tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64375560713354775912024-03-14T06:06:09.634+00:00Fired With ImaginationHaving fun with Silver Clay, Enamel, Glass and HeatJoy Funnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04813881468698418006noreply@blogger.comBlogger380125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437556071335477591.post-69716744245895811932020-04-24T09:55:00.001+01:002020-04-24T16:30:13.104+01:00Set A Cab A Month - April 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Whoo hoo, I've actually made my challenge piece quite early in the month this time (well for me anyway 😉) !!</div>
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Viral Joyfulness © Joy Funnell</div>
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I'm sure you can guess my inspiration for this piece!!</div>
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This is a happy bug!! </div>
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Here's the creation process...</div>
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...this is it in a short video if you don't fancy reading my waffle...</div>
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...or for the waffley version read on!! 😂</div>
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...I started out making a paper template of a sort of a bug/virus type shape. Then I textured clay on one side only and roughly cut out the shape and dried it.</div>
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I wanted each spike (yep, that's technical name - I had to look that one up!!! 😂) to have the same texture as the back but also to be imprinted with a little design that I could enamel into later. I decided the easiest way was to add more clay to each one separately. </div>
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I didn't worry about making it very neat at this stage, I just wanted them all to be on. I did them in batches of three and dried in between each batch so there less chance of the whole piece getting too soggy and breaking as I worked.</div>
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I chose a nice amber cab to go in the middle. It's 15mm in diameter and has some interesting little inclusions (maybe they are bugs??? 😏). </div>
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Next I refined up all the spikes and made it all neat and tidy 😉</div>
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I made a thin disc of clay with the same texture on. Once it was dry and refined I added it into the centre as a base for the amber to sit on. As the amber is nice and transparent you can see the texture through the cab.</div>
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I wanted a surround for the cab, and also to neaten up the area where the spikes join the centre, so I rolled out a snake of clay and placed it onto the edge of the disc...</div>
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...and then did some squidging to make a design I liked 😊 I checked how much space I had around the cab and eyeballed for the shrinkage!! 😃 (Turned out I got it spot on too, I was quite amazed!! 😂)</div>
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Once that was all nice and dry I made a little cylinder of teflon sheet to sit in the middle. Then I started to create some little snakey bits to be prongs. My plan had been to add one prong from each spike, so nine in total, but as soon as I added two I realised three pairs would look nicer (less work too!!) so I went with that. </div>
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Then I had to VERY carefully add a couple of loops plus my logo onto the back making sure I didn't break the prongs!!! 😮😂</div>
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Ta dah!!! Finished and ready for the kiln. </div>
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After firing I polished it to make it all nice and shiny...</div>
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...and then enamelled the designs on the spikes in blue/green. Happy colours! </div>
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After enamelling I fused 24k gold foil on the centre using the keum boo method so it would reflect nicely under the amber and add richness to the colour.</div>
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I patinated using Liver of Sulphur to make it dark in the recesses with the texture well defined 😀 This only affects the silver so the gold stayed nice and bright. </div>
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Then I set the amber cab by placing it into position and carefully pressing each prong inwards to hold the cab firmly in place 😊</div>
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Here's little video of the finished piece.... </div>
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I like the simplicity of the back....</div>
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...but...as you may of noticed (did you?? 😊) all through blog post I haven't actually said what type of jewellery piece this is!!</div>
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Why???</div>
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Well I was thinking pendant as I was making it, then when I finished it...</div>
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...I thought brooch!!!</div>
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So I'm debating putting some sort of pin through the back loops instead of attaching a chain...</div>
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...I have a couple of ideas, and when I decide I'll update you 😉😂<br />
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Have Fun!</div>
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I've recently been playing with these lovely textures!!! I saw them a while ago and thought they looked fun. They are made by Sandra and René of <a href="https://www.metalclay-shop.com/shop/index.php" target="_blank">Metal Clay Shop</a> in Luxembourg. After I asked them about the the textures they very kindly sent me these two designs to have a play with!! Lucky me 😊</div>
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They are crisply cut in natural wood and there are <a href="https://www.metalclay-shop.com/shop/index.php?id_category=18&controller=category&id_lang=1&page=4" target="_blank">five different designs to choose from</a>. Each side of the wood block has the design on so you get the same design in three different sizes. Large on one side and medium and small on the other. </div>
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AND there's never been a better time than now to support each other in our metal clay community too 😊</div>
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Being made of wood you get a nice wood grain texture in the recessed areas of design when impressed onto metal clay. </div>
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Of course, me being me, I wanted to play a bit more than a straight imprint from the textures 😉😂</div>
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I started off with the giraffe. I wanted to add eyes and also shape the pendant. First I needed something to dry it on so it had a more 3D shape. A spoon seemed perfect so I taped a teaspoon onto a card. </div>
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As I wanted to enamel the pendants I worked in Art Clay Silver 999. </div>
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I rolled the clay out and then textured it on both sides. After using a needle tool to cut out around the giraffe shape I shaped the neck over the handle of the spoon and the head over the back of the bowl. Then I left it to dry on the spoon.</div>
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(NOTE - if you have a go at this make sure your spoon is not made of aluminium as that will react with the silver clay and then it won't fire properly 😉)</div>
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Once the giraffe was nice and dry I refined the edges and added a disc of clay behind each eye to add thickness. This was so I could use a stone setting burr to set a black fireable stone in place for each eye 😊 I also used a baby wipe to wipe very lightly over the texture to just smooth the very top of all the raise parts so they would polish up nicely after firing. </div>
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I also added a bail onto the back of the pendant. </div>
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For the owl I wanted sparkly orange eyes so I added a little disc of clay onto the eye area and carved a little texture onto it. Then I set orange fireable czs in place.</div>
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All ready for firing!!! </div>
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I went for nice bright colours on each of them...of course!! 😁</div>
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One rainbow owl...</div>
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I did actually finish this pendant for the Set A Cab A Month challenge in March... but only just!!! </div>
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Life got a bit hectic so I only started making my piece at about 4pm on 31st March!! 😉There was no way I was going to fail at making a piece for a challenge that I started! It HAD to be done! </div>
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This meant that the idea I had for my March piece was put on hold (watch this space in April for that one!!) and I went searching for something I could make in one evening!! lol</div>
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I found a blank ready made silver pendant that I had left over from the ones I made for teaching my Embellish! workshop at YCMI. I'd made a few extra so everyone could choose which textures they wanted, so that was lucky!! </div>
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I fished out some fine silver bezels cups and the plan was to solder them onto the pendant. I have to say I had no real clue what I was doing with this piece and where it was going. I hadn't even looked to see what cabochons to use!! I was just going for it.</div>
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...and indeed whilst they all looked like the might of flowed the moment of truth is always after they have been in the pickle!!! 😂</div>
