TurtleSoupBeads and a Special Surprise! Polymer Clay Tutorial

[@jacksonpurcell8625]

for some reason my body's natural response to this extreme level of wholesomeness was to begin crying. it is safe to say november has been a rough month, this was exactly the kind of content i needed, just some pure unbridled joy

[@vivsalittlebitcrafty4854]

I'm right there with you Jackson...rough year...keep smiling my lovely, things will get better I'm sure!!

[@jenniferroya3606]

Me too, isn’t Susan special? We need to take care of each other.

[@TurtleSoupBeads]

Maybe you just needed to let go of somethings so I'm glad I was able to help you relieve the stress and go to a happy place ! that's my fuel and will stay in my brain thank you for sharing hopefully things get better

[@sharonkeef0522]

Awesome

[@brendaroland5666]

I watch a lot of clay and bead artists, but I always come running back to Susan's Wonderful world. It sparks happy in my art heart.

[@ymanajohnson585]

Momma Sea Turtle is so beautiful and so BIG. All of the babies are also so pretty. Thank you Susan.

[@ko2998]

We all appreciate how much time you put into that intro!!

[@1979hellcat]

Lol the intro was cute!

[@sandravega5732]

I love your turtles. Mama is down right beautiful.

[@lpmmt]

Fabulous opening clip, that must have taken forever!

[@christinestafford2089]

It would be really neat if you did a tutorial on how you do your claymation. I love all your work. Thank you for all you do.

[@ExkupidsMom]

Your intro animation was entirely adorable.

[@dianehawley9212]

Omg love mama turtle and babies . So colourful and creative

[@thejr9827]

I love Momma Turtle and all her babies. These look like so much fun to make. Love seeing what you did with all your scrap canes. Thank you again for sharing your creativity with us.

[@galemaurer2820]

This whole video made me smile. Thank you.

[@melbabowen4389]

Susan YOU NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE ME!!! The turtles are so beautiful!!!! Thank you so very much for sharing your talents, again!!❤️❤️❤️

[@tammythomas3745]

Wow!!! Matilda and All her Babes are Absolutely Breathtaking!!! You Fascinate me with All your Beautiful Art!!!

[@marylouhawkins]

Just TOO adorable! And Uplifting! Susan at her very best and most entertaining!! Thank you!

[@CarmensDolls]

Thank you! We have a rescue kitty that we literally rescued- that somehow got lost from its feral momma and wound up between the walls between the apartments in our building. It was so tiny. We’ve had her for about a month now. She sat on my shoulder and was just as intrigued as I was watching this video. She watched almost the whole thing with me. This was so fun to watch and see how left over canes can be used in such a creative way. Just a little bit made a whole new piece of art. They are so darling big and small. We really enjoyed it! 😺

[@c.c.9539]

awww nothing more adorable than a kitten (except maybe a puppy). Bless you for giving her a loving home.

[@jenniferroya3606]

Oh the joy of simple things. So wonderful!

[@gailrod2096]

That opening is just DARLING!

[@UraniumFire]

Wow! Thanks for showing your technique and the wonderful baby turtles and Mama Matilda. So much fun to watch.

[@georginabuziak5110]

What a special treat Susan........I LOVE turtles.......LOVED your process and just simply the way you do things and create........perfect for me.....I never get bored!!!!!! THANK YOU.............needed to watch something totally sweet and adorable to start my day!!!! : )

[@michelleadamchak1330]

Susan.....ahahaha, it's literally turtle soup beads. So stinkin, freakin amazingly cute. I need these in my life@

[@eileengavinlarsen4509]

Oh wow, Susan, your creativity is *astounding*!!! And I just adore the joy you express when you're creating. So Much Fun!! These turtles (all of them) are just wonderful. I am so blown away and so inspired. Thank you for being you, and sharing so much with us!

[@burnellvassarmd4670]

Love the claymation turtles, adorable!

[@jenanielson]

You've out done yourself, that intro..and how fantastic these are. Absolutely love them. Wow!

[@batya7]

I love the animation! Thanks for explaining the Turtle Soup name! Love your playful vision.

