{"id":5680,"date":"2014-01-20T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2014-01-20T15:11:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T22:11:53","slug":"i-cant-believe-its-not-polymer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/i-cant-believe-its-not-polymer\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Believe It&#8217;s Not Polymer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going for something a bit different this week. I have a collection of items that I thought originally were made from polymer, that were often listed on Pinterest boards or other sites as polymer, that were not. But they are \u00a0beautiful pieces that could definitely be done in polymer. So let&#8217;s look at these and determine how we would create it in polymer.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured here is a piece of <a href=\"http:\/\/shadowness.com\/Plumevine\/dawntreader\">Plumevine&#8217;s<\/a> Faery Jewellery by <a href=\"http:\/\/plumevine.com\/\">Lorianne Jantti<\/a>. These whimsical pieces are made from hand painted resin clay and embellished with chains, hooks, ribbon, and the like. They could easily be crafted in polymer and similarly embellished with crystals and Pearl Ex powders. If you&#8217;re into PMC or Art Clay, you could make part of the piece with metal clay and embellish with polymer accoutrements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shadowness.com\/Plumevine\/dawntreader\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5681\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/i-cant-believe-its-not-polymer\/image_t6\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/image_t6.jpg?fit=640%2C452&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,452\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 450D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1272864716&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;55&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image_t6\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/image_t6.jpg?fit=430%2C304&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5681\" alt=\"image_t6\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/image_t6-480x339.jpg?resize=480%2C339\" width=\"480\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/image_t6.jpg?resize=480%2C339&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/image_t6.jpg?resize=150%2C105&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/image_t6.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take a look at some of Lorianne&#8217;s work on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/people\/Plumevine\">Etsy<\/a> site and deconstruct it to see how you could make similar objects in polymer with other mixed media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or issue of The Polymer Arts magazine as well as supporting our advertising partners.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover 13-P4 web\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Cover-13-P4-web.jpg?resize=122%2C158\" width=\"122\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/polymerclayworkshop.com\/cane-builder-subscription\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PCW_flower tile canes\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PCW_flower-tile-canes-480x480.jpg?resize=130%2C130\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhimsicalbead.com.au\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WhimsicalBead051512\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/WhimsicalBead051512.jpg?resize=125%2C125\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going for something a bit different this week. I have a collection of items that I thought originally were made from polymer, that were often listed on Pinterest boards or other sites as polymer, that were not. But they are \u00a0beautiful pieces that could definitely be done in polymer. So let&#8217;s look at these and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2085,2088,98,2082,2084,2080,2086,183,2081,441,2087,1687,11,442,16,2083],"class_list":["post-5680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-art-clay","tag-embellishments","tag-etsy","tag-faery-jewellery","tag-hand-painted-resin-clay","tag-loriane-jantti","tag-pearl-ex","tag-pinterest","tag-plumevine","tag-pmc","tag-polymer-accoutrement","tag-polymer-arts","tag-polymer-clay","tag-precious-metal-clay","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine","tag-whimsical-pieces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-1tC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}