Celebrations With Polymer Clay: 25 Seasonal Projects (Paperback)

by SaraJane Helm (Author)

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Product Description
Celebrate a year's worth of holidays, festivities, and special occasions with polymer clay creations. The 25 projects include party favors, center pieces, wreaths, arrangements, displays, and decorations for weddings, birthdays, showers, and seasonal holidays.

Beginning and advanced polymer clay artists will find helpful step by step photos and instructions to guide them to successfully complete ornaments, dolls, Easter bunnies, May baskets, Halloween decorations, and much more.

Techniques such as caning, stamping, and transferring are shown and explained in easy to follow detail. As a bonus, readers will learn how to transform polymer clay into graphic applications such as cards, giftwrap, journals, albums, and books.

About the Author
Sarajane Helm began as a doll maker and is trained professionally as a theatrical costume designer. She creates graphics, fabrics, rubber stamps, children's book illustrations and a full line of paper dolls. Her work has been featured in books and also in the National Polymer Clay Guild's first calendar. She also teaches occasionally and writes articles for such magazines as Jewelry Crafts, Bead and Button, Lapidary Journal, Belle Armoire, Somerset Studio and Rubber Stamper. She is the author of Create A Polymer Clay Impression and currently is working on additional articles, books and a video project.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Krause Publications (March 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873495217
• ISBN-13: 978-0873495219
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #758,838 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!! But not for beginners!, March 21, 2003

By A Customer

It is a beautiful book to look at and to admire. But if you are a beginner I suggest going with "New ways with Polymer clay" and or "The polymer clay techniques book". The Techniques book is very helpful!! I loved this book but for now all I can do is look and dream.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Celebrations with Polymer Clay, February 4, 2003

By	Karen Omodt (Georgetown, TX United States) - See all my reviews

All I can say is "fantastic"! This book is so well written it's the 2003 version of "New Clay" (which I considered "The Bible" of polymer clay) All of the projects in this book are new and well written, even a novice would be able to pick up this book and complete most of the projects. I also like how Sarajane shows how rubber stamps, cookie cutters, powders, etc., can be used to enhance polymer clay.

My favorite sections are the color recipes, the stain formulas and the projects on how to make mini masks with rubber stamps.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic! Perfect, no matter what your skill level, August 14, 2003

By	K. Varraso "Amazon boxes everywhere" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I collect books on Polymer Clay Artistry and Beading, and this is one of the best of any genre. An absolute classic, suitable for beginners and more experienced clay artists. If you ever thought of Polymer Clay as a relative to Play-Doh, you won't after reading this lucious book.