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As expected not all the bezel cups were soldered when I tested each one. Interestingly though I was left with a nice pattern as the larger cups were all firmly attached but only two of the smaller ones were. This immediately made me realise I gone a bit mad with bezel cups anyway to start with, so I just re-soldered one more small one on to even up the design.</div>
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Then I made some small spirals of fine silver wire and attached them to the pendant. It made a much nicer design that my original one!! </div>
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...which I added by heating the silver and burnishing the gold onto the surface using the Keum Boo method. I like adding gold like this onto spirals. Because the surface of the spiral is very uneven as it won't all fuse on so some bits of gold will come away afterwards. I call this distressed keum boo and I've used it quite a bit in the past!! 😉😁<br />
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Next was the fun bit - could I find a nice combination of cabochons. Now I will admit to having a slight panic at this point when I couldn't find any nice 8mm round cabs for the centre stone. However eventually I located a bag with a few in including this nice turquoise. To go with that I choose 3 x 6mm vintage red foil backed Swarovski crystals and 3 x 2mm rose cut (with a faceted top) amethyst cabs. With the gold I thought it made a nice rich colour combination 😃<br />
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I took a few quick photos and managed to post it into the Set a Cab A Month Facebook group at 23.20!!! 😅 </div>
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Fine silver with enamel and an Ethiopian Opal, made using Art Clay Silver. </div>
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Here is my piece for February for the Set A Cab A Month challenge 😊</div>
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This was very much a 'designed on the hoof' piece!!! 😂</div>
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It started out with a textured bit of clay that I demo-ed in a workshop. Looking at the piece afterwards I decided maybe I could make something more of it 😉</div>
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I searched through my stash of cabs and found a lovely oval Ethiopian Opal Cabochon which I've had for several years, and set about thinking what to add next. </div>
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I found a texture with radiating designs that could go behind where I was going to put the stone. </div>
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I thought the easiest thing to do was to make a back plate for the original piece that could be added to it easily once dry. </div>
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The back plate was roughly cut out, then refined after drying....</div>
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...and the two pieces of silver clay were joined using just water. </div>
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Then I searched through my stash of pre-made bits and found a pair of loops that looked a good fit!! 😁</div>
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...rolling out some tiny snakes to add, plus a little flower motif plus, of course, my Joy logo!! 😉</div>
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After firing I polished the pendant up and then added the bezel for the cab. </div>
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I had originally thought I would solder this on, but I also wanted to enamel the pendant.... so I decided to add the bezel using Art Clay Overlay Silver Paste. This brilliant paste easily joins fired pieces of silver together and was perfect for adding the bail to the surface. It has the added advantage of filling gaps under the edge of the bezel where the texture is, where solder is not so happy to, and doesn't re-flow like solder would each time the piece goes back in the kiln for enamelling 😀</div>
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Now I have to say this is not my normal sort of colour palette!!! I went with matching the colours of the super sparkly opal using yellow, green and orange. I was a slightly dubious having not actually tested the combination in advance but it turned out a really lovely combo and matched the opal beautifully (though I say so myself!! lol ) 😃</div>
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After enamelling I patinated the pendant, re-polished it, set the opal into the bezel, and thought about what to hang it on. I went with a black satin cord with red transparent glass beads as I thought they set off the bright colours nicely 😀</div>
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Eye'll Protect You © Joy Funnell</div>
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A new year and a new Challenge!!</div>
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Last year I did the Make a Ring a Month challenge and I loved it.</div>
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This year I'm doing a Set a Cab a Month challenge. </div>
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I decided to do this as I have loads of cabochons I've accumulated over the years and I seldom make any pieces using them. 😮😉</div>
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I posted onto Facebook about it and apparently I was not alone!!! 😂</div>
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So I started a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/SACAM/" target="_blank">Facebook group</a> for the challenge and said did anyone want to join me and amazingly the group is already nearly 350 strong!!!</div>
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Yes, there are a lot of hoarders out there just like me!!! Here's just a few of my pretties!!! </div>
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I have to admit this month has been busy and I've very much left making this to the last minute. Today is 31st January and I'm typing the start of this blog post while the piece is in the kiln firing to save a bit of time later!!! 😁</div>
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I did at least have an idea in mind so this today I got cracking. </div>
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I have this beautiful little Ocean Jasper cabochon with a really lovely single orb on it which has been just screaming eyeball at me ever since I got it....which is apparently nearly 5 years ago now I've checked back!! 😆</div>
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I made a bezel using wire to go around the stone and then embedded that into some textured clay and cut out an eye shape.</div>
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Once it was dry I added a thin snake of wet clay around the bezel ...</div>
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...and while it was still wet I textured the clay.</div>
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I rolled out two more snakes of clay to go on each side of the eye. </div>
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Here's a little tip for you metal clayers. If you want two snakes to be exactly the same thickness roll them both at the same time 😉</div>
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Then I laid the snakes on each side and used a ball headed burnisher to impress some indents. </div>
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I made a little bail to complement the pendant. </div>
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Then I refined everything up and joined the bail, so now it was ready for firing!! :D </div>
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After firing I polished the piece up. Then I enamelled it, patinated it, re-polished and set the stone!!</div>
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PHEW!!</div>
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I love the Evil Eye, Lucky Eye, Protective Eye symbolism so I called this piece</div>
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Eye'll Protect You </div>
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😉😅</div>
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This is the back, with my Joy logo of course!! 😊</div>
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All in all I'm happy with it. One of the things I really want to do this year is to combine enamelling with stone setting...</div>
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...so that's one down!!!</div>
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I'll try not to be so last minute next month!!! 😅</div>
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Until then...</div>
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Have fun!</div>
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Joy Funnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04813881468698418006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437556071335477591.post-40036577785887742082019-12-29T17:32:00.000+00:002019-12-29T17:32:37.977+00:00Ring a Month 2019 - December<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my ring for December for the Ring a Month Challenge 2019.</div>
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Jimbug © Joy Funnell</div>
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The theme for the month was Creatures.</div>
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This is quite a long winded post - you have been warned!! 😉</div>
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When I started on this challenge in January 2019 one of my personal things was to try to use left over elements that I have already laying around. I've managed this with varying success over the months. This month I'm pleased to say that apart from the ring band all the elements were pre-made pieces of clay I had laying around 😀</div>
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There's a little story to the main element that sparked my idea for this ring. In November I was teaching a 1-2-1 workshop and we were making Christmas decorations. The main thing to be made was a teddy bear (which was very successful I would add), but during the day I was playing with one or two other ideas my workshop attendee had had while she was working on teddy. One was a snowdrop. I made a little template up and cut out a piece of textured clay to form into a flower shape. In the process of mucking about with it I laid it down and we both said - oh look - a cricket!! 😂</div>
