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Outside Inspiration: Paisley Patterns
You know if your poor, over-worked brain ever wants to just play and not have to work, following patterns can be fun and lead to unexpected discoveries. I ran into this embroidery site and was drawn to...
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A Filigree Farewell to Christmas
Perhaps you are all a bit tired of Christmas, but I only just found this beautiful set late last night and thought one more holiday piece could be shared. Leah Hagen of LeeLee Beads is a polymer...
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Falling Spring
Jennifer Morris has a mixed media approach to her polymer clay work. She has a signature embroidery style that uses an ever-changing mixed-media combination of polymer clay infused with gold and silver...
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It’s All in the Details
Russian artist Natalia Lemeshchenko makes these monochromatic color scheme jewelry sets with intricate patterns that look a lot like hand embroidered fabrics. The details are so exact and executed to...
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Combining Filigree, Embroidery and Applique
Take a close look at this jewelry set. How many variations of impressing, winding, twisting, layering and embedding little bits of clay do you see here? I’ve gotten a different count each time; I’m...
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Mid Week Underwater Color Burst
Here’s a quick and colorful look at some further fishy polymer today. This bright pendant is by Estonia’s Katrina of the shop Filigrina on Etsy. We took a peek at another ocean inspired work of hers...
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Captivating Cookie Collections
We don’t often look at food as inspiration on this blog but I am starting to think maybe we should. Just look at these cookies! They are little works of art that I can’t imagine actually eating, or at...
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Falling Spring
Jennifer Morris has a mixed media approach to her polymer clay work. She has a signature embroidery style that uses an ever-changing mixed-media combination of polymer clay infused with gold and silver...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It’s All in the Details
Russian artist Natalia Lemeshchenko makes these monochromatic color scheme jewelry sets with intricate patterns that look a lot like hand embroidered fabrics. The details are so exact and executed to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Combining Filigree, Embroidery and Applique
Take a close look at this jewelry set. How many variations of impressing, winding, twisting, layering and embedding little bits of clay do you see here? I’ve gotten a different count each time; I’m...
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Mid Week Underwater Color Burst
Here’s a quick and colorful look at some further fishy polymer today. This bright pendant is by Estonia’s Katrina of the shop Filigrina on Etsy. We took a peek at another ocean inspired work of hers...
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Captivating Cookie Collections
We don’t often look at food as inspiration on this blog but I am starting to think maybe we should. Just look at these cookies! They are little works of art that I can’t imagine actually eating, or at...
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The Eclectic Artisans
Some of the most fun I’ve been having on Instagram is how easy it is to find other great art outside of polymer. I love my Pinterest but my pages are stuffed with polymer art, which is wonderful, of...
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It’s All in the Details
Russian artist Natalia Lemeshchenko makes these monochromatic color scheme jewelry sets with intricate patterns that look a lot like hand embroidered fabrics. The details are so exact and executed to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Combining Filigree, Embroidery and Applique
Take a close look at this jewelry set. How many variations of impressing, winding, twisting, layering and embedding little bits of clay do you see here? I’ve gotten a different count each time; I’m...
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Mid Week Underwater Color Burst
Here’s a quick and colorful look at some further fishy polymer today. This bright pendant is by Estonia’s Katrina of the shop Filigrina on Etsy. We took a peek at another ocean inspired work of hers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Captivating Cookie Collections
We don’t often look at food as inspiration on this blog but I am starting to think maybe we should. Just look at these cookies! They are little works of art that I can’t imagine actually eating, or at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Eclectic Artisans
Some of the most fun I’ve been having on Instagram is how easy it is to find other great art outside of polymer. I love my Pinterest but my pages are stuffed with polymer art, which is wonderful, of...
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Thread and Clay
Guest Blog Post by Stéphanie Kilgast Justyna Wołodkiewicz mixes embroidery with polymer clay in an always poetic way. She seamlessly binds traditional arts to very contemporary ones, resulting in often...
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Crosswise Crafts
Heather Campbell – “Keep Circling” If you read this blog because polymer is your primary art material, do you consider yourself a polymer artist or a mixed-media artist? This question has arisen in a...
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