Central Oklahoma Polymer Clay Guild

Central Oklahoma Polymer Clay Guild Meeting - June 12, 2010

Our meeting began as usual with members visiting with each other while setting up for the meeting.

1. Introduce-welcome guests We had no visitors for guild but interested folks came in while cleaning up including an artist named Doris. She may be back.

2. Show and Tell Angela showed some fabulous items from her book, plant sticks and reviewed jewelry stuff from Michael’s, Premo kits, findings for clay at about $10.00 & new Premo products. Sue showed some more of her fabulous jewelry including some great faux wood. Shirley cautioned us about the cutter edge of a waxed paper box and displayed a bandaged finger. Penni Jo showed her faux Ribbon Embroidery samples. I forget if Lee Ann had a show and tell, but I think so. If I don’t write it down, it didn’t happen it seems.

3. Program: We made a royal mess on the tables as we ripped and tore color pages from every kind of magazine that there is. Lee Ann left with a wonderful collage of “her” colors that everyone said was just “her”. The color lesson was from the book “Polymer Clay Color Inspirations”. Next month we will make a necklace project from the book using the colors we love.

Penni Jo talked about the importance of Value and color selection. We will like our projects and finished products better if they reflect our true color selection with good values.

4.Old Business: Minutes were read and approved. State Fair, : We will do the demo on Saturday Sept 19th from 1-5?. Sign up for the fair can be done starting July 1st through Aug 14 on line or at the fair grounds. July 31st can be a play day for us to work on fair projects.

5.New Business: A. Penni Jo asked if we could plan a very simple retreat and have a two day event where we could learn, share and grow. Something to think about. Makin’s will send samples for an event or guild special event. Successes: PJ has been asked to make a project for the Makin’s website and has been tapped to teach at 2011 Fandango. B. Christi Fresien will be teaching in Kansas City. See Angela for more details. C. Alberquerque workshops

1. Lindley Haunan Saturday Sept 26, $200.00.
2. Jana Roberts Benzon April 2&3 2011
3. Heather Campbell ?Faux Batik? Oct 2011
4. Sarah Shriver Summer 2011 D. PolymerCafe Challenge Winter White E. Angela has an article in next (current) PolymerCafe on tools.

6. V.P. Report (upcoming lessons): July- Penni Jo will teach the necklace from the book “Polymer Clay Color Inspirations”. Her class has been moved to November. Aug - Air dry clay Nance Sept - Pillow beads - Jane Oct - Faux Enamel & Faux Cloisonne - Angela Nov. - Carving — Angela

7. Treasurer’s Report ~~ Angela Balance $612.55 Members 10

*8. BOH Report ~~ Nance * Not in attendance.

9. Librarian Report ~~ Jane: Jane reviewed the new color book. Excellent info and color collections. * 10. Drawing for a new book ~~ Jane:* New DVD “Poly Clay Treasures”

*11A. June swap: *No one but PJ had any pairs so she kept her pear earrings.

11. Raffle Winners to bring items: Nance, Lee Ann & Jane: * Next meeting July 10 at the Hobby Lobby in Moore 1:00 to 4:00 pm *

Hi Clayers! It meeting time again! Our Next meeting will be held *Saturday July 10, 2010 at 1:00 *at the new *Hobby Lobby store -2650 S Service Rd, Moore, OK- (405) 912-8100. *

We have a change of plans afoot for this meeting. Angela was scheduled to teach her carving technique this month, but since time ran out and Penni Jo was unable to teach the pinched petal color necklace , she will be teaching it this month and Angela will teach carving in October. The meeting schedules will be as follows:

July-Pinched Petal Color Necklace-Penni Jo

August-Air dry clay flowers-Nance

September-Pillow Beads-Jane

October-Carving-Angela

November-Faux Enamel & Faux Cloisonne-Angela

The supply list is as follow:

2 oz. yellow clay

1 oz. magenta clay

1 oz. blue clay

2 oz. white clay

3 oz. black clay

Pin tool

Acrylic rod or brayer

36 inches of bead-stringing cord (heavy-duty upholstery thread or waxed linen thread)

clasp

fast-drying superglue

Card stock to fold for bead tray

If you have other colors you would like to use to make the necklace, please bring those instead and if you have a question about what colors to bring, Penni Jo has graciously agreed to answer any questions by e-mail. (pennijo@pennibears.com).

