{"id":5995,"date":"2009-10-01T03:31:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T10:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=5995"},"modified":"2009-10-11T07:18:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:18:34","slug":"christmas-jewelry-polymer-clay-projects-holly-berry-focal-bead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/christmas-jewelry-polymer-clay-projects-holly-berry-focal-bead\/5995\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Jewelry, Polymer Clay Projects | Holly Berry Focal Bead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2009-10\/01-christmas-jewelry-2009-09-24-141.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Christmas Jewelry\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> <\/span>&#8220;As someone who gave fimo pieces for Christmas in the 80&#8217;s, you&#8217;ve inspired me to a whole new art form.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">~Lore-C<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">With Fall well under way, at least in this part of the world, it is time to start thinking about getting ready for Christmas. Yes I know it&#8217;s early but us beaders have to start thinking ahead! So today I thought I&#8217;d give you a sneak peak into what I&#8217;m working on as far as Christmas designs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Based on your comments, I know you guys like polymer clay projects that are versatile and creative. I&#8217;ve shown you this versatility with both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutorial-gerbera-flower-cane\/5218\/\">Gerbera Cane<\/a> as well as with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutorial-dogwood-flower-polymer-clay-cane-project\/5731\/\">Dogwood Flower Cane<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can make  a variety of different bead projects from the exact same cane, as can be seen in the following  examples in case you missed them:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutorial-making-calla-lily-beads-flower-cane\/5360\/\">Calla Lily Beads<\/a> made from petals of the Gerbera Flower Cane<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wire-wrapped-jewelry-pendant-polymer-flower-petal-cane\/5272\/\">Modified Trumpet Flower Beads<\/a>, also made from Gerbera Petals<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/butterfly-jewelry-pendant-polymer-clay-cane-dogwood\/5863\/\">Butterfly Jewelry Pendant<\/a> from the Dogwood Cane Project<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/rosary-beads-flower-cane\/5962\/\">Rosary Beads<\/a>, also made from the Dogwood Flower Cane<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This type of versatility is exactly what you can also expect from the Holly Leaf and Berry Cane projects that I&#8217;ll be teaching in the upcoming Volume-018. Christmas Jewelry that&#8217;s varied and spectacular. You&#8217;re going to love it!<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">May I say (as someone who gave everybody fimo pieces for Christmas in the 80&#8217;s), you&#8217;ve inspired me to a whole new art form. I&#8217;m not really a bead maker, but your videos have encouraged me towards really creative uses of polymer clay. I&#8217;ve now got my pasta machine (what a difference!), my Johnson&#8217;s Klear (yes, it&#8217;s here in the UK and it does work) and a whole new approach to earrings, rings and tealight holders. Keep up the great work!<\/span> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>~Lore-C<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By the way, today&#8217;s photo shown above, focuses in on just one of the larger focal beads used in my Christmas jewelry necklace project. I&#8217;ll show you more of this piece in future  blog posts&#8230; <em>so do stay tuned.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: large; color: #ff0000;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/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\" 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\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As someone who gave fimo pieces for Christmas in the 80&#8217;s, you&#8217;ve inspired me to a whole new art form.&#8221; ~Lore-C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2750,2681,2693],"class_list":["post-5995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bead-projects","tag-polymer-clay-focal-beads","tag-cane-making","tag-holidays-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995","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=5995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}