Design Contest Winners: Metal Clay Plus

We were happily surprised to see the nearly 200 entries for the Metal Clay Plus Contest. We saw pieces with polymer clay, resin, enamels, fibers, ceramics, wood,etc. All the pieces were beautiful and very innovative.


Thank You to our contest sponsor, PMC Connection and to CEO Jennifer Roberts for her support. Also a big thank you to the judges, Lora Hart, Celie Fago and Joy Funnell.
We also want to thank all the wonderful artists who submitted images for the contest for taking this opportunity to share your art with all of us.

After the judges carefully scored the images the winners were selected and are as follow.

FIRST PLACE

Kimberly Nogueira

Lost Point of Origin
©Kimberly Nogueira
Fine silver, sterling and bronze clays, Mica, Vitreous glass enamel, Paper, Thread, Tourmaline,Found object,
Pearl, Etched and pierced copper sheet, Fine silver wire, Sterling silver sheet, wire and tubing.

SECOND PLACE

Noortje Meijerink

Speedy bird
©Noortje Meijerink
Porcelain clay and copper clay

THIRD PLACE

Liz Hall

Inner Works Pendant
©Liz Hall

Fine silver clay, Polymer Clay, Fine silver wire, Glitter, Iridescent powders, Liquid polymer.

HONORABLE MENTION

Milica Bubanja

Vintage Fabric Silver Clay Ring 2
©Milica Bubanja

Congratulations to all !!!

Bird a Week 8/52 - Fluffy Chicks

This week - two birdies - as I made my first pair of bird earrings for the Bird a Week Challenge!

They are made from Art Clay Silver and I applied the texture with a small brass brass onto the fully dried clay. I find if I give the dry surface a quick wipe with a baby wipe and then brush it with the brass brush I get just the right depth of texture.

I have been making some things other than birds since the start of the year (in case you were wondering!).

Here are a couple of rings. This huge white CZ ring is set with 2mm lab grown rubies....

which go all round the band.

The ring below is enamelled with a central 2mm CZ and 3mm CZs around the band.

See - I'm not totally bird brained ;-)

Have fun

Joy

Bird A Week - Blue Garden

At the start of 2011 the wonderful Ruth Baillie started a Bird A Week Challenge. Having never used birds in my jewellery I thought this would be a great time to start. The challenge was simple. Make a bird a week in any media and upload it into the BAW flickr album. The rules - there weren't any!

I decided to make my own personal rules to try to stick to. I wanted to use silver clay for as many pieces as possible and they needed to be saleable items so I could afford to keep it going!!

The piece above I called Blue Garden. It is my 7th bird for the challenge. Made in Art Clay Silver with enamelled accents. It measures approx 36mm in diameter. Below is the reverse using a Rolling Mill Resource texture and a 3mm lab ruby.

So far I have managed to stick to my own rules, will I make it through the year though? Well with some travelling planned it is certainly going to be a challenge at times and I may have to improvise a bit!!! ;-)

Anyway we shall see....

Have fun

Joy