Fimo and clay tips and tutorials
Janet, of Crystals and Clay, has a lovely tutorial for a necklace that incorporates pretty crystals in a fringe and a delicate little polymer clay succulent. The overall piece is great with gentle colours and movement. Her site is full … Read More ...
Almost all of my work is done with polymer clay canes and, like a lot of other clayers, I make them to sell too. It’s always been fun for me to see what everyone else is making. I used to … Read More ...
Mihaela, from Learn Polymer Clay, has a fancy faux Fabergé egg tutorial to share with us where all sorts of fun extras are used to make the glitzy design. If your Easter egg projects don’t want to be spring pastel … Read More ...
Something I hadn’t considered before was making yourself a teeny replica of your wedding (or other special event) cake for a souvenir. Given how seriously impressive some wedding cakes can be I could totally see that as a neat wedding … Read More ...
Here’s a couple of great techniques – a good, basic polymer clay mokume gane and pillow beads – in a tutorial by Kathy Weaver for Fire Mountain Gems. This is the sort of stuff that got me into polymer clay … Read More ...
One thing I do not do enough with clay – air dry or oven bake polymer clay – is mixed media. I don’t combine things nearly enough. And it’s not because I don’t have cool things. I’m a good crafter … Read More ...
If tackling polymer clay and caning is part of your plans for the coming year… this video(by DickBlick, art supply heaven) is a really great introduction to foundation canes and the tools for it. One of the comments on the … Read More ...
Inspired by the dry leaves and the autumn colours, here’s a mixed media project: a fossilized leaf design in a frame that captures the feeling of autumn. For a change, craft the one side of the frame and leave the … Read More ...
One of the fabulous, fabulous things in the clay world is how many clayers spend a lot of their time and resources making clay pieces for charitable efforts. One of those is Ron Lehocky who has made many thousands of … Read More ...
Just like setting up your clay work space you’ll have some variables in how you store the actual clay. When I was new to clay, a few zipper plastic bags and plastic Tupperware type containers were plenty. Later, when I … Read More ...
If you’re looking for a good way to start your polymer clay year I highly recommend Katie’s Polymer Clay Challenge. I didn’t participate last year – I should have! – but have in the past a few times and, … Read More ...
One of my favourite things to do with Silly Putty when I was lucky enough to get some as a kid was make transfers from comic book pages. I was thrilled when I realized you could do similar with polymer … Read More ...
Michael’s has a great last summer hurrah type project with these brightly coloured marbled coasters. They use Sculpey 3 in the tutorial but I’d highly recommend something a little sturdier since these will actually be handled. Premo! or Fimo … Read More ...
One of the more esoteric techniques with polymer clay has definitely got to be mica shift. By careful manipulation of the clays that have mica particles in them you can create intricate, detailed designs… with smooth tops and no other … Read More ...
The last week or so I was an official observer at the Canada Games – a national level sports event for youth – and it was both exhausting and inspirational. I see a little (more) sport themed polymer clay in … Read More ...