CremedelaGems offers us her Silly Spider Tutorial. It’s pretty adorable! The only addition I would do would be to increase the baking time to at least half an hour – Premo’s recommended temperature is 30 minutes per 1/4″ of … Read More ...
Clay Jewellery
I love making beads and canes with my clay but waaaaaay back when I started the whole reason was to make clay pieces to use in my jewellery. This is what I still do and, guess what, what a lot … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Labour Day
This started off as more canes on Etsy and then I realized there were clayers with labour day sales! So here we go:
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| Salad Mix by YumFoodJewelry | Flower Basket Dangles by Zawnbo |
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| Chocolate Cake Earrings by Jessica Hyett | Blue Birdhouse |
Watercolor Swirl Canes
Here’s another goodie from our friends at Polyform: the watercolor swirl cane by Angela Hickey. The picture is from Sculpey.com
While you’re thinking of Polyform and Sculpey check out their Facebook promotion.… Read More ...
Marie Segal and Extruders
Marie Segal has a post on her blog about using extruder caning to duplicate beading pattern designs. All I can say is: why didn’t I think of that! I have TONS of beading patterns.… Read More ...
A Mosaic of Kaleidoscopes
Kaleidoscope Fimo canes can lead to almost impossibly complex designs and there’s incredible variations out there:
1. Kaleidoscope Cane, 2. Kaleidoscope cane, 3. Polymer Clay Kaleidoscope Canes Green/Tan, 4. Kaleidoscope cane… Read More ...
Finding Canes
A big section of Fimo polymer items for sale on places like Etsy are the canes. You can buy canes raw or baked. Here’s a few:
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| Tiger Cane by Cattherien | Butterfly Canes by Claychicks |
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| Yin Yang Cane by Norrine | Sunshine |
Making Fruit Canes
Summer is coming to a close here but that doesn’t mean I’m not still making summery Fimo canes – it’ll be warm on the other side of the world. Plus, fruit canes are always sweet. So I dug up a … Read More ...
Tutorial: A Rose Cane
Jumping right in with the cane tutorials… This isn’t a beginner’s tutorial – particularly working from just a photo collage – but the end result rose is lovely. Sigal also sells beautiful clay work on Etsy.… Read More ...
Millefiori Madness Mosaic
I’m indulging myself this week – and maybe next! – and going to look at canes. Tutorials, galleries, tools… the whole bit.
1. Cara Jane peacock feather cane, 2. Polymer Clay Cane Collection – detail, 3. IMG_5012, … Read More ...
Tutorial: Simple Kaleidoscope Canes
One of the coolest canes to make has definitely got to be a kaleidoscope cane. And there are more ways to make the parts that any sane person could figure out in a lifetime. The above is a simple, straightforward … Read More ...
Tutorial: Making Polymer Clay Eyes
Here’s a fairly simple but nicely realistic tutorial for making clay eyes. These eyes can be added to figurines and other characters. Pop some clay eyes on anything and it suddenly comes alive. These clay eyes are realistic and full … Read More ...
Out in Clay Land
Some of the regular events (and cool but less regular) out on the net for clayers:
- A post wrapping up this year’s Clay Connection from the SCPCG. I’m always a little envious of big events like this particularly after trying
Interesting and Unusual
A little of the different from the claying talent on Etsy:
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| Cosplay Cat’s Ears by GingerKittyCreations | Tiny Purses by MaryLovesFashion |
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| Rainbow Cat Face Cab by graphixoutpost | Elven Lady Sculpture by Angelsbynoemi |
Playing with Stamping
While I was at Christi Friesen’s class the resin we used was from Nunn Design… so I went and looked to see what’s up with that. Turns out they’re dabbling in clay! They have a little rubber stamping / … Read More ...