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Bohemian Beach Bracelet Project (8 Videos) Plus: White Rock Beach A-Series Color Palette (4 Recipe Cards) |
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Vol-052-1: Video #282: Introduction: In this 8 part video tutorial series, you will learn how to create a wrapped-style Bohemian Beach Bracelet, from start to finish. Including… making two different Sea Theme styled Polymer Clay Beads. The videos will contain a variety of tips and techniques that will not only have you creating a stunning piece of jewelry, but will also give you some new skills that can be applied to other jewelry making projects as well.
Vol-052-2: Video #283: Hand Sculpted Starfish Beads: In this video you will learn how to create unique Starfish Beads that not only make dramatic focal elements to this Bohemian Beach Bracelet, but can also be used to make earrings, pendants, necklaces, buttons, clasps and any other piece that requires an awesome oceanic bead.
Vol-052-3: Video #284: Spiral Cone Shell Beads: In this video you will learn how to take a selection of color coordinated clays and create a beautiful twisted shell inspired bead, that you can use to accent all kinds of jewelry making projects, including this lovely wrap bracelet.
Vol-052-4: Video #285: Baking and Finishing Your Beads: In this video you will learn how to bake your unique sculpted polymer clay beads, as well as how to antique them to provide more color depth by highlighting the textures and adding a rich satin sheen.
Vol-052-5: Video #286: Up-Cycled Vintage Silk Tie: In this video I will show you how to up-cycle an old silk tie into a beautiful silky fiber to use in your Bohemian Bracelet. I will also provide suggestions for alternative fibers and ribbons to use in your jewelry projects.
Vol-052-6: Video #287: Stringing your Accent Beads: In this video I will show you how to pull the look of your beach bracelet together with the use of real freshwater pearls and shell beads. This brings in the elements of luxury, sparkle, organic materials, texture, color and a continuation of the beach theme.
Vol-052-7: Video #288: Assembling the Bracelet: In this video I will teach you how to put all the layers of this complex wrap styled bracelet together, including the strung beads, fiber, and accent spiral beads. I will also teach you how to crimp your ends and create loops that will become the clasp in your bracelet design.
Vol-052-8: Video #289: Adding Starfish Beads & Clasp: In this video, the whole project is wrapped up, by wiring up the Starfish Focal beads and adding them to the finished Bohemian Beach Bracelet design. The only thing left is to wrap it around your wrist and head off to the beach… or a party… wherever your journey will take you!
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1-A: Peace 2-A: Calm 3-A: Adrift 4-A: Silhouette . . . . |
Peace is the soft Apricot Pink found in the sunset on this quiet reflective night on White Rock Beach. Calm is the name I gave the Gray Blue of the almost flat water. Adrift is the Brownish Gray of the damp driftwood scattered along the shore. And Silhouette is the Smokey Gray Black of the darkening hillside, where the Lietz Family once resided, many happy years ago.
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Customer Reviews: Bohemian Beach Bracelet Project (8 Videos):
- WOW Cindy – You dear lady are Amazing (but we all knew that didn’t we). Such care you take to make sure we understand every little aspect sets you at the Top :) Loving the shell beads! Watching you turn that little bit of clay into an excellent starfish that we can now make — well it just makes me all happy inside. Thanks again for all you and Doug go through to make it ‘So Do-able’ for us! ~Tantsherry
- Cindy and Doug – What a wonderful series of videos. Each is timed perfectly, and each segment builds. Love the super close ups Doug, and the clarity of the picture in the new HD format. Just love this, a summer vacation memory bracelet for all of us who love our beaches and spend time tossing the wrack, lol. I dumped a jar of Matunuck/Charlestown beach findings, and the memories flooded back of the miles of beach I walked and picked while rehabbing. I would love to see Bohemian bracelets from each part of the country, showing the shells and wrack findings from that area. For me, I already make the spiral moon shell, and can see improvements I can make on it from your tute. We get Irish moss, starfish and sea urchins, beach glass, feathers, fatter white spiral shells, rope, bits of old wooden fences, buffed metal can tops, puffy sponges, periwinkles, blue mussels, tiny molted red crab backs, oysters, scallops, and the most fabulous quahogs with pink to deep purple marked ridges. And jellies, lots and lots of jellies. Gorgeous sections of little uniform pebbles, they look like kidney beans. I can make beach glass using the Frosted Rainbow Beads tute, the puffy sponges look like Faux Stonewear, feathers from the Feather Cane tute, of course, the Faux Pebble tute. Myself, cannot imagine it done without a few Polymer Bead Cones with copper tenacles. The Faux Wood tute and all the Texture tutes, too. To get flashes of metal, I’d also use some distressed Embossed Metal. And the Fossil Shell Bead tute mimics some shells, too. Whew. Think that’s a pretty good deal for my money. ~Jocelyn-C