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I left it on one side to dry as the shape was quite nice. </div>
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When the theme for the December ring was announced I immediately thought of the little bug shape. </div>
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All year through this challenge I've wanted to do at least one ring with a cabochon (cab) in it. </div>
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I've had this ammolite cab for ages - it has gorgeous colours but the finish is not top quality - there again I was given it as a freebie with some other stones I bought so I can't complain 😉 </div>
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I realised it was a perfect size and shape for my little bug so I set about creating!!</div>
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In order to fit the cab into the wing shapes so it could be the body of the bug the first thing I did was to remove the bottom 'petal'. Then I found an old piece of textured clay I could make a base from. It was quite big...</div>
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...and had been used for practising creating textures on various workshops in the past on the reverse!!! As that side wouldn't be seen that didn't matter. I laid the wings onto it, drew out the rough shape I wanted and then scored the clay. </div>
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After scoring it was easy to gently bend the clay and break away all the excess, much quicker than cutting it back or filing 😊</div>
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...and then added the original 'petal' base plate back in as that would be the support for the cab to sit on.</div>
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These were added and my little Jimbug was starting to come to life 😊</div>
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The textured surface of the head suggested a natural little smiling mouth so I just went with it and emphasised it more. </div>
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He was very cute sitting on my fingers 😂</div>
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Now I needed a ring band. I didn't have one made in my size so I had a good think of something different I could do. I rolled out a snake of clay using the Rollmakers (if you previously missed seeing what Rollmakers are check out <a href="http://joyfunnell.blogspot.com/2019/08/ring-month-2019-august.html" target="_blank">this blog post</a> 😉).</div>
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After rolling the snake I then flattened it to a thickness of 2mm (8 cards). It gave a nice effect and I'll use this again. I wrapped it onto a ring mandrel and joined the ends. </div>
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I neatened the join and then added little Jimbug onto the band.</div>
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Once he was nice and dry he was already for firing. I like to fire rings with large topper elements standing upright supported by a bit of fibre wool.</div>
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Once he was fired and cooled I used pliers to adjust his wings so the cab would easily slide into place. </div>
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I polished up the silver and patinated it to give a nice contrast in the textures and make them stand out. </div>
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Finally I set the Ammolite cab into place. To be sure it would be really safe I used a little glue under it and then I gently bent the wings in tightly to hold the cab in place. I don't think the cab would of fallen out without the glue but it would of wobbled a bit and I wanted it to be nice and firmly in position. </div>
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And so Jimbug was finally ready!!</div>
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I've made a little video of him to give you a better idea of the colours in the cab 😀</div>
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So that's it - the twelfth ring!!! </div>
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I've really enjoyed this challenge and I've definitely made some pieces I would never of dreamt of back in January.</div>
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I was thinking of what to do next year and a couple of weeks ago (after I had already started making this piece) I had an idea to start a challenge to</div>
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I've created a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/SACAM/" target="_blank">Facebook group</a> for that and asked if anyone wanted to join me - and we already have nearly 250 members!! Wonderful 😊</div>
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This ring is the perfect crossover from making a Ring a Month to getting ready to start my Setting a Cab a Month challenge. Please do join in next years <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/SACAM/" target="_blank">challenge</a> if you want to :D</div>
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This is my November ring for the Ring a Month Challenge 2019.</div>
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The theme for the month was Gemstones.</div>
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Why Doughnuts I hear you ask??</div>
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Well I'd bought some super whizzy new moulds for making tiny embellishments and this particular mould makes little open circles. In talking to someone about them they said I could make lots of baby doughnuts!! lol It seemed like a good name to use!!😉</div>
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The moulds are made by <a href="https://www.cooltools.us/Finishing-Touch-Molds-s/2733.htm" target="_blank">Cool Tools</a> in the USA (so they are molds and not moulds - lol) and are available here in the UK from <a href="http://www.metalclay.co.uk/search.php?search_query=finishing%2Btouches%2Bmoulds" target="_blank">Metal Clay Ltd </a> (at which point they become moulds!!!). 😂</div>
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First of all I made a load of little embellishments using Art Clay Silver 999. The clay is pressed into the mould and left to dry. Then the little shapes can be popped out. </div>
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...then I played around with the doughnuts until I found a design I liked. Of course if I had done this part first I could of made the band the right size to start with, but hey, why make life easy 😉</div>
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...working around both edges of the ring first with a scalpel.</div>
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I used files and baby wipes to refine the design close to the edges of the doughnuts and neaten it all up. </div>
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....the same in each pair. I liked this second option better. The stones are 2mm and 4mm and are a mix of lab grown, nano and CZs. They are all fire-able. </div>
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Arguably I could of made this ring using my usual method of creating stone settings, but I like that each setting is rounded on the top so this does give a different look. </div>
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This is my ring for the Ring a Month Challenge 2019</div>
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I decided to go with a Spring themed ring 😀 </div>
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This month I was running it really close on time - I only started my ring on the 31st but I did manage to get some photos posted before the end of the day!! lol</div>
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First I made the topper for the ring. The lovely pink CZ pear shaped stones are 5mm x 3mm so quite tiny. </div>
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As the ring has a Japanese feel to it I went with a weave pattern on my textured band that I thought looked like it went with it!! 😉</div>
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Then I carved the band so it had wavy edges.</div>
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To add more colour and sparkle I added some 2mm stones, and then I carved the edges of the topper to match in with the ring band 😃</div>
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To join the two pieces together I used a element made using the Roll Makers that I already had made. </div>
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Finally I added a little more detail into the main blossom flower to bring the stones together more. </div>
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Then the ring was ready to be fired!!!</div>
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I finished the ring off with more of a satin texture which I like the look of. It's not a finish that I use much but maybe I'll use it more now as I liked the effect it gave. </div>
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One of the things I was interested to see was how the surface went during firing where the blossom was. It domed very slightly around the stones and gave a good effect.</div>
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I think there are some nice techniques in this ring that are handy to learn including how to set round and odd shaped stones, so I'll be teaching this workshop next year at <a href="https://creativeglassshop.co.uk/courses" target="_blank">Creative Glass </a>in Rochester, UK, on Friday 7th February 2020. </div>
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Bookings will be open next week for the workshop!! :D</div>
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That's ten rings down in the year long challenge and only two left to do!!</div>
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This is my ring for September.</div>
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The theme was 'Finish It'</div>
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This is Rainbow Nova 😊</div>
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My first question for this month was what shall I finish??? </div>
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I had a good look around and I did have two rings that were unfinished, but as they were both really close to being done I decided I wanted to do something that was more of a challenge! </div>
