Fimo and clay tips and tutorials
This tutorial, by Debi Beard of Debi’s Design Diary, uses air dry clay, dollar store plastic ball ornaments, good decorative paint and molds. You can use oven bake polymer clay and I’d suggest grabbing the inexpensive glass balls (which … Read More ...
These adorable ornaments are polymer clay versions of French macarons. Mindy of GetCreativeJuice made her tutorial straightforward and perfectly photographed. I would use jump rings instead of the eye screws because they stay in the clay better. Insert them half … Read More ...
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 ...
I live in Canada and this July 1st marks the 150th Canada Day. As a bit of celebrating I whipped up a tutorial for my Canada flag cane (and resulting beads!). It’s a colour block method to make a maple … Read More ...
Agate slices, with the pretty layers of colours and translucence make great jewellery, window ornaments and plain old decor. It’s not surprising there’s a pile of how-to tutorials for making your own faux agate from polymer clay. Here’s an oldie … Read More ...
Kellie makes the fancy, faux glass hearts of this necklace with translucent Fimo clays, varnish and metal leaf. Her tutorial touches on all the steps including how to turn your pile of hearts into a fun, full layered necklace.
You … Read More ...
On top of being really CUTE Valentine’s hair clips these are even better: they’re clay and they’re owls. Katie Kinnear of JellyCakes offers a simple, straightforward tutorial for the hair clips.
The little owls would also make great earring charms … Read More ...
I taught a lot of kid’s clay classes this fall! Towards the end we made ornaments and while I demonstrated ornament designs from my regular line – snowmen and penguins mostly – the kids had their own idea. There were … Read More ...
Rachel from Lines Across decided to make her own take on a lovely and pricey decoration from a favourite store. The gilded feathers she came up with are pretty great and don’t need a lot of materials. I think they’d … Read More ...
These are little angel figures,from Creations by Curry, perfect to demonstrate how to make a small sculpt. If you wanted your angel to be larger I’d suggest using wadded aluminum foil for the inside body part so that you … Read More ...
From polymer clay of course!
In my classes we do a variant of this – and of sugar cookies – every year. Piped icing, cookie cut outs and a little originality makes for adorable, fun decorations. Robin Wiesneth makes this … Read More ...
Penguins are one of those adorable winter time themes. Meg Newberg has a great, simple tutorial for polymer clay ones on her blog. The tutorial is for a basic penguin but adding the extra details makes the whole effect. Mine … Read More ...
I admit it. I like my miniatures. Here’s a video tutorial for making a simple but stable Christmas tree mini from polymer clay. Once you have the tree, you can add decorations or a little skiff of snow to it. … Read More ...
It’s finally beginning to snow here, a little, and we’re considering putting up our Christmas tree. Ornaments are one of my favourite things to make from clay and snowflakes make great, slightly fancy, projects to do. Cookie cutter ornaments, like … Read More ...
This project is clever both for the box making and the fairly realistic clay gear making. You could use the same idea for any sort of box you’d like – not necessarily heart related – and your choice of ornamentation … Read More ...
