tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34196116243616478012024-02-20T12:41:33.653-08:00MyClayFantasyOne place for all Polymer clay artists and other sculptors. Let's count how many are we in the world? Shall we?Mandarinduckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15654589505303579678noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419611624361647801.post-11952423638850630922016-03-11T00:43:00.001-08:002016-03-11T00:50:52.058-08:00Explore the shapes of spring!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's been 10 days since spring had started. I was thinking what task can be given for the first few month of spring to not overwork you guys, but I still very much want to burst your creative juices and encourage you to explore and absorb all the beauty. Therefore I decided to give you a task of observing. When going out, check out the new flowers that are coming out, see the little birdies collecting the branches for their nests and perhaps, if you will have time, come and share with us your observations. I am hoping that this will spark interest and inspiration for the new season creations. Lets see what stories you can come up with. </div>
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The rule is simple: Observe, come back to My Clay Fantasy FB group's Pinned post (very first one at the top) and comment bellow with your interesting observations, perhaps some quick phone taken pictures of cool shapes or creatures you found, lovely colours you saw.<br />
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Here is a little inspirational collage I made for you! </div>
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Mandarinduckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15654589505303579678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419611624361647801.post-19514619368297380772015-06-03T01:06:00.002-07:002015-06-03T01:06:51.335-07:00AQUA (Inspirations for the Montly Competition Theme)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This month's competition theme is "AQUA" and I decided to create two mood boards for this matter. </div>
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Aqua means water from latin and inspiration for this theme can be as endless and floaty-flexible as water itself. You can go and play with aqua and blues, you can play with water and wave motions, streams and waterfalls, ponds and rivers. You can create crystal like jewellery or use real water themed crystals in your art. I would stay out of ocean creatures or fish though, as then we will end up changing the theme. But if fish is a necessity, then go for it :) I can't restrict an artist too much!</div>
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First inspiration mood board is inspired by jewelry in aqua colour and with some or another water elements in it. </div>
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The second mood board is inspired by water motion art. So it's not necessarily that your entries should be blue! It can be any colour really, as long as we can clearly see it's water related. This month we want to see swirls, bubbles, shine, light, motion, dancing water and all that stuff. </div>
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Good luck with your entries and I hope this is inspiring enough!</div>
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Google and Pinterest are again our sources of inspiration, but try Deviantart as well. You never know! </div>
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Mandarinduckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15654589505303579678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419611624361647801.post-28965602682695315592015-03-02T01:10:00.001-08:002015-03-02T01:20:04.455-08:00February Contest Winners!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Congratulations to all winners and a great thank you to all the participants!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Beginner - <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001887895249&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A381198568600612%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/prophetsangel" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Clare Osborne</a><br />Intermedeate - <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100002993985165&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A381198568600612%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/marija.vidanovic.9" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Marija Vidanović</a><br />Advanced - Anna <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001649680421&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A381198568600612%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/anna.zmuda.96" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Anna Żmuda</a></span></div>
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Mandarinduckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15654589505303579678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419611624361647801.post-88825565360205507482014-10-04T05:45:00.001-07:002014-10-04T05:45:09.374-07:00October Theme: "Autumn in Japan"<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Autumn is here and finally I can see it on the streets, in the gardens and I can smell it in the air. Time had come to create something beautiful and as we already had the Autumn theme last year, I decided ( and you voted!) for this year's autumn to be in Japan. So this month's competition theme is:</div>
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I am very excited to make something autumn related and Japanese autumn is an example of extraordinary colours, beautiful gardens, amazing Geisha's dressed in autumn coloured kimonos, red bridges, terracotta pained architectural objects everywhere, beautiful Japanese pebble gardens with Koi fish and red, orange and yellow acer leaves, leaves everywhere!</div>
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Here is a little collage I made for you to get more inspiration and some useful links where you can explore Autumn in Japan and get creative!</div>
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Please enjoy and I hope to see a lot of amazing colourful artworks by the end of this October.</div>
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<br />Mandarinduckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15654589505303579678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419611624361647801.post-47980864577441166112014-09-01T03:56:00.001-07:002014-09-01T03:56:15.532-07:00September Theme - "Cute Animals"Hello everyone!<br />
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In this blog post I would like to announce the new competition theme for the month of September:</div>
