The playdoh faux wood cane

This cane is a very easy variation of the playdoh cane, and makes a wood surface with a lot of texture. The texture is naturally aligned with the (faux) wood grain, and is great for all antiquing techniques.
This works great with molds:


As a surface texture for faux wood (adapted from the twig tutorial of Randee M. Ketzel)

Elder sign experiments

I like jewellery made of beads that look like stones or branches. I have started experimenting to build a bracelet or a necklace with polymer "wood" or "coral", and stone-lookalikes. Now I am somewhat satisfied with my quartz mix (although this last iteration is a bit too pink for my taste), I made some stones beads.
I did not like their shape too much (and they had an already baked core from sculpey light: no way to alter that), so I wanted to somehow add interest. I went for the classics, with the two Elder Sign versions and the yellow sign, Propnomicon version (I known, it is upside down on the picture). I must admit I like the two branching patterns best. The others need some ameliorations, so I set to make more.

The next generation of stones, unbaked, and one of the rough sculpey light cores. The shapes already look more interesting. These all have two parallel channels for thread, and are much flater than the previous ones.
I then added the lines and baked.

To go with these, I have started working on twigs with Randee M. Ketzel's great tutorial. The color of the stones is still off, but I will do better next time...

Plus de cailloux...

Still in the silicon molds, and antiqued with black acrylic paint: Premo frost, ochre oil paint, metal fillings, and mica substrate from one of those canned plants. The canned plant did not grow, but the mica flakes substrate has found a new use. Lower picture : liquid Fimo, metal fillings and mica. I should not have left it alone before putting it in the oven, all the flakes and fillings fell to the bottom, but the liquid fimo is remarquably clear.

Toujours dans les moules à chocolats. Cette fois, Premo Frost, peinture à l'huile ocre, paillettes métal et surtout paillettes de substrat mica provenant d'une de ces canettes à plantes (la plante n'a pas poussé, mais le substrat est en cours de recyclage...). La photo du bas : Fimo liquide, paillettes métal, et mica. Note pour plus tard : ne pas laisser reposer, tous les morceaux tombent au fond...

Next time, as a treat, better pictures thanks to this high tech setting (for which I need to thank Jen at Epbot):