Polymer Clay Adventure 2017 is almost here! All classes start January 1

Get ready for the kick off of Polymer Clay Adventure Virtual Retreat 2017 on January 1, 2017.  We have so many fun things planned this year and the classes are so unique. There  is so much to learn! You will NOT find a better deal on polymer clay and mixed media classes in the world. Did I say world? Yes I did because anyone anywhere in the world with unrestricted internet can join in the fun. This is the 3rd year of the event and we have decided to do things a little different so we are going to release all of the classes on day 1 so there will be no more waiting to take any classes you will have access to them all on day 1 of the retreat. We have a fabulous line up of teachers and projects as well as live events, giveaways and so much more. So lets get ready for the adventure of a lifetime! Join now! http://www.polymerclayadventure.com

2016 Polymer Clay Adventure Virtual Retreat is Now on Sale!

We are so excited to announce that the 2016 Polymer Clay Adventure virtual retreat is being presented this year by the folks at Polyform the makers of Sculpey.  Its going to be an amazing year full of fun class projects, events and happenings. We hope you will join us this year on the adventure

Purchase your entry into the retreat within the first 3 days and get entered to win one of our super fabulous goody bags. We have an amazing line up of teacher and classes. You can check them out on the video below.

Join us here: http://onlineartretreats.com

Polymer Clay Pumpkin Plaque & Big Announcement!

First I wanted to share with you a fun project I made this week, it was quick, easy and took just a little time but boy was it fun to make! Come create along with me and see how fun it is to make for yourself. This piece is made entirely out of polymer clay.






BIG Announcement!!!!!!!!!

We have just officially announced that we have partnered with Polyform the makers of Sculpey to bring you Polymer Clay Adventure virtual retreat 2016. This is super exciting for us, we are big fans of the products and have been for years. We look forward to working with them to bring you an amazing adventure. So stay tuned for more on that. We have also announced the teachers for the 2016 PCA and you can watch this video to see their wonderful projects. When you come on the adventure with us you get every single class we offer as well as live events, swaps, prizes and giveaways and you join a community of new friends and kindred spirits. We hope you will join us in 2016. Tickets to the adventure go on sale this Sunday October 11th. Make sure to sign up to be notified because the early bird catches the worm. You can sign up at this link.
http://www.adventureartretreats.com

The Secret is Out Meet Your 2016 Polymer Clay Adventure Teachers

It is hard to believe 2015 is coming to an end it seems like yesterday when we launched the very first Polymer Clay Adventure Virtual Retreat and here we are introducing our second year. It has been an amazing year full of creative energy and fabulous classes and meeting wonderful new friends. Hope you will join us this year too. The early bird catches the worm so get on the list so you don't miss out. 

http://www.adventureartretreats.com

Won't you join us for Syndee Holt's class at Polymer Clay Adventure?

Join us now and enjoy Syndee's class for a whole year! Think how many bracelets you could make!

Plus you don't just get Syndee's class, you get 23 other classes! The forum is so active, Syndee is right there talking with you, answering questions and enjoying your company...



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Amazing Free Gift with purchase- from MandarinMoon!

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22 Days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat - Meet Linda Hess

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Meet Linda!
I have been working with polymer clay since 1994, when I bought a piece from an artist and she allowed me to "pick her brain" about the stuff. I went to the craft shop, bought some, and started on my polymer journey!

Currently I teach polymer clay classes to children in after-school groups and to adults through local bead shops. Their abilities never cease to amaze! I never feel I am going to "work" because I have such fun. I sell my work at craft shows, online, and through local shops. Others have described my work as not fitting into any one niche. I can safely describe my style as multi media/multi-dimensional. I sculpt, cane, quilt, paint, sew, work in paper and scrapbooking...pretty much anything that is asked (Can you??? is a popular question that has only once or twice been answered to the negative).

I am married and have 3 beautiful children.

22 Days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat- Meet Marlene Brady!

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Meet Marlene!
I am a polymer clay artist who also does beadwork and mixed media. I've sculpted with polymer clay since its birth, with beads since the 90's and have painted on and off forever. Although I have no formal training in art, I've always done some form of art ever since I can remember. My work appeals to the unique individual who appreciates the unexpected and who enjoys dancing to the beat of their own drum.

2012 1st Place-Polymer Clay Functional Objects and 1st Place Members' Choice in the International Polymer Clay Association's Progress & Possibilities competition.  Two time finalist in Bead & Button's Bead Dreams International Competition in Polymer Clay.

