I began work on the Enchanted Challenge well over two years ago. Like many crafters, I purchased the book Enchanted Adornments more for the inspiration of beautiful projects that I did to actually duplicate the projects. I found that the techniques discussed took a...
I finished the next pendant in the Enchanted Challenge. I followed the instructions as if they were guidelines. The metal clay portion of this – the bail and frame were built ahead of time. Instead of excising designs into the polymer clay I used a stamp to press in...
This necklace turned out so pretty. And I love it all in copper with the crystals. To get the flowers to have some form, and not just be flat, I folded up some index cards as drying forms. The leaves and flowers did flatten out some during the firing process, but they...
I probably didn’t make enough vine pieces for this one. I wouldn’t make them longer, ’cause you want them to be functional links, but definitely more of them. I didn’t have any resin leaves lying around, and I didn’t want to make polymer clay ones–I was being lazy. I...
I began the process for this project a few months ago. I began by making polymer clay molds of some original nautical images. I know the design in the book calls for floral designs, but I needed to work with something that I knew I would be able to draw without having...
I began prepping for this project a while back. In March I made a bunch of polymer clay molds for some of the upcoming projects. This was one of them. I did something kind of stupid, I used “whatever” as the circle bases when I created the original. So when it came...
Confession time: I was so nervous making this ring! I haven’t had my fingers in metal clay in over 2 years. But I still have lots of clay. At some point, someone started packaging PMC+ in 2 gram packets with an eye hook, for quick pendants or something. I know I have...
Admittedly I made this piece a few years before I undertook the personal challenge to complete all the projects in the book Enchanted Adornments. But that goes to show you I have been influenced and working on projects from the book ever since I first got my hands on...
Working in base-metal clays is actually a lot of fun. Just as addictive as working in silver metal clays with out the expense. Especially since the silver market seems to fluctuate more than the cost of a pack of metal clay. One of the frustrations I had when I first...