ICED

These sweet polymer clay treats by One Elf look good to eat!

Layers of tiny cakes are iced with delicious frostings, sliced, and made into lovely earrings.

INDUSTRIAL

These fun and funky earrings are from Diane Ringel (DesignsByDi.etsy.com). I hope you will enjoy browsing her web site and photo album to see how many creative uses she found for simple metal washers from a hardware store. I am especially fond of Diane's polymer clay earrings.

SOUTHERN

To me, these colorful earrings by a French polymer clay artist have a distinctive southern flavor. This artist definitely takes full advantage of the polymer clay colors.

Find her works at souslamansarde.etsy.com.

DOTTED

Here are a few simple, but impressive designs by Jen Marsh (LuckyYouStudio.etsy.com). All of these pendants and earrings are made with yet another polymer clay variation of an antique mokume gane technique. It seems that the possibilities of even this technique alone are endless, not to mention all the other ways of working with polymer clay!

INCREDIBLE

These incredible colors are from the shop of Valerie B. Krohn, NovaFolia.etsy.com. Her technique combines inlay and marbleized clays in many bright tones.

WHITE

White is my second favorite color after black.

I love completely white designs – choosing this color, an artist can draw our undivided attention to the shape and texture of her creation. Take a look at these beautiful white polymer clay earrings by Krista Peel. That's simplicity at its best, isn't it?

PRETTY

These polymer clay earrings from momochas.etsy.com are simply sweet and pretty.

This is what the artists who made them says: "I’m usually completely devoted to each piece until it is finished, ensuring that I capture the initial inspiration that led me to it, and to make each one reflecting a story, a different atmosphere and concept." I think this approach pays off, don't you agree?

EXCELLENT

Bright colors, intricate details, and lovely shapes – this is how I would describe the new earrings in Elena Bucharska's shop, elenadesignbead.etsy.com. Elena offers these beautiful polymer clay flowers as beads, too.

TANTALIZING

These delicate flowers in soft colors are from oakgeorgia.etsy.com by Georgia Morgan. Such a simple design, but every time I come across them on the Internet, they catch my attention and make me stop to admire them, just like real flowers...

There are more photos of Georgia's work at flickr.com/photos/oakgeorgia and georgiamorgan.net.

CRYSTAL

These lovely earrings, a combination of crystal and polymer clay, are from DIMATSU100.etsy.com.

This design won in the Martha Stewart Living "Calling All Crafters" photo contest and will be featured in the July photo gallery on Martha Stewart.com.

Cool design! No wonder it won!

REPTILIAN

I do not know a fancy French name for fake snake skin, but it does not make these works less interesting.

Find them in ArtByLilin.etsy.com and artbylilin.blogspot.com.

COLLECTABLE

Ford and Forlano opened a shop on Etsy.com to sell their earlier works (dated late 80's and early 90's). Isn't it amazing how their style changed over the years?

See their more recent works on their web site.

MINIMALISTIC

There are many beautiful pieces of jewelry in Betsy Baker's shop, Stonehouse Studio, but these polymer clay pebble earrings are my favorite style. I just love their understated elegance and simplicity. They are also a perfect demonstration of two of the best qualities of polymer clay, which makes it such a good choice as a jewelry-making material: its light weight (imagine those earrings with real pebbles!) and easiness to work with (again – imagine drilling holes in real pebbles!).

Find more about Betsy and her work in her web site and her blog.

ORGANIC

I am starting my blog by featuring the works of Dee Wilder. Her shop, Malodora.Etsy.com, is full of some amazing and truly original jewelry and beads, all made from polymer clay.

To be honest, this artist had caught my eye several times before I came across her shop on Etsy.com. Over the years, I saw her works on Flickr.com and in several blogs, and every time they made me pause and take a closer look.

Dee is an experimenting artist, the kind I admire the most. In this post, I show only a few of her creations, but even this small collection is a perfect illustration of this artist's creativity and originality.