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 Snowflake Christmas Winter 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 ...
Modeling Clay Poppies
I’m a fan of Model Magic – it feels nice, it’s inexpensive, easy to work with and it’s fun to paint or use markers on after. You can add pipe cleaners, googly eyes, stick on gems and all sorts of … Read More ...
Happy Fall with Clay
We had snow here, for a few days, in September. Yes, really. Since then it’s been more like regular autumn – leaves changing, blowing off trees, the sunlight a bit watery and the evenings are chilly. I think a collection … Read More ...
Tiny Polymer Clay Hedgehogs
Tiny sculpted hedgehogs with fuzzy coat – check out SugarCharmShop’s video for her walkthrough of the project. The video description includes a link to more info about the flocking she uses for the hedgie’s coat. She’s also got fabulous other … Read More ...
Miniatures Pumpkins from Polymer Clay
Here’s a treat from Stephanie Kilgast – a video for sculpting a pumpkin and jack o’ lantern. There’s also a fun page where she jumps off from this sculpt to making a whole zombie vignette to go with it. Stephanie … Read More ...
The Simplest Polymer Clay Canes
Sometimes the simplest polymer clay canes
make very effective designs. This very simple pattern cane from Olivine demonstrates this quite clearly. Pick colours that work well together along with a contrasting colour. Stack and cut them neatly. Use a sharp … Read More ...
Day of the Dead Cat Sculpture
I’d probably do this one in Premo rather than Sculpey III but it’s still a fun project – a black cat with a Day of the Dead paint job. The tutorial is by Joanne G Garcia for Sculpey. The black … Read More ...
Learn How To Make Three Unique Bowls
Imagine Crafts Blog has 3 polymer clay bowls that use popular mixed media supplies for the decorating. Inks and paints are one of those supplies that translate so well from papers to clay and you can collect a nice variety … Read More ...
Mokume Gane Cabochons
Mokume Gane is one of those classic polymer clay techniques you should give a try if you clay. My favourite mg is with translucent clays and foils and a ton of sanding and polishing. As a result, I do it … Read More ...
A Rubik’s Cube Grid Effect in Polymer Clay
I’m always looking for good ideas to use up scraps – I make a lot of scraps – and this neat effect from PinkLily is a good one. The tutorial (English version) reminded her a bit of the … Read More ...