Art Party II Fimo

Great day making art in the kitchen with family and Friends

Sarah Beth and Jennifer in the process of creating. Make certain to warm the clay up and condition it as well as running it through the pasta maker. The worst thing that can happen it seems is that your piece might get a little thin and then have a tendency to crack, but if prepared properly- the items are quite durable once cured in the dedicated toaster oven. The bake time varies and the packages usually comes with a suggested time, and there are many tutorial on Pinterest.com. Most of the clays were purchased at area craft stores including www.hobbylobby.com, www.michaels.com, and www.joanns.com. These stores also carry a variety of items for scratching, scraping, texturing, and detailing the polymer clay.

Sarahbeth used a pearlescent clay and she also made a variety of beads. She filled a Vintage blank with clay and created a design and hung it on a Vintaj brass chain. We all used a variety of tools to scratch and a variety Pearl-Ex pigments to add a metalic glisten and iridescence. It really is simple. Just do what you feel.

Clay cut with Makins cutters

Jennifer's iridescent hearts were created with an orchid colored polymer clay (most brands work just fine, and we used a variety including Fimo, Sculpey, Viva, Kato- in a variety of treatments from regular to souffle to iridescent. She added the pearlescense with Pearl-ex pigment. We just played with what we had. Everyone brought a little and we shared. So easy and fun. Jennifer cut her shapes using small clay metal cutters from Makins, but any type metal-edged or sharp wooden edge cutter would work.

 

A closeup of Jessica's leaves. She used a paper piercer for creating the holes and scratching the veins on the leaves. It is very important to leave the hole in the size you need for attaching to a cord, chain or jump ring.

Feather stamped on clay before baking

 A closeup of my feather. I used a stamp to make the outline and detail of the feather. Then I cut it out with a craft knife, and scratched the detail with a paper piercer or ice pick like tool.

Jess displays her Fimo creations at the Second Art party. This one was hosted by us. We really have got this thing going for real now. Sarah Beth's was in June. We created different paper creations. This one we used some of my Fimo supplies and toys like the dedicated pasta maker and toaster over that will not heat so high that it burns the Fimo. I have had this stuff sitting around for years and was afraid to crack it open. With the support of my nieces Jennifer and Sarah Beth, and my daughter Jessica. It was a great success. We all made something, and we discovered that using bakeable clay is not really hard at all. It was more fun to get everything out with several people using it.