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Vol-075-1: Video #550: Introduction: In this 6 part video tutorial series, you will learn how to create my original Cymbidium Orchid Pendant design. Included are many tips, tricks and techniques that you can use to create this stunning flower in the colors and style I suggest, or your own. Truly a one-of-a-kind polymer clay project. This gorgeous Cymbidium Orchid Flower design can be used to create gorgeous pendants, brooches, hair bands, pins and other jewelry pieces. Plus these flowers are great for making home decor items and whatever other polymer clay creations you can dream up!
Vol-075-2: Video #551: Orchid Petals: In this video I will show you how to create a pearly color blend that is the perfect base for your Cymbidium Orchid Flowers. I will then show you how to use the petal cutters from the Wilton Gum Paste Flower Cutter set to create the three specially shaped petals. I will also show you a trick for using the same cutters to create much smaller petals, so that you can make a smaller flower if you wish. And should the Wilton cutter set not be available to you, I will share with you an alternative method of cutting out each petal by hand. So you will never be stuck without the right tools!
Vol-075-3: Video #552: Texture & Wire: In this video I will show all the tips, tricks and tools needed to make perfectly shaped orchid flower petals, including how to add a wire to hold its shape and texture to make it look real. You’ll learn how to give the petals a lovely ruffled edge that takes it far beyond, just a cut out petal of clay. This segment also teaches you how to create the perfect stamen for the flower center. Plus some easy tricks for shaping the orchid flower throat.
Vol-075-4: Video #553: Color Dusting: In this video I will first show you how you can give your petals texture by hand if you don’t have the texture plates I use. Then we move on to giving color to your Cymbidium Orchid Petals, using a combination of chalk powders and mica powders. This is where your own creativity can really shine through. Go to Google and search for Cymbidium Orchids to find color inspiration, or use my custom color shades to recreate some beautiful orchids of your own. Of course you don’t have to use realistic colors if you don’t want to. This is your art after all! Also included in this video is a neat little structural support item that you can make, to support your delicate flower petals while they are baking in the oven. Plus tips creating pieces with lasting durability and beauty.
Vol-075-5: Video #554: Wire Wrapped Bail: In this video, the petals come together to become a beautiful flower. The wires are wrapped and twisted into a unique bail. Then, this roomy bail can be hung from a chain, a cord or it could even be strung artfully onto a scarf. As an alternative to making a wire bail for your flower, you could use floral tape and wrap the stem as you would wrap a silk flower stem. Then the Cymbidium could be wrapped onto a headband, clipped onto a shoe, made into a hat pin, added to a picture frame, or put into a vase as a home decor piece. Anywhere you want a tropical flower, you can use this polymer clay orchid design!
Vol-075-6: Video #555: Painting and Finishing: In this video you will learn how to hand paint the spotted throat of your cymbidium orchid using a selection of acrylic paints. I will share with you my tips and tricks for getting the distinctive patterning. You will also discover the secrets to for making your own custom metallic paints and everything you need to know for creating a lasting finish on your piece. All the knowledge you will gain in this tutorial, will not only have you mastering the art of making polymer clay cymbidium orchids, but will also inspire you with ideas to use in many other types of polymer clay projects in your future. So enjoy!
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Dodge Pickup is the wonderful sky blue of this old vintage truck. Tinted Windshield is the soft green blue of the glass windshield. Chrome Trim is the color of the old pitted chrome trim along the sides, in the grill and on the bumper of this ol’ gal. And Blinkers is the awesome bright orange of the signal lights… the perfect pop to the soft blue palette.
