Polymer clay challenge week 40 – bead

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2015PCchallenge, beads, flower cane, lavender, polymer clay

For this week of my 2015 Polymer Clay Challenge, I made beads using my violet colour palette. I reduced and mirrored my flower cane to form a pattern like you’d find on fabric.

Floral fold beads by Cate van Alphen

I made fold beads. They are smaller than I’ve made previously because I wanted to keep them under an inch, so they don’t become focals.

Floral fold beads by Cate van Alphen

I also made some triangular pillow bead headpins. I even sanded the fronts! Unfortunately the sanding rubbed off some of the silver coating on the copper wire, but as long as I add a bead or wrap the top I think they’ll be ok.

Polymer clay headpins by Cate van Alphen

Of course I couldn’t decide if the triangles should point up or down, so I made some of each.

Triangle pin pair by Cate van Alphen

The backing colour is the colour I mixed from the cane ends. It’s not strictly in the palette, but I thought it was pretty. It makes me think of lavender soap.

Polymer clay headpins by Cate van Alphen

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My bead soup has arrived

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bead caps, Bead Soup Blog Party, beads, embroidered focal, embroidery, floral, flower, lavender, purple, Wendy Chamberlain

I was delighted to discover that my bead soup had arrived this morning from my partner Wendy Chamberlain. Here’s an explanation of what the Bead Soup Blog Party is.

But what’s inside?

Yummy! I have noticed that my camera does peculiar things with the colour purple so the various shades of the beady allsorts don’t show up well in the photo. I’m really excited to have a selection of bead caps and charms to play with. 🙂

Here’s a close up of the elegant embroidered focal pendant. I love the flower toggle, it’s so pretty. The crochet beads are amazing, I wonder how they are made!