Thursday, April 8, 2010

Polymer Clay Buttons to Beads

I'm still slogging around in my basement. The cleaning is slow moving as I keep finding things that distract me. My latest find was a box of large coat buttons, many with attractive designs.

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I like the pattern on this button, it is simple but very attractive. I was running scrap clay through the pasta machine and liked the copper look so I used it to make a couple tiles.

This large coat button has lots of texture so I used it to make the hollow pendant.

In between playing with clay, cleaning the basement (actually I'm making a big mess down there) and doing a little yard work I made a few wire doodads.
I made a necklace using one of the "copper" tiles and the blue wire doodad strung on dark blue waxed cotton cord. I have dozens of large buttons with fun designs, good thing I saved them, right?

7 comments:

  1. Good thing indeed! I love them

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  2. Such neat designs. I think the "copper" tile with the blue wire doodad is really nice and so unusual. Your name came up recently in a conversation about talented and innovative clayers who think outside the box whose work we like and I thought you'd like to know!

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  3. I love both of the buttons you used for the textures. color me jealous. Your creations are awesome!

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  4. Thank you Gayle

    Thank you Anita, it's good to know other artists appreciate my work, keeps the creative juices flowing.

    Thank you Kathi, I'm glad you like them.

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  5. What a nice thing to say, thank you Ginger.

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  6. I *love* the texture across the pattern on that donut, BJ. Very subtle and sophisticated.

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