Central Mississippi Polymer Clay Guild

CMSPCG hosts a weekend polymer clay event you won't want to miss! April 24-25, 2010!

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Join us in historic Vicksburg at the Southern Cultural Heritage Center for a two-day workshop where International Polymer Clay artist Julie Picarello will teach us the Japanese metalworking technique of Mokume Gane and transform polymer clay into vibrantly colored and beautifully detailed jewelry.

Saturday, April 24, 2010 9:00 a.m.—4:00 p.m.
Day one: Learn how to imprinting & design your own polymer clay beads.

Sunday, April 25, 2010 9:00 a.m.—4:00 p.m.
Day two: Learn how to integrate your polymer clay beads with washers, metal tubing, semi-precious gemstones and vintage objects to create a stunning and unique piece of jewelry.

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Fill out the below registration form along with a $25 non-refundable deposit and mail to Joyce King at the address to the left. Registrations paid-in-full before March 1st receive a $30 discount off the workshop fee of $240.

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Our next Meeting - February 20, 2010

Do you have a huge collection of rubber stamps that are sitting in a drawer now that you've discovered polymer clay? What if I told you that you could use your rubber stamps WITH your polymer clay! How cool would that be? Well, that's exactly what we're going to to at our February meeting. We're going to look at several different ways that you can use rubber stamps to make your polymer clay projects come to life! Watch your email for a supply list around the first of February and plan on joining us at the February meeting of the Central Mississippi Polymer Clay Guild! We will meet on Saturday, February 20, 2010 in the big meeting room at the Pearl Library, Pearl, Mississippi.

Here's what you will need to bring with you:

Clay - Premo (or Kato) clay in bright colors, black and white.

For Joyce’s projects, you will need:

1 Black
1 White
2 colors for a skinner blend
A few coordinating colors (leftovers will do)

For the frame you will need

lots of scrap clay. Color doesn’t matter, however it would be better if your scrap is mostly Premo or another strong clay.

Supplies other than clay:

Clear acrylic L-type picture frame (Walmart has these for $1 for the smaller sizes. I used a 3x5, a 4x6 and a 5x7 frame and they all worked well. Don’t go any bigger than a 5x7 for class because it has to fit in the ovens.)
Strong glue, tape or adhesive (I used the red sticky tape from the scrapbooking section but any good adhesive should work.)
Acrylic paint in whatever color you want for your background color. I use black for the faux raku but any fairly dark color would work.

“Must have” Tools and Supplies:

Be sure to bring your normal travel kit with a minimum of your pasta machine, roller, clay blade, ceramic tile or other work surface, baby wipes.
Extruder if you have one
A small spray bottle for water.

“If you have them” Supplies:

These are things that you can bring if you have them but we’ll have them available for you to use so don’t go buy them just for this meeting:

Rubber stamps – bring what you have that you like and that are deeply etched
Metallic paints – I use gold, copper, ruby, turquoise and jade made by FolkArt. Again, bring them if you have them but if you don’t, I’ll share.

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If you would like to join us for this meeting as a guest, please send an email to the contact address in the sidebar* and one of our board members will get in touch with you to answer any questions you have. We love sharing our love of polymer clay with new clayers.

*Please note that you will need to actually type in the email address shown in the sidebar. For security reasons (to avoid spam) it is written out and if you use the usual copy/paste commands, the email cannot be delivered. Just type in the @ symbol between cmspcg and gmail.com.

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Nametag

Roller of some sort, acrylic, hollow works well for adding slices of cane to

Blades- a flexible and a stiff blade

Clay- an extra 2 oz package of black, gold, translucent, white, pearl, and a range of colors that you enjoy is always good to have with you. We recommend Premo and Kato brands for most things.

Shape cutters, Kemper cutters, cookie cutters, or whatever brand you enjoy

Ruler

Exacto knife or sissors

Pasta machine with C clamp for any type table and handle, or motor

12x12 tile for work surface with non skid piece under it, or any work surface you enjoy that will allow the table surface to remain uncut

Cornstarch for non stick effects with brush

Small spray bottle of water

Clay tools you enjoy working with

Sharpie magic marker and pen or pencil

Something to make holes in clay for beads or item we are working on-needle tool, straw, or anything you prefer

Good baby wipes with added alcohol to them, the cheap ones will leave fibers on your hands and clays

Acrylic piece for making beads from scraps

Glad wrap or Ziplock bags for scraps and done projects (Glad wrap does not react with polymer clay)

Notebook for notes

Wire, 20 gauge, non tarnishing wire is good for adding a finding to a bead or item, 28 gauge for wiring beads and crystals into clay

Deli wraps to work on if in addition to tile

Patina paint- Liquitex Basic paints work well for this, a brown of choice and occasionally you will want other colors

Pieces of old sponge for creating patina along with old small paint brush-The cheap cloth sponges you can get from the dollar store work well

Small container to hold water

Texture plates, deeply etched stamps, or texture stamps

Foil leafing in colors of choice, gold, silver or copper are easily available

A sketch diary is nice to have

Something to carry your unbaked pieces home undamaged- I like to use a box top

Wet/Dry sandpaper in 400 and 600 for finishing your work

CMSPCG hosts a weekend polymer clay event you won't want to miss! April 24-25, 2010!

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Our next Meeting - February 20, 2010

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Location - Pearl Public Library

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