{"id":125,"date":"2008-06-20T15:46:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T22:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/making-polymer-clay-beads-spring-color-palette\/125\/"},"modified":"2009-07-01T15:53:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T22:53:23","slug":"making-polymer-clay-beads-spring-color-palette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/making-polymer-clay-beads-spring-color-palette\/125\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 3 &#8211; Making Polymer Clay Beads from a Spring Color Palette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2008-06\/20-pendant-2008-06-14-041.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Springtime Polymer Clay Pendant\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"250\" height=\"178\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Go Figure&#8230;<\/span><\/em><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> It&#8217;s Not Until the First Official Day of Summer that You Finally Get to See My Springtime Fuchsia Bead Collection:<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Even though my seasonal clock is a bit off, I wanted to show you what I&#8217;ve been up to<\/span><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> lately<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8230; making polymer clay beads using my spring color palette cane designs.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today&#8217;s article completes a 3 part series that should have given you some ideas for:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>1)<\/strong><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/mixing-polymer-clay-spring-color-palette\/113\/\">Mixing polymer clay<\/a> recipes based on inspiration from a beautiful spring flower <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">blossom;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>2)<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Using these spring polymer clay colors to create some beautiful <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-canes-spring-color-palette\/119\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">clay cane designs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span>; and finally<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">3) <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Transforming the spring inspired cane projects into creative jewelry beads and pendants <em>(see photo on this page).<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2008-06\/20-flower-bead-2008-06-14-066.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Flower Bead\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"20\" width=\"250\" height=\"178\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">All over the net you will find artists sharing their <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">inspirational photos for other artists to get inspired by. Although these photos are very beautiful, sometimes I think there can be a big <em>disconnect<\/em> for beginner polymer clay artists moving from the inspiration stage to the point of actually making beads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By walking you step by step through the process, you&#8217;ll be able to better translate that inspiration into something usable for your own bead art projects.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Keep in mind there are many more ways to be inspired by a photo than just the colors within it. You may be inspired by the shapes, the textures, the shading or even the subject matter of the photo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2008-06\/20-rose-beads-2008-06-14-078.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Rose Beads\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"270\" height=\"192\" align=\"left\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The polymer clay beads I&#8217;ve shared with you in this article are just the beginning of many other spring inspired beads I intend to make. I hope this 3 part series of articles has given you some creative ideas to take away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Do keep your eyes open through your journey of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/crse\/01-more.html\">making polymer clay beads<\/a>. You never know where your next inspiration is going to come from!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go Figure&#8230; It&#8217;s Not Until the First Official Day of Summer that You Finally Get to See My Springtime Fuchsia Bead Collection: Even&#8230;&nbsp;<span class=\"cmtcnt\">6<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28],"tags":[2681,2678,2602,588,728,975,332,2740],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color-theory","category-inspiration","tag-cane-making","tag-color-mixing-plus1-method-saturation","tag-faux-ceramics-pottery-glass-surfaces","tag-flowers","tag-jewelry-beads","tag-necklaces-pendants-lanyards-accessories","tag-polymer-clay-artists","tag-polymer-clay-tools-supplies-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}