(If you don’t have these supplies-don’t panic! Come! We’ll have a great time together and we’ll have enough supplies).

This month is raffle month. The winners of the May raffle were Lee Ann, Nance, and Jane. Winners, should bring something for this month’s raffle and everyone bring an item for it as well as a book suggestion for our awesome library.

Also, everyone who finished their collage, or created new ones after the last meeting, please bring them for show and tell. We’d all love to see them!

Hi Clayers! It’s that time again! Our Next meeting will be held Saturday June 12, 2010 at 1:00 at the new Hobby Lobby store -2650 S Service Rd, Moore, OK- (405) 912-8100.

This months meeting will be very very interesting as we will be using an exercise in the Lindly Haunani and Maggie Maggio book, Polymer Clay Color Inspirations to create collages that will help us to find and fine tune our own individual personal inspirational colors. These collages can be used as color palettes for our polymer clay works. The supply list does not involve polymer clay and is as follows:

Good Paper Scissors

Glue Stick

11x 17 Inch Piece Of Poster Board

Five Magazines with color pictures

Two I 1-Gallon Plastic Storage Bags or Large Mailing Envelopes For storing Your Clipping

Library

Five Or Six Sandwich-Size Plastic Bags

Permanent Markers To Label The Storage Bags

If you like, bring your favorite colors of clay, paint chips, silk flowers, etc., to help with color inspairation, a great idea from Penni Jo.

We will be having our swap this month and the theme is “pairs”, so everbody bring a pair of something you’ve made and also a book purchase suggestion for our library.

Central Oklahoma Polymer Clay Guild Meeting May 08, 2010

Our meeting began as usual with members visiting with each other while setting up for the meeting.

1. Introduce / welcome guests - We had no guests this meeting.

2. Show and Tell As usual there was much ooohing and aaaaahing as members showed their most recent creations. Jane had a mica shift pendant necklace. Lee Ann brought her Ruphia bead and finished vessel. Nance passed around the air dry flowers that she will be teaching. Penni Jo showed her focal beads.

3. Program: Faux Embroidery by Penni Jo ( was pointy flowers) Because of the enthusiastic response she completed the technique, submitted a syllabus to the Fandango and was accepted as one of three teachers for 2010.

4. Old Business: Ruth reported on the Art Festival. People asked questions but there were no info sheets about the clay and our guild. Next year we need a handout and need to find out if we can demo. Also, the table needs to be rearranged for better display and viewing. In order to be part of the Art Festival next year, we need to have classes at least one center. Having classes with children and adults was discussed. If classes are taught for children then the center can supply the clay. Ruth - maybe develope kids programs in the centers. Jane, PJ & others to develop programs to teach teachers. There were a lot of positive comments about our display.

5. New Business: a. State Fair: I reported for Angela. Enrollment for fair is July 1 through Aug 16. We also talked about demonstrating on the first Sunday again this year. b. Play Day. It was suggested we might use our play days to prepare our state fair entries. Email Jane if you want to participate in Play Days.

