Hillery Portrait Studios

                                                           
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Kortney

Grace

Kelsey

The Grand babies

Here is the link to my studios website. I have alot of my photography work there.

Crafts etc...

Since I just started this blog, I don't know much stuff here yet. I work on alot of crafts at a time & it takes me awhile to finish one thing. I just go from pillar to post working on different things.

I'm trying to teach myself how to paint, airbrushing, paper quilling and all kinds of things.

I have a big basement where I have my portrait studio, office and craft room. It seems like when I go downstairs to my craft room, my mind just goes blank. But when I am sitting idly, I have lots of ideas, but getting them out of my head & actually doing them is two different things.

I also make vinyl decals for cars & windows, I use my cricut to do these. I have alot of Coal miners that want decals, so I do have to get these done soon. I can also make T-shirt iron on transfers with my cricut .

I really need to make some videos & take pictures of these projects. Hopefully, one day soon, I'll get around to it.



Aside from being a photographer, I love to work on crafts. I have my kitchen done up in grapes, so I've been making my own accessories.

I've been playing around with polymer clay & trying to make things with it,

I came up with the idea of fusing clay onto glass & other mediums.

(it's not my original idea)

Since I since have  been playing around with polymer clay, I have  come up with different ideas on how to use it. I make canes, slice them into small slices to embellish items with.

For example, I have my kitchen done up in grapes, so I've made some embellishments to adhere to glass candle holders, vases etc. After baking the pieces for the recommended time, I wait till they are cool enough to work with. the possibilities are endless with polymer clay.

These are blank Christmas tree ornaments that I decorated with polymer clay grapes, leaves & curly q's

Baby food jar

Here are some of my grapes creations


In another post, I will show how I did these

I've also been making roses '



Items I used to create these:

1. Purple polymer clay
2. Green polymer clay
3. Brown polymer clay
4. Blank glass ornament
5. Glass jar
6. Clay machine
7. Sculpey glaze

Make sure your hands are clean, baby wipes does a great job to clean up. Condition all your clay until it's pliable to work with, make a bunch of little purple balls and set aside. I covered my jar with white original sculpey clay & smoothed it out as best I could. Place the little purple balls in the shape of a grape cluster and press gently into place. I freehanded the leaves from green, rolled out fairly thin (#3 setting on pasta machine). Use a craft knife to cut leaves out or you could use a leaf shape clay cutter. Place them on the clusters. Roll out brown clay into thin snakes. Put onto jar in swirly designs.

Bake in home oven or toaster oven at 275 degrees for about 15 mins. Allow to completely cool before removing from oven. Once cool, I used sculpey glaze to seal the whole jar & let dry.

 You could make these into candles, put flowers inside, anything you could think of.