- This is right down my alley. Boho is awesome ( a word I don’t usually use ). Love, love this bracelet. ~Patt-W
- I’m not really a bohohemian fan but in saying that I love the sea theme going here. The starfish and cone beads are gorgeous and so cute. I will be making those. The necklace though is what I really love. Thanks again Cindy for your awesome ideas especially those outside the box. ~Sandra-J
- Love the star fish and the shell beads… What a great tut this is going to be and with all eight together I can work at it on my own pace…. excellent! I see buttons in my future as well. ~Karonkay-C
- Fun! Love both bead shapes. ~Pollyanna
- What a great multi-tasking tutorial this Bohemian Bracelet is going to be. I am just loving this new format! I love the sea shells and the different variations of color and how you can use them. Cindy you really have taken these tutes to a whole new level. It is so wonderful to get so much for so little! ~DixieAnn-S
- BOHEMIAN POEM: Verse-1: Seashells, pearls and starfish too, Washed up from the seas so blue. Verse-2: With memories fashioned from a loved-one’s tie, and a colour palette to please the eye. Verse-3: Put together by the clever Miss L, Boho never looked so swell. (Sorry, got carried away by the beach theme). ~Elaine-F
- I love the look of this bracelet. But it’s so much more than a bracelet, I can see many wonderful necklaces, earrings, bag charms etc etc, all based on my favourite beach theme …. Thank you Cindy. ~Lesley-S
- Oh this is wonderful! A few years ago I made shells from a moldmaker compound but never quite knew how to effectively put them together in a necklace. I thought to have 2 other types of shells in the piece but couldn’t come up with anything striking looking. Now I will know how to make them! Thanks again guys. ~Maria-C
- Oh wow! Love this series. I’m thinking of using gears instead of the shell circles. ;) As usual, you make it look so simple and explain it so well. Can’t wait to make this one. Almost picked up a tie today when I was at the thrift store but decided to wait to see what colors I used in the beads. Glad I did! Thanks again you two!!! ~Hope-M
- Happy dance – just love this series of tutes! What a wonderful way to build your bracelet/necklace – can’t wait to get started. The sea stars look like so much fun to make – maybe a larger one for a focal… my mind is doing “a whirlwind of ideas”. Thanks for all your input. Cindy you are the greatest! Just love this format!!!!!!!! Ty-ty-ty-ty! ~Patt-W
- Cindy you have done it again and then some. Have watched all 8 but ready to start the 4th one. Thought I would take a break and let you know how great this is. I love the necklace you shared. That was my favorite. Not sure if the bracelet is for me, maybe better left for the younger gals but you can bet I will try it to make sure. If it isn’t my style I am positive my grandaughters from 9 to 20 will love them and have me making each of them at least 1. They do look like they are going to be a lot of fun creating with so many possibilities. Woo Hoo. Thank you and Doug both for getting those wonderful tutorials out to us in style. 1st class style. Love it, Love it. Thank you so very much!!!!!! Better get back to the rest of the videos be back later. Till then have a great weekend everyone and sending lots of Uuuuuggggs! ~Peggy-B
- Welcome to the Best (imho) polymer clay site anywhere – ever!! ~Tantesherry
- Hi All, Love, love, love this tute. Ideas are just clamoring to see who gets top billing! The girls, (Becca & Linda, 16 yr old twins) will be here for Thanksgiving so I’m hoping to get one done for each of them. Might try to build a Texas theme for one and this beach theme for the other will be good too. So, THANK YOU so much, Cindy for caring and sharing with all of us. You are over the top! ~Joyce-F
- HOLY MOLY!!! What a bunch of videos, Cindy! First the sweet pea earrings, and now the bohemian beach bracelet! Stunning! Thanks for sharing! ~Nettonya-R
- Thanks for the excellent video publication you provide. It’s nothing short of amazing considering you and Doug do it on your own! Truly. ~Shauna-B
- Hi Cindy, I am a new member and so anxious to learn everything. I am so impressed with your site and your ease in teaching these lessons. Kudos to your husband for his video assistance. ~Bonnie-D
- For someone like me who isn’t into this style this is actually very very lovely. I will certainly give this a go. I think I will head down to my $2 store for those little marblely things (our kids call them dragon droppings, why? have no idea). Have finally ordered the gilders paste and in the meantime will have lots of fun making the starfish and cone shell beads. Thanks again Cindy for a wonderful tute. ~Sandra-J
- I’m an informatics nurse, retiring in two weeks, and plan to dive into polyclay. Your work is extraordinary in its artfulness. The tutorials are very well run, well paced (not too slow or fast) and great camera work. Keep up the great work! ~Diana-E