6. V.P. Report (upcoming lessons): June - Color collage (AKA design board) - exercise from the color book. Everyone bring 5 magazines, we will tear out colors, and pallets that we like and learn to make a color collage that can help us choose clay colors for caning, sculpting and designing. Also, if you like bring your favorite colors of clay, paint chips, silk flowers, etc. This promises to be an exciting, revealing and helpful project. July- Carving by Angela Aug - Air dry clay Nance Sept - Pillow beads - Jane Oct - Faux Enamel & Faux Cloisonne - Angela

7. Treasurer’s Report ~~ Angela Balance - $640.27 Members - 10

8. BOH Report ~~ Nance Nance is needing medium sized bottles and has contacted Norman Regional again.

9. Librarian Report ~~ Jane: Jane reviewed the new book Perfectly Paired.

10. Drawing for a new book ~~ Jane: We drew for the new book, Color Index by Jim Krause.

11. Raffle Winners of last raffle brought items to the meeting. Winner to bring something to next raffle: Nance, Jane, Lee Ann

12. June Swap ~~ Pairs — bring any pair of anything to swap. Even a pair of pears.

Next meeting June 12 at 1:00 pm at the new Hobby Lobby in Moore.

Hi Clayers! It’s that time again! Our Next meeting will be held Saturday May 8, 2010 at 1:00 at the new Hobby Lobby store -2650 S Service Rd, Moore, OK- (405) 912-8100, our new venue.

Penni Jo will be demonstrating her absolutely lovely Pointy Flower Technique. Penni Jo has placed her pointy flowers on a faux ivory pendant. Please make whatever base you want to place the pointy flowers on ahead of time. Penni Jo has graciously provided us with instructions for her ivory pendant base. They are listed below with the supply list. Here is the supply list:

Polymer Clay

1. Plugs, loaves or scraps of skinner blends. Ends or scraps of leaf canes. Or, clay in your choice of color for flowers and leaves.

2. . Background clay, shown are faux ivory and a pearl background. Faux ivory instructions are below the materials list.

3. Faux Ivory Clay: For faux ivory you will need about a half block of white and ecru or beige, and a block of translucent. See instructions below.

Other Tools

1. Optional: wire for wirework.

2. Pointy tool: like a smooth round toothpick, skewer, needle tool, etc.

3. Iron On Glass or Crystal jewels: Choice of color. Available at Hobby lobby in the aisle for ironing stuff onto jeans and t-shirts.

4. Optional eye pins: If dangles are desired, eye pins will be needed.

5. Clay tools: Pasta Machine for mixing clay.

Faux Ivory Instructions.

Condition and layer ‘faux’ Ivory clay as follows.

Polymer Clay:

Premo Ecru or Fimo Sahara (or mix your own light ivory color using your favorite brand of clay - One part)

White - One part

Transparent or Translucent. Two parts

1. Roll the clay into flat sheets about 1/8” thick or the thickest setting on the pasta machine. Trim into the same size rectangles. Stack the clay as follows: Ecru, Translucent White, Translucent. Cut the stack in half. Place one half on top of the other. Do not flip the clay over, the stack should stay in the same order, ecru, translucent, white, translucent; ecru, translucent, white, translucent. Press from the center out to remove air bubbles.

2. Flatten the stack slightly, Cut in half again, and restack. Flatten slightly; continue these steps, building a stack about an inch high with a soft, subtle grain running through it.

3. Trim the stack until the subtle ‘ivory’ grain begins to show.

4. Roll the scraps into a ball and put the clay through the pasta machine on a medium thin setting. Lay the sheet of clay on a sheet of deli paper.

5. Cut thin slices from the edge of the stack. Gently press the clay slices onto the sheet of clay with the lines (grain) of the “ivory” running in the same direction.

6. When you have a sheet of faux ‘ivory’ large enough, roll it through the pasta machine set one thickness larger than the original sheet going with the grain of the ‘ivory’.

7. Reset the machine one thickness thinner and put the clay through it again in the same direction. Your faux ‘ivory’ is ready to wrap on the your project.

May is our raffle. Jane, Penni Jo & Ruth were the winners. Winners should bring something for the next raffle and everyone else also bring something for the raffle so we can have funding for our ever expanding and ever amazing library. Also bring a suggestion for a book, DVD, or magazine to add to our library.