Kims's Quirky Creations

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Polyform Products January 2013 Make It Your Own Challenge ~ My Entry

Polyform January 2013 Make It Your Own Challenge

This Months challenge was to make beads and a bracelet.

Inspiration

Quote from Polyform Products

"The inspiration for the January Make-It-Your-Own Contest

is Richelle Hawks' Rustic Faceted Bead Bracelet.

Create your own custom bead bracelet

and post your photo entry right here on our Facebook page.

The deadline is January 31st

and the winner will be announced the first week in February.

The prize is one of each of the premo! Accents colors.

Enter as many times as you'd like, Good Luck!

We all enjoy seeing the many different entries.

Link to her pretty bracelet and sculpey project:"

My Entry.

I chose to make a Faux Gemstone.

Faux Purple Fire Agate

Faux Purple Drusy Slices

Faux Clay Pearls

I Love the look of cha cha bracelets

They are such a fun way to display beautiful beads.

These beads are so lightweight and fun.

Premo Clays Used:

I will share the exact colors in my tutorial that will follow soon

Premo Purple Clays

Glitter white Premo

White Transparent

.I Made a few canes in several shapes and sizes.

Some very tiny and some large and thick.

Some of the canes I put together in odd shapes

to form the faux look that is not supposed to be consistent

in shapes or sizes. Which made it very fun.

I then made a Drusy style cane and sliced

left it in abstract shapes as slices of Drusy are not perfect.

Baked them on some great new thick wide aluminum pieces

I found at Hobby lobby. Will share more info later.

They baked up wonderful.

Put them all in a very cold ice bath right away

Was so excited to hold them up and see they were completely

Transparent. Yay it worked.

Wet sanded then buffed with my dremmel tool and Renissance

It is so hard to show the transparency in photos.

I messed around with so many ways to get it to show up.

Ive been extremely sick so I gave up trying to figure out how.

I will put aside a few hours one day to do some research on the

best way to take photos of something transparent. hmmm

Tips are welcome in comments :)...

I Wire wrapped all the clay beads and added some faux clay pearls.

Dangled them on my favorite type of links for Cha Chas

Here are my attempts at photos with light behind it.

They are not done very well.

Kind of me not well. LOL

But I love the bracelet and plan to wear it with the pendant.

So stay tuned in a few days a free tutorial for the

agate and Drusy will follow.

Have a few custom orders I'm finishing up

for Valentines day.

Also have a giveaway / Blog Hop coming up

11 prizes just from me.

You must be a blog member to win.

Sign up for email notifications

then you wont miss out.

Each Blogger will have their

own Giveaway!!!

So be sure to stop by them all.

Will be a chance on a lot of

Valentine gifts just for you.

Plus all free.

Who doesn't love free :).

Will be a few fun things you have to do

But lots of ways to win and a lot of

beautiful prizes.

Create With Heart, Love, Color and Bling

Saturday, January 26, 2013

PCAGOE FEBURARY MONTHLY CHALLENGE ~ FAUX ~ My Entry

I am a proud member of this amazing group

So many extremely talented artists.

Fun challenges every month

Supportive group that Pins on Pinterest

Many Treasury's made to support our members

I enjoy being a part of this group

Love looking at every ones progress

as artists and getting to know them.

This months challenge is Faux

That can be any type of Faux anything made with

Polymer Clay.

I chose a faux stone.

Looking for genuine stones Ugh the prices.

I love faux fire agate

Like the look of it being slightly transparent

Love the many shades it comes in.

So I experimented last night and had fun with it.

I of course choose purple

Since purple and pink are my favorite colors.

Here is a real Fire Agate

This is sold by someone on Ebay

To see the stone and seller click on the photo.

I will be making a tutorial on this.

Almost done with it just have to finish up editing photos.

It was fun and easy so I want to share. :)

Here is my Faux Purple Fire Agate Pendant

I Also made a faux druzy slice

All wire wrapped Just like a normal stone.

Was very fun and when the light shows through

It is so clear and you can see both sides and all the

pretty colors of clay.

I love Premo White transparent it is awesome

It really helped with this technique.

It is so hard to show in photos the true transparency.

I am very sick so I didn't have the time I wanted

and did not feel up to the other ideas I had to add to it.

But I had fun so that is all that matters.

I hope you stop by and Vote

Voting begins February 1st - 7th

Ill be sure to remind everyone.

Stop by and see every ones great Faux

Creations on the Blog : PCAGOE BLOG

PCAGOE FACEBOOK

PCAGOE FLICKR PAGE

Thank you so much for stopping by and supporting me

and Handmade.

Hugs and blessings to all.

Create With Heart, Love, Color and Bling

JAN 2013 ABS ~ ArtBeadScene Monthly Challenge ~ My entry

JAN ABS 2013 Challenge

Link to The Artbeadscene Monthly Challenge Blog

I have missed this group and challenge.

Black Peacocks with Japanese Persimmons
Jessie Arms Botke, 1940
Oil and Gold Leaf on Panel
32 x 40 inches
(Please note this art is copyrighted and is to be used only as inspiration.)

About the Art

This is representative of Botke's detailed, intricate style and her signature gold leaf technique, whereby thin sheets of gold are applied to the canvas or panel. Botke specialized in depicting birds such as peacocks, flamingos, geese and pelicans, often against an imaginary landscape or a background of exotic flowers and plants. As in many of her peacock images, the elaborate tail feathers of the black peacock take up a large portion of the canvas. In 1849, Botke wrote about her fascination with birds, “My interest in birds was not sentimental, it was always what sort of pattern they made.”

