Crafts by Chris

Musing on polymer clay, beads, jewelry and other stuff.

heatwave

Well, it’s hotter than Hades here today. Walked my youngest two blocks to school this morning on his first day back and needed another shower by the time I walked the two blocks back home. YUCK! Yes, it’s early to start back to school, but he is on a year round schedule.
What’s up besides the [...]

blogging is like exercising…

Yes, blogging is like exercising…life gets busy and you miss a few days…the next thing you know it’s June!
Even through it is technically spring, why not get a head start on those fall/winter designs. I am personally lovin’ the bold, bright colors of the fall/winter color forecast. The fall/winter 2010/2011 color recipes ebook [...]

bangle mania

Have I mentioned that I love bangles? Finished some skinny brass and polymer clay bangles. They have a suede look to them, but are shimmery in direct light. I plan on making several of these for myself. Unfortunately, my neck and shoulder are killing me from all the sanding. Will have to work [...]

in need of some color

This is what I’ve had to look at for the past 75 days. Snow, snow and more snow. Depressing, huh?

What better way to shake off the winter blahs than with some colorful spring garden beads.

Perhaps you would like to whip up some lovely spring/summer polymer clay colors for your own creations. Check out [...]

inspiration behind the beads

I find inspiration in many places. The inspiration for my Nature’s Dance beads comes from the painting “Nature’s Dance I” by Carol Robinson.

Found on www.art.com
Sometimes my interpretation is fairly literal, like these beads.

Sometimes inspiration evolves into a different design.

And sometimes you see something that makes you think of something else…..which I’ll talk about more [...]

what’s new?

I have some new flowers listed and more spring colors will be blooming soon.

I’m also cleaning out my bead drawer, which means great savings to you. Lots of sale priced items and this week you can save an additional 25% during my Baby it’s cold outside SALE!

I’ve also extended the 25% off sale [...]

spring colors

Even though winter hasn’t officially started yet, it’s time to be working on those spring designs. I’ve been working on mixing up colors inspired by the PANTONE® spring/summer 2010 collection. I put them together in an ebook which is for sale in my Etsy shop and ArtFire shop. It includes 38 polymer clay color recipes [...]

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