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Customer Reviews: Cymbidium Orchid Pendant (6 Videos):
- Hi Cindy – what a beautiful project! Thank you so much for all the fantastic tips and tricks. You not only show us how to manipulate the clay but also how to support the petals, how to colour them and how to put the whole thing together! Brilliant! ~Marion-R
- Hi Cindy, I just watched the videos while getting ready for work… Thank you again for your wonderful lessons, and all the work that you and your hubby do to make it possible for people like me to feel like an artist :) ~Ginny-M
- So feminine!!! These Orchids will bring compliments galore… Looking at pictures of these beauties, you realize what nature has done. LOVELY. Thank you Cindy and Doug – each tute is better, or at least very different, than the previous one. Makes your head dizzy with ideas…. Keep them coming and we will be busy forever… Love your Tutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~Patt-W
- Cindy, you and Doug have done it again. I sat enraptured through the entire series. So many cool ideas to try! Especially love the “size down” technique angling the cutters to make smaller version of the orchid. Bet this cutter technique can be used for more than this project, and will be experimenting with my cutters this week. Thank you for always providing us with wonderful tutes!!! ~Jocelyn-C
- Well those turned out beautiful! So smart of you to figure out a way for us to adjust the size of our flower. Every time I wear my dogwood pendant someone complements me on it — this orchid is going to be an other awesome necklace to make. I love it already ;) ~Sherry-L
- These look so real and beautiful! I get so many compliments too, when I wear my Dogwood flower pendant. ~Michelle-A
- I have been one of Cindy’s students for a number of years now. Have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of her tutorials and she is also very good about responding to any comments or questions you may have. ~Connie-T
- This is beautiful. I wonder if you could use the floral tape and then brush over it with liquid polymer clay… and rebake it, obviously… haha. You know… with the bail on the back, you could also slip this over a scarf. ~Gina-A
- Beautiful flowers Cindy really detailed petals just absolutely stunning in my opinion. ~Audrey-O
- Cindy you are making me crazy with the last tutorial and now this one! What beautiful napkin rings they would make. Thank you so much for your great tutorials. Love all of them. ~Pat-L
- Yea, thanks, Cindy!!! Love the Cymbidium Orchid Series!!! ~Dotty-C
- I have made a few of these so far as hair ornaments to match my outfits… I have had many compliments and now have been inspired to create a pair of cherry blossom earrings! ~Shanie-C
- Hi Cindy, I’ve just finished making the Sweet Pea earrings.. WOW you are such a talented teacher.. they came out perfect the first time because of your detailed step-by-step method of instruction. And camera work is so perfect! Thank you for being there for me… I’m logged on often reviewing your videos to improve my skills. I’m also learning to use the search engine at the Blog – that’s amazing! This membership, Cindy, is the best thing I’ve done for myself in ages! Thank you so very much. ~Donna-S
- Cindy – Thanks so much for your amazing work – I’m floored every time I watch the new month’s tutorials!!! ~Karen-K
Customer Reviews: Dodge Pickup A-Series Color Palette (4 Recipe Cards):
- Had so much fun reading this well written article. Willow is my kind of girl, wish her all the best as she chooses a career and moves out on her own. I sure love her choice of vehicles, except for the gas money to run those old bombs. Cindy those colors are great, wow, they pop. ~Jocelyn-C
- You are so darned clever with your color combo’s. This one is no exception. As for Willow, well….you can take the girl out of the country……but you can’t take the country out of the girl. Willow is Willow and we wouldn’t want her to be anybody else! Good luck to her truck hunting and her future employment endeavors. ~DixieAnn-S
- Cindy, it takes a special person, like you are, to inspire so many others – not only artistically but by touching their hearts. Oh, and I just LOVE your low tech system with the file cards for storing all of the color recipes. I put mine in a binder, instead of a box, for easy reference! ~Lori-F
- Love this idea about the recipe cards… I am learning so much from your videos and your course!!!! Hugz Cindy. ~Pamela-C
- I do love your color palettes. I find fabulous inspiration and I’ve actually started saving the recipes now (when I first started I didn’t) but I have actually mixed up very few of them because somehow I feel like I’m cheating if I do (not that anyone else should feel this way, it’s my Color Theory and Design professor’s voice in my head). But I use them as inspiration for my own color mixing times and I find them utterly invaluable. Thank you so much for the inspiration! ~Melinda-H
- Just a beginner here. Since my color mixing hasn’t worked well (your recipe cards are a boon). Thanks for the videos too, Cindy, because sometimes it really helps to see a thing done. ~Cariad-R
- I’m still new at mixing colors. I have a few colors to work with and then I see another one in the recipe I don’t have so that’s frustrating when I am ready to mix my colors for a bead. Some day I will have all the basic ones. Thanks for the recipe it helps so much. ~Brenda-E
- Cindy I have to share that you gave me the confidence to really commit to experimenting with mixing colors. I’m using your little pill sample technique and I’m so happy with the results! Plus my experimentation has led me to find a beautiful shade of purple that is just perfect for making beads to support my local university team. Fancy that! Plus it’s just a pretty purple! Thanks for instilling confidence and providing some really great recipes. I think the best part about these recipes is the way the translucent works to enhance the quality of the color. Kinda makes it POP! ~Kimberlee-J
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