Fimo and clay tips and tutorials
Colors of the Stone with To Bead True Blue and Artisan Workshops showcases the widest range of artisan handcraft in Tucson with 1000 artisan exhibits, galleries, workshops, and ateliers. The assemblage of independent artisans, traditional designers, studio artists, and small … Read More ...
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 ...
This DIY ‘brass’ air dry clay incense burner with ‘semi-precious’ polymer clay disc is a great take on a much pricier commercial version and easy peasy to make. The perfect, low-key gift for design-savvy fragrance lovers!
This project uses both … Read More ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Katie from KatersAcres has a pretty simple leaf cane tutorial available on her site. The most complicated part is probably getting a decent blend but once you’ve got that… this is just some slice and assembling.
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Marie-Charlotte, from LaPerleRouge, offers a great example(English version) of how simple canes can be combined together to make tremendously more complicated designs like kaleidoscope canes. This tutorial touches on several ways to turn your simpler canes into … Read More ...
Dyana, of Shine Crafts, sent us a link to some good seasonal projects on her blog. She says, “This funny looking Rudolph the red-nosed Reindeer Catch All is a wonderful handmade gift idea that you need to give everyone this … Read More ...
Gift tags and simple ornaments like these are pretty much the instant gratification polymer clay project for Christmas embellishments and token gifts. This tutorial from Movita of MovitaBeaucoup uses white Sculpey, paint, stamps, stencils and fun twine. You could do … Read More ...
Happy Thanksgiving to the American readers out there! We – the Canadian we – did Thanksgiving last month but one tradition we seem to be adopting here is the whole crazy shopping season starting up after the US Thanksgiving holiday. … Read More ...
I am a sucker for a well made polymer clay rose and this is a lovely one, in great blue shades. And to make it particularly wintry, it has sparkly faux snow to create frosted edges. The faux snow is … Read More ...
If you’re feeling up to caning for Halloween, here’s a pretty good skull cane tutorial – I’m going to add a lower mandible to mine when I do this cane – to try. Slices of the reduced cane would make … Read More ...
National Cat Day happens on October 29th in the US – August 8th is International Cat Day so you can, always, do both – and here’s some cat shaped clay goodness: a cold porcelain sculpt or these equally cute but … Read More ...
I’d probably do this one in Premo rather than Sculpey III but it’s still a fun project – a black cat with a Day of the Dead paint job. The tutorial is by Joanne G Garcia for Sculpey. The black … Read More ...