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 ...
Polymer Clay Mandalas
aleidoscopes and mandalas are some of the really neat pieces you can make from component canes – usually blend bullseyes or plugs or solid colour geometrics – and Yonat Dascalu is a fabulous caner. Her channel is full of other … Read More ...
Yule Log Ornaments
This little ornament tutorial from Sculpey has a bit of everything: sculpting, caning, texture, and assembly. You just need to finish it up with a jaunty hanging string or, if you make it as a photo or place card holder, … Read More ...
DIY Clay Leaf Dishes
If you’re looking for little clay projects to make as gifts these pretty leaf dishes from Garden Therapy are one to try. The tutorial uses air dry clay
– and mentions that they’re not the sturdiest things – but you … Read More ...
Faux Faceted Stone Earrings
Faceted everything has been trendy for a little while now. These cute earrings from Dom of the Crafted blog capture the trend perfectly. The tutorial is dead simple – a little clay, a sharp blade, glue and findings are all … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Basics: Roses
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 ...