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You can do quite a lot with this theme and create any kind of objects (functional/not functional) and play around with shapes, designs, colours, styles, characters and so on. I think this is very sweet and exciting theme to participate and as days are getting colder, clay gets more and more attractive day by day.</div>
Enjoy the theme and a little inspirational collage I made:<br />
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Today I spotted a lovely tip from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/amariedonovan" target="_blank">Ann Marie Donovan</a> on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/myclayfantasy/" target="_blank">My Clay Fantasy</a> group's page and <br />
decided to make a little picture search to feed you with some cute and cool ideas!<br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">"Here is a tip! Found a toothbrush holder and it keeps all my brushes organised!"</span></i><br />
And here we can see more cool tooth brush holder design that can suit any creative studio style. Even very weird one!<br />
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I know this is not much of a tooth brush container but I very much love this idea as it's very very ergonomically, uses a little bit of space and holds so many things in! Can you see how it's just a white wooden document folder?<br />
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<br />Mandarinduckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15654589505303579678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419611624361647801.post-50709942253408715362014-07-03T02:33:00.001-07:002014-08-18T05:18:59.869-07:00#Claylove Project<div style="text-align: center;">
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Let me introduce you to the project <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/claylove?fref=ts" target="_blank">#claylove</a></b></div>
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1) <b>take a picture of yourself </b><br />
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2) <b>post it</b> <b>here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/clayloveproject">https://www.facebook.com/clayloveproject</a></b><br />
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In the end of this project we want to make a lovely large posted or a little PDF book with our names, lovely faces and perhaps we can even ask some clay magazines to post this amazing experience on their magazine pages!<br />
You are more than welcome to share this post, blog about it with original link to this post.<br />
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Here are some cute and fun examples and as you can see Polyform, From Polymer to Art, Kater's Acres and many others already joined us.<br />
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Thank you for reading and I hope you will join! Let's make a big fun out of this great idea!<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Originally the first profile picture was posted <span style="font-family: inherit;">by</span> Kathryn Marie Schroeder and with her permission </span></i><br />
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<br />Mandarinduckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15654589505303579678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419611624361647801.post-54598268457239537222014-06-30T07:40:00.000-07:002014-07-06T09:31:45.096-07:00Ocean<div style="text-align: justify;">
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This may sound quite weird, maybe a bit confusing but this is why I am writing this post. I want to make sure everyone knows what they gonna make :)<br />
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Ocean is a beautiful place. If there is one thing on this planet I would like to live, that would be next to the ocean, or the sea at least. It calls me with it's magic, it tempts me with it's cool waters and beautiful creatures that so harmonically live in it. They say that humans know much more about our planet and about space than they know about the ocean. This gives me the right to say, that if something haven't been yet discovered in the depths of the ocean - it can exist!</div>
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So grab your polymer clay and show the world what sort of creatures can be yet discovered down below the surface of the deep blue ocean water. </div>
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Your choices can be different and this is why this theme is so cool!</div>
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You can play with ocean scenes by itself and have a bursts and rainbows of sunshine and colour. You can go El Naturel ( Lol) and make realistic scenes... or you can go all patchy and garlicky and make a cool artwork.</div>
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<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/myclayfantasy/photos/" target="_blank">UPLOAD HERE</a> <i>(in one of three folders Beginner, Intermedeate or Advanced)</i></li>
<li><a href="http://myclayfantasy.blogspot.co.uk/p/monthly-competition.html" target="_blank">FIND COMPETITION RULES HERE</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=ocean%20artwork" target="_blank">INSPIRATION</a></li>
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Also a little reminder to the older group members! I think it is that time of the year when we need to scrape on the bottom of our electronically purses and find a little coin for donations :) We are running out of resources pretty quickly :) You can donate on the right side of this blog where you see a turquoise blue heart :) </div>
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Congratulations to May 2014 My Clay Fantasy competition winners, which are:</div>
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During this and next week let's create great and funny things! It can be anything you want as it is your clay fantasy. The only rule - please add a little pink heart made of clay to your creation. </div>
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Dates: 2-15th of June</div>
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Place: <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/myclayfantasy/" target="_blank">MCF group</a></b></div>
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Action: Make clay item with a pink heart on it, take a picture, post <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/873286859354045/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>!</div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/julkich">Julija Kotsuba</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/laurie.grassel">Laurie De Mers Grassel</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/laura.palomarruiz">Laura Palomar Ruiz</a> <br /><br /><div>
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APRIL COMPETITION THEME IS:<br />
