What’s keeping me busy?
It’s The Philippine Polymer Clay Guild (P3 for short).
We just had an election for council, and I was elected as one of the Ethics heads. P3 is the First org I’ve ever joined, well except for the SFC long time ago… We just published the Rules and Policies and now ready to accept new members. We also had our first ever publicity when we joined a bazaar in UP Diliman.
Everybody knows I love craft… anything about craft… creating something crafty excites me.. And it makes me really happy.. But I’ve never been this happy until I joined this group! With P3, You get to meet a lot of crafty friends, learn more techniques through tutorials and challenges. and of course it feels really good when you get compliments from the experts! J Though we are from different walks of life, we think alike- CRAFT!
P3 focus more on Polymer Clay. It is our objective to uphold more Pinoy talents through education and challenges.
In my previous blog, I talked about P3’s 1st challenge. The Black and White Bead Swap.
Our 2nd challenge was announced on 1st week of August. THE TRASH to TREASURE. As the title says, we need to convert trash or recyclable materials into something useful and creative using Polymer Clay as a medium. And since I want to challenge myself, I signed up!
I wanted to repair my doll using polymer clay… and i'll call my project TREASURE TO TREASURE since I never considered it as trash.. never ever! I love my doll so much.. i received this from my Tita Lina when i was 7. :)
my repair didnt work.. lol! i still need to get in touch with my drill bit and wires. and it isn't crafty at all.. if the challenge is "to become sentimental".. maybe id get more votes!
A week had passed and I still couldn’t think of any trash that I could convert into a treasure; it was so stressful!
I thought of a packaging tape core… I can make a bracelet from it.. or a clay covered box. I don’t know why.. but I didn’t feel the excitement in doing it.. its just not me… maybe because I already did something like it..? The decoupage box?
Just not to stress myself, I stopped thinking about it and focused with my Wired Filigree rings ala CF.
I noticed that my filigrees look like bottle caps! Yes! A bottle cap... I can make jewelries out of bottle caps! Excitement rushed all over.. I asked my niece and nephew to get some bottle caps from convenient stores just few steps away from our house. We cleaned the caps, and put holes in them. Excited as I was, I worked straight from the cap… didn’t bother to paint them first!
I tried to put a little life to it by adding diamond glaze… but since there was a hole in the cap, the glaze leaked. And maybe a chemical reaction between the cap and the glaze caused the cap to tarnish.
(Lesson learned – paint the cap first!)
(diamond glaze)
Diamond Glaze leaked and left tarnish on the unpainted area (i painted the back when i saw the tarnish. too late! lol!)
So I made new ones…
i tried painting more flower designs in these caps.. but was not able to take pics..
(background is from Donna Dewberry’s One Stroke Painting book)
I used picasa to edit my entry... just wanted to have a vintage look... here's the output!
Our entry was supposed to be posted anonymously… Mine speaks loudly! It’s as if I’ve printed my signature all over… ngek!
So I decided to submit new one.. this one was from a broken locket that I thought I could never use again.
I was happy with the output and sent it!
My Bottle Cap entry won the 3rd Place! Yahooooooo!!!!! J
I am sooo happy…
2nd place – from my new Idol, Jhoi Montano
1st place – from The Cane Queen of the Philippines, Jennifer Cruz.
Here are the other entries…
Everyone put their best effort in making these lovely pieces… and I salute you girls for joining the challenge. (pede ko na ba iuwi lahat? i love love love everything.. )
As I have said a while ago.. P3’s objective is to produce more local talents… and I believe P3’s challenges are ways to improve our craft. We need to challenge ourselves!
I love P3! You may see our creative jorney here:
Note: Im just a crafter.. not a writer...
2 comments:
Congrats Lody... I love all the entry! sayang di ako nakasali... hehehe! mwahhh!
Thank you Jo! :)
sana next time maka join ka na.. :)
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