Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

One of the things I love about Facebook is being directed to tutorials concerning subjects of interest to me.   For instance, I’d been playing with swirls and lentil polymer beads when I spotted a link chock full of helpful hints.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6Oq0G54jIYk   Thanks to Cindy Lietz, my beads look much better and I understand about getting the colors more or less where I want them.   If you haven’t seen this video, you just might want to!   A few months ago, I made red and white and ivory canes based on a quilt pattern design.   I made them in various sizes of squares and put them away thinking they would be great for the Christmas holidays.   This week they came out of their box and I started making buttons and earrings. What to do with the scraps?   Lentil swirl beads of course!   I’m having such fun forming my polymer balls and putting the scrap canes in a band around the outside.    Then I take my clear acrylic sheet, start

Taking a day trip to Jerome AZ should not be such a big deal for three girlfriends since we live in Prescott – not so far away.   Finding a day that worked for all of us took a while!   I’ve wanted to go to Nellie Bly ‘the biggest kaleidoscope store in the world’ for 16 years!   They have been open for 25 years but I’ve only known they existed for 16.     We left at 10 a.m. and lunched in Jerome at ‘Grapes’.   Each of us ordered a different dish and shared great food and fun.     Sounds like a girl’s day out, doesn’t it?   We visited just about every store.   Of course, I stayed in Nellie Bly’s a long time.   I just missed the annual workshop teaching how to make those incredible tubes of color and changing shapes.   It’s on my calendar for next year. If you haven’t guessed, I’m crazy for kaleidoscopes.   Once when there were many things happening in my life, I took a class called ‘Changes’.   There was discussion on why and how changes affect us, what we could do to help ou

One of the benefits of taking online classes is building an arsenal of techniques that can be drawn on to produce the design that is in the mind’s eye.     After practicing making transfers to polymer in Heather Campbell’s class, a design idea popped into my head that could incorporate some of my own photographs into my polymer jewelry.   Looking through my photographs (I have hundreds..really) and deciding which images to use took a little time!   I made digital copies and turned them into black and white photographs, reduced them to contact sheet size and printed them using the toner printer.    Then I rolled out the creamy blend of white and Sahara Fimo polymer clay to #3, placed it on a tile and put a thin coating of clay softener over the clay.   The cut out images were placed upside down on the clay.   As you can see from the photo to the finished piece, the image is reversed.  If there is writing that is very important!  Learning to burnish the images with my fing