A well done faux marble made with Fimo polymer clay looks just like the real deal. Especially with a good sanding and buffing. It makes great dollhouse mini details as well as pieces where marble would be convincing – insets … Read More ...
Fourth of July Clay Jewellery
Use your polymer clay skills – and some fun, glittery clay in flag colours – to build a set of patriotic jewellery for your 4th of July events. This tutorial, from Sculpey and Amy Koranek, uses jewellery bezels to … Read More ...
Patriotic Polymer Clay Cake
If your fairy garden or miniatures scene needs a 4th of July scene here’s a great little cake for it! RioSong shares a straightforward video tutorial for a layer cake on their channel. Need a Halloween cake? Swap the … Read More ...
Canada Day Polymer Clay
I live in Canada and this July 1st marks the 150th Canada Day. As a bit of celebrating I whipped up a tutorial for my Canada flag cane (and resulting beads!). It’s a colour block method to make a maple … Read More ...
Making Polymer Clay Metallic
Making faux with polymer clay is definitely part of the fun of the medium. For metallic effects you have all sorts of options. All of the brands I have worked with have a selection of “metallic” clays that aren’t bad. … Read More ...
Miniature Polymer Clay Paving Stones
Teeny, tiny landscaping for your fairy garden in the form of miniature pavers. This is the touch my potted flowers need at work – a little winding stone path between the marigolds and jump-ups – and this tutorial shows a … Read More ...
Tiny Succulents from Clay
Or fondant. The process works with either. And I bought Wilton tools to use with my clay years ago plus my collection of random cutters makes this pretty much my go to method for making these. To get coloured edges … Read More ...
Colour Recipes and Polymer Clay
I am pretty sure one of the best attributes of regular old oven bake clay is that it is both a modeling medium to make objects from and a medium with pigment to do decoration with. This can add a … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Blueberry Bracelet
This is a great looking blueberry tutorial as well as blueberry bracelet tutorial. Me Dearwe has a couple of other tutorials on their channel to check out, as well. They get the delicate colouration on their blueberry charms with pastels … Read More ...
Make DIY Clay Whistles
I was looking for a project I had seen years ago – in a book, it turns out – about how to make a whistle from polymer clay
. The search turned up some tutorials for how to do this … Read More ...
Mokume Gane with Paints and Leaf
Sometimes even the basic techniques look great with good material and colour choices and good workmanship. This mokume gane tutorial (English translation) is an excellent of that approach.
One mg hint: in the stack, if you want the … Read More ...
Tweaking Your Jellyroll Cane
Chifonie wrote this neat tutorial (English translation) for Parôle de Paté, a great French polymer clay
community site. Like a lot of good variants, this one came about because the writer didn’t have all of the materials for … Read More ...
Pastel and Texture on Polymer Clay
Pastels are super popular in the clay world the last few years for all sorts of surface effects. Page McNall has a quick picture tutorial of how to use pastels, texture and scrap clay to make interesting sheets of … Read More ...
Switchplates and Faux Finishes
Switchplates are one of those plain house decor items. Turns out clay covered ones are easy to do and let you add some decorative touches to your space in a fairly unusual spot. This tutorial, from Sculpey.com, covers a … Read More ...
Little Bowls for Mother’s Day
This is a Mother’s Day project for the younger set – little ring dishes embellished to look like flowers or starry skies. These are made from Model Magic
, a really great air dry material from Crayola. It’s fun, easy … Read More ...