22 Days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat- Meet Suzanne Ivester

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Meet Suzanne!
Suzanne Ivester has been a familiar name and face in the polymer community for several years. She served as president of the International Polymer Clay Association from 2009 to 2010 and has authored the popular “Polymer Chef” column in PolymerCAFÉ magazine since early 2012. She has also written instructional and curatorial magazine articles for The Polymer Arts, GreenCraft, and Step by Step Beads, as well as PolymerCAFÉ, and has contributed online tutorials to the IPCA and Polyform websites. Her artwork has appeared in several published books. Suzanne has taught at Clay Quest, Ravensdale, and Fandango conferences and has offered guild workshops in several states. Suzanne’s teaching style emphasizes the joy of personal expression. Her goal is for participants to leave the workshop with new skills, techniques, and a finished project that not only conforms to the goals of the class but which reflects the artist’s own tastes and point of view.

22 Days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat 2015- Meet Tammy Durham

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Meet Tammy!
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Meet Tammy:
Tammy Durham has an intense love for clay art and the constant need to push boundaries of the imagination. This desire compels her to infuse life experiences with the innocence of childhood memories to create works of art that inspires and delights the soul. She graduated from The Atlanta College of Art  in 1993 and aquired a Bachelors of Fine arts degree. Her first love was painting in oils and acrylics but over the past decade, discovered the wonders of Polymer clay.  She resided in the lovely town of Rousette located in the South of France with her family and visited the many small villages and art galleries throughout the region.  This passionate artist has learned the value of traveling and its importance for the creative soul.

Tammy currently resides in Colorado but while in the South of France, she traveled throughout visiting, Paris, Normandy, Rouen, Honfleur, Madrid, Seville, Cadiz, San Tropez, Cannes, Aix-en-Provence, Northern Italy, Montreal, and Aruba.

She continues to use these experiences as a source of inspiration.  She is a strong believer in charity work and participated in the Atlanta International School's Spring Benefit which brought in over 330,000 setting a new record for the school.  Tammy's latest work is inspired by space and time as she explores this in her new work called "Space Girl on a Mission."  

Taking a long sabbatical for family, Tammy has emerged to combine her passion for Polymer clay with a unique illustrative approach, focusing on form, color, and texture.  She hopes to continue to inspire other clay artist to follow their imagination and creativity.

22 days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat- meet Barbara McGuire

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Barbara McGuire has been working in polymer for over 25 years.  She makes outline and shape stamps, molds, templates, transfer images, texture sheets and tutorials  that aid artists working in polymer and ceramic clays. Barbara has written over 10 instructional books and appeared frequently on televised segments of craft instruction with Carol Duvall and WLOS Crafty Corner.  Barbara’s home studio is located in the Appalachia Mountains near Asheville NC, were she teaches at select galleries, stores, craft schools and by request.

22 Days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat 2015- Meet Lisa Renner

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Lisa Renner is a mixed-media artist who enjoys making art on many levels. Her interests include art dolls, bookmaking, jewelry, encaustic, and working  with polymer clay, particularly creating figurative sculpture. She teaches workshops and enjoys sharing her techniques and creations with others.

One of her handmade Faux-Ivory polymer clay books is part of the permanent exhibit at The Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. Her work has been featured in publications such as Art Doll Quarterly, Polymer Café, and Somerset Studios. She has been published in several books, most recently: “The International Contemporary Artists, Volume V”, and “Incite: Dreams Realized, The Best of Mixed Media” by Northlight Books.

Lisa is a member of both the International Polymer Clay Association, and the International Encaustic Association. When she’s not working at her “day-job” where she has been for 23 years, she loves cooking, entertaining with her family and friends, and spending as much time as possible in her studio designing new workshops and creating art.

22 Days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat- Meet Katie Oskin of Kater'sAcres

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Meet Katie:
I have been working with polymer clay for over four years. From the very first time polymer clay touched my fingers, I was in love!  I adore the way a solid block of clay goes from hard and rigid to soft and pliable in my fingers; and then to see the image in my head come to real life amazes me to this day. I love to create joy, happiness, & smiles in clay.  It is truly my passion, my hobby, and my art form.  From the first time the clay hit my hands, to my early finished pieces, I was in love. And I haven’t stopped playing with clay since…and don’t plan to, any time soon.

22 Days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat- Meet Jennifer Morris

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Inspired by travels and her interest in cultures around the world, Jennifer Morris infuses her beads and sculptures with a sense of playfulness and a love for color. Jennifer's love for design and her natural artistic ability showed itself early in her life as she made paintings, sculpture and jewelry out of found objects when she was 3 years old and was accepted into arts academy at 5 and then went on to study sculpture in college and later work as a set designer in the film industry. Jennifer's pallet of materials and skills are diverse ranging from steel to wood to porcelain and paper to polymer clay. She stumbled onto polymer when she was making a 'dia de los muertos' sculpture out of papier mache 15 years ago. A friend suggested she try polymer to make the most of the detail and color she was trying to achieve. It was love at first sight and she hasn't looked back since.

