This week I’m making little fairy doors in my studio. This was one of the bookmarked bits of research in my file but it scales up to fairy door size just perfectly. Plus it makes fabulous charms.
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Miniature Pumpkins from Polymer Clay
This time of year there are pumpkin decorations everywhere. Thanksgiving, harvest and Halloween themes all need their pumpkins and polymer clay can be used to make some pretty great faux ones. Here’s a video tutorial for miniature realistic ones from … Read More ...
DIY Mushrooms from Polymer Clay
This Charming Stuff‘s mushrooms look pretty realistic and would, with the addition of a pin in the bottom or a loop in the top make great planter decorations or hanging charms. You could tuck a few of these into … Read More ...
Tutorial: Polymer Clay Acorns
Amy, from the B Line, shares with us her method on making little polymer clay acorns. The texturing on the bead cap with a paper twist is perfect and yet so simple.
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DIY Apple Charms
This tutorial is translated from Russian(here’s the translation). The pictures are explanatory which is good because the translation has a few head scratching moments. What the translation records as toothpick, the tutorial means eyepins (the charm loops, trimmed to … Read More ...
DIY Herb Markers
I was looking for ideas for signposts in my fairy garden set up and realized a lot of the polymer clay
herb marker tutorials would scale well for this. This tutorial from Jessica of ContemporaryDomestics uses thin dowels for the … Read More ...
DIY Cute Clay Robots
Donna, of the PolymerClayBakery, has a super cute tutorial on miniature robots. The video tutorial is for a very kawaii robot but the techniques are transferrable and you can use the same idea to make your own little robots … Read More ...
DIY Miniature Purse Pendants
Skipping along through some more miniatures here’s a tutorial that combines useful hints about faux leather, miniature fashion and antiquing along with how to sculpt a Fimo handbag charm or miniature. The original tutorial is in Russian but the pictures … Read More ...
Tutorial: Polymer Clay Popsicles
I may be optimistic. I planted my seedlings out two weeks ahead of my usual time. I put the snow shovels away. I am looking at summery topics for tutorials. Like a quick popsicle charm one. I mean, we often … Read More ...
7 Cute Polymer Clay Charms
Looking for some cute little charms to make for a fun project? These 7 Fimo polymer clay charms are so adorable that you will have a hard time passing them up. Take a look and see if any of them … Read More ...
DIY Petite Easter Bunny Basket
Lianne and Paul have done it again! They have another Easter project on the Sculpey site that is fabulous. The little candy like bunnies are perfect in their tiny baskets. You could make the bunnies separately as charms, pendants, magnets … Read More ...
Tutorial: Make Clay Bunny Peeps
These little DIY faux Peeps become earrings. You could use your clay peep as a charm, part of a barrette or clippy decoration or make it a lil bigger and use it as a magnet or pin. Combine your Easter … Read More ...
Make Hollow Clay Beads
This is more of an experimental method – as the blogger posts, you need a sense of humour because chances are you’re going to wreck something – but it works like a charm. The secret ingredient is the fizzy tablets, … Read More ...
Making Charms from Clay
Polymer clay, being the insanely versatile medium that it is, is great for charms and dangles and pendants as well as it’s beady cousins. Generally the charms need a loop or hole for a loop so they can be dangled … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Beads
I’m going on a bead run for a few days – tips, tutorials, beadmakers – so here’s a quick look at some of the polymer clay bead goodies from Etsy:
 Five Chocolate Charms by DreamyFlo |
 Hedgehog Bead Pair by ARETObeadsjewellery |