New Tools: Dots & Scratches

Hello my sweet honey bunnies! 

I am so happy to announce that I have some new tools for sale. ^^

They are completely handmade and very simple tools for creating wood, moss, feather, grass, hair, fur and many other textures on Polymer Clay and other similar medium. 

Original idea came from Donna Greenberg and she used them to make coral and lava textures for her amazing bottles. 

These are completely handmade and very easy to do! All you need is clay and tailoring needles. But if you are too busy or just can't be bothered, then you are welcome to buy a set!

You can also see a set of pictures of my art where I used these tools quite a lot for fur, moss, wood and so on. I hope you like it :) 

Drops of Color

Hi everyone!

Today I would like to present you another beautiful bracelet that I worked on during the last couple of months. Not all the time of course, just during :)
I named this bracelet "Drops of Color" as this is what it basically is :) Bracelet full of lovely, colourful drops and beautiful sparkle and shimmer.
It is made from polymer clay and is decorated with svarowski crystals and other metallic elements in different colours. All the textures and effect are achieved 100% by hand.
Once I created a test necklace with a very similar effect and I managed to sold it in Malta during the gallery sale, so I decided to make another item like this as it looked so joyful and happy, but also very chic and night out orientated ( if I can put it this way...).
Item is available in my ETSY SHOP. 

Enjoy the pictures.

 

 

Thank you so much, 

The Cuff of Purifying Energy by Mandarin Duck

Hello everyone!

I am quite excited to present you one of my new jewellery collection pieces - "The Cuff of Purifying Energy".

I decided to name this bracelet : "The Cuff of Purifying Energy" because it reminds me of a magical artefact piece and it was inspired by my love for labradorite crystals, starry dark sky with northern lights and beautiful, slightly golden moonlight. Labradorite stones are believed to have a power of protection and their magnificent transforming colourful ever transforming sparkle can easily make this crystal to be one of the most beautiful on the planet.

This bracelet is a part of "Ancient Stories" jewelry collection by Mandarin Duck aka Aniko Kolesnikova which I started two years ago and I still keep adding to the line from time to time. This collection is inspired by heavy medieval metals, little golden sparks of fire and beautiful semiprecious stones (for this bracelet it's labradorite). Pieces in this collection have rather different styles but they all are unified by black and gold/silver tones, different material imitations and shiny magical speckles.
This bracelet opens in the middle allowing a comfortable fit and it's oval shape makes it wrap around your wrist better, without leaving empty spaces and avoiding excess dangling on your hand. Hunting for such jewellery supply is always an adventure itself and when you find one, you feel very inspired straight away.
Very unique item, one of a kind (OOAK).

At the moment it is available in my ETSY SHOP.

Here are some more pictures and I am sorry that this type there will be no pictures of progress as for some reason I was so drawn into making this bracelet that I forgot to take couple of shots!

Thanks a lot for reading, 

Please share and comment, 

"The Garuda Necklace"

Hello my sweet honey bunnies and all the other followers!

I am very thrilled to finally show my latest necklace - "The Garuda Necklace".
In the past year I got very interested in ancient Vedas and I learnt quite a lot about the mythical creatures from there.
As it is stated in the ancient Vedas, Lord Krishna's private transport is a large bird-a-like mythical creature named Garuda. This is one of the most important creatures in the universe and he looks like half man and half bird. In my version I didn't wanted a human being's body parts to be involved so I ended up making a very royal looking, highly decorated bird and named him Garuda.
He is the source of inspiration and attraction for all the birds and he gives them the powers to fly. He is the one who makes the gravity non existant for the birds. He is the one who serves Lord Krishna and carries him around everywhere and can travel through the universe in split seconds. This is how powerful he is.
But enough talking and telling stories. You might not be even interested in those. Although you will surely appreciate the effort, the precision and the uniqueness of this piece.
Enjoy!

Tutorial for this necklace is filmed, so sometime this year it will come out, too! 

 

 

You might want to see more pictures of this necklace ( total 12 pics) on my FLICKR PAGE

Thank you so much for reading, 

Love ya!

Multi-Shaped Dottie Cutters

Hello my dear friends!

This is just a quick update on your requests about having Dottie tools in different shapes!
This is a bit time consuming to make and require some skills of working with pliers, but this is what I came up with.. to make a whole set it took me about 30 minutes and I used flat and rounder jewellery making pliers I had ( see the picture)...
This is what I got for now, perhaps tomorrow I will play with them and clay and will find out what all these cool shapes look like when cut out :)

You might be scared to play with your only set and I understand that. I also won't bother making these different shaped sets for sale as this will take all of my time and won't be worth not the time, not the effort. But just so that you know... there is an option, it is rather easy to do.. And.. Soon I will have some other same sized sets of Dotties available so that you can buy same size in a pack of 10 for example and play with creating your own sets! Maybe not flowers or hearts, but surely it would be handy to make your own squares, triangles and especially drops that can be used for tears, petals and many more.

Thanks for reading! Let me know if you would risk doing this yourself? Or is it something you would never risk doing with your Dotties?

Dotties are back!

Hello my sweet Dottie lovers and those who haven't met them yet! :) 

I am happy to announce that Dotties are back in stock and are available for shipping in the next 4-5 days! You can start ordering again my lovelies! 

I am eager to see what projects you will do with dottie tools. If there is anything you want to show me, send me the link in the comment or to [email protected]

You can also post on Facebook and tag me in! xxx

ORDER NOW?!

CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR SET

Here is some cool stuff and technical info!

THESE ARE THE SIZES THAT ARE NOW IN THIS NEW SET! 8 IN TOTAL!

COMPARISON OF OLD AND NEW SET!

PACKAGING REMAINS THE SAME.

AND SOME INSPIRATION...

YES, I WANT THEM NOW!!!

Thank you so much for loving the dotties and for all of your support!

Love, 

Necklace Sizes in a cool way!

Hello guys!
I was educating myself about the lengths of necklaces so that when working on my newest collection, I could determine what sizes of chains to do for which jewellery. I ended up stumbling upon this cool picture. Explains everything and looks cool! Perhaps click on it to zoom in and save it on your desktops or even print it out! HANDY :)

Click to enlarge!

Dragon Journal Tutorial ( Part 2)

CLICK HERE FOR THE TUTORIAL!! 
Enjoy and comment! Okay?

This tutorial Part 2 is all about textures, decorations and finishing touches! 

Dragon Journal Tutorial from Polymer Clay (Part 1)

Hello everyone!

I am so glad to announce that the 1st part of the Dragon Journal video is finally out and I am in the middle of editing the second part of it. It's a long video and quite a time consuming.

Unfortunately, as this project was a custom order, I rushed to send it to the client and ended up forgetting to take professional pictures of it. So now it's gone forever,  but at least we will have a video of how it was made and I hope you guys will be able to learn something from it. 

So here it is! 

CLICK ON THIS PICTURE TO WATCH!

Click on this picture to watch the video now.

Here are some work in progress pictures I had made with my phone.

 Stay tuned to for the 2nd part of this video closer to Friday!

Thanks for reading! 

Have fun,