Category Archives: Shout Out

Meet FantasyClay

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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

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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

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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

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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:


catswire wire crochet kitties

and these lovely pearls:

wire crochet pearl earrings

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

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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