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Vol-085-1: Video #668: Introduction: In this 6 part video tutorial series, you will learn all the techniques needed to create this awesome nautical anchor cane. You’ll learn how all the clay needs to be the same softness/firmness… and what to do if it isn’t. You’ll also learn some neat tricks for creating a Skinner blend that goes from dark to light to dark, and how to roll it just right so it will become the shaded lines in your design. You’ll also master the techniques of packing the background, shaping it into a round cane and wrapping the design with a blue and white stripe border. This tutorial is jam packed adventure… so get ready to set sail!
Vol-085-2: Video #669: Supplies and Blends: In this video, you will learn about the supplies and tools needed to create this fun project. Then you will learn my Lazy Skinner Blend method, that I use when making larger blends instead of cutting triangles of clay or using teardrops like I would with smaller blends. I think you’re going to love how pretty this simple blend turns out! [Please Note: In the this Part 2, I mention that you will need just under two 2oz blocks of Premo Pomegranate clay… but you will actually need just under 3 blocks].
Vol-085-3: Video #670: Skinner Blend Plug: In this video I will demonstrate how to create a complex Skinner Blend Plug that shifts from navy blue to white, and then back to navy blue again. It is this shading that will give dimension and interest to your anchor design. Far more interesting than just navy or white. You can use the ideas from this video in your other polymer clay and caning projects as well. Lots of useful skills to keep handy in your back pocket.
Vol-085-4: Video #671: Planning The Anchor: Now in this video, you will learn my secret tips for laying out the anchor design using a long strip of blended clay cut into exactly the right lengths, shaped into the corresponding parts and pieced together into the anchor design. The concepts you learn in this video are the exact techniques you can use to make just about any picture cane design. Definitely a stepping stone for other projects that you may want want to create in the future!
Vol-085-5: Video #672: Refining Anchor Shape: In this video you’ll start tweaking and manipulating the cut pieces into the shapes needed for the anchor design. You’ll be amazed how the short little pieces cut from the long blue Skinner Blend strip, will be used for each part of the anchor design… from the ring at the top, right down to the and the arrow hooks at the bottom. Plus the lines are dimensional too… all due to the special dark-light-dark Skinner Blend we made in the third video.
Vol-085-6: Video #673: Background and Border: In this final video of the exciting series, you will learn my simple background packing ideas for this intricate cane. This trace-and-cut puzzle piece method, will give you the least amount of distortion in your final design. I’ll also show you a neat trick for using a Scrapbooking die to use as a template for cutting the perfect circle shaped background. Then we will wrap things up by using the remaining blue blend tape as our stripe border. I think you will love how it pulls the whole look together. This cane has many steps, but the results are well worth the effort. Now go ahead and make this cane and some awesome jewelry for your upcoming Summer festivities. You’ll be the hippest Sailor on the docks!
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1-A: Little Becka 2-A: Warmth 3-A: Sun On My Face 4-A: Sunflower Seeds . . . |
Little Becka is the beautiful watermelon red of the pretty petals surrounding this sunflower’s face. Warmth is the tangerine orange of the tips of the petals that are absorbing the warmth of the sun. Sun On My Face is the rich dark yellow of the fiery ring around the sunflower seed head. And Sunflower Seeds is the warm nut brown of the sunflower seeds growing and maturing in the warm summer sun.
