Want to see what fabulous work polymer clayers doing for the 4th of July? Have a peek at Flickr and check it out. Adorable food minis, beads, canes, jewellery and way more.
Looking for 4th of July decorations? Check these … Read More ...
Silkscreens and Polymer Clay
In my high school and early college years, I worked with printing companies as a part time job. Most of the imprints we did used screens in some forms and it was always neat to see the process of getting … Read More ...
Making Ring Holders
This is a good example of a small, useful thing you can make with polymer clay: ring holders or ring cones. Organize your collection with DIY storage that you can match to your decor. Molly of Almost Makes Perfect … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Hollow Beads… the Balloon Method
Clayers are pretty clever people who adapt all sorts of other techniques to their polymer clay work. Sona Grigoryan did just that by making “balloon beads” with polymer clay. She uses thin wire to make a skeleton or cage around … Read More ...
Polymer Clay for the Garden
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 |
Sanding Your Clay
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 ...
Polymer Clay Easter Goodies
The creative clayers of Etsy make Easter fun!
 Cream Egg Earrings by SweetsOfMyOwn |
 Dollhouse Scale Easter Baking by Realistic Miniature |
 Rainbow Filigree Easter Egg by StarlessClay |
 Easter Chicks Figures by HelensClayArt |
Making Ladybug Canes
It must be in the air. I got asked for ladybug canes the other day, twice, and sent the nice askers pieces of cane. It got me looking at who else had made ladybug canes and discussed it online. Turns … Read More ...
Recombining Old Clay Pieces
As I’m working on my new stock for 2016 I’m trying to use some of my old canes and, yes, even my scraps. I’ve been busily looking around the internet to see what other people do with old, boring, tired … Read More ...
Tutorial: Doodling on Your Clay
Anke Humpbert combines forces with Sculpey to bring a tutorial for the doodle loving clayers out there. In this project the clay is used to make a white pendant blank to doodle on. Anke uses the alcohol ink based Chameleon … Read More ...
Tutorial: Hobbit Door Charms
This week I’m making little fairy doors in my studio. This was one of the bookmarked bits of research in my file but it scales up to fairy door size just perfectly. Plus it makes fabulous charms.
You absolutely should … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Miniature Foods for Valentine’s Day
I mean how specific can you get? But hey, they’re adorable little bits of clay!
 by The Mouse Market |
 by Paris Miniatures |
 by DollHouseKitchen |
 by PetitPlat |
Making Clay Tools
Garie, from Singapore, teaches many children and is a prolific polymer clayer. He also shares many of his tips and findings as he goes. This post is about some of the tools he’s made from found pieces and clay scraps. … Read More ...
Mixing Polymer Clay Colours
One of the first serious “lab” projects I did with clay – what I call the educational, learn my medium tasks – was make colour chips from the brands I was using. At the time, that was Fimo Classic and … Read More ...
Storing Your Clay
I use a lot of polymer clay so this system doesn’t work for me but back when polymer clay hadn’t swallowed my whole crafting world… I did something similar. I used 1 and 3 cup food storage containers to hold … Read More ...