Where I am, on the Canadian Prairies, it has been awfully darned cold for ages. These bright, fun pendant projects from Leslie of Peace Love Polymer Clay make me think of when it’ll be warmer. Of course, part of the … Read More ...
Making a Better Polymer Clay Rose
Making polymer clay roses is one of those fast, fun, sort of instant gratification projects. I do them as warm ups at classes. Making GOOD polymer clay roses is a whole other deal. And here is a whole lesson, … Read More ...
A Tiny Traveling Mouse Sculpture
I’m always interested in how people turn kind of small inconspicuous bits of clay into characters with tons of personality and such tiny details. Diav Draconia, the maker of this traveling mouse, has a channel full of charming, interesting and … Read More ...
Clay Mokume Gane and Pillow Beads
Here’s a couple of great techniques – a good, basic polymer clay mokume gane and pillow beads – in a tutorial by Kathy Weaver for Fire Mountain Gems. This is the sort of stuff that got me into polymer clay … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Valentine’s Day Cookies
Need an adorable Valentine gift or decoration? These heart cookies from Sculpey.com are just the thing. You get really fun results from fairly simple tools and supplies. The tip about using a hard kitchen sponge for texture was one I … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Teddy Bear Sculpting
While this tutorial(English translation) by Sasha Vihareva is for a teddy like bear sculpture… it shows the basic for how to turn any drawing or photograph into a decent sculpture. My sculpts almost all start like this … Read More ...
New Year’s Eve with Polymer Clay
You have to picture these little champagne charms with 2019 on them (how is it 2019 already?) but here’s a creative way of making your own champagne, complete with cork popping out and bubbly spray. I have never used liquid … Read More ...
Combining Beginner Polymer Clay Canes for Complex Results
Marie-Charlotte, from LaPerleRouge, offers a great example(English version) of how simple canes can be combined together to make tremendously more complicated designs like kaleidoscope canes. This tutorial touches on several ways to turn your simpler canes into … Read More ...
Beginner Polymer Clay Caning
If tackling polymer clay and caning is part of your plans for the coming year… this video(by DickBlick, art supply heaven) is a really great introduction to foundation canes and the tools for it. One of the comments on the … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Glimmer and Grunge Earrings
I’m on a bit of an earring binge I think – along with beads, they’re my quick and easy projects to try out clay techniques – and these ones from Kyra at CreateAlong use a good sampling of embellishments and … Read More ...
Spiral Canes with a Twist
Not literally with a twist but with a little extra. Nee Nee Ree – her channel has a couple other useful tutorials – shows how to use a collection of basic techniques and canes to jump off into much more … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Tips for Beginners
I’m at the incremental improvement stage of clay – I’m learning little things, in small increments – and that’s great. I remember when each month or week or day’s projects brought huge changes to my work and each new trick … Read More ...
Make Faux Gingerbread Ornaments with Clay and Ink
Create these cute gingerbread ornaments with cookie cutters, clay and crafting ink in this post by Kyriakos Pachadiroglou for Imagine Crafts. This craft uses air dry clay but you could do the same with regular oven bake polymer clay. The … Read More ...
Oven Bake Salt Dough Ornaments
I’m an oven bake polymer clay girl but long ago, for the rare treat, my favourite sitter would make us a batch of salt dough. We’d cut up shapes and bake them. Decorating them was so much fun. Turns out, … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Snowflake Cane
It snowed a bunch here today. It won’t stick around – well, probably not – but it’s definitely a heads up that winter is coming to my neck of the woods. Snow is a pretty big theme around here. Fellow … Read More ...