Here’s a cute trinket dish for the kiddos to make – perhaps for Mother’s Day, perhaps to store their own treasures. The coil pot method to make the initial circle mixes the colours prettily.
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DIY Geometric Bangle Bracelets from Clay
Bangle bracelets in all sorts of styles come and go in popularity. Here’s a tutorial for a geometric version from polymer clay. This tutorial uses acrylic paint to colour the piece but you could, of course, use cane work, texture, … Read More ...
Tutorial: Sun Cane
Maybe I’m being a little optimistic. I mean where I live we’re almost certain to have more snow. But this sun cane from the super talented caner Meg Newberg helps lead the way. I would probably do this in hot … Read More ...
Tutorial: Petal Easter Egg
This tutorial is a great way to decorate an Easter egg with canes without worrying about getting it super smooth. Use the leaf or petal canes you have on hand or whip up some in fresh Easter colours. Kael comments … Read More ...
Making Fairy Doors From Polymer Clay
A bit of a craze the last few years, fairy doors are cute decorations for your garden, your terrariums, your potted plants and, in my case, the edge of the baseboards by the door between shops at work. Clay is … Read More ...
Simple Polymer Clay Canes for Good Effect
Some of the easiest clay beads to make are single cane slice beads. You make a cane, reduce it to the diameter you want your disk bead to be and cut a slice a little under 1/4″ thick (I aim … Read More ...
A Whole Forest of Canes
Last year Wendy Jorre de St. Jorre made a LOT of tree canes. She applied those canes to her pieces and shared both the finished work and the how-tos for many of those designs. Her meticulously finished pieces are lovely … Read More ...
Adding Visual Texture to Your Clay Blends
This is a quick picture tutorial (in French but here’s a link to a translation) on how to get a bit of staggering in your canework colours. I use a version of this technique to get the texture in … Read More ...
Ideas from Other Mediums and Dragon Eggs
I’ve been digging into making fantasy critters and bits from polymer clay. I live this stuff outside of clay so I am, of course, a fan of Game of Thrones. I hadn’t seen the show yet but when I started … Read More ...
Covering Eggs in Clay
Since polymer clay is great for covering just about anything that doesn’t run away first… it’s no surprise people cover eggs for Easter decorations. Here’s one tutorial – complete with blowing out the egg, building a simple cane and finish … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Bead Basics
A big part of what got me going with polymer clay was the potential for very, very cool beads. At the time, I hadn’t really found clay online and had a book from the library and one from the book … Read More ...
Make Big Hole Clay Beads
Joan Tayler explains her process for BFBs(big fat beads) in this useful step through. She uses grommets but all sorts of decorative eyelets work great for this as well and you can find them in the scrapbooking sections of … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Business Card Holders
One of the first projects I saw when I started claying on the Internet was the fantabulous business card couch tutorial on Polymer Clay Central. I never did get one made – it’s quite an undertaking to make fabulous stuff. … Read More ...
Make Polymer Clay Coasters
While my polymer clay 
life generally revolves around beads, canes and clay jewellery I like finding useful, home related items to make from polymer. It’s part of the reason I got into doing ceramics as well – you can create … Read More ...
Meet Marie Davis
What grabbed me was, admittedly the lovely, interesting cane I saw on Pinterest. I was late to the Pinterest bandwagon but browse more often now. Then I clicked and saw not only was it a how-to for a cane but … Read More ...