Polymer Clay Journey: Video Share - What I Created With Some Of My Favourite Tube Beads

Hi guys! Hope you are all HeArtfully Creating! I am looking forward to spring, how about you? If you have been here before, you may know how much I love making tube beads with polymer clay. In fact, I got so hooked on them, I compiled quite a collection that kept me busy creating the beads instead of turning them into actual pieces of jewellery. These days, I have obsessed with making window clingies.

Does that happen to you? Do you discover new art making techniques or supplies and then that is all you can focus on until your next artistic discovery? That even happens to me with food choices as well. Eating a certain dish over and over until I can't look at it again!

Keeps life interesting (Guess it depends on your perspective.) Well, I want to share a short video of a new necklace that I did make as a result of my tube bead obsession. To watch it is right here below this:

This video was created for my A Bergie Creation Shop blog, so sorry, no Howard :o( Just thought it would be nice to show you how beautiful your creations can be when you add them to handmade jewellery pieces! Then maybe you will be inspired to pick up some of your collected pieces and place

them in a handmade piece of wearable art or something like that. Unless you create your beads or pendants and use them as you make them. There are artists out there who don't want to accumulate pieces. Whereas some are like me, build up my collection so I then can get reating jewellery.

Question for you today is?
Are you a 
A) Use as you create them artist?
OR
B) A Make them and accumulate them artist?

HeArtfully Creating,
Anita

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STUDIO TALK: Art Supplies- Procrastinating and Swatching Alcohol Inks, Pens and Paints

Hi guys! First I want to apologize because I just noticed that I accidentally shared a post last night about my earring meant to be shared on my A Bergie Creation Shop blog. I will leave it, but  I was clearly on the sleepy side to mis-post that.

Art Supply Addiction?

Anyhoo, back to what I wanted to share. If you love creating, then you also may love art supplies!

oooooo.....art supplies. I do love using these gel pens.

Actually, I kind of like to collect art making supplies. This may be you too. I buy supplies thinking at the moment that I need that so I can use it for....(fill in the blank). So I buy whatever it is and often never end up using whatever it may be. Afterall, you never know right?

First I Must...

Have you ever set out to create, but then didn't start  creating because you got it stuck in your head that you just can't make anything until you re-organize your art supplies and/or studio first? Happens to me all the time. Nothing wrong with organizing your supplies or space but, it never ends up the way I said it would! All tidied up, re-sorted my tools and what not and the day is over with no art work.. Not even a doodle!

Pilot Retractable  Gel Pens
Well, one way to organize but at least create something, is to make swatches of some of those art supplies. Take a look and see. The gel pens from Pilot are one supply I do use. Gel pens normally frustrate me because they dry out. Because my hands are weak, I can't do the lid thing. So I found these great retractable gel pens that open and close with ust a click. Love them! Here are the swatches I doodled as I organized :o)

Adirondack Alcohol Inks
These inks are great for colouring polymer clay, metal and basically any surface- including your fingers! I did sample two Pinata alcohol inks that are metallics, silver and gold. Check out my swatch  blobs. You can make your swatches as neat and tidy as you want or be more organic and free form like I tend to be. Take a look.

How do you organize your pens, paints, inks and such?
Do you collect Art Supplies?
What are your top three art supplies?

My "Artistic" Ink Swatches   

Pinata Ink -Gold And Silver (Shake First!)

Lumiere Metallic - Jewel Colours Decorative Paints
I bought a sample set of these beautiful paints to use with my polymer clay pieces. To have a visual record of their beauty, I blended colours into each other. The metallic paints. inks and clays are so beautiful. I adore glitter and anything that sparkles and glistens.
Remember to shake or stir all thinks metallic because usually there are Mica particles that settle to the bottom.

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How do YOU organize your pens, paints, inks and such?
Do you Like to collect Art Supplies?
What are YOUR top three art supplies?

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Anita

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NEW Medium Hoops Just Being Listed!

