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The Art of Polymer Clay

$19.96 cost

Rarely has a volume featured so much pioneering work! With the latest translucent, metallic, and liquid polymers added to their arsenal, jewelry artists have pushed beyond the craft’s traditional boundaries and entered new creative worlds. This collection of exquisite contemporary jewelry showcases that progress, offering inventive techniques, insights from contemporary creators, and eye-opening pieces by the premier innovators in polymer clay. Judith Skinner, who developed the now universally termed "Skinner blend," offers a pin featuring a design inspired by an Amish quilt. Mixed-media artist Luann Udell demonstrates how to create a brilliantly colored necklace from faux African trade beads. And that’s just the start! All the pieces appear in beautiful color images, accompanied by the artists’ design tips and illuminating commentary.

 

 

Polymer Pizzazz

$15.99 cost

Polymer Pizzazz is the essential resource for people who want to learn to use polymer clay. This book showcases the many ways of using the material to create beads, pendants brooches, and earrings, and it includes a Basics section! Readers will learn to make painted disk beads,marbled beads, filigree beads, and more. Also includes techniques such as canes, chains and faux jewelry including, faux cinnabar, faux porcelain, faux lacquer, and faux stone pieces. 96 pages, 370 color photos.

 

Welcome to the Jungle

$7.96 cost

Polymer clay sculpture incorporating stone, beads and pearls. Tips, techniques, inspirational ramblings, creative nudgings and step by step instructions to help you create.

 

Under the Sea

$7.96 cost

Polymer clay sculpture incorporating stone, beads and pearls. Tips, techniques, inspirational ramblings, creative nudgings and step by step instructions to help you create.

 

Cats big & small

$7.96 cost

Polymer clay sculpture incorporating stone, beads and pearls. Tips, techniques, inspirational ramblings, creative nudgings and step by step instructions to help you create.

 

Down Under

$7.96 cost

Tips, techniques, inspirational ramblings, creative nudgings and step by step instructions to help you create.

 

Birds of a Feather

$7.96 cost

Polymer clay sculpture incorporating beads, pearls & mixed media.

 

Polymer Clay Beads

Techniques, Projects, Inspiration

$19.96 cost

Twenty different crafting methods—countless breathtaking beads, all made from easy to work with polymer clay! The varied techniques in this comprehensive skill-building book—many of which have never before been published—range from hand-formed tubes, spheres, wedges, teardrops, and baguettes to traditional mokume gane with fantastic layered effects. Add mica clay to create iridescent “ghost image” beads. Construct veneered pillow beads. Carve beads, press-mold them, or even use a cookie-cutter to get an array of fabulous shapes. Turn and form the bead on an extremely affordable craft lathe. Close-up photos show every step in the process, as well as the completed beads; some also appear as part of a finished piece of jewelry for inspiration.

 

Creative Ways With Polymer Clay

$13.56 cost

“Has the...advantage of tapping into the different expertise and styles of a variety of practitioners. Crafters can pick from among 31 projects, ranging from traditional (Chinese good-luck lantern) to extraordinarily modern (tiny jointed teddy bear)....A gallery of artists...adds insight and inspiration.”—Booklist.

 

Artful Ways With Polymer Clay

$14.36 cost

In her follow-up to the popular Creative Ways with Polymer Clay, Dotty McMillan offers more techniques, more tips, and more magnificent projects to delight any crafter. All the basics are covered, with plenty of colorful photos illustrating the details: safety considerations, choosing and preparing the clay, baking, mixing colors, and mastering fundamental principles of design. See how to create incredible image transfers, produce beautiful molds, do simple silk screening, add ingenious inclusions, and glaze, crackle, antique, and more. Fashion a fabulous Knotty Bracelet, Calico Cats, Mini-Kaleidoscope pendants, funky frames, a Treasure Box, a Sparkling Sun Catcher, Stained Glass Eggs, and other exquisite items, some presented by top polymer clay artists.

 

Perfectly Paired Designing Jewelry with Polymer & Metal Clays

$17.56 cost

Artist & author Patricia Kimle orchestrates a masterful convergence of media whether it's drawing color from polymer clay or structure from metal clay, every jewelry piece showcases the best of each element. Her meticulous attention to detail & construction results in expert instructions for creating heirloom-quality jewelry.

Twenty gorgeous projects include pendants, neclaces, bracelets, earrings & pins. Designs range from whimsical to elegant.

 

Steampunkery

$11.96 cost

"Steampunk" is a look of sorts of Victorian-era mad scientist-adventer look - all clockwork gears & brassy bits, leathery straps, & even the occasional bit of lacy filigree. A wonderful way to comine polymer clay sculpting tricks with embellishments of vintage pieces, found objects & stuff you have in your craft stash.

By Christi Friesen

 

Polymer Clay & Mixed Media Together at Last

$15.99 cost

Incorporating craft materials & found objects in clay fiqures.

By Chrisi Friesen

 

Image Transfer on Clay

$19.96 cost

Today's computer programs, joined with the latest clay & printing techniques, open up a whole new world of creative possibilities. Artist Paul Andrew Wandless demonstrates the exciting potential of each method, & provides a showcase of more than 100 innovative works.

 

Artful Polymer Clay

$15.96 cost

Create anything from stylish jewelry to beautiful home decor with Artful Polymer Clay. Detailed instructions and photography explain 10 different techniques thoroughly, including shaping, molding, punching, and more, helping you create elegant cameos, pendants, frames, containers, and other attractive items.

 

Making Polymer Clay Beads

Step-by-step techniques for creating beautiful ornamental beads.

$19.96 cost

Learn how to handle and work with polymer clay - a synthetic clay that doesn't shrink or change texture when cured - in a comprehensive introduction to materials, tools, and equipment for bead-making techniques.

 

Enchanted Adornments

$19.98 cost

Creating mixed-media jewelry with metal clay, wire, resin & more.

 

Polymer Clay Beaded Jewelery

$11.00 cost

Clear, step-by-step instructions on how to make beads from polymer clay, and how to use them to create beautiful jewellery. - All the methods, techniques, materials and equipment are described in detail, making this book suitable for beginners and experienced crafter alike. - Covers a broad range of contemporary and traditional styles.

 

Creative Canes

30 + Cane techniques with polymer clay

$12.99 retail

 

Bead Techniques

Clay Jewelry with Bead Rollers

This technique-based book gives you the knowledge to create unique wearable art.

$7.99 retail

 

Art Faces in Clay

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced clay sculptor, you will enjoy the cheerful variety of whimsical creations Maureen Carlson presents in this book

$16.99 retail

 

My Favorite Things in Polymer Clay

Stunning beaded jewelry, delicate flower petals that look absolutely real and fun clay accents on journals, frames and home decor. Donna Kato a well known clay artist has impressed her audience again with a beautiful book.

$16.99 retail

 

Clay Techniques with a Pasta Machine

In this book, learn techniques for using a pasta machine with polymer clay that include Basic Skinner Blend, Skinner Cane, Skinner Loaf, several Stripes, Jelly Rolls, Checkerboards, Nine-Patch designs, Mokume Gane, Marbling, and Watercolor mixing.

$7.99 retail

 

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