[@maathathor4003]

I just can't say enough about all your knowledge. I love everthing you create. Beautiful.

[@carriefiorey8653]

Susan! I just squealed when I saw your intro! I love these turtles!! You are the most inspiring, creative, beautiful person I know! You brighten my day! Thank you!

[@shybrencessa6848]

I CANT TELL YOU ENOUGH HOW I MISS YOU. GOTTA TURTLE FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HALF WAY THERE. YOU WERE WHERE I WATCHED BEFORE I GOT CRAZY WITH CLAY

[@dawnfield4461]

Oh wow...thank you so much for this lovely video. I love the little turtles, and I was absolutely blown away by the beautiful big turtle. Thank you for sharing your talent with us. I am so inspired to create these now.

[@barbaratumlinson7445]

We had a turtle at our house. My daughter came home from school in the second grade wanting an amphibian for a pet. We got a very small turtle,which grew and grew. We didn’t know anything about turtles. It took our oldest daughter going off to school to have the youngest daughter to find out all about our turtle. They named him Curtle. He lived for 35 years. I am so inspired by your tutorial’s. I have bought polymer clay and especially the color magenta. Your easy going expert artful hands are magical! Thank you for your professionalism and your art! 😁🐢

[@gabrielleschmidt1435]

Matilda is Gorgeous! And I love all of her little babies too!😻

[@kerriefearby9542]

Love that opening and your turtles are adorable, thanks for sharing.

[@cakeStudioD]

Susan, you've done it again!!! Matilda and her babies are BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! LOVE the intro!!! Love you!!! Love you puppy!!! Love it all!!!

[@evelynsharland3030]

I absolutely L❤️VE. These turtles! I moved to Hawaii last year, and they really revere their turtles. I had to come back for some surgery and haven’t made it back to Hawaii yet, but I bet people will really like this over there when I get back. Thank you so much Susan for sharing with us the way you do. I appreciate it.

[@blacksheeparts5083]

Absolutely lovely opening and such great designs! You make it look easy. NOT! Keep the videos coming.I love them. Thanks so much.

[@maryheim8203]

I never weary of watching you create all the wonderful and beautiful beads that you do. You make me smile and your energy is remarkable. I totally love what you do. Thank You

[@maryheim8203]

One more thing, I love the sound of your little dog snores. So darn cute.

[@gabrielleschmidt1435]

Matilda and all of the babies are SO CUTE! 😻

[@lauriehurrell-shiel200]

Love the intro!!!!!you are absolutely amazing I just can't believe how creative you are.

[@kaymartin9607]

Matilda is beautiful!!! Thank you for ALL of your wonderful videos, they are so inspiring!!

[@Stephanie_Hancock]

Oh Susan, fabulous into, adorable turtles. Mathilda is beautiful. You are amazing!

[@SylverZone]

Matilda is gorgeous! Thank you for showing that process.

[@donnaleelittle9664]

Susan you never fail to do amazing works and teaching! I wander if you ever sleep or does your imaginary mind spin all the time with new teaching ideas? ❤️❤️❤️

[@joyceengland8781]

It’s a year later and we need this more than ever before. Always a treat!

[@coraleeolazabal3837]

Dear Susan, this isn't the first time I watch one of your videos nor the second, nor the third. But I have to say this is my favorite video out of all the ones I've watched so far. It's happy looking all those little turtles running around it's colorful the music's bouncy. I have a daughter-in-law he was an artist in her own right with beads and anything else she looks at and decide she wants to make. She's quite a talent so I'm going to forward this video to her and say sweetie can you make your mother-in-law a turtle family? No guilt trip no you know no pressure or anything.LOL. THANKS FOR YOUR TALENTS. CL

[@CraftyHanna]

I’ve had a shitty day today and this made me smile! Love everything you do - thanks for sharing

[@emillymalott5456]

Wow, I love your intro. Your turtles are amazing and there are no words to that say how awesome mama turtle truly is! Thank you for sharing your talent, because of your videos I have started playing with clay and my husband was so inspired by your work that we do it together now.

