This tutorial is a whole stack of useful techniques: hollow beads (using polystyrene / shrink plastic balls), pastels for colour and silk screens. Petra Nemravka’s site has a wealth of tutorials, tips, and great supplies available.… Read More ...
Exotic Gold Polymer Clay Pendant
Picking up different style elements or cultural themes in your polymer clay pieces can give them an extra zing. This piece by Sculpey and Dr. Pritish brings a little of the exotic, detailed gold tones of Indian art to it. … Read More ...
Making Charming Books
I’m a book reading type of person. And I’m also a polymer clay one. So let’s take it one step further and make little clay books. Or a couple of steps further and make them into charms. I’ll be adding … Read More ...
Beehive Pendant with Clay
Most of the time I work with traditional, oven bake, polymer clay but there’s so many other types of cool clay products out there. One of those is crytal clay which is an epoxy clay used, primarily, in jewellery making. … Read More ...
Basic Flower Cane in Polymer Clay
Before I got a pasta machine – that was about 3 years into what I call my Serious Fimo Polymer Clay phase – I made canes without it using my rolling pin, a ruler, and taped down markers to use … Read More ...
Mica Powder and Clay Resources
If you want to find mica powders and give them a shot try the regular crafty places: Michael’s, JoAnn’s, Hobby Lobby or your local scrapbooking shops and local hobby places. Online, try:
Polymer Clay Rondelle Beads with Mica Powder
Jacquard, which makes all sorts of great crafty stuff including Pearl Ex mica powders, has a tutorial on how to make sparkly beads using polymer clay and mica powders. Written by Carolyn Hasenfratz, the tutorial covers some valuable techniques: how … Read More ...
More Mica Powder Ideas
Mica powders are basically strongly pigmented, very fine, mineral powders. A little goes a very long way and if you use them more than very occasionally, do it somewhere with good ventilation (not a draft mind you) or with a … Read More ...
Polymer Clay, Mica Powders and Makeup
I’ve never had much in the way of makeup hanging around so it never occurred to me to use it on my clay until friends started discussing it in the polymer clay forums. Turns out cheap, sparkly eye makeup is … Read More ...
More Crackling for Your Clay
This pretty pendant tutorial from Jeanette Kandray and Sculpey.com is a good example of a well done crackle effect on polymer clay. Using acrylic paint and Kroma crackle for the medium, she layers attractive colours and creates a nicely done … Read More ...
Make Polymer Clay Crackles
Crackling paint or foils on polymer clay is a great surface technique. Depending on the method and substrates – paints, foils, inks, powders – you can get all sorts of effects to use. Once you have a great decorated sheet … Read More ...
Mokume Gane Hint
Violet Laporte has a good tip for how to get those perfect, thin slices you want from your mokume gane stacks. Instead of curving your blade (which I have done and broken, oops), trying curving your stack by placing it … Read More ...
More Mokume Gane
Another simple tutorial, with a video by Sculpey, goes through how to make a simple mokume gane stack and use the results to make a great pair of earrings. Obviously, use the colours you like best. This flexible technique … Read More ...
Tutorial: Mokume Gane Faux Stone Patterns
Polymer clay is a great material for making imitative pieces – replica foods and faux stones some of my favourites. Mokume Gane, a flexible polymer clay technique, is great for making beautiful abstract designs. Turns out, with careful picking and … Read More ...
Tutorial: Making Tiny Mushrooms from Clay
Stephanie or Petit Plat is a talented miniature maker, working primarily with polymer clay. On top of having lovely work for sale on Etsy she has a busy YouTube channel with all sorts of great videos including this fun one … Read More ...