Member Benefits 049-2: Tutoring Support

Cindy: Thank you for teaching me through this blog, for all your encouragement, and for including my work in this spotlight. I highly recommend your videos and articles to anyone getting started or wanting to improve with polymer clay bead making! You’re the best!!! ~Marsha-N >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Polymer Clay Jewelry

Wow – I finally joined and became a member after months of reading blogs and going back and fourth realizing the biggest mistake I made was not joining right away. Cindy is WONDERFUL. The day I joined I was having trouble with pay pal and my purchases did not go through for some back videos I wanted. Everything showed up ok on my end but some how Cindy knew before I did about the problem and was on top of it emailing me and contacting pay pal before I knew what was wrong. She spent 3 days making sure everything was taken care of and I was pleased with the outcome. I received emails as early as 4:31AM and as late as 2:07AM. She always sounds so peppy and energetic I don’t know when she sleeps. But I don’t think you will find anyone more dedicated to their customers than Cindy. Polymer Clay brings out the best in people and it definitely brought out the best then much more in Cindy. I can’t say enough good things about her. She will answer any and all questions and do what ever she possibly can for anyone she knows. I just love her and all the work she has put into these videos I am truly amazed with each new one I see. She is a talented artist with a huge heart willing to help anyone who needs help. I now have a new friend I can count on for any help I might ever need with polymer clay. Thank you for everything Cindy. I will try to return some of that dedication back to you someday with pictures of my work with polymer clay. Now for all of you who were not sure about becoming a member. Join NOW! TODAY! Don’t waste time like I did.  ~Peggy-B >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Polymer Clay Beads

Cindy, Well I’m so happy that you are so committed to this place and polymer clay because you and this place are an integral part of my life now. I work full time outside of the home and then I come home and clay and often dream of a day when I won’t have to work so much and just stay home and clay all day.  I’ve worked in many mediums… I was a fine arts student before I changed to nursing… and I love polymer clay more than any other medium… It’s a medium that you can get immediate gratification from. I can go from a couple blocks of clay to a finished project within a couple hours… ready to wear even!!!! I love that. There are so many materials you can use with PC that the possibilities are limitless. I think that’s my real love! There is and will be a new technique, a new shape, a new medium in which to add… and someday I will discover something that no one else has… that is exciting! PLUS!!!! I love creating… it’s a drive that powers my psyche, that infiltrates my being and lets me know that I’m validated and alive. It soothes and awakens my soul. If I did not create… I could not be me. So thank you Cindy for the reassurance that you too shall be here to be a light and guide on my journey. ~Melinda-H >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Polymer Clay Bead Making

Oh, I’m feeling like Lucy in the chocolate factory – how’s that for an old TV reference! I want to do everything Cindy teaches us and the ideas of all the things I want to make are jumping around in my head. I can’t keep up!!! I have never been so creative before in my life and I thank Cindy for all that inspiration. I have three grandnieces under the age of 6 and I think it would be very cute to make buttons to decorate matching T-shirts for them. I wish I had known how to make clay buttons when I used to sew my own clothes. @Cindy – I was asked to do a presentation for my local Arts Guild next week. They thought I would do another painting presentation, but I decided to do my presentation on polymer clay basics instead. You’ve given me confidence to take this on. ~Linda-K >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Making Your Own Custom Buttons

Cindy – Your work is phenomenal!! I’ve met some pretty impressive clay people — like the Mitchell gals, and I place you right up there with them. What I love about you, is that you are there to really help people (like meee). I appreciate the fact that you are kind enough, to respond to my questions too. Patience personified!! I believe that the secret of true success, is not being afraid to share what you really know with others. Your style is truly gratifying, because alot of people out there teaching (they are always holding something back). I share the same philosophy, because I don’t feel intimidated. Being a fine artist (in many areas, that is except clay), I share many techniques with others. My knowledge is something to be shared, and that is our commonality. GOD Blesses us with talents to be shared, and it is a way of bringing people together. It is also a way of allowing people to realize, that there is good in this world of ours. So, thank you for being a Blessing in my Life!!! Cindy, you are really reaching out to alot of us (in the clay world). We are very fortunate to have you sharing your expertise. After seeing some of your work — it’s really something! Hope that you will be with us for forever, and a day. Thanks for sharing! Regards, ~Diana-S >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Flower Cane Designs

WOOHOO is right!!!! I have been exploring all over the new library this morning and I must say I am quite impressed!!! You and Doug have done a marvelous job and everything is so user friendly!!!! I am thrilled at this new adventure and look forward to lots of learning and making polymer clay beads!!! ~Pamela-C >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Polymer Clay Tutor Library

