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 ...
The Heart Guy
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 ...
Storing Your Polymer Clay
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 ...
The Polymer Clay Challenge
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 ...
Clay Transfers with Paper Napkins
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 ...
Marbled Clay Coasters
Michael’s has a great last summer hurrah type project with these brightly coloured marbled coasters. They use Fimo Sculpey 3 in the tutorial but I’d highly recommend something a little sturdier since these will actually be handled. Premo! or … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Mica Shift
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 ...
Polymer Clay and Sports
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 ...
Miniature Polymer Clay BBQ
I’ve got a weakness for good miniatures and food miniatures are definitely favourites. Here’s a bit of an ode to summer by some of the really great polymer clay miniaturists. I’ve linked the images to their photos on Flickr – … Read More ...
Little Bowls for Mother’s Day
This is a Mother’s Day project for the younger set – little ring dishes embellished to look like flowers or starry skies. These are made from Model Magic
, a really great air dry material from Crayola. It’s fun, easy … Read More ...
Easter Clay on Etsy
There are so many talented polymer clayers on Etsy! Check out what they’re up to for Easter work:
| Easter Egg House by Macrani (shown above) |
 Bunny Crochet Hook by PedrosPlaques |
 Miniature Easter Baking by RealisticMiniatures |
 Hot Cross Bun Earrings by |
Really Simple Canes with Simple Tools
If you have access to a pasta machine you can make a whole pile of pretty awesome simple canes. Bonus points if you have a clay extruder around.
If you want precise, nicely lined up canes use the square edged … Read More ...
Adorable Kids Clay Crafts
While I work almost exclusively with oven bake polymer clay the air dry stuff can be easier for the kiddos – and cheaper on the grownup wallet. Crayola Magic is a widely available children’s modeling material that is dead simple … Read More ...
Autumn Tree Cane
A few years ago Wendy Jorre de St Jorre completed an ambitious goal: she made and posted a different tree cane each week for a year. They were all great. She shared the steps for how to make many of … Read More ...
Polymer Clayers on Etsy
I occasionally give a shout out to clayers on Etsy. I’ve used Etsy (and other platforms) for a while and a lot of clayers use it themselves so it’s a fabulous place to see what the polymer clay world is … Read More ...