Continuing along with the cane theme… Amatista generously shares a tutorial on her Flickr photostream to make a flower cane similar to this one. She has a website to see more of her lovely work as well.
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Tutorial: Lace Textured Buttons
Victoria has a great tutorial for making buttons with a lovely lacy texture. She uses acrylic paint to highlight the texture of the buttons. When I make similar pieces, I add a little Varathane to the paint to help fix … Read More ...
How to Build Complex Canes
I’m a polymer clay cane freak. I make a lot of canes. Carol Greiser of PolymerClayShed does too! In her blog post she sketches (ha!) how she goes about putting together a hummingbird cane. This is similar to a post … 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: Simple Kaleidoscope Canes
One of the coolest canes to make has definitely got to be a kaleidoscope cane. And there are more ways to make the parts that any sane person could figure out in a lifetime. The above is a simple, straightforward … Read More ...
Playing with Stamping
While I was at Christi Friesen’s class the resin we used was from Nunn Design… so I went and looked to see what’s up with that. Turns out they’re dabbling in clay! They have a little rubber stamping / … Read More ...
Swellegant
Part of my Christi class last week was learning a little about her new line of metal coatings, patinas and dyes. They’re not actual paints though they go on like it. They are metal in paint form and the surface … Read More ...
The Class with Christi
I live in Canada and not on either coast. As far as real life polymer clay classes go, this area may as well not exist. So when I heard that Christi Friesen was teaching relatively nearby I jumped at the … Read More ...
Sculpting a Simple Face
The link includes a video about how to sculpt a face from air dry clay – the same technique works great for regular oven bake polymer clay. In this video, Christina Albuquerque of Brazil shows us how to model a … Read More ...
Technique: Making Simple Critters
If you scroll down this page a little, you find the simple instructions for making a cute, sleepy kitten. This page has several others to try. Depending on the age and tools you could use the same techniques to create … Read More ...
Technique: Making Lemons
Miniature polymer clay lemons that is. The Mini Food Blog shares a post by Stephanie Kilgast – the very talented PetitPlat on Etsy – on a technique she uses to make lemons and lemon canes.… Read More ...
Polymer Clay Miniature Food Tips
Continuing along with my week (well, probably two) of miniatures related posts I’ll send you over to one by TheMouseMarket who makes absolutely lovely minis. Her post talks about how to achieve the most realistic effects in your mini foods… 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!
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Techniques for Making Charms
A fun part of having been watching polymer clay on the internet for around ten years now has been finding the little pockets of awesome resources here and there. PolymerClayWeb has been around for a while but it seems there … Read More ...
Chevron Patterns and Fish
I tend to spend a lot of time looking at clay stuff online. Flickr is a favourite spot. The latest trip lead me on this loop – first I spotted this cute fish by Ines. I found out that she’d … Read More ...