March 2010 Meeting

Robin Young demonstrated how she makes her disc beads. (Note: She was inspired a chapter in Ronna Sarvas Weltman's new book Ancient Modern: Polymer Clay & Wire Jewelry) but she changed the process quite a bit to make it uniquely Robin...

She also brought a couple fish pendants made for her daughter's upcoming Spring Break Cruise - fish with purses!

Michele Winegarden shared a couple large pendants she made - one using a face cane from a Barbara McGuire face cane slice.

Michele also brought a fantastic winged face pendant using a faux cloisonne technique.

Kim Keane shared several (she never makes just one!) pendants and beads made using a layering technique involving silver leaf, inks, liquid clay and more. She will demo this technique later this year.

Kim Keane's Faux Jade Beads

Here is the first of the explanations of  "how did you do that???" from the 2009 Kansas City Polymer Clay Guild's annual bead exchange. These are Kim's great jade tablet beads. Read how she did them below.






Jade; I used Dotty’s McMillan’s technique in her book Artful Ways with Polymer Clay. I mixed translucent and leaf green with a tiny bit of orange to create the jade color. Barbara McGuire’s beautiful stamps to make an impression. Baked then painted with titanium white. I then rubbed the white paint off leaving paint in the crevasse to look antiqued. Sanded and buffed.