Chinese knots earrings and bracelet - 32 of 366 creative days

32/366

  For the thirty second day of 366 creative days  I have done a pair of earrings and a bracelet from pastel colors silk rope using Chinese knots and eternity knots.

Chinese and eternity knots on earrings and bracelet

  
    Was easy but they require a lot of patience and time to space them and do them same size. I am pleased with the result, I will use these knots along with the Kumihimo braid for various bead variations.

Extruded polymer clay stripes - 31 of 366 creative days

31/366

  For the thirty first day of 366 creative days I have done some testing with extruded polymer clay rainbow stripes from those logs done in the third day.

 
 You can see the stripe combination before extruding and after extruding you can see the heads, tail and two randoms middle. The extruded shape square is about 5 mm, so it wasn't a good idea, probably with more material and a bigger extruder gun would look better.
  I like the rainbow variation very much, I will try on white next time, maybe some transparent as well when I will get my hands on some.

Polymer clay surprise earrings - 29 of 366 creative days

29/366

  In the twenty ninth day of 366 creative days I finally finished my polymer clay "surprise" earrings I started in the fourteenth day with the polymer clay disk earrings.

PMC copper teal earrings

 
  They look very earthy colored on one side, imitating copper with a texture like those genuine copper vases you find in the old bazaars, like is beaten with a hammer, with a kumihimo thread I have done two days ago with similar colors. The surprise come from the vivid colors underneath, with a sand rock texture, those that you can only see when they are moving following the head direction, showing only a glimpse of  the colors underneath.

Polymer clay "surprise" earrings

  Another surprise come from the way I made them so you can wear them on one side or the other, or even as I showed them on the photos here(not the best quality again, but I tried).


The color mix recipes can be found here: http://shapeshadecolor.blogspot.com.cy/2011/07/color-mix-teal-10-of-366-creative-days.html

The four elements - colors - 22 of 366 creative days

21/366

  For the twenty two creative day I decided is time to work on something that will actually have a presentable end, something that will look like a jewelry of some sort.
  So I choose the theme: the four elements.
  I have choose the design style: waves into a square shaped pendant.
  I have decided the colors:

The four elements colors

   I will start working on some color mixing charts tomorrow and help I will reach the desired ones soon.

Textured stamp molds - 20 of 366 creative days

20/366
 For twentieth day I have done few molds and their negatives for stamping and more insertion molds I plan doing in the future. I have done them using polymer clay Fimo effect transparent, cause I want to use them as color mixing example as well.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials

          1 - 374 (transparent blue)
          2 - 404 (orange)
          3 - 104 (yellow)
          4 - 374+104
          5 - 374+204
          6 - 204 (red)
          7 - 22(raspberry)+61(purple)+62(lavender)
          8 - 104+204
          9 - 374+404(unbaked was grey)
          10 - Sculpey mold maker - the whitish line

b - Tools
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c - Techniques
          1 - I made the negatives using various forms and baked them, after I used the mold maker to get the positives again.

d - End result

Textured stamp molds and negatives

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e - Used for


          - Stamping and more texture mold insertion making

f - Other info
 - this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about how I did it, let me know.

Thank you!
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Crochet silk and beads bracelet - 19 of 366 creative days

19/366
 For nineteenth day  have finished the bracelet started two days ago by doing the centerpiece and getting them all together.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - Used for
e - Other info

a - Materials
          1 - Plastic and metal rings 15mm resp 10mm diameter
          2 - Glass beads
          3 - Metal beads
          4 - Turquoise polymer clay beads
          5 - Silver and gold metal wire for sewing
          6 - Silk dark red yarn
         
b - Tools
          1 - Crochet hook 1.0
          2 - Beading needle(very thin)
          3 - Pliers

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c - Techniques
          1 - Crochet around the ring and sew the beads

d - Used for

Crochet red silk and beads bracelet finished

e - Other info
- this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about how I did it, let me know.

