Meeting Announcements

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, December 9, 2017 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

It’s December, and as usual we will not have a lesson this month – instead, we will have a pot-luck and a fun social time, as well as playing Dirty Santa (so much fun!).

About Dirty Santa: REMEMBER the items in the Dirty Santa game are NOT gag gifts but should be something you’d like to receive. Everyone playing the game brings a hand-crafted polymer item. An item using a technique learned this past year or one you just enjoyed making and sharing. Playing Dirty Santa is optional – but please, please do bring an item. It is so much more fun with many participants, we had such a good time last year.

I’m reposting the rules that Tom has adapted for our Dirty Santa game:

How to Play Dirty Santa

Everyone playing the game brings a hand-crafted polymer item. Sometimes an item using a technique learned this past year or one you just enjoyed making and sharing. Please, please bring an item. It is so much more fun with many participants.

VARIATION: Since we will be showing off our gifts during Show & Tell, I will bring gift bags to mask the items for the game. Just to keep it in the spirit of Dirty Santa.

Numbers are written on pieces of paper for every gift and placed in a basket, bowl or hat.

Each person draws a number. Getting a higher number is actually better because you will have more chosen gifts to choose from.

The person with #1 picks a gift to open from the array of gift bags. The person with #2 can choose to take another bag or steal the gift from #1. If a gift is stolen, the person who had it then steals from someone else or picks another gift to open. Gifts stolen cannot be directly stolen back. They must be in the pool of opened and unopened gifts for at least one turn.

The game continues like this until everyone takes a turn select an item or stealing an item. The last person to go can steal from anyone in the game or select the remaining item.

NOTICE: If the first person has not had their selection stolen during the game, they may steal a gift from anyone else. This may open a new round of stealing, but that’s the nature of Dirty Santa.

Once a gift is stolen three times, it is retired from the game.

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, October 11, 2017 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

Deborah DiMaggio will lead us in decorating wine glasses with roses.

Materials

• Clay in color of your choice for rose
• Clay in color of your choice for leaves and stem
• Bake and Bond, if needed

Tools

• Pasta machine to condition clay
• Work surface

Deborah will have wine glasses anyone can use, or you can bring your own (wine not included, LOL!).

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, October 14, 2017 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds. This is inchie month, with a theme of “Fall”. We will also have a drawing this month, so if you won something last time, bring some goodies for this one!

This month, Cheryl Reich will be teaching a traditional Mokume Gane technique, plus unique twists.

Supplies

• Clay – about 1 oz. each of black, white, and several colors that work well together (metallics are great!)

Tools

• Work surface
• Pasta machine
• Acrylic roller
• Any texture sheets or rubber stamps that are deep cut

Cheryl will be providing a special baggie, the barrette clip, and many different textures, rubber stamps and other cutters to share.

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, September 9, 2017, from 1:30-4:30 p.m. Due to the State Fair, we will be meeting this month at NorthHaven Baptist Church, 4600 36th Avenue NW, in Norman, OK. Directions: From I-35 coming from the north, exit on Indian Hills Road. If coming from the south, exit on Tecumseh Road. Go west to 36th Ave. NW – the church is about halfway between Tecumseh Rd. and Indian Hills Rd. We will be going in the west entrance. Click here for a map.

This month, Myra Cleveland will be showing us how to make functional and sturdy ceiling fan pulls.

Tools

• Scissors
• Scotch tape
• Ruler
• Sewing needle & thread or Aleene’s Tacky Glue (NOT superglue) to secure tassel
• X-acto knife
• Needle tool or Etch ‘n’ Pearl tool
• Wire cutter
• Round nose pliers
• Needle nose pliers
• Pasta machine
• Blade
• Your favorite clay tools

Materials

• Polymer clay in your choice of colors
• Cane slices, Skinner blends, texture sheets, and/or mica powders to decorate fan pull cap
• Medium/large beads (polymer clay, glass, wood, or metal) to decorate top of fan pull
• 20 gauge wire (about 24”)

Myra will provide:

• Ball chain and connectors
• 1/4” diameter wooden dowel
• Small circle cutter
• Fringe for tassels

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, August 12, 2017 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds. We will have a drawing this month – so for those who won something last time, please bring something this time!

For the August meeting, Wendi McKinnon will lead us in creating a Christmas scene or a Nativity scene in an Altoid tin. We will be focusing on the figures inside the tin during the meeting. The outside of the tin will be your own design.

