Puffy heart beads and "diamond-like" magnets?

Valentine's Day is around the corner!

Although Valentine's Day isn't a jewish holiday, it's still one of my favorite days and it's a good excuse to leave all the laundry/cooking/dishes (& kids) at home and show my love to my sweet other half that makes my artistic passion possible :)

Among the gifts given as a Valentine's Day gift, jewelry is the most common.

Why not make it ourselves? Handmade jewelry goes a step farther by being a gift that is truly from the heart.

I have been playing with ideas and came up with 2 new tutorials for the holiday. They can be used for Valentine's Day but not only! they are also great for any time of year and you will learn a new technique to use in your future projects!

The new heart themed tutorials make perfect gifts for the upcoming Valentine's day!

Puffy heart beads and "diamond-like" magnets?

Carving and molding?

Click here to see what's in the Valentine's Day 2011 tutorials!

Wishing you a LOVEly day :)

New PolyPediaOnlineTV youtube videos

passover holiday was great! and i had time to play with my new camera, and made 2 short videos -

the 1st one is about warming & softening your clay and canes, i have some real old and stiff polymer clay canes and packages in my stock, some of them since 2007 and older, they are HARD!

I heard about all kind of methods to soften the clay - dipping in warm water, covering with liquid clay, warming your canes in the oven to soften them (yes! i heard that one too!), sitting on clay (not canes :) ) and decided to try my herbal microwave pillow as a "warming facility". I warmed the pillow and placed an old cane inside, and - voila! it was warm and soft!

It's really a great way to prepare your clay to work - instead of making your arms and palms do the job - let the warm pillow do it. I warm my pillow for 2 minutes in the microwave and place some packs inside it, wait for few minutes (while i am keeping an eye on what's inside not to heat it too much) and checking to see it they are soft. usually i don't need more than 5 minutes to soften your clay.

If you put raw clay, i would recommend wrapping it with a plastic bag, so the herbal pillow won't get stains, we can't wash in washing machine it if it's dirty. give it a try! it's great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t24vmLQ5WnA

The 2nd video is about making polymer clay letters as decorations to a door or a book. i wanted to decorate my daughters' "heritage" book cover project with her name. Every child in Israel when arrives to the age of 13 has to do some invastigating about his heritage and family, the project is quite big and require some nice decoration to the wood book cover.

This project shows you how to make simple letters using cookie cutters, slices of canes and stripes sheet as a background. I know that the sound is a little bit low, sorry about that, but you can see from what i am doing what are the steps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1NIsetkp3U&feature=related

You can join my Youtube channel for updates on new video's coming up, it's so much fun!

The videos are available in polypediaonline.com site too - http://polypediaonline.com/133688/PolyPediaOnline-TV

Valentine Hearties - Giveaway Raffle

Want to win a FREE set of my Heart Pillow Beads?

For the next week i am making a special sale - Every one who buys one of my tutorials is getting into a raffle to win a FREE beautiful ~Rainbow Mix~ heart beads to make your loved ones stunning gifts! that's a 30$ worth gift!

Just enter my PolyPediaOnline store, or my Etsy store and choose your favorite tutorial!

1 Winner will be announed in the 27th of January so the hearts will arrive to your home on time :)

Good luck!

Polymer Clay Heart Pillow Beads - 2010 Collections

Polymer Clay Heart Pillow Beads - 2010 Collections
Originally uploaded by Iris Mishly.

I just love Valentine!
2 reasons -
1st, i love making hearts, i have been making them for 3 years now and i feel i love it more and more with every year that is passing
2nd, Valentine this year means Synergy and CFCF trip! and this is another reason to celebrate :)

Check my Etsy store if you need some cool hearts in your keychains, as charms, necklaces, pendants, bracelets or even use them on your pet colar!
OR
If you like to make them yourself - check my PolyPediaOnline Tutorial for making Polymer Clay Heart Pillow Beads!

2010 looks so colorful from here :)

New Tutorials & a Raffle!

It's finally ready!

2 new PolyPediaOnline tutorials joined my other 2 tutorials at my etsy store:

the first one is - 7 Great Ways How to Create Polymer Clay Animal Skin Millefiori Canes - 22 pages Step-by-Step Instructions TUTORIAL

and the second is - 9 Great Ways How to Create Polymer Clay Fruit Millefiori Canes - 38 pages Step-by-Step Instructions TUTORIAL

That's a huge resource to all your fruit and animal skin canes!

the PolyPediaOnline(R) is about to grow and become a great resource for all you cane lovers!

But wait! there is more to come!
i am currently working on a new tutorial - How to create a pattern sheet and heart pillow beads -
The tutorial to my popular heart pillow beads!

Visit my Etsy store and get ready for the holidays with some new cool canes and art!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/irismishly?section_id=6202770

First 20 buyers will get into a raffle to win a free tutorial! you may get lucky! :)

Valentine-Mania

did someone said heart beads? i am making them in my sleep these days! i made so many this year i can make the moves with my eyes closed :) wake me up at 3am and i am doing them like charm!

