Amaco Bead Roller demo on Polymer Clay TV

Kira — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:22:37 +0000

And whew! What a day. Our sites completely crashed in the past 24 hours and we had to do some emergency maintenance! Sorry if you tried to visit any of our sites, apparently a lovely Wordpress plugin I tried to install crashed a bunch of servers, oops!

Don’t forget to visit the videos page for today’s free Polymer Clay demo, and consider submitting your story for our book! We talk to our publisher at the end of the month, there’s still time! Apply on the sidebar to the right.

Bead rollers are fun to use!

Kira — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:55:56 +0000

I made next week’s video last night…it was very interesting. Since I have set up my studio a little differently, with a mini tripod for the camera, which is attached to the arm of my Daylight Lamp! Hopefully you’ll like the angle.

I also ordered some UV curing resin last night, an experiment from a company called Ultra Dome. I’ll let you know how it goes. I created a great little flower last week, from clay- then baked it and molded it with Amazing Mold putty, and used some of Lisa’s Magic Glos to create a really fun lightweight flower bead with glitter in it!!! But, I’m the bargain hunter, and I found the Ultra Dome on a web-quest.

Today was my last day of work with Broward Virtual University- a bittersweet day. But, now I’m on to bigger things. High School students, watch out, here I come!

Polymer Clay Podcast This Friday Amaco Bead Rollers

Ilysa — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:43:22 +0000

This week we are talking about the Amaco bead rollers. Have you ever wanted to get your beads to be all the same size and shape? Well then these bead rollers will make your day. They make it so easy to to get uniform and perfectly shaped beads. They come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes there are even ones that have multiple sizes of the bead on one roller, which are perfect for making graduated sizes. Gotta love that! They are light weight and you could even travel with these, they would give you something to do on a trip. I could totally see myself taking these with me to get ahead on my bead making.Make sure to come back Friday to hear us share ideas and discuss the bead rollers.

Charlie and the Starfish- or how to interest an 11 year old boy in polymer clay!

Kira — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:33:23 +0000

This week’s video is about the new Bake Shop clay by Polyform. They sent us all 12 colors and some tools to play with, thank you Iris! I gave my friend’s son, Charlie, some to play with and taught him basic mixing, blending, and even some caning- below you can see Charlie learning polymer clay, and the awesome starfish he made. It took him almost an hour to individually roll and press all the little suckers onto the starfish, isn’t it beautiful?