David's Jewellery Photography

Here are some beautiful images of some clients' jewellery David has been photographing recently. His jewellery photography service is becoming really popular and the process is very simple.

1. Call or e-mail us with your requirements
2. We'll book a slot in the diary for the photography
3. Post your pieces off to us by recorded/insured mail or courier
4. David takes the photographs & edits them
5. Your jewellery is returned to you within 48 hours of receipt along with a CD containing high resolution images of each piece of jewellery, he also includes a low resolution file of each image so you can use these for website & on-line work

It's that's simple and prices start from £5.00 per image. You own the rights to all the images and they are yours to use however you wish! For more information or to book a photography slot please call Natalia on 01422 241115 or 07775 932782 or e-mail us at info@silverclaycreations.co.uk

Latest News

Well, it's been a long and not-so-hot summer and thankfully it's back to school for the kids and back to full steam ahead for Silver Clay Creations workshops.

We're delighted to start up our autumn schedule and rearing to go here!

The forthcoming dates of our are workshops are:

Introduction to Silver Clay:

• Saturday 18th September
• Saturday 23rd October
• Saturday 13th November

Advanced Silver Clay

• Saturday 2nd October

If you'd like to book a place on any of the workshops please visit our on-line shop here further further information.

Along with lunch, materials and 21gms of silver clay all workshops now include a 100-minute DVD with all the techniques shown during the workshop.

We look forward to seeing you at a workshop very soon!

Phillipa's Fabulous Textures

In silver clay artistry, experimenting is key if you really want to create unique and very individual pieces of jewellery.

Phillipa Fenny is a jewellery designer who attended both our introduction and advanced silver clay workshops and is a member of the Silver Clay Club. She creates some amazing jewellery designs using beads and silver clay under the brand name 'Purple Pickled Onions'. Here Phillipa shares with us a brand new technique she stumbled across purely by accident that produced some wonderful results!

"I had some lovely dicroic glass cabochons that I wanted to set into pendants and I wanted to try to make something different from my usual pieces of work. I had some new shape templates to try out so I decided that would be my starting point and would take it from there.

After cutting out my pendant shapes and setting the dichroic glass cabochons where I wanted them, I made the bails for each one out of a rope of clay coiled around a straw andpendant itself. I was pleased with what I had so far , but they were still lacking something....a texture.
I have loads of texture mats etc in my tool box but I'd got tired of using the same ones over and over again and it was whilst I was sanding them that a thought struck me......the cling film I'd used to keep my clay moist had dried bits of clay all over it that fell off in little flakes when I picked it up. I wondered if they could be used for adding texture to my sanded pieces. I then wondered about mixing these flakes with the sanding dust left on my board from sanding the pendants.

I wasn't sure how it would turn out but I gave it a go and mixed some of the flakes with sanding dust and sprinkled them on the part of the pendant I wanted them to stick to. They looked great once dried, but would it still look as good once fired or would they melt and go into a mass blob in the kiln ?...well here are the results see for yourself. I must admit I was pretty pleased with how they have turned out."

Further Adventures in Silver Clay Now on Sale!

I'm so happy to tell you that our second DVD in the silver clay jewellery making series in now on sale. 'Further Adventures in Silver Clay' takes your skills to a whole new level. I demonstrate how to make eight brand new projects on this DVD, these range from two different types of rings, finger print keepsakes, setting cubic zirconia, making moulds and turning leaves into pure silver using art clay silver paste.
It has been a labour of total love and pure fun and I hope you will enjoy watching and expanding your jewellery making reportoire. You can buy our new DVD by visiting the on-line shop here.

I'm running the Race for Life

Just a quick update to let you all know I'm going to be running The Race for Life on Saturday 3rd July at 10:30am.

I've been running around like a mad thing most mornings since the beginning of May to get myself fit for the day. I want to run the 5K in style, not as a sweaty wreck! (Although judging by the state of me when I come back from my runs, I'm not the athlete I thought I would become!)

Here's a link if you'd like to sponsor me. I will be very grateful if you do.



I'll let you know how I get on!

New Silver Clay DVD 2nd in Series

Hi everyone, just getting back to blogging after being rushed off my feet with so many different projects.

It is with great pride I can report that the filming was completed yesterday on my brand new DVD 'Further Adventures in Silver Clay'. It's the perfect follow-up to DVD 1 'Silver Clay Made Simple'. I was so enthusiastic to include as many techniques as possible that poor old Tim Hollingworth (my brilliant camerman) was here until 10pm filming. David was operating camera number 2 in between soothing my troubled brow, setting up the artiness of each scene and making copious cups of tea. We all collapsed in a big, tired heap over pizzas, wine and beer at the end of a very productive day. Thank you so much guys you were brilliant!
Last night, as I went off to sleep I was worrying that we hadn't achieved enough, but with the blessing of a really deep sleep, I'm counting off the projects I completed on the DVD and there are 8 in total! So now everyone can learn step-by-step techniques such as painting leaves with silver paste, making a seamless band and wraparound ring, taking moulds and casting them in silver, setting cubic zirconia into wet and dry clay, making finger print keepsakes and decorating with syringe clay. It's all very exiting but my fingers are feeling a bit numb and my joints are aching from rolling, cutting, shaping, sanding and polishing so many different pieces. I'm looking forward to a very welcome day off on Saturday when I shall be putting my feet up and putting aside the silver clay...well just for one day!

Crafting Day - Saturday 12th June

I'm so excited to announce to everyone that I'm holding a fabulous Crafting Day on Saturday 12th June at the North Light Gallery, Huddersfield. It's a lovely venue just around the corner from my home and the perfect place to spend a wonderful day making things!

The day will consist of mini workshops run by myself and the very talented Debra Farrell from Magical Creations. You'll be able to attend mini workshops and learn the following skills:

Beautiful Shrink Plastic Jewellery; you'll learn how to make a stained glass-effect butterfly & poppy water colour pendant

The Secrets of Painting on Glass; to create your own customised glass ornaments

Amazing Paper Crafting; using cosmic shimmer embossing, stamping, faux cloisonne, fantasy fibre and alchohol inks!














The day will begin at 10:00am and end at 4:00pm, with breaks for tea, coffee and lunch. The cost to attend the day is just £35 which includes all materials, refreshments, lunch and you get to take home all the fabulous things you make.
You'll also get the chance to have taster sessions of other crafts such as silver clay jewellery making, beading and resin.

You can book your place by clicking here Mega Crafting Day

It promises to be a perfect day out and I'd love to see you all there if you can make it.