When I teach clay classes to teenagers on up, we usually warm up with roses. Why? Because it’s a fairly simple process that makes a pretty great little rose without any real skills. You can get better at it but … Read More ...
Snowflake Polymer Clay Cane
A good snowflake cane makes great wintry polymer clay designs. This tutorial (English translation) for one from Korean artist MilkyBlue is straightforward. If you want to use it layered on other designs, use a translucent background. If you … Read More ...
Clay Polka Dots
Sculpey has a fun tutorial with polka dots. Side benefits include some creative uses for Soufflé clay and some of the Sculpey tools I like best (the Etch n’ Pearl). As syndee holt mentions, you could make a retro tree … Read More ...
Clay Unicorn Horn Charms
If you have a unicorn lover you clay for, here’s a cute horn charm you can incorporate into a piece – an ornament maybe? Or a unicorn pen? It’s a wonderfully sweet Skinner blend. You can find other creative work … Read More ...
Marbled Tree Ornaments
Marbling clay is one of those little treats. You pick a couple of colours – or scraps – and twist and mix. Flatten it out and use cookie cutters. Sarah of Sisoo covers her whole process in the tutorial.… Read More ...
Coloured Circles and Clay
Sometimes the neatest clay projects come from using the basic tools – in this case, circle cutters – in interesting ways. This tutorial (English translation) explores how to use circle cutters and nested cut outs to make a … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Poinsettia Ornaments
Poinsettia ornaments made with little poinsettia leaf canes and a bit of sculpting. Simple but pretty elegant. Sandy has many other videos on her channel. If you want to do more traditionally red poinsettia bracts / leaves make the … Read More ...
Cute Clay Monkeys
Saru-Hime has a fun – and simple! – tutorial for making little monkey characters. Like many DeviantArt tutorials it’s one giant image… click to enlarge. Add your relevant monkey embellishments (my students did bananas and ice cream cones!) and voila, … Read More ...
Clay Transfers with Paper Napkins
One of my favourite things to do with Silly Putty when I was lucky enough to get some as a kid was make transfers from comic book pages. I was thrilled when I realized you could do similar with polymer … Read More ...
Thanksgiving Turkey… Made Tiny
If your miniatures collection needs their Thanksgiving turkey check out this tutorial from AkameruKawaii. My partner looked over my shoulder while I was watching and said, impressed, “That’s CLAY?”
Polymer Clay Pumpkin Cane
If you cane in polymer clay you may be trying to make fall and Halloween themed goodies. PolymerClayCentral has a good little pumpkin cane tutorial that makes something similar to Heather’s pieces above. The cane is pretty close to how … Read More ...
Combed Veneers in Polymer Clay
Unruly Housewife shares a tutorial for a combed pattern veneer in her video. Veneers are great for creating pendants, tiles, pens and anything you can cover with a flat sheet. Little magnets made with simple cutters, a veneer sheet and … Read More ...
Using a Ripple Blade with Polymer Clay
I consider various blades to be part of my basic polymer clay set up. I have a flexible and a rigid “tissue blade”, an xacto knife and, usually, a ripple blade. I may not use it much but slicing into … Read More ...
Mokume Gane from Scraps
Sometimes, some of the oldest tutorials are the best ones. Elizabeth Campbell (aka the Poly Parrot) made a mudpile mokume gane tutorial around when I started claying on the internet. It was good because it told me I could make … Read More ...
Cabinet Knobs Part Two
Another take on polymer clay cabinet knobs are these ones by Amy Crawley. You can cover all sorts of pre-made knobs to use in your own home decor projects. Use polymer clay to make them into focal points or help … Read More ...
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