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Calla Lily Hair Sticks, A Handmade Polymer Clay Tutorial

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By Beverley Start Calla Lily Hair Sticks, A Handmade Polymer Clay Tutorial                     For this tutorial you will need the following; Green, orange, and white polymer clay (Fimo, Sculpey, Primo…It’s your choice… I just use what’s cheapest) Water based polyurethane A blade A small paint brush [...]

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Featured Artists Start’s Arts

Polymer clay shoe sculpture

Clay, we play with it when we are little, squishing it around in our hands and creating fantasy worlds for hours at a time. Our mothers find globs of dried clay under the furniture embedded in her cookie cutters; but as we grow our clay becomes a thing of the past. Well, not for everyone! [...]

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Featured Artist Presents Frans Homemade Wonders

Handmade cake topper cow

Every so often you will run into a person that inspires you beyond words, no, not because of their world renowned talent but because of the strength that they have in themselves. Fran, of Fran’s Handmade Wonders is just such a lady. Fran was always a creative soul, learning to crochet from her Grandmother at [...]

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I Beat those Handmade Button Blues

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By Beverley Start, March 2012 I’ll be enjoying one of those afternoons where I will be cruising the internet and finding inspiration again and again, meeting new artists, and just loving the access we have these days because we’re all online. I mean, it’s such a wonderful thing that we can interact with artists across [...]

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Start’s Arts

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Beverley Start Polymer Clay Artist since May 2009 My first real job was as a decorator at my friend’s donut shop. Then, I learned how to bake the donuts. After some time and a move to Toronto, I started working for a great company where I was hired as a muffin scooper. When I left [...]

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Featured Artist 11BOLDstreet

red copper mokume earrings

Ever wonder why a person chooses a certain medium? Well, according to this artist she chose polymer clay because just try to find something that it can not do! After looking at her amazing work it seems that her goal is to prove just that! Susan spent 27 years in the architectural and structural design [...]

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