New Clay Pendants and a new Blogspot for All My Clay Projects

Good morning!

I've got new items up on my website at Easy As Pie Daily Graphics, so go check them out for your scrapbooking needs.

This post today is to introduce to you to my new Blogspot called Cjs Clay and Art Scraps. It features my clay projects with a little art scrapping thrown in. I hope you'll check it out.

The first picture is a pendant I made called Curly Top. Red haired, rosy-cheeked, with lightly browned lips on a child face, set on a dark green heart base with a few white dots thrown in for accents.

She's beautiful.

This second item is called Market Woman. She's in the market place, negotiating for the items she wants, which she is sure to get. She looks polite and ready to haggle. She is unfinished for now, until I decide whether or not to make a pendant out of her.

This third pendant is called Face 1. I didn't give her any other name yet, but she is grand, and one of my personal favorites.

This little clown is not a pendant, and remains unfinished to date. He could be a magnet for a fridge or as an accent on a card. He's very colorful, and he's sitting on a tangled pattern I recently did.

The last pendant is featured on 12/26/11 of Cjs Clay and Art Scraps, and it is a striking pendant. To read more about it, go check out the new blogspot.

On the new blogspot, you'll also find a face project, step by step, that I did for 12/25/11. To find out even more about it ... you can go to the blog on my website, which has bigger pictures, and much more detail about it. You can find that by going here:

http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com/blog-12-25-2011.html

I hope you check out all my blogs and website.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas yesterday, and that you got what you wanted!!!

I know I did!

Enjoy!

Cj

http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com

http://cjsclayandartscraps.blogspot.com

Happy Birthday to a Very Special Woman and A Very Special Surprise For Me

Happy Birthday to you --- Kathy!

I hope it will be a wonderful, terrific day for you to celebrate in.

This is the sculpey pendant and earring set I made for Kathy's birthday. I just love black and white, and it goes with almost anything. I hope you get many hours of fun out of wearing my gift.


And here is the quick little card I did for Kathy using Poor Baby 11-0716-12b. In the previous post, he was only in black and white outlines. I like to leave many of my graphics like that so you can print them and color them with colors you prefer.

Happy Birthday again, Kathy!

And to the rest of you ... have a great Sunday, also.

Cj
http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com

P.S. Yesterday, I had a blast from my past. Hi, Joann! I was cleaning out my spam box in my email and ran across an old friend's email sent to me back in January of this year. I was so tickled to read it ... and quickly responded. Being as it had been so long since she sent it, I wasn't sure how quick a reply I would get. I included my cell phone number ... and she called me. I had a wonderful chat with her for about 20-30 minutes. She is currently away, but when she returns, we will have a lunch together!

Thanks, Joann! It was so wonderful hearing from you!

Clay Yourself Website, and Border Frame

Good evening!

Yes. It is the weekend, and I've been claying most of the day. I did get my website up for Friday, 7/8. On it, you will find this exciting website: www.clayyourself.com! You can make a clay avatar of yourself or ... someone you wanna be! Go check it out. (The above picture is what I did with it! Also, she's wearing ONE OF MY PENDANTS, which you can choose one for yourself free. Check out the website for June and July pendants!)



This picture above is a border frame, and it is the FREE graphic for today over at Easy As Pie Daily Graphics. Run pick it up! Scrap with it!

The day is ending, and tomorrow is Sunday. I still have one day left to create. I still have to work in some cleaning and laundry, ugh! I'd rather create!

Our weather was beautiful ... I hope yours was, too!

Enjoy!

Cj
http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com

July Pendants: Nine to see ... a glimpse of some in the making

Good morning,

July is here ... and I have 9 July pendants up. I have my favs, of course.

In the picture above, there are 4 views.

The top picture is just a decoration. The view to the right is 11-07--0009. The lower left view is all nine of the July pendants, to date, in a Laughing Cow container. It stores them so nicely.

The bottom right view is some stones that are ready to be placed into a pendant. You would not believe the number of stones (out of clay) that I've already created. That is my favorite part of the creating process.

