We welcomed 2 new members at our most recent ClayDay and hoped that everyone enjoyed a half day of Claying Around!

Enid demonstrated 2 ways of making hollow beads which is interesting and beneficial to most since it is not something that is easy to learn just from online research. The demo took more than an hour since Enid covered all basic techniques for members to achieve a very light-weight and hollow beads.


















The first technique was using a dome mould (a marble or a metal dome from Sculpey) and baking the halves separately before sanding them and attaching the two halves.

A second technique using cotton paper balls was used to demonstrate a way of making perfect spherical beads that were hollow and light. The amount of clay used is very little as well but still strong and durable.

Enid also showed us how to use powders and liquid clay with a heat gun to decorate our beads. Thank you Enid for the comprehensive demo!

After lunch Shelly demonstrated useful ways of turning our scrap clays into Owls and a piece of art. Shelly showed us how to make impressive and intricate kaleidoscope-like patterns using ends of canes. She turns her work into bookmarks which is a brilliant idea. 

Most of us made our own unique owl after the demonstration.

We also now have a new sidebar link that will give you access to APCG Members websites. Please visit the websites to promote our members work. Remember to submit your own website address to out website administrator on the next Clay Day. 

http://www.anglianpcg.co.uk/members-website.html

Thank you to demonstrators and everybody who attended the ClayDay. Looking forward to our next meet. 

Next ClayDay is just less than 2 weeks away!

For the upcoming ClayDay, Shelly will do a fun demonstration to make use of any scrap clay and canes. You can turn these Owl into miniatures, charms, key-chains or anything that you wish.

You will need:
Usual polymer clay tools
Scrap clay
End of canes (the bits that gets distorted after reducing)
Canes no longer needed

We will also be doing a demonstration on hollow beads and anything else that you may request. That's right, we would like to encourage members to let us know what demonstrations you want to see (let us know in the RSVP) and we will do our best to have it in the upcoming meeting. There may be a technique that you may want to learn or need guidance for. 

We would also love to have new volunteers for demonstrations so please let us know if you would like to do a demo even if it is a short one. 

To help APCG members promote their work, we will be listing members website address on the APCG website. You will need to pass the website address directly to any of the committee member during the meeting. 

Book your place for the ClayDay by emailing us at apcg@live.co.uk
Details of the meeting here

Hope to see you on 17th May for a fun day with polymer clay.