Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

What a good idea I had bringing all my polymer clay (well a lot of it) and tools to Tucson for my self imposed 'Personal Polymer Clay Workshop'.  I decided to make a big change from yesterday's rock and explore imprinted techniques. I love the various effects and the surprise of each cut.  One of my favorite books is by Julie Picarello Patterns in Polymer - Imprint & Accent Bead Techniques. Beginning with the ‘Basic Imprint Technique', I picked a color scheme of Fimo Orange 04, a Skinner Blend of Green 05 and Emerald Green 56, Turquoise 32, and Glitter Gold 112.  Following the directions on p.33 of Julie’s book, I built my stack of colors, selected my tools to imprint and planned my design.  I love the star cutter and used it for focal point of the design.  I also like the dimension created when some circles were removed to create missing shapes in the design. Consistent slicing is one of the most difficult procedures for me....

It looked so easy!    I had almost all the tools.   When I was at the Quiltedinclay.com website, I thought, “ooh what fun that will be.”   So I ordered one of the quilt disc sets and later realized if I was serious about this project, I should have ordered the 2 nd set.   So I did. I decided to make the ‘Ohio Star’ pattern when the disc set came.   I read the instructions – 3 times.   Since I wanted to make the extrusions that night, I had to find enough light and dark clay of one color for the project.   Yellow and Copper.   It seems I need more practice reading instructions.   I kind of ‘fly by the seat of my pants’ and when I see something I make up my own instructions to get it done.   Usually that works.   But I know enough about quilting to know these shapes of clay need to be precise.   24" long extruded triangle and squares I figured out I would need a total of 13 long extrusions of dark and light c...