I still have tons of unbaked items, sitting on my desk on little index cards. I bake them on the index cards.

Each stone will go through 2-3 bakes. I put aluminum foil over the baking clay pendants to keep them from scorching.

Like my graphics, I get hours and hours of fun from doing this type of creating. The time just gets away from me. I can easily put in 8 to 12 hours doing these activities, so my weekends go so fast.

People notice the pendants wherever I go. Many people have said, "You need to sell them." I am looking to start a small business doing just that, and if I have enough interest, I will definitely start that. That may be before the end of this year. Maybe sooner. I am getting my inventory together now, so I'll have something to offer when I do that.

What do you think?

Cj
http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com

Pendants of June: 0014 thru 0017

Good morning,

Almost through the set of pendants I created for June.

My favorite in this set is 0016. It is wire wrapped, which I learned to do from a video online. It was much easier to do than I thought it would be, although it did take some patience. I love the transparency nature this one has, although 0014 and 0015 also have this feature.

The picture on 0015 is not as good. It is for my granddaughter, as this is the one she fell in love with. My daughter also like it.

Pendant 0017 was another wire wrap that holds the created pendant firmly in place. A little more rustic, but I do like the colors together: Purple, orange, yellow and green.

One more set, and that will wrap up June 2011.

Have a great day.

Cj
http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com

Third set of June Pendants: 0010 thru 0013

Good morning!

Another set of June's Pendants. I took these pictures with my picture phone, as I found it actually took better "smaller, detailed" pictures than my Canon PowerShot SX100 IS.

Pendant 0010 is too delicate to actually wear due to the attenna of the butterfly, but it would be beautiful on a small ribbon, hanging on the edge of a baby frame as decoration. It is adorable.

Out of this set, I'm particularly fond of 0011 and 0013. 0011 has just a simple wire for it's bail while the others are beaded. 0012 and 0013 have different types of ribbon, but that can be swapped out for other types of ribbons.

0011 thru 0013 were created several years ago, but were sticky. I had not baked them long enough. I rebaked them after adding some new designs to each. Each pendant has a high glossed finish.

Have a great day. The pictures of the pendants are bigger on my website.

Cj

http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com/

June's Clay Pendants:0005 thru 0009

Hello!

Another set of pendants created for June.

Pendant 0006 was given to a co-worker. She wore it almost every day last week as she dearly loved it. "It's so smooth", she declares. She loves the feel of it as well as the fact that is extremely light.

When I first started creating with Sculpey clay, I had many of my beginning creations TURN STICKY. I learned over the years, I wasn't firing them long enough. Pendants are fairly small, and when they come out of the oven, they should feel very light. I have been able to fix the stickyness of older items made simply by rebaking them. I let them cool completely, and then glaze with a high finish.

Some people like small pendants; and others like bigger pendants. My daughter tends to like bigger items.

I love all of these; but I'd have to say that 0005 is my favorite. Both 0005 and 0007 have a very nice transparency in them. All of these have beaded wire bails.

They're pretty!

Cj
http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com

Pretty pendants for June 2011: 0001 thru 0004

Good morning, again!

I know I am doing less in graphics lately. In fact, I pretty much skipped the month of June. I just needed a rest. I've simplied what I'm doing to some degree.

I am spending most of my time creating and designing clay pendants.

Above, you can see 11-06--0001 through 0004. All four of these have coordinating beads on their bail (or wire used to attach to chain or ribbon). 0001 reminds me of a field of flowers. I love 0002 and 0004. 0003 took a along time to create. It's a bird flying.

Altogether, I have 19 pendants for June on Easy As Pie Daily Graphics. I will post other pictures, as I think they are so pretty. I often give the pendants as gifts. I'm sure I've shown you pictures of pendants that I've sent to my daughters-in-law. My daughter has a few now, too, as well as my granddaughter. Several people at work have some pendants, too.

Some are smooth the feel: 0002 and 0004. 0001 and 0003 are textured when felt.

That's it. Have a great day!

Cj

http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com