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Polymer clay challenge – week 33

24 Wed Aug 2016

Posted by fulgorine in 2016 Polymer Clay Challenge, jewellery

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2016PCchallenge, bracelet, handmade beads, polymer clay, yellow

Here are a couple of bracelets that I made using my polymer clay beads. Since I actually made them last week I’ll put them down for week 33 of 2016 Polymer Clay Challenge, even though this blog entry is a bit late for that.

Kaleidoscope bead bracelet by Cate van AlphenYellow bead bracelet by Cate van Alphen

I used the colours from my Yellow Palette.

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Goodbye yellow

14 Tue Apr 2015

Posted by fulgorine in 2015 Polymer Clay Challenge, My work

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art beads, beads, Cate van Alphen, daffodil, handmade beads, necklace, yellow

Today is the last day of Yellow. I’ve been a bit more organised this time and I have listed most of the components in my bead shop.

Earring pair by Cate van Alphen

Earring pair by Cate van Alphen

Tassel pendant and buckle by Cate van Alphen

Tassel pendant and buckle by Cate van Alphen

Yellow tracery beads by Cate van Alphen

Yellow tracery beads by Cate van Alphen

I’ve kept a few components aside because I know how I want to string them to make a necklace. No doubt they will make it to my Etsy shop with finished pieces of jewellery like my Daffodil necklace eventually.

Daffodil necklace by Cate van Alphen

Daffodil necklace by Cate van Alphen

Goodbye (for now) yellow, it’s been fun!

Polymer clay challenge week 15 – toggle

13 Mon Apr 2015

Posted by fulgorine in 2015 Polymer Clay Challenge, Virtual Retreat

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2015PCchallenge, Cate van Alphen, handmade bead, mosaic, polymer clay, retro, toggle, yellow

This week I’m slightly early for my Polymer Clay Challenge piece because it’s nearly time to start the next colour – green. I made toggles this week. I kept it fairly simple because I knew I didn’t have much time to work on it. I wanted to make something to go with my retro beads.

Yellow focal toggle by Cate van Alphen

Yellow focal toggle by Cate van Alphen

Anke HumpertI used the cut and replace technique from Anke Humpert’s class on the Virtual Retreat. It’s the same on both sides, but I think it would be interesting to try contrasting colours on the reverse.

Mosaic focal toggle by Cate van Alphen

Mosaic focal toggle by Cate van Alphen

The mosaic focal toggle happened by accident because my on my first attempt the clay was a bit thin. Adding shards of polymer clay helped add some thickness and I like the look of it too 🙂

Now you can find it in my Etsy shop.

Polymer clay challenge week 14 – bead

09 Thu Apr 2015

Posted by fulgorine in 2015 Polymer Clay Challenge, My work, WIP

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Cate van Alphen, handmade bead, polymer clay, polymer clay beads, retro, tile bead, watercolour, yellow

This week I made yellow polymer clay beads again. I started off with some macaroni beads with random patches of colour made from leftover mokume gane sheet rolled to the thinnest setting and torn into small pieces. The result reminded me of painting watercolours onto wet paper.

Watercolour macaroni beads by Cate van Alphen

Watercolour macaroni beads by Cate van Alphen

I also made a curved piece that I was going to cut up into smaller beads, but I like it too much as a whole. I think I’ll make it into a torque necklace once I’ve done a bit more sanding and tidied up the ends.

Torque necklace - WIP by Cate van Alphen

Torque necklace – WIP by Cate van Alphen

Then because it was the Easter weekend, I decided I had some time to revisit the retro beads I made earlier in the year. I thought perhaps if I made several all together it would be quicker and more efficient. It wasn’t really 😐

Yellow retro tile beads by Cate van Alphen

Yellow retro tile beads by Cate van Alphen

Almost as soon as I’d made them I wanted to switch some of the colours around. I have an idea about what’s worrying me with these beads and I’ll get back to you as soon as I’ve figured out how to articulate it.

Retro tile beads by Cate van Alphen

Retro tile beads by Cate van Alphen

Polymer clay challenge week 13 – focal

02 Thu Apr 2015

Posted by fulgorine in 2015 Polymer Clay Challenge, My work

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2015PCchallenge, Cate van Alphen, focal bead, handmade bead, mokume gane, polymer clay, slider pendant, yellow

This week I made yellow polymer clay focals. I started off making a domed slider pendant that could also be used as a cabochon in a bead embroidery project.

