Monday 22 April 2013

CraftArtEdu Polymer Clay Tutorial Part 2 The Results

In part one of my CraftArtEdu polymer clay review, I reviewed the tutoiral Have a Heart by Donna Kato as I created and learned how to make the polymer clay cane need to progress onto part 2 of the pendant.


My polymer clay cane for CraftArtEdu's tutorial Have a Heart
My polymer clay cane for CraftArtEdu's tutorial Have a Heart

If you missed part one you can catch up here


Part two of the tutorial involved the creating of the heart pendant using your kaleidoscope cane created in part one, again I found the tutorial really easy to use and picked up more great tips/techniques on applying my cane to the pendant and creating the heart pendant itself.

So here are the finished results of the tutorial
My Have a Heart Polymer Clay Pendant, created using CraftArtEdu's Tutorial
My Have a Heart Polymer Clay Pendant, created using CraftArtEdu's Tutorial

My Have a Heart Polymer Clay Pendant
My Have a Heart Polymer Clay Pendant, created using CraftArtEdu's Tutorial

And of course I just couldn't stop there, here are a few more pendants I created using the same cane and the tips I learnt from the tutorial.


Black & White Polymer Clay Pendant created with my Kaleidoscope cane
Black & White Polymer Clay Pendant created with my kaleidoscope cane
Black & White Polymer Clay Square Pendant created with my kaleidoscope cane
Black & White Polymer Clay Square Pendant created with my kaleidoscope cane

Black & White Polymer Clay Lariat Necklace created with my kaleidoscope cane
Black & White Polymer Clay Lariat Necklace created with my kaleidoscope cane

Did you miss my post on digital tutorials here From the Craft Book to the PDF - Online Polymer Clay Tutorials.

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Wednesday 10 April 2013

Catch Up Marathon Looming






 Well this pretty much sums it up!!

Marathon Day is looming this Sunday 14th April 2013 in Brighton and my feelings are shifting from panic and fear to oddly enough excitement, now I never thought I'd feel excited but when I look at last years pictures of the runners in the Brighton Marathon I get butterflies and I can't wait though this could become nausea by Saturday night.

Right now I have the pleasure of starting my carb loading in prep for the big day, after all there had to be a plus somewhere to all this training.

Carb Loading

On reflection when I first started running nearly 4 years ago with little 15 min jogs on the treadmill I can't believe how far I've come.  Training has been gruelling not so much the runs but the fatigue and tiredness in between and the cold weather we have had has been unbearable at times.

But its done tonight I will jog my last before stuffing my face Bring It On!!

Running the Brighton Marathon 2013 for Cancer Research  

Guess How Long It Will Take Me to Run the Marathon for Cancer Research