Clayers are a generous bunch. You can find a pile of tutorials posted, for free, on the internet. Many of these are old pros including this one by Marcia of Mars Design. This one is a quickie photo tutorial from … Read More ...
Pressed Flower Beads How-To
I am a sucker for fun beads and Rebekah Payne’s beads are just my type of thing. Even better, she shares her bead making as with this tutorial. These make clever, organic textured beads. You could use any texture, … Read More ...
Make Clay Bears
This is another fondant tutorial (edible air dry clay anyone?) but I’ve made super similar polymer clay bears just like this. To Christmassify your clay bear tuck a jump ring in it’s head while it’s still soft to form a … Read More ...
Tutorial: Sculpting a Yellow Lab
I admit, I was looking for some tutorials on how to make dogs – canes, sculpture, SOMETHING – in polymer clay when I stumbled across this tutorial for a sculpted lab head. Bonus: labs are my favourite dog breed.
I … Read More ...
Reducing Polymer Clay Canes and More
I’m not a big video fan – I do better experimenting on my own or with a book, to go at my own speed – but with the huge, HUGE increase in the number of video tutorials out there the … Read More ...
8 Christmas Ornaments Made From Polymer Clay
If you are having a hard time finding the perfect ornaments for your Christmas tree, then maybe try making your own. These 8 polymer clay
tutorials will give you some great inspiration for making your own custom ornaments to fit … Read More ...
Tutorial: Octopus Ornament
This project uses air dry clay – and she comments not to use oven bake – like Fimo Air. You absolutely COULD use oven bake clay to make this ornament if you were using a glass ornament or an oven … Read More ...
Tutorial: Leaf Ornaments
Amber of Starless Clay makes fabulous polymer clay filigree – which you can see in her Etsy shop – but she also occasionally writes and shares projects on her blog. This one is a Sutton slice project to make leaf … Read More ...
Make Clay Christmas Trees
This is one of those simple little photo tutorials that abounds on Pinterest. I would use a core of foil for my tree so that the base stuck in better and you saved on clay and curing time. The scissors … Read More ...
Tutorial: A Solar System Model
Turns out there’s a little more on educational projects with polymer clay. The kids I’ve worked with have always enjoyed the clay even when we snuck in the educational bits. This project is for a mini solar system – which … Read More ...
Combining Polymer Clay and Science
Outside of my art and craft world – which occupies a lot of my life, I admit – I have a technical background and an interest in things science-y. It is definitely one of the reasons that polymer clay appeals … Read More ...
Halloween Tic Tac Toe
Here’s a last minute fun project for kids or family. The clay is simple sculpting and suitable for children.
You could make this a fridge tic tac toe game by adding magnets to the bases of the pumpkins and ghosts.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Penguin Figurine
I’m a fan of penguin things and tend to make penguin ornaments for my Christmas shows. Here’s a cute penguin figurine that you could easily do as an ornament. The video is great, detailed and the figures are very fun … Read More ...
Tutorial: Making Hollow Clay Beads
Truly large items from clay present a challenge. They take a lot of materials but they also require a great deal of curing time and it’s hard to be sure that every section has cured enough. You get around this … Read More ...
Tutorial: Halloween Scary Clay Tree
While I work primarily with polymer clay – oven bake or low firing plastic clays – I do also play with air dry clays, both earth and paper based, as well as high fire stoneware clay. And occasionally with fondant. … Read More ...