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Instead I looked around at the various bits and pieces I had and decided to use up some of these discs to make a stone setting to go onto a ring. </div>
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First I played around trying out different designs to go onto a ring band.... </div>
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...and once I had a bit of an idea I started to refine each disc and turn it into a stone setting using drill bits and stone setting burrs.</div>
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This is the design and choice of stones I settled on. </div>
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My original plan was to fix the settings directly onto the ring band so I made a wide plain ring....</div>
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...then I added a texture and refined the shape up.</div>
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Then I had a change of plan!! 😂</div>
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I decided to make the stone settings into a separate piece to sit onto the ring band. This was a first for me, a variation on a theme so to speak!! 😉 </div>
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I've made lots of this type of setting before but I've never made a curved one to fit onto a ring band, normally I make them flat. </div>
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I adjusted the ring band so the stone setting would sit with the smaller stones sitting out wider than the band, so my very wide band was now much narrower (and I have a nice heap of ready powdered clay for reconstituting!!😂) .</div>
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I was really pleased with the result! </div>
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The setting fitted nice and snugly against the ring band.</div>
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Advert Alert!!! 😉</div>
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If you want to know how to make a ring with a multiple stone setting and texture wrap check out my <a href="https://www.craftcast.com/recordings/pazazzy-rings-metal-clay" target="_blank">Pazazzy Rings CraftCast workshop</a>!! </div>
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OK, advert over - lol</div>
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Then I set the stones into their settings as they would all be fired in place. They range from 2mm to 5mm. The green stones are nano and the blue are lab sapphires, the rest are CZs. </div>
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I've tried various methods of firing rings with stones in and my current favourite method is to sit the ring upright supported loosely by ceramic fibre wool. If you use this method be sure to allow room for the shrinkage so don't pack the centre of the ring with wool. As the ring fires there's a bit of distortion from the weight of the stone setting but it's super easy to correct on a ring mandrel. </div>
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I think this one is a keeper!! </div>
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My Rainbow Nova is on my finger sparkling away as I type 😉😊</div>
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I have to admit I did make this one with me in mind so I added a nice spirally texture around the ring band!! </div>
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If you are interested in having a similar ring made for you just let me know!</div>
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So we are now 9 rings out of 12 made!! </div>
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The year is flying along. </div>
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Here is my ring for August.</div>
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This is Cephalopodicus Funnelli 😉</div>
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I had a lot of fun making this ring. As soon as I saw the theme I had an idea as I'd also just acquired a new tool and I was keen to play!!! </div>
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So I started out making the band for the ring which was a tapered snake of textured clay.</div>
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Then I drilled out the larger end to make the shell hollow. This was so the actual creature could live inside it's shell 😄 </div>
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Next I added the arms using little textured snakes of clay. Most cephalopods had 10 arms, so 10 it was. I fitted each one into the shell and squiggled them around a bit...</div>
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Then I set the stone in place and also added a nice green eye. Unlike most cephalopods Cephalopodicus Funnelli is fairly unusual in that it only has one eye 😂 </div>
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Then the ring was all ready for firing. </div>
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Here's a little video of it before it was fired. </div>
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After firing the ring was polished up and patinated to bring up all the nice textures. </div>
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I was lucky that I manged to find an actual photo of Cephalopodicus Funnelli in the sea to photograph my ring beside!! Although it isn't to scale!! 😉😂</div>
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So if you are a metal clayer then you are probably wondering by now what the new tool was that I used to make this ring? </div>
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Well I am super excited by these and I've made a video showing you the tools in action because I'm absolutely loving using them.</div>
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The good news is that they'll be in stock at <a href="http://www.metalclay.co.uk/" target="_blank">Metal Clay Ltd</a> in the very near future!!! </div>
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I've very much enjoyed the Ring a Month 2019 challenge this month. </div>
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Here's my ring for July.</div>
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The theme for the month was Movement.</div>
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I started out thinking about some kind of mechanical movement. A spinner ring maybe? Well I make those and teach them anyway so that wasn't going to be much of a challenge. I couldn't think of any other kind of movement that I wanted to try but at the time I was busy making Tiny Critters!! Aha...a ring with some kind of creature that showed movement could be fun to make! </div>
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Then it was a case of what sort of critter. The animal had to be showing movement so I thought of a hare at full stretch with it's ears back. The legs could be attached to the ring shank. </div>
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Now at this point things got a bit more interesting.... as always I started to Google images to give myself ideas for the shape of the creature...and you know what...I couldn't find any hares running full stretch with their ears back! There were loads of statues and paintings in that pose, but in the photos the ears are upright. Now seriously...that was not going to make a very good design for a ring with the ears stuck straight upwards was it!! lol 😂 Can you just imagine!!! 😉</div>
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Then I saw a photo of a hare jumping down with it's head raised looking up so that it's ears were more backwards towards the body - perfect. I would apply a little artistic licence as to how far back the ears went (so they touched the body 😉) and I was good to start making😊</div>
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In my quest to use up some part made pieces on this challenge I started out with a part made D ring that I'd been making earlier in the month while teaching. </div>
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I got to work with a file adapting the shape and roughing it up a bit.</div>
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My little hare needed something to jump off so I made a little log and fixed it to the ring band...</div>
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Next I made my little hare. Here he is sort of finished, but I didn't think he was quite right, then I realised I'd made his head a bit too long...</div>
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...so I carved it back a bit and reshaped it, then re-carved the nose onto it. This worked much better to me. So I attached him onto the ring 😊</div>
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All in all I was very happy with him, BUT to be fair it was not going to be the most practical ring to wear!!! I liked the idea that he could also be admired as an ornament if he wasn't being worn, so I made a little stand. </div>
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Here is my ring for the Ring A Month 2019 challenge.</div>
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With such an open theme it should of been easy to think of something to make but my mind was a bit blank on it. Eventually I settled on Somewhere Over the Rainbow as my theme. </div>
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I started out with a part made ring shank that I'd made earlier in the month as a demo. </div>
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...and a couple of textured sides. The printed design on the back of my business card is so handy for cutting things like this 😉</div>
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Once dry I joined the pieces and carved it into an arch shape. I could of cut out more of the arch shape in the wet clay stage but I wanted to try to line up with the texture as accurately as I could so decided to go with this method. </div>
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Somewhere Over a Down Under Rainbow!!! 😉<br />
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This is my May ring for the Ring A Month Challenge 2019. </div>
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I'd been cogitating on this all month, an assortment of ideas going through my mind, and then when I got as far as making it on 30th May I went back to the very first idea I'd had!!! I should of just gone for it at the start of the month!! lol 😊</div>