22 Days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat- Meet Christi Friesen

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Meet Christi!
She is an award-winning artist, specializing in polymer and multi-media.  Her work has been showcased in Ornament, Belle Armoire Jewelry, Stringing and Polymer Cafe magazines, has graced the cover of Fire Mountain Gems catalog, and has been featured in numerous books, magazine articles, shows, exhibits and galleries.

Her work has been honored with awards in the Wearable Expression International juried show, Bead Dream contest, Bead Arts contest, Best Of America: Jewelry Artists, American Women Artists Annual Juried Competition, and more.

Christi is the author of ten how-to books, and her articles have appeared in Bead and Button, Art Jewelry, Belle Armoire, Ornament, Bead Unique, Bead Design Studio, Metal Clay Artist, The Polymer Arts, Polymer Cafe, From Polymer to Art, Creative Beading (Australia), Beadwork, Hand-Crafted Jewelry, Step By Step, Bead (UK), Bead Polska (Poland) magazines and more.

She teaches throughout the world, using humor and positive energy to encourage her students to stretch their creativity, technical skills and artistic confidence.

Christi will be teaching a new workshop featuring all of her amazing sculpting techniques! Come check out Polymer Clay Adventure.com!

22 Days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat- Meet Sarajane Helm

http://polymerclayadventure.com - make a ball jointed polymer clay doll with Sarajane!

Sarajane Helm began making dolls and dressing them when she was a very young girl…the skills learned in drawing and sewing for dolls translated into a love of character and costume. She studied theater arts at Barat College of the Sacred Heart and theatrical design at Ohio State University. She recently graduated summa cum laude from Front Range Community College with a degree in Media Graphic Design (print/web) Since 1978, she has designed and sold dolls and wearable art in many forms, utilizing her skills with fabric and fibers, polymer clay, paper and multimedia works. She designs rubber stamps and textile prints, dyes and hand embellishes fabrics, draws paper doll art, coloring books. Sarajane also designs web sites and publishes books for herself and for other artists through her company PolyMarket Press.

22 Days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat - Meet Teresa Pandora Salgado

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About Her: Teresa Salgado (widely known as Pandora due to her rapacious curiosity) has been creating three dimensional objects since the age of five. She began her artistic quest by combining rocks, wasps' nests and leaves with salt dough to create jewelry and sculptures based on her vivid dreams. Fast forward 50 years: After making thousands of art pieces in over five decades, Polymer clay has become the answer to her need for an art medium with  endless possibility. Pandora teaches her signature technique known as  "Scayning" (sculpture plus caning) to students around the world.

22 Days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat- Meet Laurie Mika

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Laurie Mika is an artist, author and instructor. Over the last two decades, Laurie‘s mixed media mosaic work has evolved into an original and easily recognizable style. Her unique approach combines handmade polymer clay tiles with beads, jewelry pieces, charms, glass tile and found objects. She feels very fortunate to be able to combine her love of travel and passion for art through teaching at art retreats at home and around the world.  

Laurie’s work has been published in countless magazines and books. She has appeared on both HGTV’s, That’s Clever and on DIY’s, Craft Lab. Laurie’s own book, Mixed Media Mosaics, was published by North Light Books in 2007.

Laurie’s background in painting is evident in her mixed-media works influenced by Medieval, Renaissance and Mexican folk art. The gilded devotional panels of the past become secular icons imbued with personal narratives. Art and folk traditions referenced in her work derive from her travels and experiences of living abroad. The highly embellished surfaces, including segments of text, form sumptuous tapestries of traditional and modern materials. Like a modern-day alchemist tinkering with the ancient art of mosaics and contemporary assemblage, Laurie finds magic in combining disparate elements.

22 Days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat: Meet Chris Kapono of MandarinMoon

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I was born in the pretty rolling hills of the Midwest and have been an artist since I was old enough to hold a crayon in my hand. I discovered polymer clay in 2008 and fell in love with its possibilities! My passion is nature. I love all of the colors and textures and try to incorporate this in everything I make. Polymer clay has opened a whole new world for me!

22 Days of Teachers at the PCA Retreat: Meet Layl McDill

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I have been working full time as an artist since graduating from Columbus College of Art and Design in 1993. My degree was in illustration but I ended up mainly selling my work at arts festivals and galleries. I love to travel all over the country and set up my fanciful world of polymer clay creations. I also love to demonstrate the technique and watch people’s jaws drop when they realize how it works. Creating canes is always like magic and I love sharing it with my customers, collectors and students.  I teach at least 3 classes a week to all ages and demographics and create tutorials for online learners.