Our next meeting is Saturday, December 2. Our meeting room @ LeMoyne Art Education Center will be open around 9:30 AM.
Coffee service will be available; bring your lunch and pop it in the fridge for later consumption.
Zoom will open at 10 AM and our first demo will be at 10:30 AM. All times Eastern. Demos will be recorded and available to our members.
Zoom info will be sent out on Friday, December 1.
Demo 1: Beads of Courage with Laura LePere
Guild member Laura LePere will give a presentation on Beads of Courage and demo making beads that meet BoC requirements. Polymer beads are used most with the organizations sibling. art-in-medicine, and members’ choice programs.
Supply List for Beads of Courage
Clay:
- Elephant: Anything goes but I usually use some shade of white or gray, with or without glitter. Optional: mica powder
- Lion: Bronze or other dark color for mane, eyes, and nose; Orange or other light color for face and ears.
- Spaceship: Silver and/or silver glitter (or other metallic/glitter); translucent (any color)
Tools:
- Small ball tool
- Large ball tool
- Etch ‘n Pearl tools (optional)
- Christi Friesen’s “Wow, It’s Awesome” tool (optional)
- A few inches of any medium thin wire: I’m using 24 ga floral wire
- Round cutters: approx. 1/4″ and 1/2″
- 1″ square cutter
- A circular cabochon mold (optional) I use this one from Mod Podge:
- Series of needle tools to make holes in beads:
- Bead piercing pins (like come with baking racks)
- Sewing needle
- Basic long-handled needle tool
- Fatter yarn needle / wooden toothpick
Demo 2: Get Ready for the Holidays with Ellen & Cindy
After lunch, members Ellen Bellenot and Cindy Suhrweir will demo making miniature candies and mini gingerbread houses; and show us examples using the creations in holiday jewelry and decor.
Supply List from Ellen
- White, Red, Green, Yellow clay
- Charm bracelet, or chain plus clasps to make your own
- Head pins or eye pins or wire of about that weight
- Jump rings. I like ovals
- Needle nose, pliers, perhaps two for opening jump rings
- Wire cutters
- Drill for beads
- Beading elastic If you want that style bracelet
- A firm blade or a slicing tool for the ribbon candy
- Alcohol and small pieces of paper towels for getting the white clay white again rather than pink.
- A piece of acrylic to roll even snakes might be nice but not necessary
- I found it easier to put charms on a bracelet if I attached the bracelet to something. I wired each end to a piece of Styrofoam. You could pin it to a macramé board if you bought one of those for Bettye’s demo. Or whatever you’ve got lying around.
Supply List from Cindy
- A stipple or stencil brush
- polymer clay in a terracotta color. Red, white, green and yellow polymer clay for making candy.
- Graph paper or
- Square and rectangle cutters (of a coordinating scale, small size if you are going to make minis)
- Liquid clay – white or translucent
- Standard clay blade
- Craft (Xacto) knife
- Ball stylus or other tool for smoothing clay into corners
