How to tell your dad he rocks? Make daddy rocks. This tutorial is pretty straight forward: take a good sized rock, cover with clay, stamp letters, cure your piece (or, if using air dry clay, let dry), and highlight the … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Tiles to Cover Objects
Maria Greene, of Greene Earth Originals, does all sorts of great art including some polymer clay mosaic pieces in a sort of Laurie Mika style. In this quick walk through, Maria explains a little bit about how she makes … Read More ...
Tutorial: Foiled Clay Mosaic Beads
This is a tutorial, from Katie of KatersAcres, for mosaic beads using foils. The effect is a faux dichroic glass one which is fun. A couple of notes: As Katie mentions at the start of the tutorial, it is … Read More ...
Making Polymer Clay Mosaics
A customer in my shop asked my opinion on how she could tweak her garden mosaic with polymer clay pieces for interest. I haven’t made many mosaic type pieces so off I went researching. As it often happens, Sculpey.com had … Read More ...
Make Miniature Bread from Clay
Great doll house miniatures are one of those fun polymer clay things to make. I’m particularly fond of miniature food because it makes adorable beads and jewellery. This tutorial is for fairly simple baguettes – though getting the right touch … Read More ...
Tutorial: Earphone Caddy from Clay
I may spend most of my days making polymer clay
beads and canes but one of the things I try to push to people is how useful it is for other, day to day, uses. Make little dishes, holders, grips, … Read More ...
Tutorial: Tiny Clay Succulent Plants
As I’m finishing the window in my physical shop with little succulents – many in clay pots – I’m looking at a few spots in the shop which would benefit from cute succulents but are a pain to reach or … Read More ...
Tutorial: Making Your Own Clay Bezels
Amy Koranek wrote a great tutorial for using Polyform’s (the Sculpey people!) bezel molds. For her bezels, she’s using the metallic translucent liquid clays which strikes me as pretty clever. She also covers the steps for a fun mokume gane … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Hollow Beads… the Balloon Method
Clayers are pretty clever people who adapt all sorts of other techniques to their polymer clay work. Sona Grigoryan did just that by making “balloon beads” with polymer clay. She uses thin wire to make a skeleton or cage around … Read More ...
Tutorial: Miniature Donuts
Stéphanie Kilgast – aka Petit Plat – makes some of the prettiest food miniatures out there. She also shares videos, photos and tutorials all the time including this sweet miniature donut one to try. If you can’t find the right … Read More ...
Herb Markers from Clay
Here’s a tutorial for herb markers with stamped lettering. The author dry brushes her paint on her markers at the end. You could, of course, just use coloured clay and highlight the letters only.
If you make a set of … Read More ...
Mother Child Necklaces from Clay
This one from Mum In The Madhouse would be good for the young munchkins to make but also for the grownup kids. Marble Mom’s favourite colours for your project. Add a few embellishments or initials to personalize it.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Bird Nest Hairpins
With all the Spring going on around me, I got asked to make someone a birds nest for their fairy garden. Which lead me to see how other clayers were doing their bird’s nest designs. Here’s a nice simple one… Read More ...
Polymer Clay Gears
This project is clever both for the box making and the fairly realistic clay gear making. You could use the same idea for any sort of box you’d like – not necessarily heart related – and your choice of ornamentation … Read More ...
Tutorial: Ceramic Clay Mobiles
I love mobiles and wind chimes and I’ve made a few in the past from hardware pieces and sticks but never, odddly, from any clay. This tutorial uses air dry clay and copper tubing. You could use polymer clays in … Read More ...