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Here I found some lovely inspirational artworks to stimulate your creativity and force those creative powers flow straight to your hands so you can't wait no more and jump into creating NOW! ^^ Enjoy!<br />
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<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/msdebbie5678/cakes-alice-in-wonderland/" target="_blank">Pinterest board "Alice in Wonderland CAKES"</a><br />
<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pleatingsleat38/alice-in-wonderland/" target="_blank">COOL ARTWORKS</a><br />
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I am happy to announce that spring is here and everything everywhere is blossoming here in UK. In some countries it is yet so snowy and cold and even here some days are so rainy and windy, but our hearts can't be tricked by weather's bad mood. We all know that spring has started. </div>
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When I suggested to pick a theme for the March Competition, you guys suggested spring, flowers, vintage and old-fashioned things and pastel tones. All this mood brought me to one logical conclusion and one word came to my mind - "Shabby Chic" (two actually).</div>
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So it seems that for this competition we are allowed to make any sort of items that match the theme. It can be interior elements, a vase, a keyring, jewellery, a box, a journal, a mirror or a picture frame, even a bottle or a dish. Anything that looks and what's most important, feels like Shabby Chic.</div>
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Pastel tones, lace, natural linen materials, old-fashioned threads, ribbons, lots of flowers, especially roses, old painted wood effect, patina, butterflies and beautiful tea cups and cupcakes. But not just any butterfly or any ribbon or any flower. I can name some more elements or items that could be used as main key elements, but still that could mislead you if you never heard of this style before. That's why instead of just giving you text explanations, I prepared a collage of pictures that will surely inspire you for this month's competition. Enjoy and if you will still have questions, you know where to find me (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/mandarinducky" target="_blank">Aniko</a>). </div>
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Recently I was going through my inspiration folders looking for some cool stuff to work with and found a folder called "Flow". There I rediscovered an amazing London based artist <a href="http://www.katemccgwire.com/" target="_blank">Kate MccGwire</a> and her Feather Craze. He art is amazing and it does inspire me a lot. I assumed that you may get inspired from her creations too and so I decided to share.</div>
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Not only she does these crazy installations from feathers that look like water, braids, pinned threads, but she also creates feather sculptures which are carefully preserved in glass domes or cabinets because of how precious, unique and fragile they are. I am honestly suggesting you to visit her website and check all of her artworks year by year. </div>
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Mandarinduckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15654589505303579678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419611624361647801.post-62611571147794544322014-01-31T05:34:00.000-08:002014-01-31T05:45:56.589-08:00February Competition Inspiration<div style="text-align: justify;">
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I would like to announce the theme for February Competition.</div>
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We going to be making <i><b><u>MAGIC OWLS</u></b></i>! </div>
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Please make sure you are participating and putting all your effort into making that owl. Here I attached an <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=Owl%20art" target="_blank"><b>INSPIRATIONAL PINTEREST BOAD</b> </a> which will help you to get inspired! You can go for figurines, wall artworks or anything else you like as long as it is:</div>
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Yes yes, we are not going to make realistic owls! Let's go crazy and use some techniques, textures and colours and end up with an amazing collection of beautiful artworks!<br />
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Mandarinduckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15654589505303579678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419611624361647801.post-57280469459500126862013-12-31T04:53:00.001-08:002014-02-09T09:02:50.426-08:00Happy New Year 2014!<br />
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We have passed the <span style="font-size: x-small;">20</span><i><b>13</b></i> number and it wasn't easy for me at all and I am sure some of you struggled through this year a bit or a lot too.. But it doesn't matter! </div>
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This is what I always say to myself every year. I always imagine these two days (31st-1st) as a time machine, star gate, changing period, the whirlpool into a different reality. Things from 2013 must be dealt with, house needs to be clean, resolutions ready, all bad memories left behind...</div>
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I know that we can not even imagine what is waiting for us ahead in 2014. Are we going to be all right? No one knows. But we should definitely try and stay positive and creative. Positivity and creativity are like the shield and the sword that protects us in overcoming life circumstances, dealing with problems and becoming a better person.</div>
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2014 is a year of a <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">blue horse</span> and is supposed to bring luck and strenght into our goals, our achievements and our aims. So let us jump on this horse and ride it to the "El Destinazione Felicità"! <i>(Destination Happiness).</i></div>
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If we would put all these things through my crazy anime - orientated imagination we would look approximately like this (lol):</div>
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To celebrate in style and stay creative no matter what, I am offering you to check out this amazing clay artist. He really does crazy stuff with clay! And he even made a blue horse! </div>
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<i>Wishing you strength, luck, success, family warmth, love, health and happiness.</i></div>
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<i>Thank you for being my faithful honey bunnies <span style="color: #666666;">(and others)</span>!</i></div>