Here are 3 more sets, i'm not sure i'll make some more till 2009 valentine...mmmm..well, i can't promise i won't, but i think i need to rest for a while!

Fantazia Night set - http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19977065

Venus Gown set - http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19976879 - don't tell anyone, these are my favorites ever!

Beetle Love set with lot's of red little beetles i got from a clayer friend shay aaron -http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19976750

tnx for watching!

every bead begins this way :)

this is where ~Purple Mood~ beads were born from :)

Those heart pillow beads are so fun to make, today i made some (25!) purple style beads, and added some "disc-chic" aluminum beads with the same pattern too.

If you want to learn more about how to make millefiori beads, pattern sheets, and heart pillow beads - check the "Polymer Play Days" event, held in England on May 2009, i will be teaching these exact things! :)

Valentine is around the corner...

and I'm getting ready with some new fresh flowerly and colorful heart pillow beads!

These beads are made with my favorite canes lay down as a pattern sheet, every bead is handmade with lot's of love! burgundy? gold? strips? I got them all!

Cleasence sales & free shipping on 2 items or more!

check them out in my Etsy store - http://irismishly.etsy.com/

TNX for watching!

Beadssss!

More of my heart beads in Etsy and Ebay!
Choose your favorite color and have a LOVEly jewel!
http://irismishly.etsy.com/

Back on Track

Some new items in my Etsy! come and check them out!

New short/long necklaces, and 2 sets of heart pillow beads!
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5100854

Finally! My new Studio Gallery :)

Finally! My new Studio Gallery is ready :) After all the fixing, building, dust and mess, it's ready for me and my students!

The big things are back in place, tables, pasta machine :) and all my canes, boxes and beads, it's a good opportunity to throw some things (or maybe not, i might need it...) and arrange all the mess on my working table...

I still need a nice carpet and some photos on the wall, but that can wait a bit longer!

Did i mention that red is my favorite color?

After everything is back in place i felt like working and working, and i can't stop! beads, pillow, hearts, hamsa's, hangers, it's so much fun! You can find more on my Etsy

Heart pillow beads - these are addictive!

I've been sitting this past week and making these enjoying heart pillow beads, they are such fun to make!

I sit near my working table, with ALL my canes spread around: flowers, roses, stripes, spirals, faces, leaves, and i start thinking which color to choose, will i choose green? no, i just made those a month ago.... blue? mmm.... maybe next month. I think i'll choose romantic-turquoise with pink for the 1st set and orange-red-yellow for the 2nd set :)

Now it's time to get all things back in place, my table is such a mess!

If you like these, they are on ebay this week!

Thanks!

Pillow and Hearts

Lately i discovered the pillow'in beads, I've done some "regular" pillow beads long time ago but their shape is a little bit too ordinary for me, so using cookie cutters i shape my pillow beads in any way i like :)

Here are some purples and greens decorated with some of my favorite millefiori canes.

Oh, and they are on ebay this week (till 9/11)

Polymeri Online 19.7.07

A nice project on making pillow mokume gane beads by firemountaingems

http://www.firemountaingems.com/printdocs/printdocs.asp?docid=73K0

And the Complete story on Mokume Gane, and what amazing is that the polymer clay work has the identical look, i almost thought these were polymer clay photos down that page -

http://www.mokume-gane.com/Pages/What_is_Mokume.html

Beginner Project - Faux Lapis Polyclay Bead by Kathy Weaver

http://www.firemountaingems.com/beading_howtos/beading_projects.asp?

Barbara Forbes-Lyons sites are full of wonderful creations, we emailed one another few times, such a nice lady :)

One of her projects is Lazy Woman’s Mokume Gane

http://www.penguintrax.com/chatter/ http://polymerclayart.org/gallery/main.php/v/members/penguintrax/

http://www.penguintrax.com/gallery/main.php

Are you a Marla Frankenberg Fan? I am! well, this "Treasure" show some great photos from Marla's workshop called - "Marlafiori"

http://polymerclayart.org/gallery/main.php/v/marlafiori/

Flickr! Visit CLBcreations / Cindy Riordan site with amazing sculpturing!
She says about her self that she is: Ecclectic, artistic, mother, wife, spiritualist, crazy, off the beaten path, scarrey, wierd, feminist, tarot ...type of person :))
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7730246@N02/sets/72157600366712862/ http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5132673

A great project source from paroledepate blog - magnetic play board, mika & mokume gane and much more!

http://paroledepate.canalblog.com/archives/lecons_en_images/index.html

Another interesting link i found at polymer clay notes is whistle making from earth clay - such a brilliant ideas!

http://www.hominid.net/whistle_making_sequence.htm

http://www.enasco.com/artsandcrafts/Static.do?page=ac_np008_04