About the Artist
Born to English parents in Chicago in 1883, Jessie Arms Botke spent much of her free time as a child sketching and painting. At the age of fourteen, she took art classes at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. When she graduated from high school, she enrolled as a full-time student at the Institute. During her summer vacations she participated in intensive painting workshops in Michigan and Maine, which led to her first exhibition at the Art Institute's American Annual in 1904. After school, Botke worked in wall decoration and book illustration and refined her skills as a decorative artist. Inspired by an exhibition of friezes, decorations, and tapestries from Herter Looms of New York, Botke moved there in 1911 and immersed herself in the city's artistic climate. Several years later, she was employed at Herter Looms where she worked on tapestry design, painted panels and friezes, and began to specialize in painting birds.
In 1914, Jessie Hazel Arms met design artist Cornelius Botke in Chicago, and they married a year later. Together, the Botkes worked as artists in Chicago, San Francisco, and Carmel, CA, and they traveled often to New York City and Europe. They both worked on major art commissions and held their largest joint exhibition in 1942 at the Ebell Club, a conservative club for the advancement of women and culture. When Jessie's eyesight began to fail in 1961, she continued painting small watercolors until surgery and contact lenses restored her vision and she resumed painting full-time. A stroke in 1967 destroyed her ability to paint, and she died four years later at the age of 88.

Blog Tour

The Blog Tour deadline is January 29th.

Links must be added to the Art Bead Scene flickr page

where you upload your entry.

The Blog Tour will be on January 31tst.

Monthly Challenge Winners

Winners will be randomly chosen

from all the qualifying entries on February 1st.

Our Sponsors

Our Sponsors this month are Erin Siegel and Sarah Hornik.

Please visit us tomorrow to see the prizes!

I love peacock feathers so this was a fun challenge.

I have been so sick and unable to create for months.

Except for very small things.

Last night I laid in bed thinking I cant miss out on this one.

I miss my clay and had an idea that was

floating around in my head and saying get up you can do it.

Sick or not, pain or not I was going to create!!!

I got to work and made a peacock polymer clay feather cane

I had this great filigree bead that was a peacock for a base

That I was going to actually make my daughter a necklace with

sometime in the future because she loves peacock feathers too.

So this was the perfect time and I love the way it turned out.

Creating filled my heart with joy.

I have not felt this good since November

Creating and Polymer have a healing hand at times.

I just hope that after a few days of rest now I can keep on creating

Here is my version of

Black Peacocks with Japanese Persimmons

Polymer clay canes created by me in the design of a peacock feather

I have made peacock feathers before but this one was a little different.

I used a razor knife and shaved the feathers so they have a real

feather feel around the edges just not as soft :) ..

Added the extra Peacock Feather eyes to the bottom row.

Found some sterling filigree circles that I attached to the bottom.

Gave it a unique look, not the normal peacock.

Sculpted the body from the wonderful polyform products

Peacock Pearl clay. Love that color

Added a swarovski Sapphire for eyes.

I don't waste so I used the extra clay to make swirled

polymer briolettes in the peacock feather colors

and clay briolettes in golden hues.

Beaded up a few strands of matte gold seed beads

Ugh I do not like seed beading. My shaky hands prefer to

toss them all over the floor instead of the string. lol

But I managed two accent colors, one matte and one clear.

Attached my briolettes.

Added a antique gold toggle clasp and a extra briolette to finish it off.

Baked up, buffed up and puffed up pretty as a peacock.

Hope you enjoyed him as much as I did creating him.

Hugs to all.

Be sure to check out everyone else that joined in.

I have not looked yet but I know they are probably amazing.

Here is the link : Artbeadscene Flicker Group

Special Note. Found out today Jan 31 that my

entry made front page of the blog tour.

Here is the link:

http://www.artbeadscene.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-monthly-blog-tour.html

Thank you ArtbeadScene for including me.

Im honored that you enjoyed my necklace.

Here is what they said

"Kim Idalski of Kimi's Jewelry (above) squeaked in at the last minute. We are so glad that she joined us, especially since she has not been feeling well. Being creative and with your friends is a great medicine, don't you think? I am very impressed that Kim made this intricate polymer clay peacock! It looks like it is articulated and has a great movement to it. So regal!"

Just a fun fact about the necklace. Every layer of feathers is connected

by jump rings so they all move. It flows and

has lots of movement. It was very fun to make. :)

Congrats to all the amazing artists that made the

blog tour. Gorgeous creations.

I will stop by every blog soon.

Hugs to all and happy creating.

Thank you for stopping by and supporing me

and Handmade Art

I miss my blogging and blogger followers

I have been very sick and just recovering

from another surgery and have two more

comeing up soon.

I will be creating to heal.

So if you need a custom order.

Im your girl. Nothing motivates me more

than a customer to create for.

I will be doing a giveaway this week.

Be sure to stop back. You have to participate to win.

It will be fun easy and painless I promise.

Thought for the day: Free yourself from those that bring you down,

Forgive them for they cannot forgive themselves. It will make your heart heal.

Create With Heart, Love, Color and Bling

Monday, January 21, 2013

Giveaway at The Beading Gems Journal

Stop by a great site for a fun giveaway.

The Beading Gems Journal

"Giveaway"

One lucky winner of this giveaway will receive a letter set. There are several wonderful fonts to choose from. So check out their site as well as the ImpressArt Metal Stamps Viewer to help you visualize how each font looks like on different discs.