For the most part, Fimo polymer clay is pretty interchangeable. You can do a lot of things with all the clays. Of course, some are better than others. For example, while I’ve caned with Sculpey 3
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Polymer Clay Peppermints
Rachel from Lines Across whipped up a great peppermint cane to turn into peppermint slices. The slices are then strung on twine for a fun seasonal garland. They’d make adorable seasonal earrings or magnets, as well.
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Tutorial: Santa Claus Cane
Here’s a new cane from Monica Resta, perfect for the holidays: a Santa cane. Don’t forget to check out Monica’s whole channel of helpful stuff as well or her Facebook page.
Tutorial: Winter Tree Cane
Wendy Jorre de St Jorre’s Year of Trees – where she made a different tree cane each week of 2014 – resulted in a wealth of tree canes as well as tutorials for a bunch of those. With winter and … Read More ...
Miniature Plants in Polymer Clay
People make insanely detailed miniatures using polymer clay. Here’s a fairly dedicated miniaturist’s approach to making leaves and plants.
You could use a cane for the individual leaves if it were a fairly subtle one. Most of the leaf … Read More ...
Complex Canes from Polymer Clay
Most of the canes I make are straightforward pictures of real world objects. I make a lot of flowers, for example, and quite a few birds, leaves and butterflies. I don’t do a lot of complex but pattern based canes. … Read More ...
Making Polymer Clay Fish… Canes
One of the requests I had this summer was for little fish beads. I made a small fish cane quickly, turned it into beads and gave those to the customer. Then cursed myself for not photographing the silly thing. It … Read More ...
Tutorial – Making Scrap Clay Canes
This scrap clay cane by the super talented Ronit Golan uses scrap bits like cane slices, blends, good mixes and the crumbs you get as you go along. Combined with a bit of background colour to tie it together, you … Read More ...
Using Scrap Clay: Scrap Feather Cane
This tutorial is great because it helps you use scrap clay attractively and is a great, simple instruction for a feather cane. Feather canes make great slicing canes for beads, detailed, built up work or as components in larger, more … Read More ...
Using Your Polymer Clay Scraps
Today I hosted a kid’s birthday party in my studio – this is a regular thing – and, for the most part, we played with my scraps. My “good” scraps are the stuff that haven’t been mixed into shades of … Read More ...
DIY: Sunset Blends in Clay
In polymer clay clay, mixing colours can be a bit of an art. The manufacturers offer their picks which change on a fairly random basis. Artists get to mix and mix again to meet whatever needs they have. Need a … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Tutorial: Fish Canes
Here’s a whimsical tutorial from KalinkaPolinka for fish canes. The tutorial is written in Russian but an English translation is included which is great because the best part are the hints and tips. The pictures are great and self explanatory … Read More ...
DIY Extruder Slice Beads
Extruders are fun tools for polymer clayers. You can use any of the better ones to crank out tons of little strings of shaped clay, cane components and whatever else with relative ease. Georgia P uses a stack of complimentary … Read More ...
Tutorial: Making Leeks
My mini food fondness is probably a big part of why I like food canes and the teeny tiny beads that result from them (in my case). Shay Aron does fabulous food minis – here’s his flickr album for them … Read More ...
Tutorial: Tomato Slice Cane
This is a cute way of getting very realistic tomato slices. Being a caner, I’d probably add a lot more of the colouring detail to the cane instead of doing it to individual slices but I have to admit the … Read More ...