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Silk and beads rings part two - 18 of 366 creative days

18/366
For eighteenth day I have continued the bracelet made from knitted rings, colored glass beads and turquoise beads I have made myself, the same one I started the day before.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials

          1 - Plastic or metal rings 15mm diameter
          2 - Glass beads
          3 - Metal beads
          4 - Turquoise polymer clay beads
          5 - Silver and gold metal wire for sewing
          6 - Silk dark red yarn
         
b - Tools
          1 - Crochet hook 1.0
          2 - Beading needle(very thin)
          3 - Pliers
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c - Techniques
          1 - Crochet around the ring and sew the beads

d - End result

Red silk and beads rings

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e - Used for



f - Other info
- this is the second stage, only the centerpiece left after this
- this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about how I did it, let me know.

Thank you!
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Turquoise earrings - 16 of 366 creative days

16/366
For the sixteenth day I have tested some rings in order to put some oval shaped beads together in a pair of earrings. Of course, they need some more fixing since they refuse to stay the way I placed them but I will add some glue or liquid polymer clay and a metallic bead in center.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials
          1 - Silver plated rings - 3 sizes
          2 - Polymer clay turquoise oval beads I have done before
          3 - Earring hook


b - Tools
          1 - 1.5 mm drill
          2 - Pliers

c - Techniques
          1 - Enlarge the holes in the beads and make a second holes next to first for one of the beads

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d - End result

Polymer clay turquoise earrings

e - Used for
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f - Other info
          - this is not done due to the instability of the beads on the wire, but I like the idea.
          - this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about how I did it, let me know.

Thank you for your support!
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Polymer clay disk earrings - 14 of 366 creative days

14/366
For the fourteenth day I did a pair of polymer clay earrings with two colored faces disks.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials
          1 - Color 9 and 3 from the teal color mix
          2 - Color 2 from the gun extruder gun experiment
          3 - Polymer clay scraps from all the other experiments


b - Tools
          1 - Extruder gun
          2 - Tissue blade
          3 - Sand rock and a small round ball
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c - Techniques
          1 - Random place slices of clay scraps in the extruder
          2 - Make balls of same diameter for same type of disk. Place the 2 round ball of the same size but different colors on top of each other and start pressing even on both so they can get to the same disk size same.
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d - End result

Polymer clay earrings

e - Used for
          Will be added later
f - Other info
          - unbaked polymer clay colors(uncured)
          - this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about how I did it, let me know.

Thank you!
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Polymer clay beads - 13 of 366 creative days

13/366
  For the thirteen day of 366 creative days I have made beads from the polymer clay patterns I have done in the previous days, as well as from mixing those or tried some new polymer clay techniques that I learned.
  I will cheat a bit cause I got carried away and forgot to post so I will change the hour so it will look like I posted yesterday.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials
          1 - Clay gun experiment (1/366)
          2 - Pastel Mokume Gane (2/366)
          3 - Extruded turquoise-emerald logs (6/366)
          4 - Gradient Ikat (9/366)
          5 - Base was made from that version of light terracotta used at the flower shaped pendats

b - Tools
          1 - Pasta machine
          2 - Tissue blade
          3 - Toothpicks
          4 - Hard flat piece of acrylic for the swirls
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c - Techniques
          1 - I cut slices from the polymer clay unbaked patterns and added them on the beads
          2 - Some of them I modeled by hand with the toothpick afterward

d - End result

Polymer clay beads

          Sorry for the bad photo.

e - Used for
           Will be added later.

f - Other info
          - the sizes varies between 1.1cm and 1.8 cm
          - unbaked(uncured)
          - this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about how I did it, let me know.

