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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sculpting a Bunny
Right now, in the real non-internet world, my kiddo is bunny-sitting. The neighbours have entrusted her with their two rabbits while they are vacationing. One of them is a charcoal version of the bunny in this post. I’ve watched Leah … Read More ...
Tutorial: Valentine Bunny Brooch
A little touch of fun and cute for your Valentine’s Day – a bunny brooch! I imagine you could do this one for Easter, as well (maybe add an egg or use spring pastels). Don’t want a brooch? Stick … Read More ...
Tutorial: Simple Easter Animals
Jane of Buzzmills has a tutorial for Easter or spring critters. It’s simple enough for the kids to do well and sweet enough to be great decor. You could add these to a little basket – made from polymer clay … Read More ...
Tutorial: Decorated Eggs
Meg of Creators Joy posted a tutorial for adding lovely curls and spirals to eggs for Easter decorations. If you click the first photo in the tutorial to enlarge it you can see how strips of Skinner blend are used … Read More ...
Tutorial: Egg Cup Bunnies
These are super adorable – little bunny shaped egg holders for your Easter (or anytime, they’re that sweet) decor. Lianne and Paul Stoddard of Swirley Designs wrote this one for Sculpey.
… Read More ...Tutorial: Easter Bunny Sculpture
French clayer Myriam Lakraa shows a simple but sweet Fimo Easter rabbit sculpt. I’m linking to the French tutorial but you can easily read the English version, thanks to Google right here.
… Read More ...Tutorial: Faceted Egg Cups
This tutorial is timely – with Easter around the corner a few egg cups might help (and if you’re like me you have a couple anyways). These ones would show off your fancy eggs even if you’re not likely to … Read More ...
Tutorial: Chicks for Easter Decoration
I often end up borrowing from cake decorating tutorials to get the inspiration for simple clay sculpts and this one was particularly perfect. This colourful tutorial for decorative Easter chicks comes by way of Monika from Germany. The tutorial is … Read More ...
Collecting Clay Dolls
Polymer gets used to create dolls and the worlds for them. The stuff is perfect – details and colours and personality can all be captured in little faces. The artist can choose to make beautiful, realistic babies or fanciful villages … Read More ...
Tutorial: Easter Eggs
Josie, the blogger who shared this tutorial, offers these as religious Easter eggs but I think they’re perfect for anyone. And, as she mentioned, they’d make great word pebbles.
Josie uses air dry clay for the project and makes … Read More ...
Tutorial: Easter Egg Place Cards
Amy Christie posted this cute tutorial for stamped egg shaped place cards. It’s sweet and simple so you could totally do it in time for Easter. I’d probably make the little holder out of clay too, using the same … Read More ...