- I just want to thank you for the great customer service you give. You always answer promptly and are so helpful each time. Thank you so much. ~Kathy-H
- This series of tutes is a total winner. Seems everyone has seen them and commented. Isn’t it wonderful to be at Polymer Clay Tutor site? I for one, would never leave here!!! Welcome to all the newcomers – hope you enjoy it as much as the rest of us. I’ve almost,finished the bracelet. I have to finish the beads and then- yeah – put it altogether!!!! This has been so much fun – with a learning curve too. Love the Boho style -everyting back to the 60’s I guess. Just my style… grin. ~Patt-W
- I finally had the chance to look through all of the videos for your Bohemian bracelet. Wow, that is quite a tutorial! Thanks for all your hard work. ~Dorothy-H
- Hi Cindy, I have been ‘looking over your shoulder’ since July 2009, and it’s only now I’ve actually become a fully paid-up member!!! I had every excuse under the sun as to why I didn’t join up ages ago. But, here I am, large as life, and glad I’m here. ~Genie-K
- Hi Cindy, I just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you for the great tutorial on the Bohemian Bracelet. I have done Bohemian work for some time and love the concept, but never thought of combining it with one of my other favorite techniques in clay… sculpting sea creatures. I know how much work and effort it is for you to produce these videos and the preparation must be immense. So… your work is much appreciated. In the pictures I posted at your blog, I am showing you the one bracelet I completed, with a few added elements. Of course the idea is yours and I had tons of silk ties. My mom used to collect them for making quilts (we have a king size one on our bed) and when she passed, of course I inherited the ties. (And added a few from a new source as well). I also tore up a dyed silk poncho-type blouse that will work perfectly for some lighter colors. I am so glad you encouraged the use of the “messy” wrap as I am not great at wire… my fingers are quite big and it is difficult to manipulate the wire in some of the tight spaces, so “messy R us”. In addition to the starfish, I included a fish, a snail and a little seahorse. I made several of each so I could mix and match them. I did a couple things differently — I used a very long length of tie, cut into narrow strips, and after the bracelet was all assembled, I wove the leftover tie ends in to the jump rings and sort of braided the tie elements and then fastened the ends with a couple of stitches. Mine only wraps around my wrist twice, but it is plenty boho, thanks to all the doodads and attachments. I used different beads than you showed; mainly what I had around. I had to purchase a few, but think I have the components to make several now. When selling these, I will acknowledge that the bracelet was inspired by your tutorial. Merci encore. ~Pat-S
- Cindy – I’m having fun making the sea shells and starfish. I have also started baking for an hour and using the tent method. Experiencing more with your colors. Thank you for providing such great videos. ~Cindy-P
- Hey Cindy, Just wanted to let you know that I used one of the ‘starfish’ beads on a creation I made yesterday. It’s totally not what I was originally intending to use it for, but once a bead stasher, always a bead stasher. Of course it isn’t nearly as nice as yours, with the antiquing and so one, but it does have “star quality”. You can see it on the picture of ‘Ringo’ near the bottom of my recent blog post. ~Pat-S
Customer Reviews: White Rock Beach A-Series Palette (4 Recipe Cards):
- Cindy, you’re such an artist in so many ways. I enjoy reading your stories as much as I enjoy the video tutorials. You create such delightful imagery with your words and beautiful, even ingenious creations with polymer. My family and I recently discovered that my father passed away; he was living in Guam so, I can very much relate to your loss. Thank you for sharing your story I felt like I was walking along the beach with you. Love the color palette and your picture is beautiful Willow, thank you. ~Michelle-A
- Thanks for sharing the story. The color pallete is a fitting tribute to such a peaceful place. ~Anna-S
- Beautiful colors and beautiful story. ~Pollyanna
- To say goodbye to a loved one is the hardest things we have to face in life. Be it a beloved family member, dear friend or even an adored family pet. Choosing a special place makes it a sad but meaningful occasion. White rock Beach looks just perfect. The setting sun highlights the sense of peace and calm. The colour pallete and names chosen are “just right”. “Erv” will be with you in spirit, his memory will live on and who knows, one day one of you might l happen upon his special piece of Agate. ~Elaine-F
- Lovely story and the pic is so pretty. ~Patt-W
- Love the colors; it’s my kind of palette. You paint such a beautiful picture Cindy I could just picture myself on that beach. Love the color names! ~Cherie-B
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