Mokume gane slider pendant by Cate van Alphen

Mokume gane slider pendant by Cate van Alphen

I made a shank button to go with it too. (The wire in the pictures is there to show the position of the hole in the slider pendant.)

Back of slider pendant and shank button

Then I remembered I had timed yellow to this time of year so that I could make daffodils :). I decided to sculpt little daffodils, and to protect the tiny petals while the pendant is worn, I reused the mokume gane dome idea and cut a window to show the flowers inside.

Daffodil pendant by Cate van Alphen

Daffodil pendant by Cate van Alphen

Since I had matching beads from an earlier week, and a shank button to use as a closure (made using the clay from the hole of the dome), I couldn’t resist making a necklace.

Daffodil necklace by Cate van Alphen

Daffodil necklace by Cate van Alphen

The back of the pendant also has a mokume gane pattern.

Back of Daffodill necklace by Cate van Alphen

Back of Daffodill necklace by Cate van Alphen

But that’s not all! I also made a tassel pendant using a cylinder bead and some of my rustic sequin beads together with silk yarn, satin ribbon and coloured copper wire.

Tassel pendant by Cate van Alphen

Tassel pendant by Cate van Alphen

The last pendant is a work in progress. I still need to clean off the sanding dust and finish the edging. But I thought it was interesting to show the progression of the dome idea.

WIP Concentric dome pendant by Cate van Alphen

Concentric dome pendant by Cate van Alphen (WIP)

Polymer clay challenge week 12 – bead

26 Thu Mar 2015

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This week I made yellow beads for the 2015 Polymer Clay Challenge. I made some more of my patchwork beads.

Yellow patchwork polymer clay beads by Cate van Alphen

Yellow patchwork polymer clay beads by Cate van Alphen

Yellow patchwork polymer clay beads by Cate van Alphen

Yellow patchwork polymer clay beads by Cate van Alphen

They’re beads, they’re yellow – enjoy!

Polymer clay challenge week 11 – toggle

19 Thu Mar 2015

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2015PCchallenge, buckle, button, Cate van Alphen, daffodil, handmade bead, jewellery component, polymer clay, yellow

I’m so excited, I had an actual sunbeam this morning for taking photographs! I started this week off by making some buttons. They may look familiar from a couple of weeks ago when they were cabochons.

Polymer clay shank buttons by Cate van Alphen

Polymer clay shank buttons by Cate van Alphen

But now they’ve got their shanks on baby 😉

Polymer clay shank buttons by Cate van Alphen

Polymer clay shank buttons by Cate van Alphen

Next I made some bar buckles using the mokume gane sheet from last week. I also made a new sheet of mokume gane for the oval buckle using the offcuts which were still on my board.

Polymer clay buckles by Cate van Alphen

Polymer clay buckles by Cate van Alphen

I whipped up a bracelet using some old green ribbon and some of last week’s beads to test that the buckle actually worked.

Polymer clay and ribbon bracelet by Cate an Alphen

Polymer clay and ribbon bracelet by Cate an Alphen

It worked well until I took my jumper off and the whole bracelet came off too. The buckles hold quite well while the ribbon is horizontal, but when the buckles are lifted up they lose all tension and the ribbon just slips through. Maybe they would be better able to grip thicker (or rougher) fabric?

Daffodil bracelet by Cate van Alphen

Daffodil bracelet by Cate van Alphen

Perhaps the buckles should only used decoratively, or just to adjust the length rather than as a closure. I think they make interesting focals and I like the big hole button look of the round one. I’m sure they’d look great with sari silk, but I haven’t got any to test with. Or a band of macrame, but that will have to wait.

Polymer clay challenge week 9 – focal

05 Thu Mar 2015

Posted by fulgorine in 2015 Polymer Clay Challenge, My work

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2015PCchallenge, cabochon, Cate van Alphen, focal bead, handmade bead, pendant, polymer clay, yellow, zigzag

This is my first week making yellow components for my 2015 Polymer clay challenge. To explain how I got where I got, we need to go back to orange, and then even further back to when I was in primary school.

