This is a quick picture tutorial (in French but here’s a link to a translation) on how to get a bit of staggering in your canework colours. I use a version of this technique to get the texture in … Read More ...
Ideas from Other Mediums and Dragon Eggs
I’ve been digging into making fantasy critters and bits from polymer clay. I live this stuff outside of clay so I am, of course, a fan of Game of Thrones. I hadn’t seen the show yet but when I started … Read More ...
Making Frosted Faceted Beads
Back to the beads – here’s a step by step on Flickr for making “frosted” faceted beads. Click the first image in the set to get the walk through steps.
Artybecca, the tutorial maker, also has a shop with cute … Read More ...
Sculpting a Bunny
Right now, in the real non-internet world, my kiddo is bunny-sitting. The neighbours have entrusted her with their two rabbits while they are vacationing. One of them is a charcoal version of the bunny in this post. I’ve watched Leah … Read More ...
DIY Faceted Rings
Take advantage of the trendy metallic thing and – at least as clay goes – the faceting everything trend. This tutorial from Poppytalk lets you crank out a few faceted rings, make them shiny, and try out the faceting thing. … Read More ...
Making Polymer Clay Sugar Beads
Sparkly little sugar beads are a nifty thing when you find them at the store. Making your own in clay can be a bit of a trick. These ones use clear microbeads for the sugar and TLS to adhere them … Read More ...
Tutorial: Faux Stone Cabinet Knobs
My outside of clay life is a mad whirl of shop renos in the sense of paint, drywall, cleaning, changing fixtures and all the endless details like that. Decorative knobs have been the final touch on some of my past … Read More ...
How-To: Journal Cover
Here’s another project that has multiple elements. The journal cover has a lovely watercolour effect painted in and the tutorial covers how to construct the cover. The design is sweet and clever. You could obviously alter the paint work to … Read More ...
Tutorial: Mixing New Polymer Clay Canes from Old Ideas
Sometimes, the best new ideas happen when you mix old ideas (and old canes, for extra credit). This project makes intricate-looking spirals by using very simple base clay canes combined over and over again into another simple cane. Little bullseye … Read More ...
Cutting Your Clay
Or, using die cutters with your clay. This isn’t so much a tutorial as a quick browse of people using polymer clay with their die cut tools to either engrave their clay or cut designs into their raw or cured … Read More ...
Tutorial: Spread Joy
Okay, so it’s not really joy but the ornaments in the picture have joy in letters AND shiny gold. Sometimes simple little baubles are the best things to make. These ornaments are a variation on a common theme: stamped cut … Read More ...
Tutorial: Making Fabric Canes
Over the years I’ve done canes to recreate elements of fabric swatches – the colours, the patterns and such. One tool that really helps with that – apart from a super colour sense – is an extruder. This tutorial shows … Read More ...
Clay Tips: Snowflake Cutters
If, like New Clayer Me, you couldn’t find a good snowflake cutter set and still wanted great, detailed snowflakes this idea was a bit of a lightbulb moment. Using a simple six petaled flower cutter
– which is common in … Read More ...
Tutorial: Christmas Nougat Cane
When I’m asked what a cane is and how my beads are made – primarily with canes – I often use the explanation of how some forms of candies are made such as saltwater taffy, nougats and candy canes. Here’s … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Tutorial: Mixing Techniques
I fully admit to not being a very brave clayer. Yes, I have my stash of metal leafs, pigments
, powders, some specialty paints, scads of textures… but most of my stuff is clay with very little else. It’s not … Read More ...