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This month I tried to get back to using up some ready made pieces that I have laying around as this was my personal challenge to myself for the whole year. </div>
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I found a rather iffy looking plain ring band (it was my ring size though - how convenient!! ;) ) and a tiny little textured disc to start off. My plan was to rivet a bead to a ring. Whilst I do riveting I've never riveted a bead onto a ring before so that was a new challenge for me :D I thought a red bead would work and I found a little one made of dyed marble.</div>
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While the cup was drying I refined the ring band and made it look a big more respectable!! Then I wrapped a layer of texture around the plain band. </div>
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I wanted something to go between the cup and the ring band and found a nice carved little washer already made - perfect!!! </div>
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Then it was off to the kiln for firing :D</div>
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After firing I made a wire rivet with a tiny head on one end and fitted it so the head was inside the ring band. At this point I was debating a little spacer between the bead and the cup. I started to have a play with options to see what I liked. </div>
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Of course then I also started to change my mind about the red bead. More on that in a minute!!</div>
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First I added a bit of gold using the keum boo method to fuse the gold to the silver. </div>
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Earlier when playing around with how the ring would look I picked up a transparent amber bead that was laying around - and immediately I knew it just had to be!!! ;) </div>
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.... but WOW - the amber bead just totally popped!!! </div>
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This lovely bead is a handmade glass bead made by the super talented <a href="https://www.beadsbylaura.co.uk/" target="_blank">Laura Sparling - Beads by Laura</a> :D</div>
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All that was left to do was to rivet the bead and little flower into place. </div>
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I think it's a very happy ring 😊</div>
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...but my good friend Ann Davis says it looks almost like jelly - and I think she's right!! lol</div>
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Oh boy, this month's ring was running it fine!!</div>
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I'd been thinking about it all month but everything got so busy and suddenly it was the 30th!! </div>
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The theme for the month was 'Inspired by Nature'.</div>
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Actually I have made several rings this month including one for my new online workshop Pazazzy Rings - but more on that at the end of the post. </div>
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However, I hadn't made anything especially for the challenge and I wasn't going to fall at only the fourth hurdle of the year so this morning I set myself a real challenge!</div>
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I knew all month I wanted to make a ring with a flower (preferably a red flower!) but I hadn't got as far as coming up with a firm idea.</div>
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Part of my challenge to myself for the year was to try to use up some of the bits and pieces I had laying around so this morning I went on a rummage. I found a ring band with a texture already round it so that was a good start. Then I found a bezel setting that was a couple of years old I think! I made it using the new <a href="http://www.metalclay.co.uk/silicone-mold-for-bezel-making/" target="_blank">bezel mould</a> from Aida that I bought at the first YCMI metal clay conference in 2017 and it had never got any further than a straight moulded bit of clay!</div>
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Today was super busy with lots to do so I gave myself a 30 mins max slot to turn the bezel into a flower shape. </div>
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This turned out to be quite liberating!!!! I set about it in gung-ho fashion and really enjoyed myself 😉</div>
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First I divided it into 5 sections and carved grooves...</div>
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...then I found a disc of clay with a texture on one side and added the leaves to the plain side. Yes, I know it's starting to look a bit like a holly wreath at this point but bear with me...</div>
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Today with not much time I was working on more of a wing and a prayer!! I wetted the inside of the setting and settled in my stone hoping it would work! As it was in a totally sloping sided setting there was a chance the shrinkage as the clay fired would just push the stone straight out of the top of it without ever gripping it into place but I went for it! </div>
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I started out with some pre-made elements and it didn't take more than 45 mins from the start to get it ready for the kiln, and then a bit of finishing.</div>
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All in all for a last minute panic I'm very happy with it!!</div>
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But next month I plan to try to put more effort into my Ring a Month - honest!! ;)</div>
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I'm teaching an online workshop on Saturday 4th May on CraftCast for making <a href="https://www.craftcast.com/classes/pazazzy-rings-metal-clay" target="_blank">Pazazzy Rings</a> plus a pendant variation. This workshop is still available anytime afterwards as a recording and you can re-watch as many times as you want!! D</div>
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These are examples of the rings...</div>
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The theme announced for February for the Make a Ring a Month Challenge was MUSIC & LYRICS. This was a very open theme to be interpreted in any way we wanted to.</div>
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It didn't take me too long to decide that I wanted to represent a song and I had an idea for what! </div>
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So, a little side waffle first!! 😉 If you read my <a href="http://joyfunnell.blogspot.com/2019/01/ring-month-2019-january.html" target="_blank">RAM January blog post</a> then you'll know I signed up for this year long challenge without properly reading all the info, so I was somewhat taken aback when the first theme was announced as I hadn't realised there was going to be themes!! 😂 Anyway...before the January theme was announced I'd actually had an idea for a ring to make, but then I decided it didn't really fit January's theme. </div>
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I realised that ring would be perfect for the February theme as it fitted a song from an album I've always loved. The idea for making the ring came to me while watching BBC Bargain Hunt (a programme about buying antiques and collectables then selling them at auction) . One of the items was an old wooden paddle with a carved chain link style design along the shaft of it. </div>
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I sat there watching thinking I'm sure I could do that in silver clay. Frustratingly I can't find an image of what I saw to show you, I've tried a lot of online searching but given up. You'll have to take my word on this :)</div>
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I worked out the way the link design was made was actually really easy to do. </div>
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I started out making a plain D ring shaped band in silver clay. OK, so I forgot to photograph that bit 😉 Just imagine a plain D ring here...</div>
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Then I marked up where each link would be with a pencil and carved a groove for the end of each 'link'. </div>
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An unending chain of love.</div>
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At the end of February 2019 I'll be off to Switzerland for my annual teaching trip to Creative Glass at Volketswil just outside of Zurich. This will be the sixth time I have taught there and it is just an amazingly lovely place. The studio is very spacious with a lovely separate dining area and the whole place is filled with wonderful glass (even the sink in the toilet is amazing!! ;) lol</div>
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This year I'll be teaching four new workshops that I haven't taught in Switzerland before. There is still a little space on some of them so why not come and join in!!! </div>
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On 23rd and 24th February I'll be teaching my Crystal pendant workshop. This covers a wonderful array of techniques including riveting, making unique texture plates with polymer clay, adding gold foil, soldering bezel cup, stone setting and of course working with crystal wands. Oh, and let's not forget we are using silver clay too! It's a great way to expand your knowledge. There is so much to learn and you'll be able to choose from a lovely selection of crystal wands and cabochons to make your own unique piece. </div>
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The next workshop on 25th February is Joyful Whistles. These really are a lot of fun to make and you'll end up with your very own working whistle. Maybe you'll even be able to play a little tune on yours, and if you have a dog what could be better for attracting his/her attention!! :D These are great to wear as a pendant and I wear one on a longer lanyard around my neck too. </div>
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On 26th February it's all about rings!!! I'll be teaching my Celestial Rings with their amazing construction and a squared off ring band. The topper is set with lots of super sparkly stones!!! These really are statement pieces :)</div>
