February 2008
Monthly Archive
Polymer Clay Podcast Tomorrow & We will be Gone for a Few Days & Bottle of Hope Finalists
Posted by Ilysa on 07 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Bottles of Hope
Tomorrow we have a new episode of Polymer Clay Podcast and Kira and I share some of our upcoming plans. We will be heading to California Saturday in the early AM and will be gone until Feb 14th. Any orders that come in while we are gone will be shipped when we return, thanks for your patience. We have lined up a ton of interviews with a variety of artists and we will be sharing them with you when we return. We always come home with a ton of goodies and I am sure we will be sharing them with you too, so if you haven’t signed up for our newsletter, now is the time because all of our newsletter subscribers are automatically entered to win.
We will also be filming the Bottle of Hope award ceremony while we are there, congrats to all of the finalists! You can see all of the 25 finalists at this link. Amaco BOH finalists
I wanted to give a big congrats to one of our very own PCAGOE members Michelle of http://www. michellesclay.etsy.com was chosen as one of the finalists for the Bottle of Hope challenge with her entry No More Monkey Business. Good luck!
Come Vote For the Call For Creativity Entries & Monthly Winners
Posted by Ilysa on 06 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Last months entries for the color purple theme were all so great! You can check them out in our forum and while you are there, take some time to look at all the entries and vote for your favorite. You could win a cool prize just for voting.
This months theme is Texture. We want to see your textured polymer clay creations, there are so many possibilities with this theme so have fun and get your photo of your entry posted to the forum by February 28th, 2007. You can also post your entry in our new social network that you can access on the sidebar. Just make sure to tag it “CFC challenge entry”, so we can find it and include it. I am really looking forward to seeing what you come up with. You can get some inspiration by watching a lot of our shows as we are very fond of using texture in our designs.
This months newsletter winners are VLhollis and they have won the Hearty & Lumina air dry polymer clays from Activa Products and Shellie554 who won the Artists at Work by Flower Valley Press. Congrats!!!
Make sure to sign up for our newsletter if you have not done so because all of our newsletter subscribers are automatically entered to win.
Come on back on Friday to listen to a new episode of Polymer Clay Podcast, this week we share some of our upcoming plans.
PCAGOE Challenge Winner & Count Down to CHA & Synergy
Posted by Ilysa on 05 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Bottles of Hope, CHA
This months winner of the Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy challenge is Naama’s entry. Here is her description of her piece: “Meet Joe, a hopelessly romantic guy looking for some love to light him up. He is sculpted of a refurbished lightbulb.” Congratulations Naama!! A big congrats to all the other winners and entries. This month there was a record breaking amount of entries. You can see all the entries at http://www.pcagoe.com
This Saturday we are off to CHA in California and we won’t be back until late on Feb. 13th, so all orders placed between Feb.9th and Feb. 13th will be processed when we return. Thank you for your patience.
We will return with a ton of footage, products, magazines and a bunch of new friends. I am really looking forward to it, even though I hate traveling, I always enjoy going to these trade shows. It is rows and rows full of thousands of craft products, believe me I feel like a kid in a candy store. It is definitely overwhelming as this show has about 3000 booths and tons of classes and events. We have a ton of things scheduled while we are there, including filming the Bottle of Hope award ceremony which we will share with you on Polymer Clay TV when we return. We are going to also try to head over and catch Carol Duvall speak at the Page Sage booth, she has a video coming out with them and a few other artists, including Judy Belcher. We have an interview lined up with several artists and will be meeting up with many others that I am sure will be there. Needless to say CHA is not a place to break in new shoes. So I have decided I have to wear my scrubbie sneakers or risk the threat of blisters. So if you see me in my scrubbie sneakers, you will know that it is because I am trying to avoid blistered feet.LOL I wanted to go out and get a new pair but thought better of it and will just get some new ones when I return home. They should be ready for the next CHA. LOL
Hope to see you there. If you are going and would like to meet up, send us an e-mail and we will give you our cell phone number and hopefully we can meet up.
Come on back on Friday for a new episode of Polymer Clay Podcast.
Polymer Clay Podcast this Friday Newsletters Have Been Sent,Studio by Sculpey Arrived,Call For Creativity & PCAGOE Challenge Live
Posted by Ilysa on 04 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: CHA
This Friday is another episode of Polymer Clay Podcast, we will be talking about our upcoming trips and some of the upcoming plans and interviews we have. On Friday a box arrived from Polyform containing every color of the new Studio by Sculpey line and some of the new tools. The colors are gorgeous and come in a wide range. There were a lot in the green family, so that must be a popular color for the home. I guess it is because my house is green, I have green carpet and accents throughout my house and that is what the clay is about, making home decor. There is a color called Pomegranite and it is almost like the true red that Fimo Classic used to make many years ago. This is the closest I have seen to the color of yesteryear and I really like it. Another favorite of mine was the Blush color which is like a vibrant pink color that is nothing like any color I have seen before in polymer clay. A lot of the colors are different from any colors you have seen before by any brand of polymer clay and that is what is most intriguing to me, having a whole new color palette to work with.
Some of the colors are pastel-lish, to make my own word.LOL I am not into pastel colors, I prefer a true vibrant and bold color, which is why I have been searching for a true red, ever since Fimo did away with it. I love the Sunny Side Up color and the Fuchsia color and the Tropical Teal is another favorite. The Peacock color is the color we got samples of over the summer that we shared with you. You can check out one of the reviews from one of our winners of the Studio by Sculpey clay at Angelas site Crafty Goat
We will be having an upcoming show about the Studio by Sculpey clay so you will be able to see it in action and we will share our thoughts about the clay as well as some of the things we make with it. Stay tuned for that.
Our newsletter has gone out and there is a great sale in there for newsletter subscribers only, it is for a couple of days only, so if you haven’t checked your mailbox, you will want to look for it and if you don’t see it, you should check your spam filter. Don’t forget to add us to your allowed e-mails so the newsletter doesn’t end up in your spam next time.
This months Call For Creativity is to create something using texture. This is really going to be a fun one to experiment with and try some new textures. We have some cool texture plates in our shop as well as some rubber stamps that would be perfect for this project but you can use anything you want to create texture. Make sure to upload your photos to the forum by Feb. 28th, 2008 to be entered.
The PCAGOE challenge is live and we would love for you to go vote for your favorite. There are a record breaking 40 entries this month, so there are a bunch to choose from. If you vote you will be entered to win some cool prizes.
We are heading to California on Saturday to attend the Craft & Hobby Assoc. show and we will be filming while we are there so we will have a ton of things to share so make sure to come back next week to watch Polymer Clay TV when we share some of the footage from the show. Enjoy your week!
Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy Challenge is Live Come Vote & Win
Posted by Ilysa on 02 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: news
Just wanted to give everyone the heads up that the Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy monthly challenge is now live. You can come and vote for your favorite entry. There is a record breaking amount of entries this month with 40 to choose from. This challenge also marks the 1 year anniversary of the PCAGOE challenges. Congrats and a bug thank you to everyone who has been involved in making them such a success. Go vote, you just may win!
Polymer Clay TV video about ATC’s, ACEO’s, Valentine cards, and air dry clay
Posted by Kira on 01 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Videocasts
This week, watch our video demo where we talk about how to do ATCs and ACEOs, what the difference is, (ATCs are trading cards, ACEOs can be sold) and see a couple of examples. We also show Hearty and Lumina air dry clays, which we rolled flat and put through punches and colored on with Copic markers…fun stuff!