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Customer Reviews: Nautical Anchor Cane (6 Videos):
- Best one yet Cindy, I enjoy growing with you!!!! ~Chanelle-P
- Thank goodness!!! I have been craving one of your awesome graphic canes, Cindy :) It’s a date! LOL ~Monique-U
- Cindy you have very good information in all your videos, and as a new member of your monthly treat, as it should be called, I am totally hooked. Your explanations are thorough and even when you stumble, it’s like talking to an old friend cause I stumble sometimes when I teach. Love your projects and videos. ~Gwen-B
- Cindy, I absolutely prefer your tutorials. I have bought several classes from other teachers… some quite advanced. I got a butterfly cane tutorial and it was WAY too big. Spent quite a bit of money on clay and ended up with a full box of scraps. I had the cane for a year before even being able to begin to reduce it. The instructors language was not clear and I was very disappointed. Cindy, your tutorials are doable… yours are the best! ~Patty-J
- This cane looks great! I have been wanting to try more complex cane construction but I’ve been sticking to simple ones because I don’t want to waste a ton of clay in experimenting. This will definitely help. I love how great the cane slices look by themselves. ~Krithika-P
- Hi Cindy, I am at a loss of words to let you know that I just love your tutorials and wish I could meet you in person some day… I am unable to articulate, but would want to tell you that your tutorials are just superb and lucid, and very easy to understand, even for a beginner like me. I wish you could come to Mumbai (India) and share your great work with art and craft lovers here. ~Nandini-N
- I’m going to love this tutorial. My husband used to sail (merchant navy – communications officer) and I have a silver anchor on a silver rope chain and lots of nautical stuff. ~Cheryl-B
- More customer reviews coming soon. ~Cindy Lietz
Customer Reviews: Little Becka Sunflower A-series Color Palette (4 Recipe Cards):
- These are a super pretty palette, Cindy :) ~Monique-U
- A poem inspired by these wonderful colours. Thank you Cindy & Doug…
Strolling in the fields one day
I saw, to my surprise
A flash of sunshine colours
I couldn’t believe my eyes
For there was “Little Becka”
Hiding amid the corn
Standing on her tippy toes
Looking all forlorn
The sun was beaming down that day
and skies were brilliant blue
Oh! what a pretty sight to see
These shades of different hue
These flowers just make me happy
Her face just makes me smile
So plant some in your garden
To have sunshine all the while
When Autumn comes as they start to fade
Collect their dark brown seeds
To feed the little birdies
Fulfilling their Winter needs
So when the snow is on the ground
and birdies search for food
Give them some summer sunshine
These seeds will do them good
They will warm their little bodies
and help them to survive
For we all need birds and Sunflowers
To bring joy into our lives
~Elaine-F
- Dear Cindy, There you go again… teaching us how to smile and work happily with our artistic muse (I think she is you!), and taking the frustration out of working with polymer clay! You are such a natural, clear and precise teacher! Thank you so much for that. Your sunflower picture and color recipes are making me burst with excitement!!! I will be trying the new color combinations this evening (who knows what lovelies I will come up with now!). You have really inspired me, and I have tons of ideas running through my mind now that I see how combining colors from the clay packages creates COUNTLESS POSSIBILITIES!!! :) You are teaching me that working with color in PC is very similar to working with color in other mediums. I have been painting with oils, water colors, and acrylics for years, and got really excited about polymer clay when I just happened to run across your blog. Since then, my painting is on the back burner while I excitedly follow your examples with my new found love… polymer clay!!! Thank you from the bottom of 1/2 part white, 1/2 part translucent, and 1/8 part alizarin crimson heart :) ~Cindy-E
- I love your description of the sunflower against the blue sky. As a Kansas born girl, well, old lady now, I know that sunflowers are the lifeblood for people – especially women. Where ever I have gone, moving across the Good ol’ United States, I have planted sunflowers and provided black oil sunflowers for the birds. The color palette for the petals is brilliant and so creative. Your experience in mixing the clay colors is desperately needed by me – an old lady beginner! Now I want to figure out a design incorporating the black oil sunflowers… so the birds have something to eat as well. Thanks for the best website on polymer clay I have ever found. At last I am learning something. And the treasure hunt is just plain fun, although winning would be even better! ~Pamela-R
- I love the color mixing info and I can’t believe how perfect my sunflower beads turned out. They look so real thanks for the mix recipe. ~Daisy-S
- Cindy you make it seem that creating canes can be so effortless. I love what you do, and how you put into words the instruction for others to follow. I love the colors of flowers in nature to and I think that those colors in that one flower in this post are amazing. Colors are always inspiring, but your videos and instruction really make me want to think outside the box. Thanks! ~Andrea-R
- I love these color recipes! I am behind in making the color chips but I usually make them as I use them. Sometimes I make up several palettes when I want to play with my clay but don’t know what I want to make. Seeing the colors in person inspires my creativity! ~Catalina-L
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