[@suzynissen2350]

OK....so I have watched the intro like ten times now. I'm in love with all of them.

[@verabajirova5154]

Susan, thank you, this is something fabulous. 💐💐💐💐👏👏👏👏

[@bonniefaltz9505]

Love, love, love each and every one of these adorable turtles and the beautiful mama turtle. The intro was so cute and entertaining. May I suggest that if you cover your compressed foil with masking tape, the clay is easier to smooth and the clay sticks well to the tape. Mama turtle is sooooo beautiful! What a great way to use up those little bits of canes. Would love to see how you made the petal canes down the middle of Matilda's belly and how you use those adorable turtle beads! Thanks Susan!! You keep us dreaming and inspired.

[@deloreswilson6460]

Bonnie Fal

[@TurtleSoupBeads]

thanks I usually do that but fla heat turned mine into a solid and it was the creative moment that wouldn't let me stop but great tip !

[@bonniefaltz9505]

​I should have know that you already knew! LOL. It was interesting to learn how you got the name of your crafts. Hope that little red turtle in the intro catches up to its mom! LOL Thanks Susan!

[@sueellens]

Ohhhh I love the intro! How cute...and perfect! Okay, now I can’t wait to watch the rest.

[@jenniferroya3606]

Hi Susan, just want to say how much your videos mean to me. I have tried many of your ideas & they are never as good as yours however I keep trying & I think I’m getting better. It doesn’t matter because the whole process gives me incredible joy. I love learning from you because you seem to be such an authentic person & you are definitely a classy gal. Thanks for all you do for others.

[@garliclover01]

Susan, the turtles are delightful, and so is your new intros!!!

[@christierochon6819]

Susan, your new intro is stinking adorable!! Love your imagination- you’re so inspiring! Thank you!!

[@NoirParvana]

KZbin suggested one of these videos to me. I didn't know I needed these in my life, but now I've watched like...ten videos. My husband is going to be so mad when I add polymer clay crafting to my resin and painting crafts.

[@garliclover01]

Thank you Susan, that was wonderfully done!!!! The turtles are gorgeous.

[@barbarajohnson2218]

The intro was so great. Thanks for sharing how you got your name. Imaginative, creative and you make it look so easy. Thank you for continuing. Just beautiful.

[@peculiardeb]

Thank you for sharing how you became Turtle Soup Beads! I loved it...and the turtles are soYOU🥰

[@melissaphillis7247]

Awwwwwwwwww! Incredible! Mummy and babies! I adore these.

[@kimmerlydickey5525]

Wow! I just blew off my couch! Gorgeous turtles. Your creativity is astonishing! Thank you 🌷🌷

[@karenmorris5847]

Susan, I've watched this video so many times and it never gets old. I love it ♥️

[@johng0908]

Now you're just showing off...just kidding. Susan you are such a creative and colorful individual. Thanks for posting these videos.

[@durindaau8085]

Omgosh these are so sweet. We have 22 people in our family and this year they may get turtles for their Christmas ornaments.

[@roxanahurley7360]

Susan, these are the most darling little things I have ever seen! And Matilda.... what a gorgeous lady! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@craftylittlerthings]

I love it, can actually think it’s little baby turtles following behind their Mama Matilda, it’s fun, thank you for making me smile, getting cabin fever from lockdown!! Stay well everyone Hugs xxxAnnxxx

[@maryzylema9699]

Love your turtles ! They are my daughters favorite reptile. Every time you showed one I thought yep that one and then you showed another , and now I love them all .Thank you Susan fot sharing them .🤗💖

[@ThinkingOutsideTheBox]

Very creative! I love these Susan! 💜💜

[@carolynr7770]

Love to watch …one smart lady. Makes you feel like you can do it .hope her Etsy shop will open soon..need to start Christmas shopping..