Materials

• Altoid tin (the larger one, 3.5” x 2.25”)
• Small amounts of clay:
  • For Christmas scene: red, white, brown, green, black, orange
  • For Nativity scene: tan, flesh, brown, blue, gray, white, gold
• Ball of scrap clay
• Miniature Christmas trees (optional)

Tools

• Needle tool
• Pasta machine
• Work surface
• Baking surface
• Blade
• X-acto knife
• Small ball tool

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, July 8, 2017 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

This is Inchie month, with a theme of Summer.

The always entertaining Chris Crossland and her trusty sidekick Karen Humphries will lead us in creating a patriotic eagle & shield pin/pendant, so appropriate for July!

Supplies:

• Bake & Bond
• Mica powders: Pearl-ex Pearl White, Aztec Gold, Sunset Gold
• Glue-on bail for later 

Tools: 

Your favorite tools and:

• Needle tool
• Christi Friesen’s WIA tool (or whatever you use to sculpt)
• Size “0” knitting needle
• X-acto® or craft knife with sharp blade
• Kemper Star cutter 3/8″ (if you don’t have it, we will cut the 3 stars for you)
• Extruder with a 1/8″ round disc
• PJ’s Smooth Hair texture sheet

Clay Colors

These colors of clay are used to make the colors we will be using in class: White, Pearl, Cad Yellow, 18K Gold, Cad Red, Navy (or Ultramarine Blue and Black to make Navy clay)

Color Recipes for class:

To save time during the meeting, it is suggested that the following colors be mixed and/or conditioned ahead of time:

• White mix:  1/2 block White + 1/4 block Pearl
• Beak mix:  1/8 block Cad yellow + 1/8 block 18K Gold
• Shield trim & backing:  1/2 block 18K Gold
• Shield stripes:  1/4 block Cad Red
• Blue Shield Top:  1/4 block Navy (if you don’t have Navy clay, mix 1/4 block Ultramarine Blue + 1/16 block Black)

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, June 10, 2017 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

Penni Jo and Jane will lead us in this fun class. To make this project, please keep your different scrap colors separate from each other. We will be rolling each separate color into a series or rolls and doing something special to each roll before assembling the cane.

This original and unique class was inspired by a TV show about beautiful jewels created from dried and dyed heather. Their technique creates beautiful, gleaming, ‘stonelike’ cabochons called Heathergems®.

We have re-created this look using scraps of polymer clay.

This polymer clay class will allow the student to create Heathergem-inspired “Scrappy PenniJoGems” cabochons & beads from leftover clay. Since most people work with their favorite colors, the Scrappy PenniJoGems usually come out quite appealing and unique to the artist.

These beautiful cabochons are wonderful for earrings, pendants, bracelets, hair barrettes, home décor and more.

To speed up your work, condition your scraps before coming. Do not mix up your colors, just soften each individual scrap of clay so that each scrap can be rolled into a roll in class. Keep your scraps of clay separated as much as possible before coming to class as we will be rolling each separate color or blend into a series or rolls and then do something special to each roll before assembling.

Materials:

• Polymer Clay: Good clay scraps, at least two to three ounces. Or, any mix of your favorite colors. Skinner Blends, Metallic and Pearl or Metallic scraps work very well. Even old canes can be used.
• “Junk” clay to make the cabochon backing.
• Rigid tissue blade for cutting slices.
• Heavy body acrylic paint. Black, dark brown, dark blue or dark purple (We’ll have some in class to use)
• Clay tools and favorite tools
• Newspaper or other paper on which to paint.
• If a shiny finish is desired, polymer clay friendly varnish and brushes for polymer clay.
• Cabochon Molds or cutters (need plastic wrap for curved edges)

Optional:

• Pasta Machine
• Embossing powders, dark colors of your choice. (these can add bits of sparkle or texture.)
• Mica powders, iron on Jewels if you wish to add jewels to your designs.
• Findings for cabs
• Elastic cord for Tile Bracelet

Teachers will bring:

• Wax paper/aluminum foil
• Cabochon Molds
• Cutters
• Saran or Glad Wrap

Project Ideas:

• Pendant
• Earrings
• Tile Bracelet (1” cutter ?)
• Stick pin
• Barrette
• Frame Tiles
• Mosiac Focal Designs

Penni Jo has provided a handy guide you can download for future reference. Thanks, PJ!!