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Archive for the ‘friendly plastic pendants’ Category
Friendly Plastic butterfies by Antonia Rozsa
Friday, April 9th, 2010
I think it's so cool that Friendly Plastic is such an international medium. This piece was created by Rozsa Antonia from Hungary. Unfortunately, I can not translate her email into english. But regardless, who needs words to describe her work when a picture says a thousand?
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New Boutique items from BijouxArtCreation – Karine Collignon
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
This pendant is an excellent combination of stamped plastic to texture and "raw" unheated and untreated plastic. A unique combination that is refreshingly beautiful!
Fantastic!
View more of Karine's work on her website at: www.bijouxartcreation.com. She is also on Facebook.
Her blog can be translated using google translate.
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A collection of hearts by Friendly Plastic artist – Cathy Frank
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Cathy calls this the "All Hearts Collection" and she writes:
This is a visual toast to the Blog without which I would not be obsessively creating these FP impressions
pieces - These are a take off on Linda's Texturing with Stamps video and her Metal Jewelry 101 book.
Thanks to all the lovely people who share there work and passion here!
THANK YOU Cathy for sharing these beautiful "heart"felt pieces with us! This blog is a collective effort by all of you who want to share your work and inspire others....I just do the footwork....so thank to everyone who has helped make this blog successful!
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This is a visual toast to the Blog without which I would not be obsessively creating these FP impressions
pieces - These are a take off on Linda's Texturing with Stamps video and her Metal Jewelry 101 book.
Thanks to all the lovely people who share there work and passion here!
THANK YOU Cathy for sharing these beautiful "heart"felt pieces with us! This blog is a collective effort by all of you who want to share your work and inspire others....I just do the footwork....so thank to everyone who has helped make this blog successful!
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Art Deco and Friendly Plastic by WolfCreek Designs
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Simple yet sophisticated! These are the words I would use to describe this lovely pendant by Shari Wallace of WolfCreek Designs. I don't know what it is....but I am soooooo drawn to the color orange recently! Orange is a very trendy color now! As Sheri says "it has an art deco feel". I agree!
Check out more of Shari's designs on Etsy by clicking here.
Also, do a search for "friendly plastic" on etsy and see all the other amazing artwork!
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FREE LIVE FRIENDLY PLASTIC DEMO – Stamped Copper Pendant – Cool2Craft
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Join me MONDAY March 1st at 12pm Eastern time (That's 11am Central, 10 am mountain, 9 am pacific and 5PM in the UK) on Cool2Craft Live for a Friendly Plastic demo. We'll be creating a pendant similar to this one in just 5 minutes!! Okay...it may take you a little longer...but it really is an easy pendant to make in a fairly short time! So Join me and all the other guests of Tiffany Windsor or Cool2Craft TV see you there!!
Check the website for more information: www.cool2craft.com
If you can't make it at the scheduled time, the show will be archived for viewing at your convenience. Have a great Friendly Plastic day everyone!
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Simply Stamped Friendly Plastic
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
One of the most frequently asked questions I have received is "is Friendly Plastic easy to use?" and the answer is...YES YES YES!
Let me give you a little personal side of me........personally.......
The past couple of weeks, I've been recovering from a major surgery.....everything went very very well...and Im feeling very well. It's amazing that in this day and age, major surgery can be performed in a day and you're back at home in your own bed by the evening. The problem with this kind of technology is that I felt TOO good...and I still feel "TOO" good, but I have to take it easy. My body isn't that good and is healing.
So that limits what I can do. I can however sit at a table and create. Mariah and I spent countless hours at the kitchen table creating a variety of things and one thing that hit me like a ton of bricks was "SIMPLE". We took simple images and created amazing contemporary greeting cards.
So what does this have to do with Friendly Plastic? It's "SIMPLE"... sometimes we get all caught up in the embellishments and how many techniques we can pile into one project that we forget "simple", "quick", "easy"...... This piece of jewelry is "simple" - simply a piece of Friendly Plastic heated, stamped, cooled, cut and then a little bit of Rub N' Buff on the highlights. A little bit of patina, some filagree and your done! Simple, easy and quick - you can have this pendant made in 30 minutes. How's that for a last minute gift or accessory.....
