I sort of like paisley. There is a great paisley scarf in my closet and one of my favourite craft stamps is a fabulous paisley. Here’s a fun paisley ornament by Sculpey and Amy Koranek. I haven’t tried painting an … Read More ...
Clay Leaf Shaped Clay Ring Dish
Make a clever leaf ring dish for a gift this season and pair it with a pair of earrings or other trinket. This monstera dish tutorial from LiaGriffith uses air dry clay
and paint (and a monstera leaf) but you … Read More ...
Make Faux Gingerbread Ornaments with Clay and Ink
Create these cute gingerbread ornaments with cookie cutters, clay and crafting ink in this post by Kyriakos Pachadiroglou for Imagine Crafts. This craft uses air dry clay but you could do the same with regular oven bake polymer clay. The … Read More ...
Oven Bake Snowflake Christmas Winter Salt Dough Ornaments
I’m an oven bake polymer clay girl but long ago, for the rare treat, my favourite sitter would make us a batch of salt dough. We’d cut up shapes and bake them. Decorating them was so much fun. Turns out, … Read More ...
Matte Black and Metal Foil on Clay
In my internet wanderings this morning I saw this piece by syndee holt for Sculpey. It’s deceptively simple – texture adds interest while making all of the little imperfections less noticeable and the metal foil stands out elegantly from a … Read More ...
Clay Acorn Ornaments
I’ve occasionally made acorn beads when requested – both cane slice ones like these and just acorn shaped beads – but it’s always a little weird. Acorns aren’t common where I live. Pinecones by the bucket full, yes, but not … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Leaf Table Settings
Sculpey and syndee holt bring us some really pretty place settings with polymer clay leaf designs. syndee uses texture and Pearl Ex to embellish cut out leaf shapes, turning them into napking ring holders or an embellished votive holder. … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Winter Rose
I am a sucker for a well made polymer clay rose and this is a lovely one, in great blue shades. And to make it particularly wintry, it has sparkly faux snow to create frosted edges. The faux snow is … Read More ...
White and Translucent Bubble Cane
When I was growing up (in polymer clay) we called all of the white and translucent canes that you’d layer over the rest of your canes “ghost” canes because the effect is like that – a design ghosting over the … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Snowflake Cane
It snowed a bunch here today. It won’t stick around – well, probably not – but it’s definitely a heads up that winter is coming to my neck of the woods. Snow is a pretty big theme around here. Fellow … Read More ...
Modeling Clay Poppies
I’m a fan of Model Magic – it feels nice, it’s inexpensive, easy to work with and it’s fun to paint or use markers on after. You can add pipe cleaners, googly eyes, stick on gems and all sorts of … Read More ...
Happy Fall with Clay
We had snow here, for a few days, in September. Yes, really. Since then it’s been more like regular autumn – leaves changing, blowing off trees, the sunlight a bit watery and the evenings are chilly. I think a collection … Read More ...
Candy Corn and Polymer Clay
Personally, I’m of the opinion candy corn is borderline inedible. It makes a really great clay project though! Candy corn canes, like this very simple one I wrote about a while back, or candy corn replicas like in the video. … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Skull Cane
If you’re feeling up to caning for Halloween, here’s a pretty good skull cane tutorial – I’m going to add a lower mandible to mine when I do this cane – to try. Slices of the reduced cane would make … Read More ...
Happy Cat Day!
National Cat Day happens on October 29th in the US – August 8th is International Cat Day so you can, always, do both – and here’s some cat shaped clay goodness: a cold porcelain sculpt or these equally cute but … Read More ...