Master Artisans: Medley of Jewelry Techniques
by Sue Heaser
VHS (Mindstorm Productions)
Found on the Polymer Clay bookshelf
Description:
Create a medley of jewelry pieces using many innovative techniques, including those adapted from cake decorating, sculpting, mosaics and marquetry. Learn how to make earrings, pendant necklaces and brooches from polymer clay, the clays that "cure" right in your home oven. Let Sue Heaser, distinguished author and a founder of the British Polymer Clay Guild, show you how to turn ordinary leaves from your yard into beautiful metallic pins. Learn how to sculpt a pair of delicate fairy earrings using sugar craft techniques, apply cuts of polymer clay to create Japanese-like pictures, then paint pictures with polymer clay simulating ancient Italian Pietra Dura mosaic scenes. A unique set of polymer clay techniques! Approx. running time 78 min.









Sue Heaser has worked professionally in crafts for over 25 years and is the author of 14 major craft books. After a globetrotting childhood in Pakistan, Lebanon and Kenya, Sue studied at Art College and university in England. She then worked as an archaeological illustrator before turning to a career as a highly versatile craft writer, designer and teacher. Her skills range from polymer clay and metal clay jewellery, dolls and miniatures to candlemaking, puppetry, ceramics and printing. Sue gives workshops all over the world and also at her studio in Suffolk, England. Her website is www.sueheaser.com 