I have been looking at some of my favorite shops on Etsy lately. I thought I might show a few of them to you, with a sample of their work.
I’ve been following this seller for as long as she has been selling her work. Her first name is Christelle, and her Etsy store is Karooart. She’s a South African now living in the United States, and her art reflects the beauty of her native country. This item is a lovely refrigerator magnet. Click on the image to view the other items in Christelle’s shop.
Here’s a beautiful rose cane made by Marcia. Her shop on Etsy is called MarsDesign. Marcia is an Israeli millefiori caner with loads of talent for making bright, beautiful, meticulously controlled canework. Click on the image to visit Marcia’s shop.
A new favorite is Chris Kapono’s MandarinMoon. Her Etsy shop is filled with intensity! I love the boldness of her pieces. Chris has a wide range of interests, and is a collector of things that capture her imagination. She’s a plant lover and you can see the influence of her organic passions in the pieces she makes. They have a movement and flow to them that I just love. Click on the image to visit Chris’ shop.
My last highlighted company today is Debbie’s shop on Etsy called Paperquick. She has a lovely selection of gift tags and greeting cards in her shop. I recently ran out of gift cards, and went shopping in her Paperquick shop to get some. I got these adorable little coffee mug mini cards, with handmade envelopes. Great designs and great prices in her shop. Click on the image to visit Debbie’s shop.
A couple of months ago, I made some larger swirly focals. They were intended for a purpose but that purpose fell through, so I’m listing them in my Etsy Shop. There are multiple focal beads I am in the process of listing there, but one of them I’m keeping for myself. I’m wearing it right now. It has a cream base, with tones of pewter and cocoa swirled in. There is gold and silver leafing, making it a great piece to wear on my change-a-bead pendant holder. I’ve got a simple base metal chain to wear it on (I’m not allergic to base metals) and I’m quite happy how this looks with my orange turtle neck sweater and my beige fleece jacket.
You can click on the images to the left and below, and get closer views of the bead.
It was one of the first ones of the batch I made, and I fell in love with the warm mellowness of it. I think it’s going to be one of my favorite pieces.
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It was recently brought to my attention that the link to this tutorial on my lessons page was wrong. My thanks to Michelle for letting me know the link was invalid. It has now been fixed, and you can download this free tutorial HERE or by clicking on the image.
This is one of my earliest PDF tutorials. It does have a blank page (#3), which I hadn’t caught until the file was already finished. It’s a very basic tutorial, showing how I apply cane slices to evenly-sized balls of clay and turn the balls into beads. There are step-by-step, up-close, photographs for each part of the process. The tutorial is printable, so that you can take the instructions with you wherever you want to clay.
The other free tutorials on my website– the faux opal and the peony cane– are going to be made into PDF tutorials sometime this year so that they, too are printable and portable, making it more convenient to follow the instructions without having to be in front of a computer.