/\/\/\/\ Cue wibbly screen /\/\/\/\

For some of my primary schooling I went to a Waldorf school. This meant that all my books were little works of art. So for maths, instead of drawing a line between a day’s sums we drew a little pattern. The paper was grid lined so I invariably ended up with zigzags of increasing complexity. Sometimes there was more pattern than sums. So when I came to tidy away my orange canes, I saw a load of triangles. Lots of triangles = zigzag!

Zigzag pattern polymer clay cabochon by Cate van Alphen

Zigzag pattern polymer clay cabochon by Cate van Alphen

The first sheet I made was slightly clunky and approaching visual indigestion. I realised I needed areas of plain colour to break up the busy canes.

Polymer clay pattern sheet (WIP)

Polymer clay pattern sheet – WIP

Then, all too soon, it was time to switch to yellow. Since I’d spent so much time fiddling with the orange pattern sheets, I knew there wouldn’t be enough time to make yellow canes AND another zigzag sheet. So I made a mokume gane pendant that was a little underwhelming because it didn’t have the contrast (and I was worried other colours would swamp the yellow).

Yellow mokume gane pendant by Cate van Alphen

Yellow mokume gane pendant by Cate van Alphen

Along came Suzanne Ivester’s “Painting with Polymer” class on the Virtual Retreat and I realised I could use sheets of marbled clay like inlay.

Polymer clay pendant by Cate van Alphen

Yellow zigzag polymer clay pendant by Cate van Alphen

I also made a matching pair of focals, which I’ll probably use for earrings.

Earring focals by Cate van Alphen

Earring focals by Cate van Alphen

I also made some cabochons that will probably become shank buttons.

Polymer clay cabochons by Cate van Alphen

Polymer clay cabochons by Cate van Alphen

And I put some of the pattern off-cuts into a ready-made metal bezel.

Polymer clay pendant by Cate van Alphen

Polymer clay pendant by Cate van Alphen

It has been really strange working with a new palette of colours especially when I was part way through another project and some of the colours are the same. I think the biggest challenge with yellow will be not overwhelming it with its companions.

Yellow colour palette recipes

22 Sun Feb 2015

Posted by fulgorine in 2015 Polymer Clay Challenge, Tips

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colour mixing, colour recipe, Fimo, polymer clay, yellow, yellow palette

Here are my colour recipes for the yellow colour palette of my Spectrum Challenge. I have used Fimo Professional polymer clay.

Yellow colour palette

Yellow palette swatches

Light Yellow

  • 99 white
  • 1 true yellow

Yellow

  • 100 true yellow

Orange

  • 95 true yellow
  • 5 true red

Chocolate

  • 50 white
  • 17 true yellow
  • 25 true red
  • 8 black

Green

  • 89 true yellow
  • 10 true green
  • 1 black

Beige

  • 99 white
  • 0.45 true yellow *
  • 0.05 true green *
  • 0.5 black

* (0.5% mix of 90 true yellow 10 true green)

Now I’m off to mix colours 😉

From Summer sunshine to Autumn leaves

29 Tue Oct 2013

Posted by fulgorine in My work

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Autumn, beads, fire, necklace, orange, pendant, polymer clay, red, yellow

Back in May I decided to make a necklace using a pendant I had made with a yellow flower. At the time I had hardly any yellow beads so I specially ordered a sunshine mix of yellows and oranges. I ended up with a lot of leftover beads, so I decided to bead a necklace for my Fire Moon pendant.

Fire Moon pendant

Fire Moon pendant, polymer clay and glass nuggets by Cate van Alphen

My first attempt was a multi-strand necklace with a beaded toggle. There was nothing wrong with the necklace, but it just didn’t suit the pendant.

beaded toggle

So I tried again including burgundy ribbon and silk yarn and I was happier with the result.

Fire Moon necklace

I still had the first attempt necklace which now demanded a pendant, so I made a sheet of mokume gane to match the colours of the beads. I made several pendants (some still unfinished) until I settled on a large barrel bead pendant.

polymer clay pendant

unfinished pendants

unfinished pendants

Barrel bead necklace

Barrel bead necklace

What I find interesting is that now that it’s October those sunshiny Summer yellows look like fiery Autumn foliage. It just shows what a different perspective can do. Lately my glass has been half empty – I’m trying to see it full again.

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