So remember the word of the day.....SIMPLE!....
I bet you'll create something "simply" amazing! SHOW ME!!!
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Give a Friendly SHOUT OUT to Melani Meeker our Friendly Plastic Artist Feature
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Today's feature artist is Melani Meeker, a member of the Friendly Plastic Fan group on Facebook who resides in California. Melani lives by the phrase "I don't wanna grow up!" ....Well...Melanie, Im with you...I what's the fun in growing up?
We had a BIG suprize yesterday when we woke up with a "dusting" of 6" of snow on the ground. Our weather people just can't seem to get it right..last week we were to get 8" and it barely snowed, this week a dusting and we got 6". Makes life interesting!
Melani's design captures the essence of winter. I love the textures, the snowflake embellishment and the color combination she chose. She is very talented and I can't wait to see more of her work! Look her up on Facebook and while you're there be sure to join our fan page!!! We could use a few "thousand" more friends!
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Design Challenge Inspiration from Liz and Linda
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
The Open Design Challenge deadline has been extended! WHEW!!! NOVEMBER 18th is your absolute drop dead date that packages have to be post marked in order to be entered for prizes (of course ...if you just want to send us something...we'll accept! :o)
The above is one of the MANY beautiful pieces of alluring eye candy that Liz Welch brought with her from the UK for sale. Not sure if this piece is still available but if you're interested contact her thru her blog: http://www.rarelizzie.wordpress.com/
Just look at the loads of mixed media presented in this piece - all combined with friendly plastic. Even more stunning in person!
For my take on mixed media, I chose found objects...okay..sort of found objects...little watch parts, patina'd brass washers all combined with Artemboss Copper and hammered WireForm Brass rods
Two totally different takes on mixed media....isn't art wonderful??
Tomorrow...Design Challenge inspiration from Jana and Jen!!
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Adventures in Friendly Plastic with Melissa J. Lee
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Melissa has been making beads and designing jewelry since 2007 .
She is an award winning artist taking second place in the "Necklace" category of the Bead Arts Awards, 1st place in the "Metal Clay" category and 2nd place in the "Beyond Glass" category of the British bead awards this year!! CONGRATULATIONS MELISSA!
Now Melissa has taken an adventure in Friendly Plastic and she shares her story:
So, I finally had a chance to sit down with my stash of Friendly Plastic, courtesy of the good folks at Amaco. As I mentioned earlier, although Friendly Plastic has been around for years, I'd never used the product. Playing with all of those mouth-wateringly bold colors was really appealing to me. Amaco offers significant product support for Friendly Plastic on their website, including a number of sample projects (of which my favorite is this one).
One thing I will say, having spent several hours with the product - it did take me a little practice to use it, even to create the simple graphic pendants I made for this post. Friendly Plastic becomes moldable when heated, but the melt point is low enough that it's easy for a neophyte like me to shoot past the target range and end up with a too-gooey substance. I think this is where the choice of heat source becomes crucial. I used my craft toaster oven, and I found it a real handicap not to be able to see how pliable the material was becoming in the heat without taking my non-stick sheet out of the oven every five seconds. I think an electric griddle (the recommended method for heating up Friendly Plastic) or a heat gun would be definitely preferable.
However, Friendly Plastic takes cutters beautifully, and it's a much more forgiving method of using the product with the toaster oven. Even if the plastic is quite soft, it will still take a cutter well (as long as you are careful to wait until the plastic cools to lift the cut-out from the non-stick sheet to avoid distortion). Given this, and - well, frankly - because the bright colors of plastic reminded me of superhero costumes, I decided to focus on creating some bold, colorful pendants with the material.
Because Friendly Plastic will bond to itself when heated, it is relatively easy to create nice inlay designs with the material. I wanted as little distortion as possible in my designs, so I did not completely inlay each of the pieces in these pendants. The UV resin I used to seal them - Lisa Pavelka's Magic-Glos - domed over the designs (with one exception, above, and I liked the paper-mache effect it gave the piece, so I did not apply a second coat), so the raised surface of the pendant really didn't affect the finished product.
