Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

Polished beads with satin finish Designing beads with Hadar's White Satin Clay and then deciding how to use them in a necklace is my latest project.  I wanted my white satin beads to look old like I went on an archeology dig and found them buried in the sand.  There are holes and slits as you can see in the picture above. Each bead is formed on  Microsphere (Noble Clays)  wrapped with a single thickness of clay.  I received the Microsphere at a workshop a couple of years ago and made the forms for the beads with it.  The beads are dried and kiln fired.  When they are cool, the sand like particles of Microsphere come out of the centers leaving hollow beads.   Before firing in the kiln After firing - the beads on the left are just out of the kiln and the ones on the right have the first sanding. I tried several combinations of  beads to go with my 'ancient' beads.  I thought it would be fun to share the process wit...

I have an idea about making flowers from polymer clay and I know I will have to experiment to get the idea to become a reality.   I want to use translucent clay with some color and I want to control the shape of each petal.   I’m also thinking large rather than tiny.   I want the petals to glow as the light comes through. Ready for the oven I began by using Premo translucent clay and Premo 5504 Fushia.   I conditioned each one separately. The fushia was rolled on a 4 setting and the translucent clay between 2 pieces of rag paper on a 5 setting.   The translucent slab went down first.   Then I sliced the fushia into 3/8” strips and layed them criss-cross on the translucent.   My multi colored fushia, gold, and copper foil went down next and another slab of translucent on top of that.   I rolled all that on a 1 setting and then cut the petal shapes.   I made a general paper pattern and kept cutting it smaller as the petals got smaller....