This is a homemade clay project from Anna of The Imagination Tree. You can absolutely do the same thing with regular oven bake or air dry clays from the craft store. The sand texture of this appealed though and the … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Soccer Balls
One of the ways you can tell spring has sprung here – in my studio here – is that there are suddenly requests for sports clay things. In that spirit, here’s a video tutorial for soccer ball beads or charms. … Read More ...
Mokume Gane Jewellery
The longer I do polymer clay, the more I realize there are just a lot of ways to do things. This approach by a Russian artist on LiveJournal – SandyCheek – makes the mokume gane stack into a cane to … Read More ...
Making Clay Ideas Your Own
Syndee Holt, working with Polyform, covers a variety of tips and hints on how to construct your clay pieces, how to make them your own, how to finish them, and even how to create your findings. Take a peek!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZGYal57WBg… Read More ...
Ruffled Cane for Jewelry Components
I’m a caner so I’m always interested in canes or cane components and how they can be used to build clay projects. This cane(English translation) from Czech blog Davona, makes a sort of ruffled design that looks … Read More ...
Polymer Clay – Making Opals with Mokume Gane
If you’ve had the chance to find a few opals in real life you know they’re a little bit magical with the layers of different shine, flash and colour. Faux opals are one of those polymer clay projects that’s such … Read More ...
The Heart Guy
One of the fabulous, fabulous things in the clay world is how many clayers spend a lot of their time and resources making clay pieces for charitable efforts. One of those is Ron Lehocky who has made many thousands of … Read More ...
Faux Terrazzo with Polymer Clay
Claire of Adorablest has a really great tutorial on how she made a faux terrazzo with polymer clay. As she mentions in the tutorial, use the colours you want – for the colour chips and the background colours. I would … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Fruit for Your Wrist
Make a whimsical bracelet full of fruit charms with some basic sculpting and jewellery making techniques. A contributor on Livemaster (a Russian craft site) shares the tutorial with us. I’m including this link for an English translation but the pictures … Read More ...
Marbled Clay Eggs
These marbled Easter eggs from Ice Pandora make cute little bowl fillers. Add a handful to a decorative dish or vase or spring flower pot to decorate for Easter. Hole them and string on twine for little garlands.
Use leftover … Read More ...
Easter Bunny Games
Dani of Gingered Things made a simple Easter bunny game(English translation) from polymer clay. She made simple white rabbits with hollowed out bottoms to hide marbled eggs under.
Obviously marble your eggs whatever great Easter colours you … Read More ...
Extruder Mokume Gane
Kristie Foss did a little experimenting with her extrusions and worked up an extruder mokume gane. The extruded parts are made into the mokume gane slab and you take shavings off that. The key here would be to load … Read More ...
Covering a Switchplate
I was explaining to an in-person customer today how you could use clay to do all sorts of home decor projects including covering switchplates and outlet covers. I couldn’t find any of the ones I’ve done over the years so … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Clock Idea
Continuing along with the idea of organizing your clay and using your clay to organize you is this tutorial for a desk clock from Teri of The Lovely Drawer. Teri uses two colours of air dry clay to create a … Read More ...
Storing Your Polymer Clay
Just like setting up your clay work space you’ll have some variables in how you store the actual clay. When I was new to clay, a few zipper plastic bags and plastic Tupperware type containers were plenty. Later, when I … Read More ...