[@susanhamilton8370]

Fabulous animation and exactly the right impish music, well done, it's a triumph! Fascinating to hear the origin of the name TurtleSoupBeads, this was a real surprise. Thank you so much for the laughter, joy & inspiration that Matilda & the sweet babies she laid all by herself brought to us all :)

[@jasminehealey9405]

I'm SO excited about this video- thank you Susan! Your turtles are adorable & amazing. My mom loves turtles so I'm really looking forward to tonight when I will try to make her some using your awesome tutorial. Thank you so much for sharing this with us! I look so forward to all your clay videos

[@allisonbarry720]

Love Matilda. I watch someone with a tortoise named Matilda and I automatically thought of him

[@joydillard2038]

How cute are these tiny turtles!

[@Hrdrkinmama]

How incredable ! I adore your turttles....very clever as always !!! Thank you !!!!💟🙂

[@kathyjones274]

I love your turtles 🐢 so cute

[@kimberlycushing7470]

They are so cute and some are really beautiful! What a wonderful video entrance! I'm so interested in the filming aspects of this. I love this tutorial and how easy it is to use up scrap clay and end up with a gorgeous turtle shell! Thank you, Susan! ❤️❤️😍

[@pattiklaus9580]

Love your turtles and your turtle tute!

[@pandaheston1362]

I have been looking at videos of paint pouring and found it space consuming and to much for my brain to handle not to mention cost. In watching polymer clay videos for awhile I fell in love with the diversity, but when I watched your video I was hooked like never before. I loved every aspect of what you said and showed. I love it so much I will be buying clay tomorrow and relaxing with it and creating, learning and loving it even if I have some fails thats to be expected. Love 💘 love love!

[@Soapartisan875]

I am in awe with everything you create ❤ so colorful and unique .

[@susanjerrell9220]

ADORABLENESS overload!!! The best video yet! Maybe not, but totally enjoyable. I had always wondered where Turtle Soup Beads came from and now I know. 💜🐢

[@marionmathews9852]

OMG! That was FABULOUS!!! I was excited at the intro and the excitement just kept building. I love, love, love Matilda......awesome job. Your canes, your colours, your ideas, your results are all amazing. TFS

[@MissArtlover76]

I looooove your beautiful turtle beeds, they are so colorful. I just watch this video at the end of my day and it just made my day even more wonderful. Thank you for sharing, I admire your work and how you see things. Blessing dear Susan ♥️

[@helenlittlefield1267]

That mamma turtle is stinking brilliant!

[@artsygigi]

Love love the turtles I have always loved and had real turtles and collected them, Thank you!

[@squirrelcottage4052]

I hope you use this as your intro for all future videos! It's a super signature and I could watch those turtles scoot around over and over! Too much fun!!! ~~~^..^

[@jacquelinecimaglia5725]

Nothing to say but OUTSTANDING! You have such a creative artistic eye. I so wish I could be 1/8 as creative as you. I love crafting but can never come up with my own original ideas. I've learned a lot from you. thank you very much. I've become very interested in all the diy dollar store diy's and now the rock painting I like also.

[@brendabonser4589]

Wonderful! I always wanted to do a larger item, but was not quite sure how to go about it. Loved every single second of this tutorial. You are absolutely the best Susan. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@analogal2639]

wow ! I have no word. It is so so so nice, so creative, so happy !!! Thank you.

[@paulasue4803]

What a glamorous mama turtle! Thanks for the fun! I am going to start with baby turtles first.

[@patriciathornton1154]

Hi Susan, What a great video from surprise start to finish! I wondered about your name and now we know. Your turtles are so much fun. I have not made anything with armature so your words of wisdom on Matilda were very helpful. Also, I thought your last resin video was great. All of us who watch you know without doubt that you are a true nature and animal lover. Preserving the beauty of a poor creature who has passed on through natural or predator causes allows their beauty to continue. I use resin on almost all my clay pieces because of the depth that it gives. Thanks so much for sharing your talent and the beauty that you have made as well as that which you have found along the way! Patty

[@TheRyanostorm]

Omg beautiful so cutie Turtles 🐢❤️❤️❤️

[@songyardbird2513]

haha haha love the bluegrass claymation intro! I love knowing the origins of your trade name.

