Winners for May Challenges

I'm happy to announce the winners for the two challenges I entered.  First off, Into the Dawn Designs won for the Yellow challenge with the Polymer Clay Smooshers.  I just loved her Swirly Summer Sun Brooch.  The winner gets to pick what next month's challenge will be.

I won the Artisan Jewelers Guild Cinco de Mayo Challenge.  I had a lot of fun putting this necklace together.  I made the rock (the one that floats) first that I was originally going to use in the Festival of the Arts show this July, but Dave suggested I enter the coffee table I was working on instead (along with several other jewelry pieces).  So I decided this rock with the gecko on it fit in perfectly with the Cinco de Mayo theme.  The necklace is made up of polymer clay beads (the imitation rock and green marbled), fresh water pearls, Czech fire-polished crystals and sponge coral.  The clasp is another polymer clay rock bead with a barrel clasp hidden inside.  You can see more photos of it on Flickr.

Another Challenge -- Yellow

I'm in another challenge this week and this one is with the Polymer Clay Smooshers of Art Fire.  Our theme for this month is yellow and there are some really good entries in this challenge.  Yellow can be a difficult color to work with at times and especially in polymer clay as it is almost like working with white.  So hurry over to their blog (you can click on the avatar above) and vote -- you have until Sunday evening before the poll is closed.

Polymer Clay Smooshers

One of the neat things about selling on Art Fire is all the various Artist Guilds available.  One of the guilds I recently became a member of is called the Polymer Clay Smooshers.  It is so exciting to get to know and make friends with other artists who create with polymer clay and support and share tips with one another.  They did a feature and an interview on myself today and you can read it here.