Description
Clay is one of the most versatile, easy-to-work with, and fun materials around. Best of all, with the new oven-bake or air dry brands, you don't even need any special equipment to produce enormously charming crafts. These wildly creative techniques--dreamed up by two professionals who are madly in love with the craft--are incredibly clever and simple. If you can roll, pinch, press, cut, coil, and mold the clay, you've got the required basics. To do the rest, just let your imagination soar Take a look at these bright, colorful pages filled with captivating jewelry, wonderful pottery, sweet buttons, and lattice baskets: it's an eye-opening, irresistible experience. Get started with choosing paint or glaze colors and selecting a type of clay. Then make flower-decorated pins, lacy tiles, glazed cross boxes decorated with floral designs, beads, and more. Bonus: a gallery fabulous projects done by the authors. Susan Alexander lives in Palmyra, WI, and Taffnie Bogart lives in Milwaukee, WI. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10. NEW IN PAPERBACK