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Mandarinduckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15654589505303579678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419611624361647801.post-67528998828296697232013-12-20T12:34:00.002-08:002013-12-20T12:42:03.959-08:00Fixing Photos in 25 seconds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello my sweet honey bunnies!</div>
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Today I was browsing through the posts in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/myclayfantasy/" target="_blank">MCF</a> and I discovered that lots of our great creations are suffering from badly taken or unedited pictures. Now, I know what you will say.. "<i>I don't own a fancy camera"</i> or <i>"There is not enough light in my room"</i> or even <i>"Oh Aniko, not that crap again..."</i></div>
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<u><b>But please, hear me out!</b></u></div>
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I agree that most of us are just clay lovers and we don't really want to worry about how we take our pictures as we just want to share our journey with others from time to time. But if we are sharing our art with others <u>we are expecting them to like it</u>, to say some nice words about it and of course we would be upset if our picture is not even noticed, ignored or criticised. </div>
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I was exploring this subject for quite a while and I noticed that whenever I am going through the daily Facebook posts, I usually see that the pictures with a better quality, brightness, better composition do always catch my eye and have more comments and likes than the gloomy, dark or overexposed ones. Automatically our eye only get's caught on something that is beautiful. There is so much information in social media and so little time that we just can't afford to concentrate on everything and anything. This is why we just quickly scroll down and look for some nice, pretty, yummy stuff. <u>We don't go to Facebook to make ourselves feel unpleasant, right?</u> Especially in artistic groups. We come here to pleasure our eyes and our minds, to get inspired and to inspire others. </div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Would you understand what a rainbow is if your teacher would show you a black and white picture of it? </span></i></b></div>
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It is absolutely the same with photos of your works. We can't be there to touch it, to twist and turn it, and picture is the only connection with your artwork. So if the picture is weak, connection is weak, too.</div>
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I am not asking much from you as I know you haven't got all the time in the World, but perhaps hear this:</div>
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<i>"It took me 25 seconds to change each of these pictures to the ones you see on the left. No photoshop or any other program installation needed. It is absolutely free and it's <a href="http://www.photoshop.com/tools" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a> for you to use it!"</i></div>
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This is something I was already blogging a while ago on my own blog and today I decided to refresh it in our minds again as now I can address it to a bigger auditory and potentially improve your photo editing skills in seconds. You will say thank you, I promise.</div>
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So all you have to do is <a href="http://www.photoshop.com/tools" target="_blank"><b>CLICK HERE</b></a> and try it out.</div>
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I created a short Youtube video Tutorial on <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PHITflhQzw&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLZZDXNUCnmYIQb6CTe1kDvtDqgca0NjpT" target="_blank">how to use Photoshop Express Editor Online</a> </b>and a very basic <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtjV0NJxBfs&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLZZDXNUCnmYIQb6CTe1kDvtDqgca0NjpT" target="_blank">photography improvement video</a>.</b></div>
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If you like, click on it, watch and learn. If not, just go to the actual website and start editing away.</div>
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Good luck with your photos and I hope that our group's photos will improve very soon.</div>
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Aniko xxx</div>
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Today I would like to address this blog post to our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/myclayfantasy/" target="_blank">MCF <i>(My Clay Fantasy)</i> group</a> newcomers. </div>
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Our group is very unique and very professional. It combines many well respected world known artists as well as newbies who are just starting their journey in polymer clay world. We all do respect each other and we all follow <b><a href="http://www.myclayfantasy.blogspot.co.uk/p/group-rules.html" target="_blank">the rules of the group</a></b> as a community and strongly benefit from it as individuals.</div>
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Recently after we hit 2000+ members, admins of our group noticed a problem. With the increasing number of newcomers problem with spam and self promotion has increased, too. It seems like almost everyone who just joined us is trying to force us to LIKE their page and follow their links. </div>
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<b><u>You need to understand that forcing your pages in people's faces is not going to do you any good at all.</u></b></div>
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Imagine you arrive to an artistic gallery or a museum and start shouting out loud your name and say: "LIKE ME! BUY FROM ME!" What result would you get? Next second you would be definitely taken outside the building by a security guard without further possibility to ever come back. And the most annoying part is that all those people who saw you do that would always remember you as an annoying spammer.</div>
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So this is one thing we want you to understand. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/myclayfantasy/" target="_blank">My Clay Fantasy Group</a> is not just any other random group where you can spam, advertise glasses or force others to Like your page. </div>
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We love to see new artworks, we appreciate other artists and we love suggestions and questions. We love to discuss, we love to encourage those who is just starting and does really deserve a pat on the back and we love being friendly and fair to each other. </div>
