I am pretty sure one of the best attributes of regular old oven bake clay is that it is both a modeling medium to make objects from and a medium with pigment to do decoration with. This can add a … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Place Holders
It’s June, the season of grads and weddings. If that means setting fancy tables, you can get a little inspiration for placeholders with this tutorial. It makes a simple, marbled holder for your placecards. Alter the colours or shape … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Fidget Spinner
I’m not sure if the fidget spinner plague has hit where you are but they showed up here a while back and they’re still being fidgeted with. I told my partner I needed to make one out of polymer clay … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Blueberry Bracelet
This is a great looking blueberry tutorial as well as blueberry bracelet tutorial. Me Dearwe has a couple of other tutorials on their channel to check out, as well. They get the delicate colouration on their blueberry charms with pastels … Read More ...
Pincushion Clay Owls
I love projects that use in their mixed media. Polymer clay makes great, quick holders – bodies, containers, little shapes – in a prototyping sort of way. This pincushion owl is a perfect example. The body is a simple piece, … Read More ...
Fathers Day Clay Keychain
I’m not sure about the dads in your world but I smiled a little when I imagined what would be stuck into clay for the “dad” in my house – my partner – and thinking he’d be concerned if I … Read More ...
Money Clips and Polymer Clay
I noticed this one because it has Matt’s great canework on it but then I saw that it was also a money clip which is a decent dad’s day project as well. The black and white suits my happy monochromatic … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Emojis
I’m watching more YouTube videos lately due to work related projects and that means way more clay videos than I usually stumble across. Like everyone else (or, at least everyone with teenagers?) I’ve gotten introduced to the emoji-as-language culture the … Read More ...
Wind Chimes from Air Dry Clay
There’s something magical about the gentle tinkling of wind chimes on a breezy day. For me, it always brings back memories of summer evenings in the backyard, a cup of tea in hand, while listening to that soft, calming music … Read More ...
Make DIY Clay Whistles
I was looking for a project I had seen years ago – in a book, it turns out – about how to make a whistle from polymer clay
. The search turned up some tutorials for how to do this … Read More ...
Mokume Gane with Paints and Leaf
Sometimes even the basic techniques look great with good material and colour choices and good workmanship. This mokume gane tutorial (English translation) is an excellent of that approach.
One mg hint: in the stack, if you want the … Read More ...
A Stack of Clay Bead Techniques
This page on KalinkaPolinka – or the English translation – has a stack of picture tutorials on canes and beads. I went looking, specifically, for the nice step by step pictures of the Natasha style beads. They’re one of my … Read More ...
Tweaking Your Jellyroll Cane
Chifonie shared this neat tutorial (in English translation) over at Parôle de Paté, which is a fantastic French polymer clay community site. Like so many clever ideas in the clay world, this one came about by happy accident. The … Read More ...
Make a Garden Marker from Polymer Clay
Katie from KatersAcres shares a project she published as part of her Lisa Pavelka series of projects. It makes an embellished plaque that you can add a stick to for an herb or garden marker. Polymer clay makes great decorative … Read More ...
DIY Make Your Own Footprint Bowls
My daughter is a little old for this craft and I wish some well meaning person had used her baby feet to make one for me 18 years ago. Louise from Messy Little Monster has the details for a heart … Read More ...