I was looking at other work by Meg Newberg – everyone should look at Meg’s great tutorial shop – and stumbled across an oldie but goodie sea turtle project in her generous free projects. The directions to make the simple … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Air Plant Holder
Kara, from AKailoChicLife, has a good tutorial for a faux malachite air plant holder. It’s one of the better simple faux malachite tutorials I’ve seen and it’s always good to have some good faux recipes. And the little air plant … Read More ...
Maple Syrup for Your Miniature Foods
If you make mini foods – and all clayers should give it a try – you may need some syrup for those tiny waffles and pancakes at some point. This same technique makes great sauces and soups as well. Andisa … Read More ...
Marbled Cabinet Pulls
Jessica of MadInCrafts is a brave DIYer and decided she would make some interesting drawer pulls for her cabinet update project. She decided to use clay to cover her knob hardware and went with a nice marbled look. The tutorial… Read More ...
Little Clay Easter Eggs
Here’s an adorable mixed media project from Rachel Berry. The clay is a small part but it’s a perfect addition. Make a basket or a bucket for your crew at Easter or your own spring-y wishes for some decor.
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Four Leaf Clover Clay
Make some fun last minute St. Patrick’s Day earrings with Makin’s air dry clay (or other air dry or oven bake clay). Using Makin’s small heart – from the geo set that was almost my first set of clay cutters … Read More ...
Making Polymer Clay Fairy Doors
One of the mainstays for my shows and my shop are my fairy garden things. I make a lot of fairy doors! Some of them are a little like the one in this delightful tutorial from Jenny Sorensen for Sculpey.… Read More ...
Making Molds for your Polymer Clay
Barb, of MadeByBarb, cleverly titled her post Multiply Your Own Bunnies which is perfect for how to sculpt and mold rabbits. She makes a basic bunny sculpt over foil, adds facets, and then, using homemade molding compound, creates a mold. … Read More ...
Build a Polymer Clay Fairy House
Maive Ferrando builds lovely little fairy houses in this video. I was looking for some ideas for my own fair houses and stumbled across these. I could totally see a little cluster of these in the corner of my flower … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Unicorns
TheLittleMew has a channel full of adorable miniatures including bunches of tutorials and useful tricks to watch. I was looking for a Miniature Clay Unicorn tutorial and found this super cute offering in there. If you’re in need of some … Read More ...
Marbled Clay Pendants
Where I am, on the Canadian Prairies, it has been awfully darned cold for ages. These bright, fun pendant projects from Leslie of Peace Love Polymer Clay make me think of when it’ll be warmer. Of course, part of the … Read More ...
Making a Better Polymer Clay Rose
Making polymer clay roses is one of those fast, fun, sort of instant gratification projects. I do them as warm ups at classes. Making GOOD polymer clay roses is a whole other deal. And here is a whole lesson, … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Forest Pendant
I love a lot of whimsical clay work and this lovely sculpted pendant from Ksenia is no different. The original tutorial is in Russian – here’s an English translation The instructions have lots of valuable tips in them including using … Read More ...
A Tiny Traveling Mouse Sculpture
I’m always interested in how people turn kind of small inconspicuous bits of clay into characters with tons of personality and such tiny details. Diav Draconia, the maker of this traveling mouse, has a channel full of charming, interesting and … Read More ...
Homemade Clay Heart Bunting
Cathy, of the UK site NurtureStore, has a two part fun craft – a homemade clay (seems like a version of cold porcelain) and a cute heart garland. I think the post was initially meant for Christmas but a little … Read More ...