Libby Mills' Demo was about Handcarving Stamps to print on Polymer Clay or to use as texture on Polymer Clay.
To see more of her work Click to go to her Instagram
CC’22 Demo Spotlight Denise
Denise Fitzsimmons' Demo was about "Hacking Your Seconds"
Carving your pieces to make them into something wonderful instead of just "meh".
Click to go to her Instagram Click to go to her Facebook Page
CC’22 Demo Spotlight Dorian
Dorian Merriman-Boddy's Demo was about her deep dive into UV Resin.
Click to go to her Instagram Click to read the Facebook Post
Save The Date – Clay ConneCTion Retreat 7/29 – 31 Virtual Retreat!
Clay ConneCTion Retreat will be Virtual for 2022.
We will be Zooming from Friday evening, July 29 until Sunday evening, July 31.
Details To Come!
LINE – A Worksheet For Creativity
Helen Wyland-Malchow has been teaching the guild design elements at the Zoom guild meetings..
She started with LINE. Download the Worksheet here. (was sent out with the June NAN).
She went over different elements/attributes of Line.
Take something you love and represent it as LINE and do the exercises on the worksheet. The pictures are examples that Helen showed to explain the different concepts. Play with it and have some fun!
We will share our worksheets at the ConneCTion Challenge Zoom meeting on July 3.
Looking forward to seeing all we do!
"When you feel the urge to mindlessly scroll through Facebook, take out the worksheet and play with the exercises" ~ Carole
Clay ConneCTion Home Version
Even though we can't meet in person, we're going to have a Great Retreat!
Virtual Meetings
We will be hosting our guild meetings via Zoom until further notice.
The link, meeting ID, and password will be in the newsletter that will be emailed out a few days prior to the meeting.
Hope to see you there!
And (for those like me who are a little vain) here is a zoom youtube link from Libby that has good lighting tips: https://youtube/ACNGhPKnmok
Also another tip - (I'm SO Vain!!!!...) You can go to Zoom -> Preferences -> Video and in "My Video you can check "Touch up my appearance" which softens up everything 😉
Clay ConneCTion 2020 ONLINE
Clay ConneCTion 2020 - ONLINE
Check back for further info here and on our Facebook Page. https://www.facebook.com/scpcg.org/
Weekend of Clay Classes Cancelled
It is with an abundance of caution we will cancel our event this weekend. We hope to reschedule later in the year.
Weekend of Clay March 14 & 15, 2020
Weekend of Clay at the Foxon Firehouse, 1420 North High Street, East Haven,
March 14th and 15th. (Located at the corner of Rt 80 and High St in East Haven)
Classes BY Members of the guild FOR Members of the guild.
Sat am - Butterfly Koi Fish in Polymer Clay - Debbie Jaffe
Sat pm - Grunge Roses - Denise Fitzsimmons
Sun am - Insert YOUR Style Here - Carole Monahan
Sun pm - Illuminated Resin - Christy Sherman
Times are 9:00 - 12:30 and 1:30-5 each day Please set up between
(the workroom will be open Saturday evening for extra clay time)
Class fees are $15 each class, payable to the Guild.
Carole will take your payment at the WEoC.
Membership dues will need to be paid to take the classes.
Materials fees paid directly to the teacher on the day of the class.
You can take all 4 classes or any of them.
For Class Descriptions Please Click Here!
(This was emailed to members on 3/4/20)
Save the Date CC’20
Clay ConneCTion 2020
SAVE THE DATE!
Our 12th Retreat is scheduled for July 23 - 26, 2020.
At Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut
Details to Follow!
Creating Hollow Forms Class
Hollow Forms, Vessels, and Containers
The Box - 2-day workshop with Helen Wyland-Malchow
September 14 & 15, 2019
Dec 8, 2018 Guild Meeting
Tag Sale and Potluck Luncheon for the December 8 meeting (SECOND SATURDAY)
Tag Sale - The more people who bring things in, the better the tag sale!!!
Members DONATE Polymer Clay/art/crafts related items to sell for $1
Bigger ticket items are raffled off.
Smaller items to be packaged into $1 value
Numbers are drawn, we line up.
Members select one item each time around
After a few turns the items are reduced to 2 for $1 and so on until the table is empty.
Potluck Lunch
We all bring in something to share...
Nothing is assigned…
We have plates, napkins, cups, etc.
If it will need serving utensils, please bring them.
We can't keep food cold or cook so keep that in mind. We can keep a few crock pots plugged in.
Clay ConneCTion ’18 Prize Winners
We were so fortunate to have so many prizes to share with our lucky attendees.
Our goodie bags were filled with many samples of clays from Polyform, Apoxie Sculpt, clay and cutters from Makin's, and generous coupons from Makin's, Sculpey, Marvelous Molds, ComposiMold and Craftcast.
They were generous and also donated items for our raffle. Other donations were given by R J Crafts and many of the attendees. Thanks to all of you for making this such a successful and fun retreat!
Clay ConneCTion ’18 Garden Walk
This year we finally got to go on our Garden Walk. It did not disappoint! Connecticut College has so many beautiful gardens and plantings all over the campus. This year Donna Panciera brought us to the Carolina Black Garden.
Here is a link to the Connecticut College website for the garden
Below are some pictures we took. What a beautiful and inspiring garden! Thank you, Donna!