Canyonland's Bangle
As most of you know, my Tuesday blogs for a few weeks will be about my trip to several Utah monuments and parks. Friday blogs usually have something to do with jewelry and creativity. I always take a sketch pad and camera with me on trips. So many things I see spark an idea for a piece of jewelry I want to make. This trip was no different and one of the ideas I had after seeing the magnificent rock formations was to combine the vertical slabs of rock with the angled layers. Since I’ve been taking several polymer clay classes, I decided that would be the medium. Rock colors (copper, black, white, gold) mixed with some metallic mica powder and pepper represents the minerals. I made some canes that combined the colors and that I could flatten for the long vertical rock formations. For those of you who don’t know what a polymer clay cane is, picture a long cylinder of clay that has a design running through it. You slice...