What’s the perfect attire for vet school functions? UK’s Debby Wakley (debbeadsjewellery) sent her daughter off with these dairy cow earrings, a perfect accent for any farm attire.
They began with a flat cutout from CraftyThread. Deb brought the shapes to life with some sculpting, colors, eyes, and horns. She obviously knows her farm animals.
I don’t imagine a stampede to the cutter store but don’t you love a gift that’s so perfectly suited? Polymer at its best.
Often slab earrings seem too repetitive and predictable. Where’s the fun, the heart, the Christmas spirit?
Oregon’s Ashley (heyletsclay) brings the delight back to holiday decorating. She drapes and tangles Christmas lights on a white background using extruded strings as cords and dots as lights. She cuts the meandering results into a bunch of shapes. Using an assortment of cutters, her carefree dance turns into pins, earrings, charms, and ornaments.
There’s the spirit! Bet the kids would like this!
By the time my cutters arrived from Etsy’s Silvia Tomas in the Netherlands, I’d completely forgotten why I needed them. What was I thinking? It looked like a comma!
After a little research, I figured it out and made myself a pair of earrings. Two cutouts swirl around each other to make a cool oval. Silvia makes some clever designs.
The web was slow so making myself a holiday treat did double duty. I had to talk my husband into a quick photoshoot over dinner so that I could make a post of it. I envisioned one of those lovely long neck shots but that would take some major photoshopping.
This is all to tell you that I’m definitely on holiday and that I hope you’re playing around too.
Pull out those tools and tutorials that you just had to try and then lost track of. Whip up something fun for yourself.
Ireland’s Fiona Herbst has added this simple sophisticated pendant design to her holiday lineup. Colors like these are easy to wear with almost anything.
She knew she was onto something when the pendant was snatched up before it made it online.
Browse through Fiona’s Instagram to see what other crowd-pleasers she’s creating for the season.
Over at StudioMojo, we’ll be looking at more holiday offerings and I’ll share what my trainwreck of a week taught me.
An appealing pile of what looks like polymer rocks from Russia’s Anna Bragina (Braga) becomes even more captivating when arranged into a necklace.
The stones could have been sculpted from the same block of granite.
Some of her smooth shapes are available as cutters from the GF Art Store on Etsy. See what other pieces she makes with these graceful shapes on her Instagram and Facebook.
This is turning into Mystery Week! Thanks to you eagle eye readers, we can properly identify Tuesday’s Zippo lighter creator as Moscow’s Svetlana (JeweleryClaire) Likhova. Svetlana also created this iPhone case and any number of steampunk items.
The bonus to my mistakes is that we learned that Svetlana sells the cutters that make the tiny gauges, gears, and parts that appear in her work!
You also correctly named Monday’s creator of wall art bowls as Valérie Ronvel-Blaya aka Veesuel on FB. Thank you all for the assists.
Russia’s Anna Bragina’s brooches have an unmistakeable heft, a smoothly rounded solid feel to them. These are from her Unprecedented Flowers series of brooches shown on Flickr and Facebook.
The solid shapes are created with the cutters she sells on Etsy. She combines the shapes in unusual ways topping them with glass beads and stones.
A flawlessly smooth finish completes the feeling of solid beauty.
Join us over at StudioMojo this Saturday for a newsletter full of more tools and unusual tips for your work.
A jolt of color propels us through the week. This one is an award winner from France’s Alabala Bijoux (I couldn’t find her name). It was named the winner in round one of the Lucy Clay Cutters Challenge for October.
You can’t lose with circles and she shows us how with cane slices of several sizes, colors and gradations layered on a base. It’s a cheerful and energetic piece to help us round out the week.
