Lucious cupcakes

My nearly sister-in-law, Amanda, (hurry up and make an honest woman of her Alan)is a very talented artist when it comes to cupcakes.
Her edible masterpieces are the best I've ever seen, I've tasted a few too and they are just as delicious as they look.
She makes BIG cupcakes like this pretty one.

I love these deep pink cakes

These vintage looking ones are beautiful, look at the detail, she's even added tiny buttons, I have a thing about buttons, I'm a bit of a collector.

and how cute are these little monsters?

Amanda lives in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. She has a website here and her facebook page is here

spotlight on Georgie Bristow

Georgie is a fabulous lampworker, that is, she makes amazing glass beads, she also uses tiny silver rings to create the most intricate chain maille jewellery, all from her home in Bristol.
Just take a look at her designs...

Go along to her Website to see more of her gorgeous designs
Why not check out her blog too

blog ring post for Lucinda Marchant

Lucinda Marchant aka Minerva Jewellery is a self taught jewellery designer. She likes to work with Silver, gold and gemstones, glass and polymer clay.
Lucinda makes wonderful silver jewellery incorporating gemstones and lampwork glass in her designs.
Her Stacker rings are beautiful as are all of her designs.

You can find her creations in her Etsy store
and her Folksy shop

Spotlight on Jill of Kiln Fired Art

Another very talented member of the Craft Pimp Forum is Jill Egan aka Kiln Fired Art
Jill creates some wonderful things. Her main passion is working with clay to make pendants

and decorating other ceramic items like these Doodledoo mugs, She designed the decoration herself and then fires it onto the mug, Totally unique.

Jill makes some gorgeous dichrioc glass pendants too. Aren't these amazing?

An what about her marvelous slumped bottles, what a talking point one of these would be on your coffee table.

My particular favourites of Jill's creations are her totally fabulous bangles.

Check out these other places to find Jill's work
Her Etsy
Her flat bottles website
Her Dichrioc glass

Doodle Buttons Gone Wrong

The lovely Jill of Kiln Fired Art sent me some of her amazing doodle decals as I had wondered whether they would work on polymer clay.
I decided to make some little star buttons as there was a 'Star' challenge coming up in the craft Pimp forum I belong to.
I rolled the clay and set to cutting out pieces of the decal sheet I thought would look good on the buttons, I was quite excited about how they would turn out.
The pieces took seconds to release from the backing in the warm water and I laid them onto the sheet of clay and dabbed them dry with a piece of kitchen roll.
after covering the clay with a layer of cling film I cut out the star shapes. I didn't have time to bake them right then so I left them over night. when I went back to them in the morning the top of the buttons looked all glossy, I touched one of them, it was all sticky, The decal had reacted with the polymer, I could have cried.

Well I thought, maybe they will be alright after baking, No, they were still sticky.
then i thought maybe if I cover them with 'Klear' that will seal the sticky in.
Yay! It worked. But i am not confident about them and I shall just have to put it down to a failed experiment and a lesson learned.
Here are the buttons baked and covered with Klear.

Nicola of Smitten Kitten

Nicola is a talented multi crafter. She makes the most beautiful and unique pendants using clusters of colourful glass beads and pretty charms to design each one.

She uses pretty pearls to make the most feminine jewellery

I love these brooches.

and her 'Angry Birds' earring are so much fun

You can find Nicola's creations for sale on her website and Etsy
Please check out her very stylish Blog

Glass artist Vicki Christian

Also known as "Beads for Breakfast", Vicki makes the most delicious beads, though I wouldn't recommend eating them ;)
Would you believe she has only been lamp working for 2 years!

 

 As you can see Vicki loves to make brightly coloured beads and she does it all from her kitchen.
I really like these blue ones.

You can find Vicki on Etsy and Facebook as well as her  website