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Tutorial: Sculpting Miniature Chameleons

April 20, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

chaameleon

PetitPlat, maker of spectacular miniature foods has a YouTube channel. Of course, what caught my eye today was the non food stuff: here’s a fabulous miniature chameleon to create. Anyone know how to get colour change paints for clay … Read More ...

Tutorial: Scrap Clay Kaleidoscopes

April 18, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

scrap-kaleidoscpe

I cane a lot and I make a lot of beads. Apart from nifty beads and canes I make a lot of scrap. So does Ronit Golan, for the same reason. They’ve kindly shared a tutorial for making kaleidoscope canes … Read More ...

Tutorial: Polymer Plant Stakes

April 17, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

Plant Stakes

From the helpful folks at Sculpey and Amy Koranek, here’s a tutorial for simple plant stakes. Get the kiddos to make a little bouquet of these for Mother’s Day gifts with the right plants for their garden.

If your mom … Read More ...

Polymer Clay Coasters

April 15, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

faux-leather-coaster

These coasters are stylish as well as practical. Faux leather is a great clay technique and the same sort of process would make nifty notebook covers, tags for gifts, dollhouse miniature furniture and all sorts of beads or pendants. If … Read More ...

Tutorial: Make Paris Magnets

April 14, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

paris-magnets

Polymer clay lets you make great custom magnets – make a clay piece, bake and use a good, strong glue. Voila! Magnet. You can make an alphabet of letter magnets that suit your decor better than the plastic ones. Or … Read More ...

Polymer Clay for the Garden

April 12, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

With gardening season coming up here’s some great goodies by the clay artists of Etsy – for your regular size garden or your miniature one.


Garden Stake Set by OldKettleLane

Mini Morel Mushrooms by MariposaMiniatures

Sheep Figure Decoration by Catherinescritters
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Polymer Clay Tutorial: Tiny Terracotta Pots

April 11, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

terracottapots

Just in time for your spring planting – tiny clay pots. The tutorial uses an air drying terracotta clay but would be perfect with polymer clay… and be less likely to get soggy if you use it for … Read More ...

DIY Tutorial: Clay Herb Markers

April 8, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

humblebeads-markers

I figure this one would be a good gift for gardeners and moms or even wannabe gardener moms (like me!) The markers do their job and they have some of the wonderful colour sense that Heather Powers of Humblebeads is … Read More ...

Tutorial: Rainbow Unicorn

April 7, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

rainbow-unicorn

This baby rainbow unicorn is one of those adorable fondant tutorials that would work beautifully with polymer clay. If you are working with amounts where the unicorn head would end up bigger than an inch in diameter… use a wad … Read More ...

Tutorial: Can Tabs and Clay

April 4, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

polymer-clay32

I have a talented friend who uses pop can (and all sorts of can) pull tabs in her art. She crochets these into purses, sculpture and clothing. Sometimes we craft together and I poke at the bucket of tabs and … Read More ...

Tutorial: Flower Art Beads

April 3, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

flower-beads

The beads in the tutorial are made from ceramic but as she mentions right there in the instructions… they’d work just as well in polymer clay. I love the effect of ceramic glazes and you can do a pretty good … Read More ...

Tutorial: Stencils with Polymer Clay

April 3, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

stencil-girl-jewelry

Here’s a clever tutorial to make a sheet decorated with layers of designs stenciled on with alcohol inks. The result is a fabulous mix of pattern and colour the artist uses to cut shapes from to create modern jewelry from.… Read More ...

Props for your Snowglobes

March 30, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

diy-snowglobe

I used to love using old jam jars for snowglobes as a little kid. Invariably mine opened, broke or otherwise made giant messes… but I loved them anyways. I usually tucked glitter and little plastic dollar store toys in mine … Read More ...

Tutorial: Faux Turquoise Variant

March 29, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

jewelry056

I tend to use a lot of “faux” turquoise in the form of magnesite, a common rock that is dyed to mimic other opaque, veined stones. I actually like the pattern in magnesite because it is very clean compared to … Read More ...

Sanding Your Clay

March 26, 2016 by Elaine Robitaille

sanding-disks

Way back when I started really claying and began to worry about how to finish my work I sanded by hand and hated it. Since I was making small beads, mostly, this was time consuming and painful. Eventually I settled … Read More ...

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