Patti Kimle has a project up on the Sculpey.com site. It’s done with the new Polyform clay, Soufflé, but you could do it with any of them. The nicely faux-metal look of the bead cap or cones is achieved with … Read More ...
Tutorial: Succulent Wedding Favours
Emily of Merrypad mentions how she made the tiny succulent pots for her recent wedding out of clay. Her walkthrough is based on the tutorial by Rachel at Transient Expression.
You get to combine the insane popularity of teeny tiny … Read More ...
Tutorial: Polymer Clay Olaf
Disney’s Family site has all sorts of crafts and goodies on it. Including a tutorial on how to make a polymer clay Olaf figure. The cute snowman is from the insanely popular movie Frozen. You could embed a … Read More ...
Tutorial: Creating Background Texture in Polymer Clay
This trick lets you add what appears to be two layers of different texture or design with one stamp or texture. There’s a background texture created with a low relief pattern stamp or tool and then a contrasting or higher … Read More ...
Tutorial: Fantasy Pendant
I am a big fantasy buff – books, movies, games, art, hobby. I’ve always loved drawing pictures of dragons and elves and mermaids and sometimes I work up the courage to roll that into my clay work. Lord of the … Read More ...
Hollow Forms for Polymer Clay
One of the big things in polymer clay is making hollow forms. Hollow forms can be made using two part forms, air for the filler or dissolving filler. I’ve used all of these and I’ve used cornstarch “gum” to make … Read More ...
Tutorial: The Fish Cane
As Lavilla says in the first slide of this Flickr photo tutorial for a fish cane – it’s a more detailed version of the very good fish cane tutorial on Kim Korringa’s site. Which you should take a look at … Read More ...
6 Video Tutorials For School-Themed Clay Charms
If you love making cute little miniature clay sculptures, these 6 videos from YouTube are something you need to check out. Each of them have detailed visual instructions for you to create your own version of these tiny pieces of … Read More ...
How to make Polymer Clay at home
You can make polymer clay at home and that too – using household items!
If you have cornstarch and white PVA or Elmer’s glue, it’s easy to make your own polymer or fimo style clay. This clay is soft, pure … Read More ...
Tutorial: Jasmine Flower Necklace
Delicate, summery flowers and little bobbles make this necklace a light and airy piece to whip up. The polymer clay flowers that are constructed could easily be any other colour, depending on your whim. Deep red roses, darker chain and … Read More ...
Tutorial: Faceted “Eye” Effect
These beads look like the composite or faceted eyes that some insects have. The use of mica powders gives the whole piece a nice shine and colour variation. Andrea Machler, the author, refers to the mesh she uses as tulle … Read More ...
Tutorial: Simple Flower Cane and Beads
The charm of this type of cane and bead or applique is that you could use a skinner blend instead of the simple black and white bullseye for the full colour effect. Or you could use solid colours or varying … Read More ...
Tutorial: Mediterranean Landscape Cane
Almost all of the polymer clay work I do involves canes – canes to make beads, to decorate bowls with, to add to sculpted pieces. Some of those are simple canes and some are more complex. One type I’ve done … Read More ...
Tutorial: Scrap Clay Bangles
In case you haven’t checked out CraftArtEdu.com – a site started by Donna Kato a few years ago – you should! There’s plenty of offerings in clay and other media. There’s even some freebies here and there. Deb Hart has … Read More ...
Tutorial: Tiger Skin Cane
Here’s a picture tutorial for a tiger skin cane (what got used to make the nifty beads pictured above I’m betting). Animal skin patterns are often fairly straightforward canes to make and are forgiving of reducing and asymmetry. Tiger and … Read More ...