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Carved Bead Video

29 Wed Jul 2020

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boho, earrings, free tutorial, handmade beads, polymer clay, tutorials02, video tutorial

I have finished editing another video which has been quite a feat now that it is school holidays. It’s an offshoot from my previous tutorial where I go off on a tangent and start carving the beads.

Here are some boho earrings I made using the finished beads.

I hope you find it interesting.

New video tutorial: heishi beads

16 Thu Jul 2020

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I have finally managed to get another video tutorial filmed and edited. It’s a pretty simple tutorial since I’m still practising the video making. It’s mainly a tip I learned the slow way when making the heishi beads for my Thunderbird necklaces.

Hopefully I’ll get some more tutorials made soon. That’s if I can figure out how to get a longer video clip off my phone!

Let me know if there are any techniques you would be interested in seeing.

Veneer bead tutorial

11 Sun Nov 2018

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Here’s a video showing my method of making polymer clay beads using a core of scrap clay and a decorative veneer on the outside. Previously I did a picture tutorial of this technique.

Enjoy.

Sanding tip

04 Thu Oct 2018

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Here’s a little sanding tip for when your polymer clay has wire embedded in it.

I’m working on a series of short tutorials around this project, but I’m a bit inexperienced with video editing so I started with something small.

Rustic stack beads

31 Sun Aug 2014

Posted by fulgorine in How to, Inspiration, My work, Tutorial

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beads, earring, free tutorial, gradient, handmade, necklace, polymer clay, rustic, Sonya Girodon

I was inspired by Sonya Girodon’s necklace “Skeleton Coast“ to make beads by stacking layers of polymer clay.

"Skeleton Coast"

I was quite pleased with my efforts at the time but unfortunately now that I look at them in comparison to hers they look horribly juvenile. Or maybe it’s just because I’m having an “everything I do is horrible” day? 😦

Gradient stack earrings by Cate van Alphen

Gradient stack bead earrings by Cate van Alphen

Polymer clay earrings by Cate van Alphen

Earrings with dangle by Cate van Alphen

Anyway check out Sonya’s work, she even shares a tutorial for making beads similar to the focal ones in the necklace.

How to make mobius Christmas ornaments

29 Fri Nov 2013

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christmas ornament, Christmas ornaments, craftworkshop, decoration, extruder cane, free tutorial, how to, jelly roll cane, metallic clay, ornament, polymer clay

Here are some videos of the demo I did at Craftworkshop making mobius Christmas ornaments.

The first video has some information about using metallic clay, and I made a jelly roll cane.

Next I made a surface sheet with an Easy Peasy Extruder Cane thanks to Ron Lehocky (see this article about him – he’s made over 24,000 hearts to sell for charity!).

Finally I make the ornament and… it all goes wrong!

I used a different brand of clay for the second try ornament and I had some issues when I baked it 😦 I’ll try to do another post about that with images, but in the meantime I suggest you do the following:

  1. Put a drop of liquid clay on the tips before you pinch them to make sure they stick together
  2. Don’t rest your ornament on a tile to bake – suspend it from a bead pin or try to support in some way (perhaps with balls of foil).

* Edit: see my follow up post about the problems I had *

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Fine marble cane tutorial

24 Wed Jul 2013

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cane, free tutorial, how to, marble, polymer clay, tutorial

This gallery contains 15 photos.

Here is a marble cane that I first made for baby’s lantern. I always get stressed when marbling beads about …

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