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I truly think that attention and popularity is something you have to deserve by working for the greater good and by truly progressing in what you do. Once I was a beginner too and I can confess that I made a lot of mistakes as well as anyone else. But now I discovered that the best way to get known and respected is to work hard for the benefit of your community, to learn a lot from those who inspire you and to try and be the best you can only be for those who really needs your support and help. A person like this will never need to shout out loud "LIKE ME, LIKE ME!"</div>
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Aniko Kolesnikova and admins of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/myclayfantasy/" target="_blank">My Clay Fantasy</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I went to pick it up to the local post office and when I got the package I couldn't wait to open it.. so I opened it in the car and first I got out the pink circle with extruder's disks. This was the first and the last time I saw it. We did a lot of shopping that day and so I lost the disk in between coming in and out of the car. So embarrassing! I looked everywhere and even cried...still nothing :(</span></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">I still got the extruder and so here is what I want to say about it!</span></u></i></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">Packaging: Great! 9/10</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So easy to keep it in, compact, just what an extruder needs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps I would prefer to have it in a plastic tube instead of cardboard, so that if I spoilt my tea on the table, case still wouldn't be damaged. I am so bad with my tea you know :) But I guess this is so easy to improve!</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">Extruder design: Funky and Modern! 10/10</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It comes in 3 lovely colours: Purple, Magenta and Teal. I love all three and I got my hands on pink one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is really good! I love that the push head is actually replaceable and it is plastic. So if you need to clean/wash the head only or you want to change the rubber rings, you just take it out and do it. Also the opening mechanism is very easy, you don't have to twist your wrists to make million turns before you extract the core from the extruder's shell. I just wave it as a little flag in a circular motion and it does it all for me. Should be careful though, it may fly away :) But it is so much fun and I like having fun when I clay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Right. Now I will need to do a review on the disks I lost. I asked <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.idalski" target="_blank">Kimberly Idalski</a> to assist me here and she sent me all 3 available disk pictures :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This disk contains quite a few curvy shapes that remind me of little animal nose, curved smileys and 1/4 circles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I would say that pink disk is a mixture of both yellow and blue. It has more flat geometrical forms in it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I guess all three disks in combination with the extruder itself would make a perfect, fun and colourful collection of extruder disks and could be used to make a lot of fun stuff. And even if I am not a "Cane Person", I still had a lot of fun playing with this extruder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you very much for reading my review and thank you Lucy for sending me this wonderful product. I highly recommend it for everyone in our community if you are in a need of a new extruder. A must have!</span></div>
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Mandarinduckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15654589505303579678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419611624361647801.post-75142301997284024042013-09-01T12:38:00.001-07:002013-09-01T12:38:56.712-07:00August WinnersHello there everyone!<br />
I am pleased to announce the winners of My Clay Fantasy group competition. August theme was "Translucent Insects" and our artists had a challenge to explore translucent clay and everything you can do with it. As a result we have selected (via voting) our three finalists and here they are!<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/waukisha" target="_blank">Waukisha Ellis</a> (Beginner category)</div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/julkich" target="_blank">Julija Kotsuba</a> (Intermediate category)</div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dawngayeduff" target="_blank">Dawn Gaye Young</a> (Advanced category)</div>
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<br />Mandarinduckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15654589505303579678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3419611624361647801.post-69167195847550203372013-08-30T07:53:00.000-07:002013-08-30T07:53:56.063-07:00Ethereal I couldn't resist sharing with you this amazing artist - Ellen Jewett from Canada and her Etsy shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/creaturesfromel" target="_blank">Creatures from El</a>. What can I say?<br />
Amazing? Gorgeous? Fantastic? Or more like breathtaking, extraordinary, crazy and extremely detailed!!!.. yes, something like that! I will stop talking and will save some space in this post to show you 5 of her amazing works. For more definitely click <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/creaturesfromel" target="_blank">HERE!</a></b><br />
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Also best artworks will be selected to remain forever in our <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/myclayfantasy/" target="_blank">Flickr group</a> and out <a href="http://pinterest.com/mandarinduck/my-clay-fantasy-fb-group-best-entries/" target="_blank">Pinterest board</a>!<br />
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<i>Credits: (left to right) Theo Ashley Malia Davis, Magda Pavlovic, Olga Perova, Lynda Berggren, Klavdija Kurent, Astrid Makosla, Mike K Viner, Shmil Berniker, Manon van Kempen, Corina Rojas Yedra, Laura Schiller, Matt Kernan.</i><br />
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This is a wonderful day as it is a day of this blog's announcement and so I would like to announce that our group had reached 1500 members. This is a great number and I am sure we are going to grow even bigger. Keep it up guys and thank you so much for supporting this project! Let the creativity burst from us, let our works inspire and encourage others and let our hearts be full of love towards our common goal, our lovely media and our community.</div>
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