Polymer Clay Striped Cane and Jewelry

I like stripes, all kinds of stripes, different widths, different colors. I like to combine them with other shapes.

  I am going to concentrate on stripes for the next few days and see what I come up with. Here are my frist stripe canes.

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I made a multicolor stripe cane and used it to make the abstract cane.

plus a couple more variations 

I made this pendant from the end scraps, added a few little flowers and filled the opening in the center with  colored wire and crystal beads. 

More pendants, the one on the top right is from end scraps. I made the design on the other two by cutting a log off the stripe cane twisting it, rolling it smooth and cutting length wire.  I liked the little flowers on the first one so I scatterer them across these too. 

I made beads to use with the pendants but they are in the oven.  I'll show them to you later. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Polymer Clay Canes for YaYa

Daughter, Heather, is leaving today for her annual YaYa Sisterhood Retreat. The Yaya's are a group of 8 friends that get together for a week each year to have fun and do artistic projects.... this year they are going to give polymer clay a try.

Heather came over friday afternoon to gather supplies and have me show her some basic projects they can try. We thought making a kali cane would be fun so we put together some simple canes that she can combine to make the kali cane.

The flowers are from my garden... turned out to be the colors Heather chose for her canes.

I love the colors of these snapdragons.And here are the canes I showed her how to make.

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These are a couple sheets we made to use with the canes.
This was made with layered magenta and ecru clay using the same technique as mica shift. Heather will take photos so we will get to see what they make. I can hardly wait!! Have fun YaYa's!!