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Meet PositivelyCharming
The Smoosher of the week is PositivelyCharmingThings. Niki, of Phoenix, Arizona in the US, is a long time crafter though relatively recent clayer. She’s a great fan of Christi Friesen’s work and has a fondness for cutesy beads as she says in her bio.
Some of my favourite pieces in Niki’s studio includes the little blue bird earrings:
or this non-clay paua shell set:
Niki really DOES make absolutely adorable “cutesy” beads though:
Visit their studio at:
http://www.artfire.com/users/positivelycharmingthings
Follow their clay journey on their blog:
http://www.positivelycharming.com/
Meet FantasyClay
This week’s ArtFire Smoosher is Susan of FantasyClay from New Jersey, in the US. She’s been working with polymer clay for around 10 years she says and while most of her work is sculptural she tries to avoid being boxed in and attempts different techniques like beadmaking or caning.
FantasyClay is best know for her little custom Agricola pieces:
Myself, I’m always impressed with people who can sculpt and actually get something resembling what they set out for. FantasyClay has a studio full of cute critters, dragons and little figures like these guys:
Visit FantasyClay’s Studio
Join her clay journey on her blog
Follow her on Twitter
Meet Tamed
This week’s ArtFire Smoosher is Tamed, from St. Bee’s in the UK. Her passion is creating scale miniature replicas of animals as a a sort of pet portrait. Her studio is a collection of sweet creatures using polymer clay and felted fibres such as alpaca and merino.
Here’s a cute, TINY guinea pig:
An adorable Husky:
Tamed also has several listings for custom pet portraits. If you’d like a little keepsake – a mini-me of your pet – check out:
You can visit her shop at:
http://www.artfire.com/users/Tamed
And follow Tamed’s clay journey at:
http://timetamed.blogspot.com/
Meet Haffina
The Smoosher of the week is Haffina(other shop), a polymer clay artist from Mt. Barker, Australia. With five children and a ton of other commitments to online communities she helps organize or coordinates, Haffina STILL makes scads of beautiful beads and beaded pieces!
Here is a lovely focal (I’m a sucker for beads) with a sweet, sweet glossy finish:
Or what about this impressive beaded piece:
Not all of her pieces have clay in them. These pretty earrings have lovely artist made lampwork glass:
If you’d like to follow Haffina’s journey, check out her blog:
http://haffinacreations.blogspot.com/
And don’t forget to visit her bead shop:
http://www.artfire.com/users/beadsbyhaffina
Or her jewelry (and other nifty items!) shop :
http://www.artfire.com/users/HaffinaCreations
Meet Catswire
The ArtFire Smoosher of the week is CatsWire, from Germany. CatsWire is primarily a wire crocheter who frequently uses polymer clay to embellish her pieces.
Some of my favourite pieces are the wire only ones, particularly these kitties:
and these lovely pearls:
She uses a mix of her wire crochet and clay talents in some of her pieces like this little miniature basket of fruit:
You can visit her on her blog: http://www.catswire.blogspot.com/
Follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CatsWire
And definitely visit her studio: http://www.artfire.com/users/catswire
Meet Valerie’s Stuff
The ArtFire Smoosher of the week is Valerie of Valerie’s Stuff. Valerie is based in Columbus, Ohio and has been working with polymer clay for about six years now. She primarily creates beads to use in her own beaded jewelry and accessories.
A few samples show how Valerie prefers a simple jewelrymaking style that puts the emphasis front and center on the handmade clay components:
One special technique Valerie adds to her pendants is that she paints designs with alcohol inks. Here’s one of my favourites in her ArtFire shop:
You can follow Valerie’s clay journey along on her blog:
http://www.artfire.com/users/ValeriesStuff/blog
And visit her studio at:
http://www.artfire.com/users/ValeriesStuff
You Meet the Neatest People
… at shows. The bead show gave me the chance to see lots of customers and friends again but there were a few new ones. One was Marie of Skye Jewels who I’ve seen in various circles over the last year or so on Etsy and other online locales. She snapped up a few of my unexpectedly popular flower beads at the show and today I just got a glimpse of what she created with them.
If you have the chance, follow the link in her post and give the piece a vote on the Vintaj site!
Meet Emily Claire Creations
The Smoosher of the week is Valerie of Emily Claire Creations. This mom of Emily and Claire is from Youngstown, Ohio and is a talented polymer clay jewelry artist.
Her work involves beautiful, textured clay, metallic and pearlescent colours, and primarily copper wire accents. This bracelet is a perfect example.
Is a pretty example of how you can make polymer clay look aged but still stylish.
And this is just a nice little piece of eye candy because I’m always a fan of pretty wire work.
You can see more of Valerie’s work and journey:
- on her blog
- on her facebook fan page
- on her twitter
- and in her studio
Meet IntoTheDawn
This week’s installment of the Polymer Clay Smoosher’s blog ring is all about Dawn Marie of IntoTheDawn. Dawn Marie is from Westminster, Colorardo and says of herself:
I am a creative spirit~ a polymer clay artist, tarot enthusiast, voracious reader, avid crocheter & wanna-be herb gardener.
IntoTheDawn has some quite lovely pieces in her studio. There are a few sweet, well-done Christi F. inspired pieces like the leaf necklace or this cute phoenix:
She also makes a variety of other work like this mosaic box:
Or this set of runes to use in your own fortune-telling efforts:
Blog: http://into-the-dawn.blogspot.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Into-the-Dawn-Designs/98695212503
Studio: http://www.artfire.com/users/intothedawn
Meet CNewcomb
This weeks installation of Meet an ArtFire Smoosher’s guild member is about CNewcomb, a dad to two daughters from Cypress, Texas.
CNewcomb combines his fancy scroll saw work – which completely puts my newbie efforts at it – to shame with polymer clay. He cuts shapes and then backfills with polymer clay to enhance it like this example:
My favourite pieces in his shop are his more complicated scroll saw ones though. Check out this lacy card holder:
Or these wolves:
You can see his blog at:
http://www.artfire.com/users/cnewcomb/blog
or visit his shop at:
http://www.artfire.com/users/cnewcomb
or follow him on Twitter at:
