unusual shapes with air, keeping them light yet strong.
The childlike design of spring Odile’s flowers reminds us of the spring flowers we’re forcing to bloom at this time of year.
![Nikolina Otrzan gathers her inchies into a brooch on PolymerClayDaily.com Nikolina Otrzan gathers her inchies into a brooch on PolymerClayDaily.com](https://i0.wp.com/www.polymerclaydaily.com/wp-content/uploads/otrzan_inchies.jpg?resize=198%2C162)
In Nikolina’s most recent post, she shows how to make use of those “inchies” that lots of us have collected from various classes and events. She picks out a few favorites and gathers them into a great looking pin.
This is also Nikolina’s design as well as technique…
You can see that on this link.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/orsons/23803865202/in/dateposted-public/
Sandra ,
Hope this year I could work more with polymer clay