          Thank you for your support!
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Color mix -teal - 10 of 366 creative days

10/366
This is tenth day of 366 creative days.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials

1 -1x10(lemon)+1x37(pacific blue)
2 - 2x16(sun flower)+a pinch of 37(pacific blue)
3 -Pos 2+ 2x0(white)
4 -1x75(chocolate)
5 -1x26(cherry red) - would be nice some dark red, like 23(Bordeaux)
6 -1x11(gold)
7 - 3x37(pacific blue)+1x16(sun flower)+1/4x9(black)
8 - 1x37(pacific blue)+a pinch of 16(sun flower)
9 - 1x37(pacific blue)+2x0(white)+1/8x16(sun flower)
10 - 3x0(white)+1xPos 1
11 - Pos 3 +2x0(white)+1x16(sun flower)
12 - 1x16(sun flower)
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b - Tools

1 - Eyes and hands


e - Used for
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      Will be added later

f - Other info
- colors are not cured, they will go darker, specially the red(or at least I hope it will)
- I know that red/pinkish color is not the best but may look good, I added it for fun, first option was to use 1+2+6 and some gold leaf
- Inspiration for first was a sequence in the Nanny McPhee movie(no, that red wasn't there, for second was a Ceratosoma
- this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project.
Thank you!
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Water ball and flower made with Adobe Illustrator

   Look what I found in a folder somewhere. Is from the time I was trying to do a website for someone(that I didn't finished) and needed a water drop made in illustrator.

Ball made with Illustrator

   Of course no tutorial over the internet so I made one looking at someone elses trying to figure out how. Wasn't easy at all but...And of course, I think I lost the .ai file so now if I want to make another one I need to start it all over, but I think I wrote some steps on a notebook somewhere.

   Also found a flower that I made inspired by a real one that I had between the sheets of a book, very old flower, looked like the one in the picture, but more brownish. Was a cactus flower and had some little dots on it that I left aside.

Transparent Flower made with Illustrator

White background

   The petals are transparent and I have the original .ai file so I can see the steps in case I want to do something similar. Is been so long I think I forgot even the tools.
   I wonder if I can use this shadow effect in polymer clay and so something similar, just for the kicks...

Turquoise-emerald beads - 6 of 366 creative days

6/366
This is sixth day of 366 creative days

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials

1. Polymer clay colors

          1 - 1x0(white) + 3x32(turquoise)+black painting
          2 - 2x014(transparent white)+1x32(turquoise)
          3 -1x56(emerald)
          4 - 1x404(transparent orange)+2x504(transparent green)
          5 - 1x504(transparent green)+1x014(transparent white)
          6 -1x504(transparent green)
          7 - 1x504(transparent green)+1x374(transparent blue)+1x014(transparent white)
          8 -  2x504(transparent green)+2x374(transparent blue)
          9 - 1x014(transparent white)
          10 -  Silver leaf
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b - Tools
           Forgot to take a picture, also to add the extruded tube when finishes, getting too tired I think.
          1 - Pasta machine
          2 - Extrude gun
          3 - Tissue blade
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c - Techniques

2. Tube to be extruded and Mokume gane layers

          1 -I made the tube layers of different sizes, vary between 1 and 6, depending on the mat left from each material. Cut 3 disks for each material and also added some turquoise dried and run trough a pasta machine( was looking more like rice) as a disk.
          2 - For the layers I run them at setting 8, then placed each contrasting 3 together and between them silver leaf.
          3 -For the blocks in image 3 I got all the rest materials cut them very very small and mixed them with a 10 cm/5cm silver leaf or gold(the smaller one) and made a block of out them keeping them as natural as possible.
          4 - Beads and drops are made from scrap left from the Mokume gane layers.

          5 - To make the turquoise beads I used paint with turquoise bits and left it to dry 1-2 days then put it all together and when I needed I cut chunks of it in small bits again and mixing it with 1xwhite+2xturquoise polymer clay

d - End result

3. Beads and blocks

e - Used for
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f - Other info
          - For the cubes at the end I used chunks of white, big mistake
          - colors aren't quite accurate
          - all this is unbaked, they will look more transparent when they will be cured
          - this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about this method let me know.

