{"id":7119,"date":"2009-12-10T03:05:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T11:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=7119"},"modified":"2009-12-11T15:16:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T23:16:55","slug":"chilly-weather-ideas-for-texturing-your-polymer-clay-beads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/chilly-weather-ideas-for-texturing-your-polymer-clay-beads\/7119\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilly Weather Ideas for Texturing Your Polymer Clay Beads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2009-12\/10-frosty-leaves-2007-11-23-006.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Frosty Leaves Texture Ideas\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" \/><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> <\/span>&#8220;Today will be a clay day for me&#8230; 15 inches of snow&#8230; 40 mile per hour winds&#8230; looks like we are living in a snow globe.&#8221;<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> ~Anna-S<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We are also experiencing winter where I live on the west coast of Canada, although not nearly as extreme as how Anna describes the view from her window.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today will be a Clay Day for me and most people in Central Iowa. 15 inches of snow in Des Moines with 40 mile per hour winds. Kind of looks like we are living in a snow globe.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>~Anna-S<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">To keep this post in season, I found a photo of some frosty leaves. It reminds me of all the texture ideas that can be applied to polymer clay when your cooped up indoors, trying to warm up from shoveling the driveway&#8230; again!<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">We live two blocks from Lake Superior, and we&#8217;ve been listening to the waves crashing on shore all day (from inside our house)! LOTS of snow, and high winds. I&#8217;ve been out twice to shovel the driveway, so no clayday for me! Maybe tomorrow!&#8221;<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>~Darlene-N<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">One of the most fun and creative things you can do is find unique items for giving your polymer clay beads and other projects some texture. listed below are items that have great texture making potential:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Leaves, grasses, bark, rocks, wood, seed pods<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Lace, fabric, string, yarn, spools of thread, cording, leather<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Chain, wire, buckles, grommets, tools, gears, springs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Charms, buttons, cut crystal, wood cuts, wood\/metal trim<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Toothbrush, hair brush, pumas stone, lava rock, wicker baskets<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Kids toys, toy car tires, speaker covers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Salt, herbs, dried beans, avocado skin, melon skins<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Plus, here are 3 other article resources with even more polymer clay texture tips and ideas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/textured-polymer-clay-beads\/5241\/\">Textured Polymer Clay Beads &#8211; Make a Lasting Impression<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/40-texture-ideas-for-polymer-clay-projects-and-sculpey-bead-making\/826\/\">40 Texture Ideas for Polymer Clay Projects<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/texture-how-to-think-creatively-about-polymer-clay-bead-surfaces\/788\/\">How To Think Creatively About Polymer Clay Bead Surfaces<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So what have you textured lately? How did the project turn out? I<em> <\/em>love hearing about all the projects you guys are up to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Or if you are in the Australia or South America or Africa or anywhere else where you can&#8217;t relate to all this talk about cold weather, feel free to share stories about the warm summer sun in your part of the world.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"background-color: #f2ecd8; width: 512px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>**************************************************************************************************<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Back Issue Video Sale: 15% to 25% December Discount:<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\nMore info here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/gift-certificates-polymer-clay-videos\/7048\/\">Polymer Clay Video Gift Certificates<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>**************************************************************************************************<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\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;Today will be a clay day for me&#8230; 15 inches of snow&#8230; 40 mile per hour winds&#8230; looks like we are living in&#8230;&nbsp;<span class=\"cmtcnt\">12<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[2602,2690],"class_list":["post-7119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techniques","category-tools","tag-faux-ceramics-pottery-glass-surfaces","tag-seasonal-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119","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=7119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}