Here’s an interesting take on faux leather from syndee holt, for Sculpey. It uses Soufflé clay which has a nice, suede like texture and some pretty great colours. I’ve gotten more into it – I really like their grey and … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Pens
I know it’s a little early to be thinking back to school but maybe not. Then again, you don’t really need an excuse to make a stack of polymer clay pens. This post, a guest post by Suzy of … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Cake Toppers
Polymer is a pretty great jump right in medium if you want to try making cake toppers. For best practice, make the base of your topper something that is more food safe than clay (clay isn’t topic but it’s not … Read More ...
Making Polymer Clay Kaleidoscope Canes
Samantha, of Jessama Tutorials, has a ton of good tutorial videos on her site but today’s fun is a good basic kaleidoscope tutorial to get you started with this fun type of cane. Kaleidoscopes let you use all sorts of … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Canes for Spring
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 ...
Polymer Clay Sea Turtles
I was looking at other work by Meg Newberg – everyone should look at Meg’s great tutorial shop – and stumbled across an oldie but goodie sea turtle project in her generous free projects. The directions to make the simple … Read More ...
Simple Clay Leaf Canes
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.
Want to make it … Read More ...
Rainbow Blend Bracelet
I mostly use blends for fairly boring shading in canes and it leads me not to make the fun blends like the one in this bracelet tutorial by Amy Koranek for Sculpey. This blend becomes a part of a pixel … Read More ...
Fabulous Polymer Clay Tree Canes
A few years ago Wendy Jorre de St Jorre did a year where she made a new tree cane each week and shared the instructions for them. Many of them were wonderfully complex designs and all of them were worth … Read More ...
Combining Beginner Polymer Clay Canes for Complex Results
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 ...
Beginner Polymer Clay Caning
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 ...
Spiral Canes with a Twist
Not literally with a twist but with a little extra. Nee Nee Ree – her channel has a couple other useful tutorials – shows how to use a collection of basic techniques and canes to jump off into much more … Read More ...
Classic Candy Canes in Polymer Clay
When I’m asked by people unfamiliar with polymer clay to explain canes… I often use candy canes. Candy canes are made like polymer clay canes, with big design logs, that are then pulled and stretched to the final size. And, … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Cyber Sales
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 ...
Clay Acorn Ornaments
I’ve occasionally made acorn beads when requested – both cane slice ones like these and just acorn shaped beads – but it’s always a little weird. Acorns aren’t common where I live. Pinecones by the bucket full, yes, but not … Read More ...