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I decided it was time to join a challenge again so for 2019 I've joined the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/makearingamonth/?epa=SEARCH_BOX" target="_blank">Ring A Month 2019</a> challenge started by the lovely <a href="https://www.campbellhall.co.uk/about-anna" target="_blank">Anna Campbell-Hall</a>.</div>
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When Anna first posted that she was going to do this challenge and would anyone like to join her I immediately clicked to join. It was one of those impulse things, I love ring making and I'd already decided I wanted to do some sort off challenge in 2019. It was perfect! </div>
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I was busy thinking out what my first ring would be when Anna posted the theme for the January - which rather took me by surprise - because in all the excitement to join it turned out I'd only read the first half of her post about the challenge!!! 😄. I'd completely missed that there would be a theme for each month!! This actually was a good thing as instead of making some easy ring that just sprang to mind now I would have to do a bit more thinking - making it an even better challenge for the year.</div>
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So I got making. I didn't really have a plan so I made a plain wide band with natural uneven edges and went from there. First I added varying sized holes around the band.</div>
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I then decided it would be a good thing, over the course of the year, to try to use some of the many dried clay elements I have laying around, and I have lots!! This box has teeny, tiny bits in. I chose some textured discs of clay to fit behind some of the holes on the band.</div>
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I added them from the inside of the band to create some textured recesses. I tried to make sure every texture I used was different. One or two are similar but no two are actually the same. </div>
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Once I'd filled as many of the holes as I wanted I drew a pattern onto the plain areas with pencil to see how it would look. I'm not a great fan of plain silver so by carving in a design I could fill up some of the area. </div>
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I thought that looked okay so I went ahead and carved the design onto the surface using a combination of the tip of a needle file and a tiny balled headed burnisher tool. </div>
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Um...there was still still quite a bit of plain silver left so I went with my normal filler when doing designs that I feel are a bit empty. If in doubt add some dots, they always seem to work! 😂 </div>
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Finally I did a bit of carving to the edges of the band to make it a more interesting shape.</div>
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I quite like the outcome. I've certainly never made a ring by this method before, and I'm sure I wouldn't of done without the challenge - maybe I will develop this technique more in the future :)</div>
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Now I will patiently wait to find out what the theme for February's ring will be! </div>
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It's only a few weeks to go now until our residential enamelling weekend in November!! We still have a couple of spaces on this if anyone else wants to join us. It is going to be a fun time with workshop sessions through from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon.</div>
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This workshop will be packed with great info and ideas for creating your own textures to enamel onto, adding stones to fire in place, decorating the back of your pieces and even adding super extra little finishing details like these fun little snakes on the side of the piece below.</div>
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We will all eat together through the weekend so it's a chance for everyone to make new friends as well as learning new techniques. There is also a kit fee of £16 and as part of your kit you will get a range enamel colours ready prepared by me to use on the workshop and you get to take them home with you afterwards so you will be all set to carry on your enamelling adventure at home :D</div>
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I am very excited to be going back over the pond to the USA next month to stay with my good friend, the very wonderful Ann Davis. My flights are all booked and it is only five weeks away!! Ann is a truly amazing and very innovative artist. I always feel so inspired when I stay with her and come back with my head crammed full of new ideas. She has done so many things and is a real fount of all knowledge!!! I always learn new things from her.</div>
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While I'm there I will be teaching for 3 days at Ann's studio - <a href="http://www.laruchedavis.com/" target="_blank">La Ruche Davis</a>, near Washington, DC.</div>
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First will be a two day Hidden Lantern workshop. These are complex little pendants with lots of exciting techniques to learn. Each side of the hollow pendant is gently curved. On the one side we will be making textured areas to enamel into. We will also be adding lovely sparkly accent stones.</div>
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The reverse of each pendant has pierced out areas in the design. This is why they are Hidden Lanterns ;) </div>
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On two of the pendants 24k gold has been added inside which shines out through the pierced areas and reflects the light when they are worn that way round. The third pendant is a variation with a removable base. This allows for something different to be placed inside to show through. Of course for me that has to be something colourful!! :D</div>
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This pendant also has small accent stones set down each side.</div>
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One of my favourite parts of these pendants is the tops!!! Each has a different design and loop to hang it with. These really add to the character of each one.</div>
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These fun rings are a delight to wear. Hours of twiddling fun with the inner ring freely moving inside the outer channelled one. There'll be lots of stone setting too to give them sparkle.</div>
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I've been making lots of examples of them - I love making these!!!</div>
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This one even has tiny stones set on the sides for even more sparkle!!!</div>
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I can't wait to see what everyone makes on these workshops. One of the things I enjoy so much about teaching is seeing people take an idea and come up with variations that would never even cross my mind!!! </div>
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If you want to join us for all the fun do get <a href="http://www.laruchedavis.com/" target="_blank">in touch</a> very soon!! Both workshops are nearly full but there is still a seat or two left at the moment :D I'm looking forward to meeting old friends again and making new ones!! </div>
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Part 2 of my Art Clay Silver 950 testing. Don't worry, there won't be a part 3 ;)</div>
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This will make a lot more sense if you have read <a href="http://joyfunnell.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/testing-testing-art-clay-silver-950.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> first, and if you've done that you will also know it is probably a good idea to grab a cup of tea before you start reading this time! Yes, it could be another long post! ;)</div>
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At the end of the last post I showed you two enamelled pieces. One was made out of AC950 (on the right) and depletion gilded. The one on the left was a circular piece of AC999 attached to a backing of AC950 and the two were fired together. I've now patinated these using Liver of Sulphur to bring up the textures. The LOS worked just fine, exactly as I would expect it to. Here they are all done. I love to patinate most things as it gives the textures definition and seems to make the enamel colours more vibrant :)</div>
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As I mentioned in the last blog post there is a difference between the shrinkage of AC950 and AC999. I've been trying to get a photo showing the slight doming on the piece on the left. As I've failed I decided to try a short video clip. I hope you might be able to see the domed effect in the centre of the back in this. </div>
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Next I made two more rings to see if the shrinkage seemed fairly consistent and also to try a few different techniques.</div>
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The first one is...um...a bit strange really! Why? Well I was using up the last bits of clay :D I forgot to take any process photos on this one so you'll have to stay with me here on a description. </div>
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I wanted to see how well the clay moulded. I twisted 2 strands of 1mm wire together and pressed it into two part moulding compound to make a long thin mould that I could use for a ring band. The clay moulded really well and cleanly. Then I added the front decoration. It looks kind of weird because it was all the bits I had left from all the other things I made. I'd made some tiny balls with little bits of clay and also I had two pieces left over for stone settings. I was going to use them on the first ring but changed my mind. So I set the two small barrel shapes with 2mm lab sapphires. I rolled out a tiny piece of clay .25mm (1 card) thick and once dry I added the ten tiny balls using water to join them. Once that piece was dry I sanded the tops off the balls to make that little piece in the middle.<br />
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Did I mention this was a tiny ring??? Actually it is a UK size N so perfectly wearable, just very thin!! Shrinkage was consistent with the first ring I made at 7 UK sizes. (As a side note I was amused to realise yet again I had created something vaguely bird like!!! or maybe I just see birds everywhere :D ) <br />
