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This Friday we will have a new episode of Polymer Clay TV. We share tips on getting Jones Tones to adhere to polymer clay. It is a little tricky but if you follow along with us you will get the hang of it in no time. You can do a beautiful faux dichroic glass effect that will fool anyone. It is such a beautiful look that I know you will get a ton of compliments on anything you wear or make with Jones Tones. One of the tricks is to use little pieces of the Jones Tones so as to not make it gaudy or overdone. You can cut strips and apply to beads or pendants or you can use cutters to cut out shapes. Check out Polymer Clay TV for some great ideas. Here is a link to the Jones Tones in our shop, so you can check it out. http://polymerclayproductions.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=14&products_id=67

It comes in an assortment of 16 colors, which is a sheet of every color they make, so you will have many hours of fun creating.

I wanted to share the work of a very talented artist with you, her name is Bettina Walker and her work is very unique. Bettina’s use of color is incredible and you can see it at her website http://www.beadworx.etsy.com

Bettina is from Germany, where the  original brand of polymer clay called Fimo comes from. I am really looking forward to meeting Bettina who is flying in to the Synergy show this Feb. I can’t wait to see her work in person. Bettina is also a member of the Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy and that is where we met. I hope to get some photos and maybe some footage to share with you. So check back for that.

If you haven’t entered our Call For Creativity this month there is still time to do so, the deadline to enter is January 28th, 2008. All you have to do is upload a photo of your piece into the CFC post in our forum. The theme for this month is to create something using the color purple. You can check out all the other entries there as well. Have fun!

We wanted to give a big thanks to all of you that took advantage of our sale on our premium videos this past week. We had a tremendous response and hope you all enjoy your videos! If you have any questions or need any help, please do not hesitate to contact us at polymerclaypodcast@yahoo.com

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Learn the secret of making it stick! To the clay, that is. Heat and friction, and an old credit card. Come back next week for our demo, and see for yourself. We’ll have Jones Tones in our shop shortly.

We are getting ready to go to CHA and Synergy in a few weeks. Pretty exciting stuff. Listen for everything we have planned, and we’ll be sharing more as the events get closer.

Be sure to check out www.polymerclayclassroom.com. We are running a special until the end of the week.

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This week, we will show you how to take boring and ugly scraps of clay and turn them into beautiful objects by covering them with slices of canes. In Polymer Clay Classroom, available on the 7th, we show you how to make the cane pictured and create a fan pull.

Enjoy!

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I thought I would share my favorite tools today. A long time ago, whilst shopping at Utrecht art supplies in Boston, I found a curiously shaped piece of stainless steel. It had a lethal-looking pointy end, and the other end was a smooth spoon-shaped pointy thing. The whole effect was of an interesting yet dangerous and smoothly shiny thing that I just had to take home with me and stick into some clay (I’m part Raven, you know, so keep your shiny things well hidden.)

Anyway, stainless steel is cool, generally smooth, and works wonders with polymer clays of all types. I especially like it for sculpting tiny things- doll faces, bird wings, and the other sculpture work that I do.

So here are a few links to the wax carving tool sets you can find. I think these are used to carve wax for wax-casting jewelry, and I also think cosmetic dentists use them for something (not sure what, though!)

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A great video showing you how to use a mold made from polymer clay. You can mold almost anything, using either scrap clay, or products made especially for moldmaking like Superelasticlay or silicone rubber. For a clay mold you will probably need a mold release- this gets between your clay and your mold and helps the clay to “pop” out of the mold, instead of getting stuck in it. You can try cornstarch, powdered pigments, water, or a silicone spray.

Enjoy the video- later this week we will release our full-length downloadable tutorial on how to make buttons and pendants, and how to make your own mold.

Don’t forget to enter our Call for Creativity- if you didn’t listent to last week’s podcast, please do to get all the details!

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Hi Everyone! We’re back in action- we filmed 12 episodes of Polymer Clay TV and Polymer Clay Classroom last weekend and had a blast. We’re doing the videos in a new format and we hope you love them. We will be showing basic gold leaf techniques next week, so don’t miss that.

LISTEN to to podcast right here! PS- Something happened to my cute little pink podcast play button, but if you click “DOWNLOAD” it will work. I’m working on it!

We reviewed a book called Clay Techniques with a Pasta Machine, by Maureen Carlson (who we interviewed in the Synergy podcast- be sure to listen to that one.)
This book is published by Design Originals- www.d-originals.com. We really like it, it is my favorite book to point people to when they want to know why they need a pasta machine. I don’t know what I did before I got mine (actually, I remember lots of failed attempts to make nice smooth flat sheets) and we highly recommend it. We will be giving a copy away to a lucky listener this month, so be sure to sign up for our newsletter or comment on the site. We enter everyone who does into our monthly contests.

Next month, we will be unveiling the first of several new elements of Polymer Clay Podcast - our Monthly Call for Creativity. We are hoping that with a little “directed inspiration” we can all challenge ourselves to be creative and learn new techniques. So each month, we will announce three things- an overall theme, a technique, and an object to focus on. For example: Theme: Ocean, Technique: Silver Leaf, Focus object: lightswitch plates. Then, you can show us your creativity by making something either for the focus group (a lightswitch plate) or the Open Call- which means you would make anything you are inspired to make, using the Ocean theme and silver leaf. We will be building a special board in our forum where you can discuss the theme, show your pictures, and vote for the People’s Choice Awards. The winners will receive a gift from us- and we will also randomly choose a winner from the folks that come over and vote. We haven’t completely “fleshed out” this idea yet, but we will be announcing our first Call on October 1 in our Newsletter and we hope that our first month is fun and inspirational for everyone.

Please consider donating Bottles of Hope or polymer clay supplies to our friend Barbara Reider for distribution at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in MA. She has been very active in getting a Bottles of Hope program going there, and we think it’s a great cause to support.

Please support our show by reviewing our podcast, either at itunes, Meefeedia, or anywhere else you pick up our podcast or videos (youtube, google, myspace, etc.) We really appreciate the kudos, thanks to everyone who has helped to increase our rankings!

Be sure to sign up for the newsletter this month, and come back next week for our Silver and Gold leaf video!

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