Thank you for your support!
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Stripes polymer clay cane - 3 of 366 creative days

3/366
This is for third day of 366 creative days.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials

1. Polymer clay colors and tools

          1 -1x9(black)
          2 -1x63(plum)
          3 - 1x35(Windsor blue)+1x37(pacific blue)
          4 - 1x56(peppermint)+1x39(emerald)+1x014(translucent)- next time use 56(emerald) instead
          5 -1x26(cherry red)+1x42(tangerine)+8x16(sun flower)
          6 -1x7(caramel)+5x24(indian red)+5x26(cherry red) - not sure about the quantities
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b - Tools

          1 - Tissue blade
          2 - Ruler

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c - Techniques

2. Stripes made out of black and colors

          1 - Black stripes thickest setting, colored stripes on the 5-7 setting(here is 5, I wish I used thinner)
          2 - Stripes cut same width and length before layering them

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d - End result

3. Beads done from uneven ends

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          Unbaked beads. The initial idea was to make 1.5 mm thick hexagonal slices, but those round ones got the best versions with what tools I have.

e - Used for
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           Will be added later

f - Other info
          - this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about this method let me know.

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Pastel Mokume Gane - 2 of 366 creative days

2/366
This is for second day of 366 creative days.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials

1. Polymer clay colors and tools

          1 - 1x10(lemon)+7x014(translucent)
          2 -1x404(translucent orange)+3x014(translucent)
          3 - 1x404(translucent orange)+1x374(translucent blue)+2x014(translucent)
          4 - 1x39(peppermint)+10x014(translucent)
          5 - Silver leaf
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b - Tools
          6 - Cutter
          7 - Skin blade
          8 - Pasta machine
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c - Techniques

2. Layers of polymer clay and silver sheets

          7 - Layers of the polymer clay sheets(thinnest setting) and silver leaf

          8 -Roll, zig zag, add some shapes under to deform the sheet and shave layers, etc.
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d - End result

3. Models made from the Polymer clay and silver foil layers

4. Mokume Gane bead

          In image 4 I added a slice from the wavy design on a green bead. They are all unbaked, all colors will become transparent when they will be baked.
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e - Used for
          Will be added later
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f - Other info
          - this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about this method let me know.

Thank you for your support!

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Clay gun Experiment - day one of 366 creative days

1/366
This is for day one of the 366 creative days project.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials

Polymer clay colors and tools

          Fimo polymer clay
          1 - 1x70(sahara)+1x014(translucent)
          2 - 1x35(windsor blue)+1x37(pacific blue)
          3 - 1x56(peppermint)+1x39(emerald)+1x014(translucent)
          4 - 11(gold)
          10 - 75(chocolate)
          9 - scrap from random amount of those 4 polymer clay colors

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   b - Tools


           5 - clay extruder with a square cap
           6 - circular cutter(I didn't have a cookie cutter so i used the inner side of a lipstick)
           7 - 3 circles cap
           8 - blade

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   c - Techniques

Tube made from polymer clay buttons

            I stashes the colors in a random order and then thinned the snake a bit to fit the extruder diameter

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d - End result

 

           1 - all 5 colors and 3 circles extruder cap, not cured

           2 - all 5 colors and square extruder cap, not cured

           3 - only 4 colors, haven't used color 1 and square extruder ca, not cured

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   e - Used for

           Will be added later

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    f - Other info

        - this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about this method let me know.

    Thank you for your support!

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No more planning

Enough with the planning, too many ideas. It's time to do something!

Diana's macro flowers - a set I organized a posted(actually one of the plans I got to the end) for the mother's day)

Romanian flag Tux penguin

Santa Tux penguin

A project that started with Tux with Romanian flag and died with the Christmas Tux.

I also wanted to post every years Cyprus Lemessos Carnival Parade, but I found out that I need to pay to post more pictures so I stopped with the 2008 set. I still have the 2009 prepared, few pictures with 2010, and 2011 as well, maybe...

Started a site as well, but same problem, can't pull myself together to write regularly.
Other plans: working in photoshop, illustrator, using a graphic tablet, learn properly how to draw, make jewelry, write some diet recipes that actually taste good.
Unfortunately is nobody to push me to do all that, like my mother used me to. yes, I blame my parents for almost all my negatives and on genetics  for all my positives.