I made so many watermelon and other fruit beads this summer I was looking through my hoarded links for other Fimo fruit canes to play with. Here’s one from a French artist for a kiwi cane. The original is … Read More ...
Tutorial: Trapezoid Quilt Canes with Extruders
Because extruders 
crank out perfectly even elements it’s not surprising people use them to create canes, particularly canes that require precision such as quilt, repeating tile patterns or “pixel” image ones. These canes rely on lines matching up and extruders … Read More ...
Tutorial: Extruder Pen
A non-cane project for extruders is this simple one: a string covered pen. Extruding long, even strings almost endlessly is one of the best extruder usages. You can use the strings for faux filigree, writing words in clay, hair … Read More ...
Tutorial: Extruder Cane
When I first began claying seriously and got an extruder… they were all these little metal ones with difficult to press plungers. Combine this with the fact that the only clay I could lay hands on was Fimo classic and … Read More ...
Tutorial: Polymer Clay Sand Dollars
Looking for summery themed projects – I’m on a sea shell bead cane kick at work right now – I stumbled across the sand dollar tutorial by Kellie of Make It With Me. Here’s a not too tough way to … Read More ...
Tutorial: Garden Art
As I’ve mentioned before I’m a big fan of clay. Mostly, that’s polymer clay but I’ve played with a lot of other varieties of clays – ceramics, air dry, model magic, paper clay… all sorts of good stuff. This tutorial… Read More ...
DIY Coasters
Here’s a cute coaster project. When I initially saw it I thought, you could totally do this with canework instead of paint but really, it’s LOVELY paint work. She comments that she’s using about a package of clay per … Read More ...
Updated: 7 Recipes To Make Your Own Clay
Note: these aren’t polymer clays
. They are a variety of modeling clays suited for different purposes. Some are great for kids because they’re completely harmless and soft. Others are better for a finer grain or take paint better. Ones … Read More ...
Tutorial: Weave Cane
Meg Newberg shares one way of doing a woven or knot cane here. Matching lines with this many thin parts is tough but as Meg points out in the tutorial, when the cane is reduced small, close is good … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Tutorial: Covering Crochet Hooks
I’ve just finished a batch of covered crochet hooks
. Ahem, almost finished. This tutorial pretty much describes the whole process as well as shows a simple method for cookie cutter canes. I went with my own canes and now … Read More ...
Tutorial: More Tiny Houses
I’m still on a tiny house kick. This project is a mixed media deal – polymer clay, paint, wooden bases and whatever embellishments you care to use. The tutorial uses white poly clay for the base but if you have … Read More ...
Tutorial: Tiny House Mobile
Today I had the lucky chance to hook a new polymer clayer. She asked me how she could make houses. Since I am, mostly, a bead maker and a caner I pulled out my list of links to look at … Read More ...
DIY Miniature Strawberries
And hop skipping towards more summer stuff: strawberries. Miniature strawberries made from polymer clay more specifically. The Ice Panda blog has both glazed and unglazed and an example of the strawberries in action as little post earrings.
I tend to … Read More ...
Tutorial: Faux Chevron / Staggered Blend Cane
The tutorial refers to this as a faux chevron cane but when I do a similar pattern I call it a staggered blend – and I stagger the blend so the end appearance is similar but the method quite different … Read More ...
Tutorial: Canework Bead Bracelet
I admit the bracelet part of the project was not what caught my eye. The bold coloured and neatly put together Fimo canework was. The tutorial is in Hungarian and the translation via Google is a little entertaining but the … Read More ...