Sometimes the simple stuff is the best. Gift tags at Christmas become little hearts in sweet Valentine’s Day colours now. Use this tutorial for some ideas on a quick fun project even the little folk can do. Use a good … Read More ...
Valentine’s Day Love Bugs
Craftbits, a sister site to Craftgossip, has a good stack of clay tutorials. Here’s one for a polymer clay love bug. The tutorial leaves the usage up to the maker – pin, magnet or add a loop to the … Read More ...
Tutorial: Little Treats for your Sweetheart
Here’s a perfect for Valentine’s Day treat: little jam filled cookies. I bet they would make perfect pendants or magnets to keep up that Valentine’s Day card.
PuddingFishCakes, the video maker, has a ton of good stuff on her … Read More ...
Clay for Your Neck
Pretties for your neck from creative clayers. You could consider these as great potential gifts for Valentine’s Day as well:
 Samba Polymer Clay Necklace Earrings by SilviaOrtezDeLaTorre |
 Sherbert Necklace by palindromeandco |
 Peach and Copper Necklace by AllsKnotForgotten |
 Coloured Tip Necklace |
Tutorial: Making Fabulous Boxes
Marie Segal, one of the clay queens, has treasure troves of great tutorials on the net. This one is for turning plain cardboard boxes into great decorated works. I think I have some of the same little heart shaped cardboard … Read More ...
Tutorial: Polymer Clay Rose Cane
Rose canes are one of those canes I make absolute scads of. I usually use a slight variation on the tru-leigh rose and it works well for me. This one is a more tightly wound rose that would look lovely … Read More ...
Tutorial: Making Monsters
This one was supposed to be a Valentine’s Day project but I personally think monsters are suitable for any day of the year and hugging monsters are just the thing for a fun message. Stephanie shares a monster how-to that … Read More ...
Tutorial: Best Friends Necklace
Here’s a tutorial for quick Valentine’s Day gift for your bestie: a split heart necklace where you each take half. You can texture the heart, add paint, canes or leave it simple. You could make the charms to go on … Read More ...
Tutorial: Mended Heart Brooch
Holly of Hollyrocks has a great Valentine’s (or, really, any day) project: mended heart brooches. As she comments in her post, a lot of us have ambivalence on Valentine’s Day so here’s a bit of a nod to that.… Read More ...
Polymer Clay Gifts for Your Sweetheart
For the last minute gift givers, here’s some great Valentine’s Day ideas:
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| Necklace and Earrings by PolganiStudio | Potted Succulents Earrings by bytherockandweed |
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| I Love You Decoration by SkyeArt | Cat Lover Cutlery by radaJOYdesign |
Tutorial: Valentine Earrings
Renee from Cute Simple Stuff offered these nifty earrings and a video tutorial on how to make them. They have the whole heart thing going on but skipped the regular red puffy version and went for a different take.
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Tutorial: Valentine Necklace
Amy of ThenSheMade has this great tutorial for an interesting heart necklace with nice details and movement. The pendant has a combination of elements while still having that important clay thing going on.
Photo from ThenSheMade which is full of … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Finds
One of my favourite online past times is hitting Flickr (and pinterest and all sorts of places) for great polymer clay finds. It keeps me seeing what the community is up to and gives me a chance to show off … Read More ...
I Heart You… Polymer Clay Style
And now for the heart filled cuteness:
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| Valentine Giraffe by JHMiniatures | Valentine Monster by KimmiesClayKreations |
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| Valentine’s Donut by ScrumptiousDoodle | Love Letter Earrings by KalindsClayDesigns |
Maria Petkova has a photo tutorial for how to “paint with mokume gane“. There are text steps for the photo tutorial below it in the comments.
I think I will be trying this with some heart cutters for … Read More ...