Flowers in polymer clay...

Quite a long time ago since I made my last earrings out of fimo / polymer clay and some of my molds. For the earrings I used brown polymer clay (fimo soft, and no, you can't see the original colour anymore ^^). I layered the polymer clay with different colours of aqua acryl paint. After this step (it takes some time to dry) I out my fingertips in metallic acrylic paints (from reeves, I love them!) and brush a thin layer of the colour on top. Here I used bronze. I am still surprised what you can make with some polymer clay and some colours!

I have made a lot of molds in the past, just have a look here or here (or some button molds)...

Inspirations: Flowers (Leipzig)

This is a really tiny pansy or viola (viola tricolor). It is easy to overlook her. But just look how she found her place between stones, bricks and mortar!

Leather flower...

Made from some leather scraps... 

I cut out circles, put a hole in them and put them in hot water to get some wrinkled shapes. 

Afterwards I used my embossing tool to get them dry in a short time. After this process the wrinkles will be permanent!

I added a little pin on the back and a real silver bead at the center of the flower. Quite simple but with a great effect... 

And of course... advent calendar stuff! ^^

Inspirations: Flowers and structures (Botanical garden Leipzig II)

Summer.

Light.

Colours.

Inspirations: Critters (Botanical garden Leipzig)

The weather was great in leipzig. Bright sunshine, high temperatures and a little bit of a cooling breeze... But everyone needed to drink a lot of water... this is why I catched this little bee!

(And to be honest: I am always astonished what my little digi is capable of! ^^ )

Another little one... 

The next drinking little one :)

Out of the molds...

At least the earrings I made with my new molds :) 

Some of them are made with polymer clay (fimo) and some like the molds with airdrying clay. 

I either used black polymer clay or painted them with black acrylic colour. 

Just to add the metallic effects also with acrylic paint. 

As I said... no sun! Therefore I had to use artifical light to get som pictures :(

I hope you get at least a little impression how they can shine in the light!

Inspirations: Flowers and structures (Botanical garden Leipzig)

A long time no new pictures from flowers... although the botanical garden is just around the corner. And although this blog entry is about flowers and structures, I added two critters ^^

Can you find the fox? :)

Inspirations: Strange new years flowers... (Leipzig)

I took this pictures at the first day of this year... This is some strange colour powder or something like this from fireworks. All the spots of this very bright colours seemed so strange between the snow and the barren trees.

I know it was a little bit quiet in my blog the last few days. There are some changes in my life at the moment, some things which are not easy and although I have to make stuff to keep me sane ^^ there is sometimes not enough left from the day (or my energy).

But I'll try to change this again (for my own sake) :)