Wildflowers and Butterflies: Time to be Brave in New York

This past week I got to go to New York with my daughter and the Port Angeles High School Choir.  Wow!  What a crazy and action packed trip it was!  I made this card before leaving as I was thinking about being brave while in the huge city of 8.5 million people.  Nature was one thing I did not see much of.  No butterflies for sure.  However there were some beautiful flower arrangements which I took photos of and will share in a later post with some other New York photos.

For this card I made the butterflies out of painted canvas which I adhered to card stock.  I used Anna-Karin's technique which she shared in this post.  Her blog is called Layers of Ink.  I had fun incorporating the Tim Holtz Idea-ology clock hands and the metal ornate plate into this card.  I also used the Trellis Frameworks die from Tim Holtz Alterations Collection.  At the top and bottom of this card I stuck down some washi tape and over that I laid down a sticker strip from Tim Holtz Gallery Industrious Stickers from his Idea-ology Collection.

Here are a few close-ups:

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Fun With Polymer Clay and Pearly Powders

Hello!  I recently stumbled on some beautiful pieces made out of polymer clay and Pearl Ex or Perfect Pearls powders.   A woman named Sara has a few great videos on YouTube.  Here's a link to a video where she does a sort of show and tell.  It's called Clay Tile Share.  She also has Clay Art Tile Tutorial Part 1 and Part 2 videos.  In her videos she speaks about being very inspired by the work of Gabrielle Pollacco and Chris Kapono.  Gabrielle has a blog with beautiful scrapbook pages, polymer clay projects and more.  Here'e a link to her blog.

So . . . as you might have guessed I had to pull out my polymer clay and give this a try.  My pieces are very simple and I really can't wait to do more.  But here are some photos of my first attempts to use stamps, metal beads and glass beads with polymer clay.

Here they are fresh out of the oven!  I baked them on an index card placed on a cookie sheet.

The Pearl Ex powders create such a beautiful look!   Below you can see that I added a little butterfly I had and put this on a chain.

Here are two different photos of the earrings.  Simply pushing a flower spacer bead into the center of these pieces add a nice touch.

I am just starting to get a glimpse of how much fun can be had working with polymer clay!  Time to go play some more!  Thanks for stopping by!