[@zoeemiko8149]

Many years ago I was given a quite large box of size 6 mixed color mostly luminous seed beads. There were some smaller gold bugle beads mixed in. Anyway, I never used them but couldn't bear to get rid of them either. I began learning to use polymer clay to make the most gorgeous beads in 2018 and have been addicted since. Then began making jewelry with them & using beads. I now have boxes of polymer clay beads I've made now. I'm always had it in the back of my head to make an arched bead curtain with the seed beads then it came to me.. use the polymer clay ones also! I was just organizing to begin making my bead curtain when I saw this video. I had to have turtles interspersed also! Yes, I have your fish and inchies along with just about every bead you've shown us how to make! I even glued the flat back ones back to back and added those. I decided to make my curtain in sections I could hook together rather than in single long strands. That turned out to be one smart decision. I just finished my curtain yesterday. It's 7' long on the sides, the middle of the arch is nearly 3' and 6' wide. HUGE! And fits my front picture window perfectly. It's by far the prettiest most amazing thing in my home. It's all.. ALL.. size 5 seed beads and turtlesoupbeads inspired beads. Not that I'll ever be truly done with it. I can hook & unhook sections to add new small strands with whatever fun bead you come up with next. I went through about 2/3 of the box of seed beads so lots of fun left to be had. Or.. I'll make another bead curtain for over my substantially smaller kitchen sink. How lovely would that be? I'd have to wait until I had another big batch of beads made though since I've nearly depleted my stash. I never thought that would even be possible in itself! The other drapes in my house all sport tie backs I've made using polymer clay, beads & strips of ribbon, lace & organza. With your help I was able to make what will forever be for me the masterpiece of artwork of my lifetime. Thank you Susan!

[@helgama3048]

How wonderfully creative you are! Love ❤️ your cute turtles 🐢!

[@janahurinui243]

Momma turtle is GOERGEOUS 😍

[@soileilkkala8831]

Oh ,Matilda's are gorgeous ! I think I just might practice with baby turtles for some time . They are all so very cutsies . Thank You !

[@barblarson7410]

Your creativity and imagination is astonishing!

[@joyceengland8781]

Please please do another one of these. They’re such fun and to ring in 2021(maybe a little late) to start the year with hope! Besides, I would like to see you do the head. Thanks ever so much for what you do.

[@joyceengland8781]

I mean Millies head. How about false eyelashes?!

[@teath_]

I loved the stop motion in the beginning!!! SO CUTE

[@thedognose7359]

Just want to say how grateful I am for your work creating and making these tutorials available for everyone to use. Your work is so beautiful and inspiring but you have such an easygoing and open hearted attitude you make even a complete beginner like me want to keep playing and having fun learning how to make these lovely things. (I’m addicted to your leaf canes and making pods by the way!)

[@TurtleSoupBeads]

You're very welcome!

[@maryfox9020]

This is my favorite video of anything that you have done. I've been making turtles for quite awhile and I really like these. It seem like I like other people's stuff better than what I make. Very, very nice. Thank you

[@bohorustica8545]

W.O.W. Matilda takes Playing to the Extreme reaches of the Cosmos .... a real labour of Love. I cannot fathom the number of hours you must have spent making all those myriad of tiny canes you used in the decorating. Freaking awesomeness to behold. You've blown my mind yet again : )

[@pamcolechadwell1302]

I adore your Intro so much fun. I never ever thought I would love Turtle soup they say it tastes like chicken, but I think it's amazing LOL you know I love you your Jewelry and your videos. Millie is fabulous.

[@TurtleSoupBeads]

I'm a vegan I would never eat a animal !

[@MultiCootie]

Susan :) Cutest turtles I ever did see!!! Made me happy this morning!!! Thankyou for sharing

[@pammipayne3334]

This is the best tutorial I have ever watched. Matilda is just the best turtle ever. You're an amazing artist/creator. The babies are just so super cute. But not as cute as your dear dog. So very sweet, such a tiny face. So heart wrenching.

[@TurtleSoupBeads]

Thank you so much 😀

[@pammipayne3334]

@@TurtleSoupBeads Most welcome.