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Polymer Clay Success!

Feb 042013

Express Yourself With Polymer Clay and Get Ready for the Adventure of Your Life!

Are looking for inspiration? Do you want to be more creative? Do you want to make art that’s as fun as it is beautiful? If so, then a Polymer Clay Success membership is for you!

Polymer clay is one of the hottest art and craft mediums around right now because it’s not only inexpensive, but there is absolutely no limit to what you can create with it. At Crafty Link, we help you get the most out this fun and exciting medium by providing you with plenty of tips and techniques and a wide array of projects.

Polymer Clay Success Takes You Deeper into the World of Polymer Clay

While Crafty Link already offers a wonderful selection of free online video tutorials and informative podcasts, our Polymer Clay Success membership is designed to take your enjoyment and learning experience to the next level. It provides you with everything you need to know about working with polymer clay from some of today’s leading polymer clay artists.

When you become a member of our Polymer Clay Success community, you’ll receive:

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Complex Kaleidoscope Caning

Jan 082013

By Ilysa (Bierer) Ginsburg, featuring her award-winning canes.

Enjoy Ilysa’s award-winning concepts for creation of the Kaleidoscope cane. You can talk with her in the private group forums if you need help, and show off photos and connect with others who are also learning the techniques!

Ilysa has been creating canes for over 20 years, and her cane work earned her many awards across the United States, including Best of Show. She takes you through a process that looks complicated- but don’t worry, you’ll be creating amazing canes in no time! Continue reading »

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Complete Mixed-Media Guide for New-B’s

Jan 082013

Learn everything we know about mixing-it-up and taking your mixed-media art into the 3rd dimension by adding clay.

Learn how to use everything in your studio- paint, ink, glitters and powders, mediums for painting, texture tools, paper, canvas, glue guns and fibers! And of course, don’t forget the clay. You will make beads, transfer words, embed objects, use wire…It’s almost difficult to list everything you are going to learn in this course.

After you learn the techniques, you will create a Journal and a piece of wall decor. Then you can go on to apply what you learned to all kinds of beautiful things!

13 videos- 11 lessons and 2 whole projects! Continue reading »

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Color Me Wild

Jan 082013

Do you love color, but you’re not sure how to use it? Learn to create custom colors with polymer clay and stop wasting your precious materials on failed attempts. Learn what the latest fashion colors of the season are called, and how to mix them.

Color is an amazing thing, it can create a mood, it can flatter a skin tone, it can change the look of an outfit or a room. Color is powerful, yet so many people have no idea how to mix colors or use them in pleasing combinations. Add to that the properties of polymer clay, and you could end up making a mess!

Learn how to master the art of color, creating beautiful objects that beg to be touched and admired.

Lets get wild with color! Continue reading »

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Caning 101 with Color Theory

Jan 082013

Flower caning includes some color theory information so you can create canes that will look great reduced down in size. Enjoy them all!

In this class, you will get a variety our caning videos, and you can interact with your teachers Ilysa and Kira in the private group forums. Ask questions, show off photos of what you made, and really get an understanding for what you are learning. This is not just a video- we will be there to help you along the way when you need it.

You will begin with Kira’s Fabulous Flower Cane- this is a Hi-Definition video that includes information on color theory, building the cane in parts, reducing, and slicing. With this one video you will gain the confidence to cane properly with polymer clay using fabulous color and translucent backgrounds, all in an easy, step-by-step, video shot from above the hands so you can really see what is happening.

Then you can watch how to Continue reading »

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Art Jewelry 101

Jan 082013

In this fun class, you will get 8 videos, a downloadable printable PDF of Kaleidoscope transfer designs, and an interactive forum where your teachers, Ilysa and Kira, will be available to you to help you when you need it. Polymer Clay is sometimes called “chameleon clay” because it can be sculpted, molded, stamped and colored and made to imitate almost anything.

You will learn the following skills:

How to transfer an image onto clay- from ANY image, using the best transfer method available. This is called Magic Transfer Paper, and you can get it in our supplies shop.
The best way to use Jones Tones Mylar foils (these can be tricky!)
How to create an alternative to the traditional leaf cane, and create a beautiful necklace
How to do a fun silkscreen technique to get a pattern onto the clay
Using stamps, inks, dyes, and inclusions to make your own art beads
Making your own magnetic components and clasps
And of course some basic jewelry assembly information (although this is NOT an extensive class on how to make jewelry- it is mostly how to use clay to make jewelry beads)

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