Here’s a tutorial – this links to the first steps, with the others found in the photostream – by Patricia Roberts-Thompson for a great cuff bracelet. There are photos and text explanations (in the photo description) for each step. The … Read More ...
Tutorial: Faux Anodized Beads
Emma Ralph makes fabulous clay beads and here’s a free tutorial of hers. The technique creates a faux anodized aluminum look. She uses her ultrafine glitter in the tutorial but mentions you can do this with mica powders or other … Read More ...
Tutorial: Double Bow Necklace
A cute necklace with a pretty bow on it. The tutorial uses simple clay techniques in the colour of your choice to make a great little decoration for a necklace. You could use strips from a blend to add dimensionality … Read More ...
Technique: Inkjet Transfers
Transfers onto clay can be tricky things. I never had a lot of luck with inkjet ones and now I don’t have an inkjet printer in the house anyways. I use laser printer transfer papers that work well but Shirley … Read More ...
Tutorial: Embellished Flip Flops
It’s flip flop season here. Sculpey has a fun tutorial to make flower embellishments for your flip flops using Premo. They add the flip flops by sewing them on but I’d probably bake the flowers onto shoe or flat hair … Read More ...
Tutorial: Antiqued Buttons
This tutorial makes a nice, subtle button – you could get a totally different effect with a bright coloured clay and a white wash – to match your sewing project.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Wired Clay
The interesting thing about this pendant tutorial is the use of wire for embellishment and support. You can use simple matching colours to fill your wire shapes or more complex gradients, blends and decorated surfaces. I do recommend using a … Read More ...
Tutorial: A Donut Necklace
And I don’t mean the stone donuts. The real (well, faux) deal type donut. Rachel of Lines Across has this cute offering: a donut necklace tutorial. I would advise to bake much longer than she states – the 15 … Read More ...
Technique: Waterslide Transfers
This is a how-to for a specific product- in this case Using Lisa Pavelka’s Waterslide Transfers – but the concept is good. Transfers are one of those Great Big Fun concepts in clay and for straightforward no fail stuff… I … Read More ...
Tutorial: Mokume Gane Leaf Veins
Joan, a polymer clayer from the west coast of Canada, has a neat way to use the features of mokume gane stacks and a leaf cutter to create the vein effect on clay leaves (future beads in my case!). The … Read More ...
Tutorial: Bouquet of Pens
This is a neat one – a bouquet of lovely flower pens to give as a gift for your grads perhaps. The tutorial actually covers how to make your own air dry polymer clay but I’d be using my oven … Read More ...
Tutorial: Simple Pansy Flowers
If you like pansies these are the way to go for simple shaped flowers! The actual tutorial has a ton of step by step pictures to check out. You can use purple acrylic paint (on raw or baked) or good … Read More ...
Tutorial: Ice Cream necklace
This tutorial is nifty – summery ice cream AND a review and test of one of Polyform’s newest products, Soufflé clay. I have a little stash waiting for me to turn it into wonderfulness but until then we have this … Read More ...
Tutorial: Indian Style Jewellery
This tutorial by Nisha Rajaraman encompasses some of the bold, vibrant colours you find in Indian pieces and which polymer clay does so well! There are super photographs for each step. I would, from my own preference, recommend anything other … Read More ...
Tutorial: Penguine Charms
Jolene has a great charm to show us – adorable penguins! As Jolene mentions, these are useful as pendants, charms for dust plugs… anywhere that needs a fun little dangle. The larger version of these would just like holiday ornaments … Read More ...