If you’re looking for a fun heart cane to try for your Valentine’s Day projects here’s one from archidee on YouTube. She demonstrates the cane and then a simple project that uses it in the video. her channel has a … Read More ...
Kaleidoscope Canes with Basic Colours
This is a great example of kaleidoscope caning without complex shading. If you just want to try one out, I’d recommend something along this line.
The original tutorial is in Russian. Here’s a link to an English translation. KalinkaPolinka’s … Read More ...
Pens for Your Valentine
Make someone a sweet Valentine’s Day gift by covering a pen. Creative in Chicago makes a simple marble pattern by twisting and marbling traditional Valentine’s Day colours and slicing the results like a cane. This makes a confetti pattern … 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 ...
Baseball Canes and Beads from Polymer Clay
It’s not the season but I finally pulled the photos off my phone from the last time I made this cane and wrote up a quick tutorial on how to build a shaded baseball cane. The tutorial is advanced due … Read More ...
Multiple Swirl Swirlies
Way back when I had started claying online, one of the first tutorials I tried was Desiree McCrory’s. It was fairly new at the time and I have made a lot of swirly beads since then. I haven’t done … Read More ...
Picture Canes from… Pictures
When I make a new cane – one that I haven’t done so often my fingers remember by themselves – I tend to draw a sketch first. I mark where the lines will go and which direction the shading will … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Spider Webs
Sunni Bergeron popped a tutorial up for a spider web cane way back… it was one of the ones I played with back when I was new. It still works just great for an overlay effect on your Halloween designs. … Read More ...
Tweaking Your Skinner Blends
In caning, I use a lot of Skinner blends. Colour shading is a huge part of making great picture canes and also in adding interest to projects using your blends. A simple tweak to your blend adds a neat stepped … Read More ...
Polymer Clay and Instagram
Like most parents I’m behind the times. I got onto Instagram a while ago but it was still ages after my teenager. Of course, one of the first things I did on there was go looking for other polymer clayers. … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Storage Strategies
After those first few blocks of Fimo clay, about when you realize you’ll need a few of every colour and one of each tool you find, you start to think about storage. Since polymer clay stays usable for a long, … Read More ...
Leaf Canes in Clay
Here’s a clever exploration of greens – not the colour you necessarily associate with fall but you can go with a yellower green mix or get brave and try this with reds, yellows and browns for autumn hues – and … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Hacks
The other day I dragged my family to the Maker Faire and saw all the cool DIY stuff folks are getting up to. In that extended tribe of creative, technical types tips and hints are called hacks. In that spirit, … Read More ...
Basic Flower Cane in Polymer Clay
Before I got a pasta machine – that was about 3 years into what I call my Serious Fimo Polymer Clay phase – I made canes without it using my rolling pin, a ruler, and taped down markers to use … Read More ...
Making Polymer Clay Sushi
I got asked to make little sushi beads so off I went to look for inspiration. These minis aren’t the canework version I’ll be experimenting with but they’re so freaking adorable, I had to share. Tiny sushi for your doll … Read More ...