Orange jelly hearts - 57 of 366 creative days

57/366

   For the fifty seventh of 366 creative days I have done something for the stomach again.
   Orange jelly hearts diet recipe(diet sweets, oh yah!):
     - juice from 6 oranges
     - 3-4 spoons of sweetener( it needed to be diet, right)
     - 3 bags of gelatin powder
     - 1/2 teaspoon orange coloring( I didn't have orange so I used yellow and fuchsia- this is a hard name for strong pink; and some other color if you like to do a mix)

  Place the orange juice and sweetener in a pan and add to boil(if you have saccharin, put it after you remove from fire and got a bit colder)  1-2 minutes, then remove from fire and add the gelatin stirring continuously until it melts.
 Separate in different bowls if you want different colors and add the coloring. Pour into heart shapes or what shapes you desire and place it on refrigerator for an hour or until it gets hard and cold. Remove, ornate, eat.
 Here is the picture that inspired me(by inspire I mean made me crave orange jelly hearts sweets). Thanks to Sanyu for creating that palette for me(it really makes a statement) and the pattern template and novrain62 for being inspired to use the template and that palettes to color it!

   Thank you and forgive me I didn't have a green plate :D (grin)!

PMC extruder canes earrings - 26 of 366 creative days

26/366
   For the twenty sixth day I finished a pair of polymer clay earrings from some previous tries on extruded canes with some leftover oranges, transparent and matte as well with some canes from the turquoise emerald beads on sixth day.

Polymer clay extruded cane earrings

   This is my second pair of finished polymer clay earrings, first I have done some years ago and gave it to a friend.

Mixing colors for Fire element - 23 of 366 creative days

23/366

Today I mixed around 20 combination of yellow red and orange, I will post a picture after baking them.

 

   Colors are nice, but mixing Fimo with Sculpey studio was a bad idea, they become very very soft and sticky. I still like Fimo's colors better, they are more vivid after baking compared to Sculpey Studio and they are similar tints.

   I used: 

Fimo: 

 - Effect: 104(yellow), 204(red), 404(orange), 112(gold), 202(red)

 - Classic: 15(golden yellow), 2(red), 23(bordeaux)

 - Soft: 16(sun flower)

Sculpey Studio:

 - 6210(poppy), 6440(clementine), 6431(lemon drop), 6434(sunny side up)

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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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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Polymer clay flower shaped pendants - 12 of 366 creative days

12/366
For the twelve day of 366 creative days I made three polymer clay flower shaped pendants using the material  combination I have done in previous posts.

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

a - Materials

           1 - Turquoise polymer clay extruded logs(6/366)
           2 - Polymer clay gun experiment, the logs(1/366)
           3 - Polymer clay gradient Ikat(9/366)
           4 - For base I used some old materials, I got by mistake a lighter version of brick color: 1x4(orange)+1x62(lavender), could also be done with: 1x404(translucent orange)+1x42(tangerine)+1x62(lavender)+a pinch of 24(indian red)
           5 - Another polymer clay gun experiment with Fimo Effect translucent clay I did before starting to post - same as for fish
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b - Tools

           1 - Pasta machine
           2 - Tissue blade
           3 - Cookie cutter
           4 - A lot of patience and non shaky hands



c - Techniques
           1 - Applied  thin layers over the base

d - End result
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Polymer clay flower shaped pendants

e - Used for
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           Will be added later
f - Other info
           - They are about 4 cm diameter
           - The polymer clay pendants are not cured yet
           - 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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Pendant and earrings - 11 of 366 creative days

11/366
This is eleventh day of 366 creative days.

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

a - Materials

1 - Clay Gun experiment(2/366)
2 - Another clay gun experiment I did before starting to post from some weird tries colors
3 - Uneven stripes from same color experiment

b - Tools

1 - Circular cookie cutter
2 - Blade
3 - Pasta machine
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c - Techniques
1 - Overlap when cutting to have same shape
2 - Add slices from canes on a previously cut shape

d - End result

Earrings, slices of extruded polymer clay

Polymer clay fish

e - Used for
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Finished earrings

f - Other info
- the fish looks was unintentional but I guess I cannot escape, I love fish, water and everything related. No, I cannot survive more than two weeks without eating fish!
- 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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Gradient Ikat - 9 of 366 creative days

9/366
This is ninth 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 color mix

  My favorites are the 2+9, 2+7 and 3+4 combination, the 3+4 can get a special hill type effect inside due to the mica shifting in the metallic gold.
          1 - 43(light flesh)
          2 - 10(lemon)+15(sun flower)+014(transparent white)+ a pinch of 26(cherry red)
          3 - 11(gold)
          4 - olive green made from an old mix, don't remember+some 50(apple green)
          5 - 1x504(transparent green)+1x014(transparent white)
          6 - 1x404(translucent orange)+2x014(translucent)+a pinch of 26(cherry red)
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          7 - 75(chocolate)
          8- olive green made from an old mix, don't remember
          9 - 2x504(transparent green)+2x014(transparent white)+1x33(ultramarine)

b - Tools

          1 - Tissue blade
          2 - Pasta machine
          3 -Piece of transparent acrylic plate for the swirl
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c - Techniques

2. Skinner blend color mix

3. Polymer clay gradient Ikat

          1 - Make skinner blend and squish them perpendicular to the colors  and get a 3 cm tube, then run trough a pasta machine to look like in the picture, usually on highest setting
          2 - Add some stripes of a contrasting color random on a tube of skinner blend, parallel with the colors then run them once fold, repeat this until your getting the color stripes result you want, the cut them and add them on top of each other. After that If you pass them trough a pasta machine perpendicular on colors, without thinking at what you want to use them, you will get the result on the image 3.
          3 - Place some colors and some other patterns on a bead, place the transparent acrylic sheet on top and start moving in circles(20-100 times, yes, you can pretend you do some fitness but the only thing you will get bigger is your wrists)

d - End result
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4. Polymer clay swirl, beads and leaf

e - Used for
          Will be added later

f - Other info
          - Unbaked colors
          - 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 to do it, let me know.

Thank you!
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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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