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The third ring I made was more the sort of thing I would make normally. I started out with a snake of clay and then rolled it flat to 1.5mm (6 cards). I joined it into a flat band and once dry I carved it using a graver. I went with a quick simple starburst design to see how it felt. It carved very smoothly and cleanly. Lovely to work with! <br />
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The stone setting was a little piece I had pre-made in AC999. It was set with a 3mm lab ruby cab. I was interested to see how well the two clays would go together (and I was running short of clay to make a setting in AC950!). I used water to wet both parts and then joined them. It made a very solid join. </div>
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The topper was attached to the ring band using AC999 syringe. As I had used water only to join the toppers on my other two rings I wanted to see how this worked. </div>
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I was very pleased with the result. Again shrinkage was 7 UK sizes. I made this at a UK size X and it shrank to a UK size Q. After firing there was a certain amount of distortion, but that was very easy to correct on a ring mandrel, and because the fired silver is much harder I found there was less chance of marking it. The domed part held it shape nicely.</div>
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Finally I made one more piece to enamel. My other pieces had been more tests really so I wanted to make something that would show the colours better. I opted for one of my small butterfly designs. </div>
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I actually think the AC950 refines up even better than AC999 with baby wipes. Here is the dried butterfly before and after refining. The refining took me about 5 minutes, so very quick and easy.</div>
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This piece was textured to 1mm thick. Even though AC950 is stronger than AC999, for enamelling I would not make pieces any thinner. Enamel will crack on very thin silver unless you counter enamel the back due the stresses of the glass enamel on the silver. I never counter enamel as I always decorate the backs of things. For this little piece I stamped out one of my Joy logos. The AC950 took an impression from the stamp very crisply. I attached a piece of fine silver wire to the back of the piece using AC999 syringe to join it all. </div>
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This piece was fired to schedule at the same time as the previous ring. After firing I depletion gilded the piece until it was very white. Then I re-polished it and enamelled it.</div>
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And here it is...a rainbow butterfly!!!</div>
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First of all - I love this clay!</div>
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I'll still use AC999 for a lot of things. Depletion gilding works really well on AC950, but it does take extra time. If a piece needs extra strength I'll go with AC950 and put that extra time in if it is a piece to be enamelled. For rings I will definitely go over to AC950. If I am making something where the difference in strength will not be a major issue I'll stick with AC999. </div>
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For teaching I will most likely mainly stick to AC999 because of the shorter firing schedule, but there will be some things that I'll go over to AC950 for.</div>
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I'm delighted to have had a chance to test this clay out - thank you <a href="http://www.metalclay.co.uk/" target="_blank">Metal Clay Ltd</a>!! I'm looking forward to the release date at the start of September so I can do more playing. I have lots of ideas in mind that I would not make using AC999 :)</div>
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I was very excited when Aida announced a new Art Clay Silver product recently. Art Clay Silver 950. The Art Clay (AC) I have been using up until now is fine silver which hallmarks at 999. This new silver clay is what being termed as enriched sterling silver clay. Traditionally sterling silver is 925 - that means for every thousand parts 925 of them are fine (pure) silver and the other 75 are something else - often copper. The new AC950 is (as you've probably guessed by now!) 950 parts fine silver and 50 parts copper, so this is enriched sterling as it has a higher percentage of silver in it. This makes a silver alloy that is stronger than fine silver. The other real plus is that AC950 can be fired open shelf, no carbon involved!!! </div>
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I was delighted to be asked by <a href="http://www.metalclay.co.uk/" target="_blank">Metal Clay Ltd</a> to test out the new clay pre-release. The clay will be available from 1st September and you can pre-order on their website. </div>
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Here is how I got on with it. So...my lovely packet arrived and testing began :D</div>
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The clay felt slightly solider than AC999 on taking it out of the packet at first, but as soon as I kneaded it, it felt about the same as AC999. Rolling out and texturing were all very similar, drying took about the same length of time. It reconstituted well. Working with the dry clay it carved well and drilled well. If anything, to me it felt slightly stronger when working with the dry clay. MOST IMPORTANTLY baby wipes work beautifully with it for refining etc. Phew - anyone who knows me would know that would of been a real problem for me if they hadn't worked!!</div>
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I rolled out a piece of clay plain to .25mm thick and dried it naturally and the clay was very flexible. I cut some thin strips from the dry clay with scissors and it was possible to bend them into small links very easily. I didn't fire these as I only wanted to see how flexible the clay was. </div>
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Next I tried the same thing with a shallow texture on each side of the clay. This wasn't as flexible and broke easily on bending. This would need more testing to find the out the possibilities of using the clay like this. </div>
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I made a few small heart shapes. With any new clay checking out how the firing works is very important. Even though we were given a schedule for it there are always variables, not least the kiln that you use. </div>
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I fired just a couple of the little hearts first, and I made one using AC999 to fire at the same time. The firing schedule is from cold to 500°C with a 30 minute hold, then straight up to 870°C with a 60 minute hold. The instructions also say to leave pieces in the kiln until below 200°C. On my first pieces I did this. Here they are fresh out the kiln. You can see the difference in colour, AC999 in the middle and AC950 top and bottom.</div>
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They seemed to fire well. I checked if they were sintered (fully fired) by putting a drop of water on the surface of each one. It stayed there nicely. If it had soaked straight in that would be an indication that the piece was not properly sintered. I also drew around the pieces before firing. This allowed me to check they had shrunk, another good indication of proper sintering. Then I bent one piece using pliers. It bent well and was noticeably harder to bend than the fine silver piece. The shrinkage on these little hearts appeared to be marginally more for AC950 than AC999. AC999 shrinks around 8%-10%. The packaging for the AC950 said shrinkage of 10%-13% so that seemed about right.</div>
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After these initial tests I wondered why the instructions suggested leaving the pieces in the kiln until it was below 200°C. If I was going to enamel pieces they would go in and out of the kiln at 800°C, so after that I didn't leave them to cool in the kiln. It could be there is a very good reason why they should be cooled in the kiln, but I didn't notice any difference by not doing it.</div>
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I fired the first pieces on ceramic fibre board and there was some slight marking on the backs of some of the pieces where it had stuck. I know my little kiln does run slightly hot so I fired the rest of the pieces at between 850°C and 860°C. There was still the odd bit of sticking on the second batch so after that I also fired on ceramic fibre paper. I think vermiculate would probably work well, but I didn't have any to hand.</div>
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After firing it had shrunk 7 sizes. After deformity correction I put it onto a mandrel and easily tapped up to a UK size N which is a shrinkage of 6 sizes. The band is 2 1/2mm wide and 1mm thick with a hammered texture that was rolled on when I made it in the clay. The stone is a 4mm lab ruby fired in place. The topper of the ring was attached to the band just using water and is really strongly attached (I hit it a few times with the hammer to check ;) ) The ring weighs in at just 1.45 grams!!! I was very impressed with this. There was quite a bit of distortion to the ring when it came out the kiln, but with the larger shrinkage that is to be expected really. It is very easy to re-round a ring.</div>
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As I often have my kiln running at 800°C plus when I'm enamelling I'm also in the habit of sometimes putting small pieces in to fire when the kiln is already hot. I placed one heart onto a hot kiln shelf at 870°C and put it straight back into the kiln just to see what happened. It was an interesting result! It went in flat and came out very domed! It also had less shrinkage. Whilst the water drop test seemed to show it was fairly sintered I suspect not all the binders burnt away so the piece had uneven shrinkage causing the curving. It is not something I would repeat!! ;)</div>
