REFRESHING

Tamara Shea from Baltimore, MD (my neighbor!) creates these stunning highly-textured pieces of jewelry and home décor. She makes her own hand-carved stamps and uses acrylic paints to bring out the texture.

Find these and many more works by Tamara in her shop, blockpartypress.etsy.com. Make sure to visit Tamara's blog, blockpartypress.blogspot.com, where she shows her amazing close-up pictures and talks about her polymer clay work.

LAVISH

These lavishly-decorated items are from the shop of Debby Reynolds. Debby's background as a fine art painter and muralist definitely feels in her polymer clay works, and I think it helps to make them so impressive.

There are more pictures of Debby's work at her web site, www.debbysinteriorartwork.com.