In caning, I use a lot of Skinner blends. Colour shading is a huge part of making great picture canes and also in adding interest to projects using your blends. A simple tweak to your blend adds a neat stepped … Read More ...
Pantone and Polymer Clay
Long ago in a previous life I worked in print shops. Part of that world is using the Pantone colour system for all sorts of things and Pantone is the industry fixture for colour recipes and colour forecasts. Carolyn Good … Read More ...
Make Leaves from Polymer Clay
This video by Shabby Crafter makes a useful polymer clay charm or dangle for adding to jewellery, pulls or other projects. Vary your base clay and powder colours for the whole gamut of autumn colours.
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Polymer Clay Acorn Pendants
Sarah, of Stepping Thru Crazy, has a great autumn themed tutorial. She uses a real acorn cap and polymer clay to make a fun pendant. If you don’t have acorn caps near you, you could easily do the whole … Read More ...
Happy Turkey Day! with Polymer Clay of Course
It’s Thanksgiving today in Canada. I am blessed to have family visiting, food roasting in the oven, and time to enjoy it all. One of the things I am constantly thankful for is how very lucky I am to have … Read More ...
Polymer Clay and Instagram
Like most parents I’m behind the times. I got onto Instagram a while ago but it was still ages after my teenager. Of course, one of the first things I did on there was go looking for other polymer clayers. … Read More ...
Hollow Polymer Clay Shells
Primatoide, a French polymer clayer, makes clever nautilus style shells – hollow ones at that – with a combination of wash away play-doh clay and polymer clays. She uses a log of Play-Doh wrapped in a thin layer of clay … Read More ...
Glow in the Dark Flowers with Polymer Clay
Still playing around with glow in the dark polymer clay at my place! I’ve been mixing it with colours to make some little creatures (a la Christi Friesen ghoulies). Polymer Clay Artist, who’s video this is, has a channel with … Read More ...
Alcohol Inks and Foil Crackle on Clay
A nicely crackled decoration is one of the prettiest ways to make an interesting surface on your clay pieces. Ludmilla shares a video on the process, using a combination of alcohol inks and metallic foils. Her channel has a sweet … Read More ...
Glow In The Dark Polymer Clay
I got myself… er, the kids!… a bunch of glow in the dark polymer clay to use for upcoming polymer clay classes and went out to look for ideas. We’ll be doing something Halloween themed for the October class but … Read More ...
Create Hollow Clay Beads
This tutorial is a whole stack of useful techniques: hollow beads (using polystyrene / shrink plastic balls), pastels for colour and silk screens. Petra Nemravka’s site has a wealth of tutorials, tips, and great supplies available.… Read More ...
Clay Raindrop Necklace
Mollie of Wild Olive has the perfect necklace for my last few rainy days: a polymer clay raindrop necklace. It’s hard to be sad with this cute kawaii style raindrop and it’s a simple project. Use coloured clay if … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Umbrellas
This project makes adorable little clay umbrellas. I’m heading into a damp couple of days so this was the perfect “theme” project. The original is in Russian but here’s a translation.… Read More ...
Exotic Gold Polymer Clay Pendant
Picking up different style elements or cultural themes in your polymer clay pieces can give them an extra zing. This piece by Sculpey and Dr. Pritish brings a little of the exotic, detailed gold tones of Indian art to it. … Read More ...
Make a Clay Pendant Lamp
Here’s a clever idea – use your clay to make a pendant lamp. Take a standard lamp bulb set up and create the “shade” for it. This tutorial uses air dry clay super effectively – the white minimalist and simple … Read More ...