Hi guys! Thanks to a great customer, I have decided to make more variations of ABC's Not So Mini Variations and TWISTER Hoops. Making these available in other metals and 20 gauge. Here are some pics. I will be making a highlight video soon.
Click here to see the listings so far!
Thanks of stopping by.
Anita

Art Making Time: Custom Art Cards - How I Made Dad's 70th Birthday!

Yes, I have been sharing a lot of two dimensional polymer clay pieces lately. Makes sense because I love creating with that medium. Since HeArtfully Creating is all about Creativity in multidisciplinary areas, I do tend to focus on what I love doing the most at the time.

Well, yesterday, I was looking through old videos I had made hoping to make an advice/ tutorial type piece. It is pretty common to collect footage of so many ideas, that build and build and before you now it, you can't keep up. So it all gets shelved until five years later. So here is my recent discovery. Art advice and tutorials thankfully, are timeless and have value.

Here is a ten minute video about how you can make an effective personalized greeting card. This one was for my Dad's 70th (He is about to turn 75!) These days I have been working in digital format, so this video is all about making art the old fashioned way, fine tip marker, copic markers, pencil, illustration board and my old favourite, PRISMACOLOR Colored pencils.

Hope you learn a bit about what makes a personalized custom greeting card special. To give credit where credit is due, It was my sister Teresa, who first asked me decades ago, to start making custom cards. She gave me the ideas and I drew them on cardstock or board. People would often tell me that they framed their cards. Can't get more special than that.

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Watch The Video Below!

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Polymer Clay Journey: Faux Stained Glass - And A Composition Talk

Hope you guys are happily creating out there! I would love to hear from you and see your work, hear your ideas and questions. Please join our Heartfully Creating Facebook Group to do that. We also have a Facebook page.

Back to today's video sort of tutorial with a brief talk about composition. Composition is the overall visual appeal of our art work. The tips are valuable ones I learned in university and apply to all artistic disciplines.

Take a watch below to see my newest window decoration and learn a bit more about faux stained glass and composition.

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Polymer Clay Journey: A PractiCLAY Project- Decorate Your Olive Oil Bottles

Hello everybody! Hope you are having a satisfying Saturday. It seems like it's been along time since I made a new tutorial. Well this one is another one of those practical Polymer clay Projects. Or as I like to collect practiCLAY- Get it? Okay maybe not that funny, But I try.

My husband brought home some new oil bottles from one of our favourite stores Canadian Tire. Of course now that I use polymer clay, When I see plain glass or something smooth and shiny that can go in an oven, and yes even tin cans, wooden boxes, anything I can go In the oven at 275°F....I envision covering it with polymer clay somehow. Blank canvases, Waiting to be Decorated.
Blank surfaces, waiting to be decorated. Time flies by faster than one realizes. And "life" as it happens, doesn't always permit time for having fun.

But I made sure I got to have fun This past week. The smooth Boring glass oil bottles Look pretty good If I do say so myself, And so does my husband.

Here is the video tutorial if you want to see What I did...
Watch below

Finishing notes:
Now they watch the video, You'll notice that I didn't discuss how I protected the polymer clay decorations on the bottles.
Because this technique is the same one used to make window clingies, The words Olive and Canola, Could just peel right off. So I made sure That the words were cut out As one connected piece. Once it was all baked and cooled, I coated the surface with an epoxy resin. I did push the resin past some of the letters Onto the glass, Hoping it would make sure The decorations stay on okay.

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Hope you are inspired even just a little, To try doing A PractiCLAY Project.

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Polymer Clay Journey: Window Clingies- Faux Stained Glass Video Tutorial

Hi guys! Happy Saturday.
Right now where we live it is -30 Celsius. Needless to say, I will be staying inside creating or napping, depending how goes. Just wanted to share a new video tutorial featuring the sneak peek that I mentioned last time, more window clingies, also known as faux stained glass. I'm pretty hooked on making these beautiful window and mirror decorations. They make great gifts. It Is like your drawing with your craft knife, liquid polymer clay and alcohol inks.
Hope you're inspired to give it a try if you're not already hooked on it like I am.

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Anita

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