Comments on: Rustic Arizona Style Handmade Beads Made from Scrap Polymer Clay

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:45:32 +0000

Oh my! The genius of that Lietz gal! You and your serendipity, Cindy: Long may they wave! Lerve, lerve, lerve those Arizona beads! XX Mary U.

By: Cindy Lietz@Purse Charm Project

Cindy Lietz@Purse Charm Project — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:21:17 +0000

NEW PHOTOS JUST ADDED: Hello to Everyone, Some new Spotlight project pictures that relate to the topic of this page (Arizona Beads), have just been added in another post. They were submitted by Lisa-W. The link by my name will take you to where you can see them, along with a bit of a write up. Hopefully they will inspire you to achieve great things with your own polymer clay projects.

By: Cindy Lietz@Easy Kaleidoscope Canes

Cindy Lietz@Easy Kaleidoscope Canes — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:35:01 +0000

Thank you everyone! It is nice to see that you all appreciate the wonderful things that can sometimes come out of accidents. :-)

@Peggy: I usually don’t have a hard time giving something away, or selling it at the time. It is after when it is gone that I miss it. That is why it is so nice for me to have many of my pieces in photos on this blog. Then they aren’t gone for good!

@Rose: As far as what to do with canes that don’t work out at all… well there are lots of things you can do. You can reduce them until they are very tiny and you can’t tell they were that bad. You can run them through the pasta machine and make some cool beads like I did above, or you can combine them into easy kaleidoscope canes. I have also been fooling around with running them through my extruder to make new extremely funky mod canes. Will show you some time. Whatever you do, don’t worry about them. They will come to use some time soon.

By: lynn watts

lynn watts — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:40:31 +0000

Love those Arizona scrap clay beads. I will have to try that one myself. Those are so pretty. I have came across many happy accidents as well and made outstanding things with those. It’s exciting to hear of others, happy accidents and the beautiful things that come out of that.

By: Lupe Meter

Lupe Meter — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:07:23 +0000

I just love these beads, Cindy! Perfect Southwestern Beads, very typical of the Arizona colors. Sometimes, scrap clay turns out better than expected! Sometimes, I will put my scrap clay back through my pasta machine and end up with the neatest blend…too bad I can’t reproduce it, but it takes care of any scrap clay you happen to have around. Thanks for all your tips and ideas, Cindy…keep it coming. 8-)

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:39:16 +0000

They’re beautiful; I just love the colors. As Elizabeth says they do remind me of the glazed cottage industry ceramics we have in India.

By: Phaedrakat

Phaedrakat — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:38:17 +0000

I will pay more attention to my scrap clay from now on–something beautiful like this could happen and I’d miss it trying to hurry and mix my scrap! I love the ragged edge on these beads. What a great idea you had!

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:28:04 +0000

Scrap is good.
I had a busy week and on Friday night had to come up with a scrap cane to be used in making a lantern bead (April 2009 issue Polymer Cafe) which a guild member was teaching on Sat. I had about six failed canes in different colors so wrapped them all in a green clay sheet, reduced and cut a couple of times and I thought it was a so so cane. The guild members loved it (even cut it up and traded canes with a couple of them) and the lantern bead I made is a keeper.
So keep those failed canes for all kinds of projects.

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:38:39 +0000

Yep, some of my favorite bead were destined for scrap. Scrap jupiter beads, scrap slice pendants, and you just never know what you get when you run your scrap through the pasta machine a few times.

By: Rose

Rose — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:00:48 +0000

Those beads are gorgeous. I just did the tribal cane today & really messed it up. I’m going to do it again — sometime, but in the meantime, what can I do with a not-so-beautiful cane? I could do lentil beads, but I’ve made so many I’m a little sick of them. I’ll try putting some of the ends thru the pasta machine to see what develops. But I’m wondering, what do you all do with canes that didn’t turn out?