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I also tried to torch fire one piece. I used the torch to heat slowly to allow the binders to burn away first, and then took it up to orange and held it for 8 minutes. The piece had similar shrinkage to the kiln fired ones and appeared to be sintered. It bent to 90 degrees. This lead me to believe it might be possible to torch fire, but it would probably want a bit longer firing (maybe 2 x 5 minutes), and more testing to see if it would work on larger pieces. </div>
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The short answer is yes, but it is not quite that easy! ;)</div>
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I use transparent enamels all the time in my work. Opaques are generally less fussy and I suspect they will work direct onto AC950 but I haven't tested that. My tests are all using transparents :D</div>
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I did a several little test pieces first. In this photo are the results of different experiments. </div>
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Top left and middle right are direct onto polished AC950. The colours have changed and top left is going brown at the edges. The enamels colours should look like top right and middle left, turquoise blue and mid green. You can see they have really darkened when applied directly onto AC950. </div>
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Top right, middle left and bottom I added fine silver foil to the surface using the keum boo method. I didn't cover the whole of each heart, only part of it and you can see the difference. Whilst this might work on a plain piece I use textures all the while and it was immediately apparent this was not a viable solution on a textured surfaces. Because of this I didn't experiment any further with this idea. </div>
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Then we come to the middle heart. This one has the same green as the other two in the middle row and the same red as the bottom piece. </div>
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Normally in enamelling we enamel on fine silver. If we use sterling sheet we either depletion gild or put the piece into nitric acid. The nitric acid eats away the copper at the surface and removes any firestain to leave a fine silver surface. I DID NOT want to use nitric acid - nasty stuff!!! So onto depletion gilding. This is a process of repeatedly heating a piece and then pickling it until the piece is bright white. The process creates a layer of fine silver up on the top surface of the piece, and this is what we want for enamelling. The middle heart was depletion gilded. </div>
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Eureka! It worked just fine :D </div>
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Next I made another couple of little pieces and depletion gilded them. You can see the flat heart and the bar are noticeably whiter than a piece of untreated AC950.</div>
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Another thing I wanted to try out was combining AC999 with AC950. For this piece I made a textured backing of AC950 .75mm thick. I then made a circular textured piece in AC999 which was also .75mm thick. I attached the two together just using water. In the process of refining it I accidently broke it (oh sorry, make that - I deliberately broke it to see how well it would mend ;) lol). I again just used water to wet the breaks and the pieces reattached very easily. You can see the difference in the colour of the clays. </div>
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After firing and polishing the different colours are still visible. This also shows very clearly that the two clays do have different shrinkage rates (although maybe it doesn't show so clearly in the photo!) Where the AC999 is attached the piece has domed a little. I expected it to do that and I like the result. </div>
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Today I've been using the last of the clay to make a couple more rings and another piece to enamel. </div>
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I'll blog about those tomorrow!!! :D</div>
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If you've made it this far through the post - well done!!! ;) Go and have a cup of tea - you've earned it!! </div>
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Whoo hoo...this is exciting!!! </div>
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I'll be teaching Enamelled Textures with Silver Clay at a weekend workshop in Folkestone, Kent, UK at the start of November this year. </div>
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The workshop runs from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon and the fantastic price of £399 includes your accommodation, meals, 25g of Art Clay Silver and 14 hours of teaching!!! The only extra is a kit fee of £16 which will include enamels etc, and any drinks you want while we are all there you'll buy as we go along! ;)</div>
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This will be a small group and it's going to be a fun weekend !! The workshop takes place in the Best Western Clifton Hotel in an excellent position on the cliff top. We will have all our meals together and work into the evenings too!! </div>
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Folkestone is on a direct train route from London and right beside the Channel Tunnel, so perfect if you want to pop over to the UK to join us!!!!</div>
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I am so excited to tell you that we are now all set for my workshops in the USA!!!</div>
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One side has your own unique silver texture that is enamelled and decorated with 2mm stones...</div>
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We'll cover making them the right size (yes I know, that can be such a hassle!!!) and you'll make everything in silver clay. </div>
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The outside ring is textured and yours will be uniquely you as you'll create your own design around the edges. Of course we'll make sure everything is super smooth and beautifully tactile to feel and wear too.</div>
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These are just some ideas, I've already made other rings (watch out for more photos!). This technique is so versatile!</div>
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So... you've made it this far through my post???</div>
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Where are these workshops I hear you asking!!! ;)</div>
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Just near Washington DC at La Ruche Davis with the most excellent Ann Davis as host!!! </div>
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Check out all the details and how to book <a href="http://www.laruchedavis.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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A workshop at Ann's is always a good laugh, and don't miss out on her included Saturday night GF buffet and wine social if you book the 2 day workshop. I always love this bit with super people dropping in to join us too!! :D</div>
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I'm looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones :D</div>
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Have Fun!!!</div>
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PS Feeling left out as you are in Europe?? I'll be posting about a wonderful workshop in Folkestone UK in November this year in my next blog post tomorrow! Don't miss it!! </div>
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This year I have been doing a lot more teaching jewellery making, so a few less fairs!!</div>
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These are the ones I currently have booked in.</div>
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On 28th May I will be at the <a href="https://www.heathfieldshow.org/" target="_blank">Heathfield Show</a>. This is a wonderful one day event, open from 8am - 5.15pm. I will be in the Craft Marquee. </div>
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9th July, 10th September, 12th November, 17th December<br /> Saturday Art & Crafts Fair, St Barnabas Church<br /> Sea Road, Bexhill, TN40 1JG<br /><br /> 2nd-3rd July<br /> Batemans, Burwash, East Sussex</div>
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I hope you will come along and say hello - it is always lovely meeting old friends and making new ones :D</div>
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Whoo hoo!! It's 10 years ago this year that I started up my own business and got totally passionate about all things metal clay!!! </div>
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10 years...and I'm still here!! That has to be worth celebrating - and what the heck - let's spin it out for a whole year :D </div>
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Watch out for fun things to come including GIVEAWAYS, special offers and discounts.</div>
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So...to start the ball rolling for January I'm going to offer 10% off <a href="http://www.joyfunnell.co.uk/workshops/" target="_blank">workshops</a>. Learning something new is a great way to start the new year!</div>
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Of course there has to be some rules* ;)</div>
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*Discount applies to 1-2-1 and 2-2-1 workshops at my home base in Hastings, UK only.</div>
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*Workshops need to be booked by the end of January 2016 and the actual workshop needs to be completed by the end of March 2016</div>
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*LIMITED AVAILABILITY...there are only so many days between now and the end of March!</div>
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*Discount is not available on 7 day combined Art Clay L1 and L2 workshop - sorry!<br />
*To take advantage of this offer you have to email me at <a href="mailto:joy@joyfunnell.co.uk">joy@joyfunnell.co.uk</a> to see if we can find a slot for your workshop. If we can - great - I'll book you in and you get 10% off the price!!</div>
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*Can't see the workshop you want on my website? Just ask and I'll tailor make one for what you want to learn.</div>
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2016 is going to be an exciting year!</div>
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Why not join me for the fun!</div>
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