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DIY Extruder Slice Beads

August 29, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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Extruders are fun tools for polymer clayers. You can use any of the better ones to crank out tons of little strings of shaped clay, cane components and whatever else with relative ease. Georgia P uses a stack of complimentary … Read More ...

Tutorial: Mokume Gane Beads

August 26, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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Margaret Schindel put together an absolutely fabulous primer on mokume gane, in terms of historical and traditional techniques as well as how it relates to polymer clay. She finishes the article with a really great step by step polymer … Read More ...

DIY Pumpkin Patch with Air Dry Clays

August 24, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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It’s a pumpkin patch without having to grow the silly things. The tutorial for the above piece uses Celluclay which is a fairly grainy air drying paper clay that is great for larger projects. If you’ve ever done a similar … Read More ...

Tutorial: Autumn Leaf Dish

August 23, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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We’ve had a great, hot shiny summer here but the heat broke the other day and you can definitely feel autumn not too far off. As a nod here’s a trinket dish with an autumn leaf theme by Dora Daily. … Read More ...

Tutorial: Polymer Clay Acorns

August 20, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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Amy, from the B Line, shares with us her method on making little polymer clay acorns. The texturing on the bead cap with a paper twist is perfect and yet so simple.

You don’t need to make acorns in natural … Read More ...

Tutorial: Polymer Clay Skull Necklace

August 17, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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Looking forward to Halloween, here’s a string of handmade skull beads. You could add more beads or use a firmer clay and get more details on the beads. The tutorial comments that clay is pretty hard out of the package … Read More ...

Tutorial: Sculpting a Cockatoo

August 17, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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Here’s a cute project from KatersAcres – a cockatoo sculpt. Katie’s site has a stack of good stuff including many other free tutorals for cute creatures.

I found this particular tutorial when I went searching for polymer clay bird … Read More ...

DIY Jewellery Dish

August 15, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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This is one of the prettier jewellery dish tutorials. The artist use white Sculpey but you could use Premo in the base colour you want and save yourself the base layer of paint issue.

One of the issues with … Read More ...

Tutorial: Making Leeks

August 11, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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My mini food fondness is probably a big part of why I like food canes and the teeny tiny beads that result from them (in my case). Shay Aron does fabulous food minis – here’s his flickr album for them … Read More ...

Tutorial: Tomato Slice Cane

August 8, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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This is a cute way of getting very realistic tomato slices. Being a caner, I’d probably add a lot more of the colouring detail to the cane instead of doing it to individual slices but I have to admit the … Read More ...

DIY Apple Charms

August 5, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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This tutorial is translated from Russian(here’s the translation). The pictures are explanatory which is good because the translation has a few head scratching moments. What the translation records as toothpick, the tutorial means eyepins (the charm loops, trimmed to … Read More ...

Tutorial: Kiwi Cane

August 4, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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I made so many watermelon and other fruit beads this summer I was looking through my hoarded links for other Fimo fruit canes to play with. Here’s one from a French artist for a kiwi cane. The original is … Read More ...

DIY Terrariums with Clay Decorations

August 2, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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This is a sweet idea for a gift – a little terrarium with cute clay decorations. Add mushrooms and gnomes as Christina did or customize it for your gift recipient (or decor!) You could add little mini animals or a … Read More ...

Tutorial: Mini Fairy Houses

July 30, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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I lucked into a couple books on fairy gardens to review. While I’m trying out some of the gardening projects in those, I’m going back through notes and links on fairy garden decorations and props like this adorable fairy house. … Read More ...

Tutorial: Polymer Clay Cuff Bracelet

July 28, 2015 by Elaine Robitaille

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Sculpey has brought a bunch of new tools to market the last few years geared at helping clayers explore more complex clay techniques. There’s also a variety of interesting jewellery findings and tools to try out. This tutorial uses the … Read More ...

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