If you’re not cool, as I’ve been accused of by my tween (and others! my un-coolness started early), BFF stands for Best Friend Forever. This is the BFF picture frame, made from the kid friendly Pluffy. I actually think … Read More ...
Polymer Clay in Canada
Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians! My Canada Day will be spent at the local agricultural fair followed by fireworks.
The canes above are some slice canes I made for a previous Canada Day. They made thousands of little … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Turtle Necklace
Continuing on with my jog into polymer clay necklaces here’s a tutorial hosted on HGTV. This one has some sweetness to it with the cute little turtle.… Read More ...
How to Sculpt a Fantasy Mushroom
Enjoy this tutorial for a fancy sculpted mushroom.… Read More ...
Gift for Father’s Day
If you’ve got an urge to make a last minute gift for dad from polymer clay consider this tute: Gone Fishing Paperweight.… Read More ...
Bobblehead How-To
Bobbleheads charm and amuse me. One of the first little sculpted pieces I made was a bobbleheaded critter. Here’s a tute from HGTV to give it a try.… Read More ...
Your Dad in Clay
I’m such a caner and bead maker that sculpting seems like magic to me. Elizabeth Bonura is a fabulously talented sculptor. This is a portrait sculpture of someone’s father. What a lovely father’s day piece.… Read More ...
Donna Kato Bracelet
Donna has one of the most recognizable – and modern, stylish – styles of the polymer clay artist community. She also has a ton of books and tutorials out there. This one on HGTV is for the bracelet above. I … Read More ...
A Pen for Dad
Sculpey gives us another great idea – this one just in time for a Father’s day present. Covering pens with clay is a great gift idea for any event. You can customize the decoration to the recipient and when the … Read More ...
Ideas for Father’s Day
Angela of CraftyGoat has a post about Father’s Day gifts from clay.… Read More ...
Cloth Doll Artists and Polymer Clay
Even though clay, all by itself, is pretty fabulous… the best part is how awesome it goes with and can be used with pretty much every medium. I’m sure there’s some it doesn’t rock with. I just haven’t found it … Read More ...
The Smooshers: Handmade Needle Tool
One polymer clay blog that has good clay related content by regular clayers all. the. time. is the Polymer Clay Smooshers blog. This is the ArtFire guild for polymer clay artists. Today’s post has a blurb about Handmade Specialties handmade … Read More ...
Big Hole Beads in Clay
This sunny Monday I went searching for fresh polymer clay beads and happened across this cute Westie pandora style clay bead by Nanjodogz. Nanjodogz makes an assortment of beads including other breeds of dogs.… Read More ...
Colourful in Canada
I taught a class on polymer clay in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories (in Canada) this weekend. One of my students had the cutest little bug pin on and when she said she’d bought it in the closest city I knew … Read More ...
Daffodil Days
I missed the initial fundraiser for daffodils here but I was… reminded (by poking myself on my daffodil pin!) that I had looked for daffodil tutorials earlier in the year. This one by Eugena is pretty much perfect – straight … Read More ...