Penguins are one of those adorable winter time themes. Meg Newberg has a great, simple tutorial for polymer clay ones on her blog. The tutorial is for a basic penguin but adding the extra details makes the whole effect. Mine … Read More ...
DIY Tutorial For Making Your Own Cold Porcelain Clay
I mostly work with oven-bake polymer clays but I do play with them all, on occasion. Of the air drying clay ones I like the effect of cold porcelains best. They have a nice delicate translucence when they’re left white.… Read More ...
Make Yourself a Mini Christmas Tree
I admit it. I like my miniatures. Here’s a video tutorial for making a simple but stable Christmas tree mini from polymer clay. Once you have the tree, you can add decorations or a little skiff of snow to it. … Read More ...
Thanksgiving Pumpkins from Clay
If you’re looking for a little last minute claying before Thanksgiving these pumpkins would make cute table decorations. Add a little slit into them or tuck a paper clip into them before baking and they become great place card holders. … Read More ...
Sculpt Mushroom Houses from Clay
These fabulous houses are done with air dry clay – the regular kids kind you can find fairly easily. The technique would work with polymer clay with a few modifications. There’s detail on how to properly paint at the end … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Snowflake Ornaments
It’s finally beginning to snow here, a little, and we’re considering putting up our Christmas tree. Ornaments are one of my favourite things to make from clay and snowflakes make great, slightly fancy, projects to do. Cookie cutter ornaments, like … Read More ...
Cupcake Toppers and Food Picks
Make adorable, unique decorations for your cupcakes with the simplest of polymer clay techniques and tools. Using toothpicks and tiny cutters make little flags for your cupcakes or fancy foods. Use paint to add stamped details – labels even – … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Mini Bunting and Flags
Cake toppers are one of the Big Fun Things to do with polymer clay. Fimo site has a modern spin on popular decorating trends with this cute mini bunting and cupcake topper idea.
As always with even simple techniques … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Bracelets for Kids
Here’s a pretty great list of bracelet making options for the kiddos. All of the clay in the tutorial is a mix of scraps, marbled and basic colours. The materials used for formers or armatures (except the bracelet cuff band) … Read More ...
Poppies from Polymer
This tutorial, linked to from a Russian blog, is all pictures but explains fairly clearly how to build a great, detailed poppy. It looks like the tutorial is using cold porcelain and paints to colour it. You, obviously, can … Read More ...
Picture Canes from… Pictures
When I make a new cane – one that I haven’t done so often my fingers remember by themselves – I tend to draw a sketch first. I mark where the lines will go and which direction the shading will … Read More ...
Basket Weaving in Polymer Clay
AlekSanta shares a Fimo circular “basket” weave project on her livejournal. The original tutorial appears in Russian which I’m not sharp with so here’s a link in English to try. The project creates a lovely pendant but the techniques, including … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Mustaches for Movember
November gets some play for Movember, the movement for fundraising and awareness raising about men’s cancers, with men growing their mustaches. And at some point I won adorable mustache cookie cutters so we tend to get mustache cookies for work. … Read More ...
Polymer Clay for Diwali
Today is Diwali
, the festival of lights, and my small town has a community event for it at the multicultural centre. There will be lots of diyas or lights / lamps there. Making tiny votive holders is one of … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Spider Webs
Sunni Bergeron popped a tutorial up for a spider web cane way back… it was one of the ones I played with back when I was new. It still works just great for an overlay effect on your Halloween designs. … Read More ...