My product samples are all metallic sticks (the material is also available in pellet form), but they are metallic only on one side. When I wanted a more matte-looking surface, I simply flipped them over (the blue moon, above, is an example of using the reverse side of a stick). I also discovered that, when I use the sticks in this way, and use cut-out pieces as inlay, the edges curl up just enough as it softens to create an interesting metallic border around the cut-out piece.
To finish the two pendants, I used bails from my stash that were provided to me earlier, courtesy of Rings & Things. I simply attached plastic button shanks to the other two. (By the way, in case you're wondering - it was quite easy to punch stringing holes in the Friendly Plastic, but I discovered after several aborted attempts that I could not cleanly drill through the Magic-Glos the way I would with other types of resin.) I think the Friendly Plastic colors look good strung with brightly colored lucite and resin beads. I also think these simple designs would make excellent, funky rings - just attach to ring blanks, and they're good to go!
Thank you to Amaco for giving me the opportunity to play with this fascinating product!
She is an award winning artist taking second place in the "Necklace" category of the Bead Arts Awards, 1st place in the "Metal Clay" category and 2nd place in the "Beyond Glass" category of the British bead awards this year!! CONGRATULATIONS MELISSA!
Now Melissa has taken an adventure in Friendly Plastic and she shares her story:
So, I finally had a chance to sit down with my stash of Friendly Plastic, courtesy of the good folks at Amaco. As I mentioned earlier, although Friendly Plastic has been around for years, I'd never used the product. Playing with all of those mouth-wateringly bold colors was really appealing to me. Amaco offers significant product support for Friendly Plastic on their website, including a number of sample projects (of which my favorite is this one).
One thing I will say, having spent several hours with the product - it did take me a little practice to use it, even to create the simple graphic pendants I made for this post. Friendly Plastic becomes moldable when heated, but the melt point is low enough that it's easy for a neophyte like me to shoot past the target range and end up with a too-gooey substance. I think this is where the choice of heat source becomes crucial. I used my craft toaster oven, and I found it a real handicap not to be able to see how pliable the material was becoming in the heat without taking my non-stick sheet out of the oven every five seconds. I think an electric griddle (the recommended method for heating up Friendly Plastic) or a heat gun would be definitely preferable.
However, Friendly Plastic takes cutters beautifully, and it's a much more forgiving method of using the product with the toaster oven. Even if the plastic is quite soft, it will still take a cutter well (as long as you are careful to wait until the plastic cools to lift the cut-out from the non-stick sheet to avoid distortion). Given this, and - well, frankly - because the bright colors of plastic reminded me of superhero costumes, I decided to focus on creating some bold, colorful pendants with the material.
Because Friendly Plastic will bond to itself when heated, it is relatively easy to create nice inlay designs with the material. I wanted as little distortion as possible in my designs, so I did not completely inlay each of the pieces in these pendants. The UV resin I used to seal them - Lisa Pavelka's Magic-Glos - domed over the designs (with one exception, above, and I liked the paper-mache effect it gave the piece, so I did not apply a second coat), so the raised surface of the pendant really didn't affect the finished product.
My product samples are all metallic sticks (the material is also available in pellet form), but they are metallic only on one side. When I wanted a more matte-looking surface, I simply flipped them over (the blue moon, above, is an example of using the reverse side of a stick). I also discovered that, when I use the sticks in this way, and use cut-out pieces as inlay, the edges curl up just enough as it softens to create an interesting metallic border around the cut-out piece.
To finish the two pendants, I used bails from my stash that were provided to me earlier, courtesy of Rings & Things. I simply attached plastic button shanks to the other two. (By the way, in case you're wondering - it was quite easy to punch stringing holes in the Friendly Plastic, but I discovered after several aborted attempts that I could not cleanly drill through the Magic-Glos the way I would with other types of resin.) I think the Friendly Plastic colors look good strung with brightly colored lucite and resin beads. I also think these simple designs would make excellent, funky rings - just attach to ring blanks, and they're good to go!
Thank you to Amaco for giving me the opportunity to play with this fascinating product!
You can view more of Melissa's work on her blog at: www.strandsofbeads.blogspot.com
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