Buckle up bracelets
Check out these belted bracelets from Belgium’s Delphine Vignoble.
This one sports an imitation green python texture with mahogany buckle.
Delphine composes her bangle entirely in Cernit to make simple and stylish arm candy.
Polymer petroglyphs
Texas’ Deb Hart shows the start of these petroglyphs on Instagram but how she arrives at the small squares with caned petroglyph images in the middle is still baffling.
They are built into an extruded string outline. Wow, that looks labor-intensive. She’s releasing more photos of her progress on the new inlays as she goes.
Here, she shows a Zuni Bear petroglyph and a coiled snake. Maybe she’s gearing up for a tutorial about her newly developed methods.
See an overview of Deb’s Southwest and Native American-inspired sculptures and jewelry on Flickr.
Leather polymer
France’s Del Roussel (EnRibambelle) has been experimenting with Fimo’s new Leather Effects clay on Instagram.
These 3-layer earrings make a lightweight feathery look for summer. I’m guessing the imitation leather is easy to cut and has some distinct characteristics that give it flexibility and texture.
Ginger Davis Allman (BlueBottleTree) reviewed it and Klio Tsaliki shows how she’s sewed it on Flickr. The EU artists and a few early adopters are whetting our appetites for this new variation of clay.
Polymer rolling stones
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.
Faux Faberge
France’s Mihaela Georgescu (LearnPolymerClay) gets you ready for Easter with her free YouTube tutorial that relies on Sutton slice steps for texture and embedded rhinestones for bling.
Is it time to dress up your Easter with some faux Faberge?
Polymer terrazzo
All the trends point to a resurgence of terrazzo (the chips of colors you see embedded in commercial flooring and old linoleum).
South Carolina’s Kathy Koontz (flowertown_originals) shows her way of bringing the trend to polymer. She grinds and grates baked scraps then rolls the small grated pieces into a solid color of unbaked clay. Voila! Terrazzo polymer style.
She shows her process on Instagram. Who says polymer can’t be trendy?
See-through polymer
In her latest batch of Flickr photos, Kathrin Neumaier gives us an update on her studies in coaxing liquid polymer to behave like glass.
This series appears to be solid. She says in her captions that she’s using liquid Fimo. Kathrin has also mastered using Cernit and other materials in her quest to unlock the secrets of how to imitate glass with polymer.
Do a search on PCD and you’ll see that we’ve been curious about Kathrin’s methods for years.Can you figure it out?
Lampworking sleight of hand
Anna Nel’s hollow beads look remarkably like lampwork. It’s Friday so you have the weekend to sit and study her beads and the cane they came from.
She uses some ingenious combination of mokume gane and Skinner blended bulleyes to pull off this sleight of hand. Anna says she was inspired by Arizona’s mountains. She even offers a photo of her luminous palette. Look on Facebook and Instagram.
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Conversational polymer
Nothing says Valentines Day to me more than old-fashioned conversation hearts. Arizona’s Barb Handy (barbiesbest) makes an exact copy in polymer that’s hard to resist.
They’re perfectly simulated from the chalky colors to the pink ink to the typeface. Her charms are made 1/4″ thick and drilled either vertically or horizontally. Barb has it down perfectly.
Happy Valentines Day!
Trickster polymer
We might as well stretch this holiday weekend for one more day with Leila Bidler’s Kokopelli, the Native American trickster god. Leila’s carved imitative stone gives New Year’s a touch of tribal. The how-to pictures on her Instagram show her methods.
Party’s over. It’s time to get busy again but no reason you can’t slip a memento like this in your pocket to remind you of what good times you intend for the year.