Meeting Announcements

Our next meeting will be Saturday, August 8, 2015 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds. This is our raffle month, so if you won something in the last raffle, remember to bring an item for this one!

Penni Jo and Jane will be showing us how to make an adorable Harvest Moon switchplate cover that has glow-in-the-dark elements.

Materials

• Polymer clay: Blue (can be metallic glitter blue), metallic or glitter gold, black, white, and glow-in-the-dark clay
• Switchplate: any size. The artwork can be modified to fit.

Tools

• Pasta machine or brayer
• Craft knife
• Superglue
• Favorite clay tools

NOTE: Our September meeting will be at the Moore Public Library (225 S Howard Ave, Moore, OK) instead of our usual meeting place, due to the State Fair. For those unfamiliar with Moore, here is a map.

Our next meeting will be Saturday, July 11, 2015 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

We will have an inchie swap this month, with a red/white/blue, 4th of July, or summertime theme.

Kay McKinnis will be showing us how to make earrings this month. Sounds like fun!

Materials

• 2 – 1/4 segments of clay.  These can be 1/2 segment of one color or 1/4 segment of 2 colors.
• Gloss finish – PYM II or Lisa Pavelka’s  Satin Gloss (Kay has a large can of PYMII to share)
• 2 – Earring findings, the sample shows pierced earrings  (Kay will bring gold and silver to share)
• 2 – Jump rings, to match earring color (Kay will bring some in gold & silver to share)
• 2 – 2″ head pins (Kay will bring some of gold and silver)
• 6 – 3mm silver or gold beads  (Kay will bring those)
• 2 – 6mm or 8mm pearl beads  (Kay will bring white pearl beads)

Tools

• ANY VARIETY OF SMALL/VERY SMALL, TEXTURE-PATTERN MAKERS
•  Texture pads with small patterns (Best Flexible Molds, Sculpey, or Lisa Pavelka are good sources)
• Sculpey cutters/shapers – small squares and small circles
• Frosting tip – round 1/2″ diameter (not sure what number it is)
• Ruler for trimming the 1 -1/4″ square to 1″ square  ( 1″ square cutters are rare to find)
• Jeweler’s pliers with very small tips
• A sharp pointed tool for creating small holes in clay

Let’s try this again…..

Our next meeting will be Saturday, June 13, 2015 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

We will have a raffle this month, so if you won something in the last raffle, please bring an item for this one. Inchies will be in July, with a red/white/blue, 4th of July, or summertime theme.

Laura Clarkson will be teaching us an attractive herringbone design this month. This class was shown on Sculpey’s website. If you’d like a preview, the link is here.

Materials:

• Clay – Silver, black, and white (or three colors of your choosing that have good contrast – Lori suggested bronze/pearl/18K gold)
• Small tin box or money clip (we will have small boxes available for $1 at the meeting)

Tools:

• Pasta machine
• Blade
• Craft knife
• Ruler
• Work surface
• Wax paper

UPDATE: Due to possible severe weather on Saturday, our meeting is cancelled for May. We will do the May demo in the June meeting. Stay safe!

Our next meeting will be Saturday, May 9, 2015 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

There will be no raffle or inchies this month. Our next raffle will be in June, so if you won something in the last raffle, please bring an item for this one. Inchies will be in July, with a red/white/blue, 4th of July, or summertime theme.

Laura Clarkson will be teaching us an attractive herringbone design this month. This class was shown on Sculpey’s website. If you’d like a preview, the link is here.

Materials:

• Clay – Silver, black, and white (or three colors of your choosing that have good contrast)
• Small tin box or money clip (we will have small boxes available for $1 at the meeting)

Tools:

• Pasta machine
• Blade
• Craft knife
• Ruler
• Work surface
• Wax paper

Our next meeting will be Saturday, March 14, 2015 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

This month, we will be working on and sharing ideas for our inchies that we trade at the retreat. They’re fun to make and fun to exchange with others as a little souvenir of our time together. And it’s a great way to make new friends at the retreat, too! And if you won’t be at the retreat, you can work on some inchies for our next swap at the guild meeting in July. The theme for those inchies goes along with the season – so some ideas might be summer, hot, 4th of July, apple pie, America – or whatever says “summer” to you!

So bring some clay and your favorite tools, and let your imagination run wild with your little 1″x1″ pieces of art!

Our next meeting will be Saturday, February 14, 2015 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds. Enter from Gate 5, across from Forest Lumber on May Ave.

This month, Angela will be teaching us how to use cookie cutters to make polymer clay containers.  This technique was used by Heather Roselli in Irene Semanchuk Dean’s book The Weekend Crafter: Polymer Clay: 20 Weekend Projects Using New & Exciting Techniques, and Dean generously granted Angela permission to teach the project at our meeting.

Materials

• Clay to make the container, approximately 3 oz (one and a half packages). You may choose to make the walls, base and lid of your container the same color, or you may want to mix things up.
• Additional clay colors, canes, etc. for your embellishing your container
• Liquid polymer clay *
• Corn starch, Repel Gel, or other release agent *

Tools

• Pasta machine
• Metal cookie cutter in whatever shape you want your container to be *
• Clay blade
• Craft knife or Sculpey 5-in-1 Tool Kit
• Clay extruder *
• Knitting needle or Penni Jo’s Clay Tools *
• Any other favorite clay tools you might want
• Stamps, textures, transfers, or anything else you need for your design
• Working surface

* Don’t worry if you don’t have the items marked with asterisks. Angela will bring extra to share.

Our next meeting will be Saturday, January 10, 2015 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds. Enter from Gate 5, across from Forest Lumber on May Ave.

This is also our raffle month – so if you won something at the last raffle, bring something for this one! Also, registration for our retreat on April 9-11, 2015 is now live – the information and link to the online registration form is on this page.

Materials

• A 2 oz. block of base color for the owl. The instructions refer to it as gold but variety is the spice you know.
  Yours can be whatever color you like, I think a short Skinner blend might be interesting.
• Some scraps, no more than a 1/2″ ball is needed – Yellow and black for the eyes. Brown, beige or other contrasting colors for the feet and horns (ears?).
• Craft cord – two 12″ lengths ( Tom used AMY Nylon 13+ craft cord and will bring enough for the class)
• Any other embellishments that you might like -mica powder, glitter, findings, jewels, Marquis-cut diamonds, etc.

Tom will bring the (hardware) movement items: Strong thread, paper fasteners, jump ring, eyelet, and a bead (for the pull).

Tools

• Your usual clay tools
• Pasta machine for mixing and the clay
• Working surface (a 4×4 ceramic tile works well)
• Craft knife
• Knitting or darning needle or PJ tool to smooth the holes
• Scissors
• Wire cutters