Here's the most recent piece in my " Tile Jewellery " collection. This one is based on the Chevron technique and the pattern is created in the same fashion as the pretty mille feuille icing you sometimes see on cakes and pâtisseries. Rainbow Quills This bracelet looks just as good from the inside so it can be worn inside out and as it's threaded on Elasticity it easily stretches over the hand to sit comfortably on the wrist. So with this style of bracelet, you can even make it reversible - one colour on the inside and one on the outside and you'd have two totally different looks. I've always said that Friendly Plastic is economical but that's what I call real value! 'Til next time..... If you can't get enough of My Tutorials and you want even more inspiration,  click here to find my books and printable pdfs...

This week the wilds of Africa have been calling and I've been exploring some other design ideas for Friendly Plastic tile jewellery ..... this time, dramatic black and white. My black and MOP sticks are still on the endangered list so I'm preserving my dwindling stocks of them. No worries! I've improvised and used the black and white backs of coloured sticks as the front again. This is a great way to use up surplus colours but just make sure that you sand away the metallic finish so that the plastic is exposed - it will give you much stronger bond when attaching one layer to another. To create the pattern, I heated each 3" stick with the heatgun until softened and then pressed an uninked stamp into it. Next, I plunge the stamp and plastic straight into cool water for about 30 seconds so that the stamp releases easily from the plastic (make sure your stamp is unmounted if you're placing it in water). I used Pinata inks to paint the depressions because they have both......

Wow, Friendly Plastic's fun!! Is there no end to the ways this incredible material can be used?!! If you've been following my blog you'll have noticed quite a few posts about Friendly Plastic recently. (And if you haven't been following my blog, then click on the Friendly Plastic label in my index to see what I've been up to.) I've used it on card fronts, in jewellery pieces and also to cover pens. I've had a play with Jana Ewy's Fracture and Fusion technique, I've made beads using a couple of different bead making techniques, I've moulded it and I've marbled it. So this week I set out to use it differently yet again and I've gone in another direction altogether. This technique works best with light coloured Friendly Plastic sticks, as in the sample above. To create this piece I used a white-backed stick as the front of the tiles because I was running low on MOP and didn't want to use it up on an experimental piece (the coloured side......