Beautiful! Thank you so much for making the tutorial so quickly – looking forward to making these beads. ~Maria-C >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Trumpet Flower Beads

Bravo Hun on another great tutorial. You made it look so simple and easy. Wish I’d have seen this when I tried my first ones. I remember trying to follow directions from a book and agonizing over trying to make mine look like the ones in the illustrations. But of course there weren’t enough pictures. And of course they didn’t look very much like leaves when I was done. Unless of course they were some kind of radioactive mutant plant form, LOL! But if I could have watched a good tutorial like yours I have no doubt I would have done much better and much sooner, with lots less frustration. Thanks so much for being you and sharing so generously with everyone the way you do. I know if more people could watch your tutorials, the ranks of clayers would grow exponentially when they saw how easy and fun it really is and passed the word along. ~Jamie-H >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Veined Leaf Canes

What I love about this blog is how we can learn from each other. ~Anna-S >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Polymer Clay Tools

Hi Cindy, Thank you for getting back to me. The [Rose Bead] video plays beautifully now – I just watched it and am thoroughly impressed. Cindy, your imagination blows me away! I’m sorry you had these problems. I worked in the computer industry for a lot more years than I care to remember, and I’ve always said that technology is wonderful when it works. And computer technology is so complex that it’s amazing it works at all. But I’m glad the problem is fixed and your headache is gone. Take care, and thanks so much for these videos! ~Linda-D >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Polymer Clay Tutorials

This is the greatest learning network on line. I can’t say enough about it!!!!! It’s really, really, really terrific!!!!! Love it. ~Helen-S >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Polymer Clay Color Recipes

This comment thread ROCKS. My brain is spinning with all the information contained here. Just the links alone will take me days to explore and ingest. Thank you all!!!   Cindy, you most of all for making this site possible. ~Jocelyn-C >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Polymer Clay Color Mixing

What a wonderful tute this is going to be. Like all your others there is so much to learn here. Can’t wait to get started. It’s no wonder you are such a busy bee. Thanks again, and again for all your efforts. See you Friday. ~Joyce-M >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Spliced Flower Cane Project

The work you did with sheet metal around the little squares was beyond beautiful and very unique. I can’t think of anytime that you haven’t had amazing tutes repeatedly. No complaints of your system whatsoever. Very happy with ALL that I learn here. Thanks ever so much Cindy. ~Debi-S >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Polymer Clay Jewelry Making Tutorials

Ooh, I love this! One of many things I appreciate, Cindy, is how you encourage us to push creative boundaries. BTW, just a quick follow-up on yesterday’s post — [8 stages of Creativity for Polymer Clay Artists]. I became inspired to clean and organize my craft room. It took me the whole day but I found so many things I that I forgot I had purchased (more guilty of #2 than I thought), and the finds triggered all sorts of ideas. I can’t wait to get in there today and reap the rewards of my labor. Just a suggestion for those who feel stuck. ~Elizabeth-S >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Polymer Clay

Thank you, Cindy, for this wonderful community you’ve built! I just love being able to access all of this fantastic information, not only from you but from other really helpful people, as well! ~Phaedrakat >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Polymer Clay Jewelry

It is good for the morale to see your experiments and to read that you are still trying to develop a system. Sometimes it seems like you know everything there is to know and then you hit us with this flower petal experiment. This gives us, at least me, the courage to try different things. If our tutor doesn’t have all the answers, maybe there is hope for the rest of us! Thanks, Cindy, for being so human as well as extremely knowledgeable. ~Carolyn-F >> This comment was originally posted here: Polymer Clay Rosary Beads

Hi Cindy thanks for your lovely words on my blog , I just don’t know how you do it with all you must have to do here. If I can inspire others to join here and give Polymer clay the recognition as a real art form thru your tuition, I am so pleased to be a part of that. ~Elizabeth-K >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Easy Kaleidoscope Canes

Cindy – Yeah, it is awesome that you’re helping us to develop our own artistic voice rather than just instructing us to produce copies of your work. Maybe I should challenge myself to adapt projects that don’t immediately attract me into something a bit more “me”. ~Silverleaf >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Polymer Puffy Beads

Whoopeeeeee this one I have been waiting for (as if I don’t wait every Friday). Just to show you how your blog has got to me I am now talking to myself, when playing last evening I was saying I think this is how Cindy does it and my husband came into my work room and wanted to know who I was talking to LOL???? ~Ritzs >> This comment was originally posted at the following link: Faux Opal Bake and Bond Technique

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