New Colorful Clay Cabs

In my spare time, I have been working on making some new colorful clay cabochons which I plan to wrap and incorporate into pendants and earrings. The fall fashion color forecast is calling for bright reds, yellows and sea green colors and I have made these pieces to coordinate with the fashion trend. Here is a picture of some of these unfinished pieces. They have all been sanded and coated with resin.

Who knows what they will look like when they have been wrapped and beaded into beautiful jewelry pieces. When I work on pieces, especially with wire work, I just seem to create as I go.

When Wire Meets Clay

I was in a creative mood this weekend. I created three new pendants. Each have been made with a polymer clay stamping technique, brushed with metallic powder, baked and then glazed. I pushed an 18 gauge wire through each prior to baking, making each into a bead. Then, I used the herringbone weave technique to wrap each in wire.

Marilyn Monroe

I love the way this polymer clay pendant of Marilyn Monroe came out. Very retro.

More Valentines

Here are two adorable children's valentine pendants that I have just created with pearl polymer clay. Again, having so much fun making these!

I am still experimenting with the very best way to make these. I find that no matter how careful I am, they come out of the oven with the smallest bubbles in the finish. If you look very closely, they are there.. I'm a perfectionist and this bugs me. They are still very cute and someone will appreciate them just the same.

Natures Art Pendants

As part of my new year resolution, I promise to post to my blog at least once a week. :)

In my other hobby, I am a car nut and run

several local car cruises. I have a website at http://www.lightningrodpromotions.com/. This is what caused me to pursue jewelry making. I was seeking a method where I could place classic car photos onto polymer clay. This was about a year ago and my first attempts didn't go very far. One thing leading to another, I pursued other jewelry media as I am also a life long artist and crafter. The Lightning Rod ProMotions' logo is my work. I really love working with wire and have mastered advanced wire wrapping techniques. But, now, I have been playing with various techniques of photo transfers onto clay and am only now getting the results I have been looking for. After trying different combinations of products, my photo pendants are finally looking good enough to sell. Additionally, I have had the good fortune to befriend a wonderful amateur photographer whose photographs are amazing. He has allowed me to use any of his photos for my pendants. He also sells his prints at Etsy at http://www.romeojo0213.etsy.com/ these are just a few of his wonderful photos.