Iris Mishly brings us a great video tutorial and a giveaway all in one. Her tutorial is cutely creepy!
… Read More ...Tutorial: Sort of Spooky Spider
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 ...
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 ...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 ...Tutorial: Making Charms
Using a mold, some acrylic paint and a little clay make simple but fun charms to wire into necklaces. The photo is courtesy of the author’s photostream which has all sorts of crafty awesomeness.
… Read More ...Tutorial: Pixelated Retro Cane
Bettina Welker of beadworx , a super talented artist in Germany, released a tutorial for her clever cane earlier this month. She calls it the pixelated retro cane. I’m picking out colours for my own version!
I scoped out what … Read More ...
Make a Hand
In this tutorial Dawn Schiller – fabulous sculptor of Oddfae and Autumn Things – lends a hand on how to sculpt a hand.
… Read More ...Polymer Clay Orchids
This tutorial hits two spots – I was looking around Christi Friesen’s site in advance of my class with her next week and surfing for tutorials that would work for wedding related items – and you could easily make this … Read More ...
Kitchen Addition in Polymer Clay
Give your kitchen counter a bit of a face lift with Tamara’s clever re-do of her utensil caddy.
Now I’m curious what else people have done with their clay and their kitchens… hmm. I know in my kitchen the clay … Read More ...
Tutorial: Panda on a Stick
Janna of PaperCutsnBandaids wrote to tell me about this super cute project she has a tutorial for on her blog. What a perfect way of customizing something!
photo from PaperCutsnBandaids
… Read More ...Tutorial: Miniature Baskets
Todd’s Toys has a little treasure trove of tutorials for minis on this page including the one for the basket pictured above. Check them out!
Picture by Todd’s Toys and Miniatures
… Read More ...Tutorial: Another Pin
After finding the shawl pin tutorial the other day I noticed this one for a Mocking Jay themed one – perfect for all the Hunger Game fans near you. My kiddo is a super fan of sorts so I’m seeing … Read More ...
A Shawl Pin Tutorial
Tutorial: A Message for Mom
Here’s a tutorial for a Fimo Mother’s Day card at RedTedArt. As they note in the tutorial, it would work for many other occasions as well and the simple flower motif is great for even small kiddos.
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