This project describes how to make a “painterly” effect. If abstract isn’t your thing consider using the smudging technique to draw a specific pattern. You can use tools to do the painting – knitting needle ends, paintbrush ends and ball … Read More ...
Tutorial: Polymer Clay Pin Converter
Bettina Welker strikes again, with help for polymer clay jewelers! This time she offers a useful, polymer clay solution for wearing brooches as pendants without using the sometimes hard to come by finding for it. Perfect, clear photos of lovely, … Read More ...
Tutorial: Egg Cup Bunnies
These are super adorable – little bunny shaped egg holders for your Easter (or anytime, they’re that sweet) decor. Lianne and Paul Stoddard of Swirley Designs wrote this one for Sculpey.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Yin Yang Necklace Set
This is a great “best friends” project to make. She uses paper clay and a spray sealer – if you use oven bake polymer clay I would go with a brush on sealer since many of the spray sealers react … Read More ...
Tutorial: Bride and Groom Keychains
A cute trinket for weddings or showers, this bride and groom keychain set uses simple cut out shapes and just the two colours: perfect for making a little stack for your special event.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Easter Bunny Sculpture
French clayer Myriam Lakraa shows a simple but sweet Fimo Easter rabbit sculpt. I’m linking to the French tutorial but you can easily read the English version, thanks to Google right here.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Fancy Cake Mini
There’s really no secret about my fondness for adorable food minis. It’s not something I’m terribly talented at making so I admire them from across the internet. The Mouse Market makes some of the cuter ones. Here’s a tutorial with … Read More ...
Tutorial: Polymer Clay Holders
Amy Christie of This Heart of Mine shares a tutorial for little holders – postcards, pictures, business cards, notes. Simple decorations and textures make a quick, straightforward project a little more sophisticated. She suggests using tightly packed aluminum for the … Read More ...
Tutorial: Patching Pottery with Clay
It’s no secret: I make tons of decorative items with polymer clay. One of the things I miss the most about polymer clay and like the most about ceramic clay is the making of useful, functional ware. Polymer clay needs … Read More ...
Tutorial: Faceted Egg Cups
This tutorial is timely – with Easter around the corner a few egg cups might help (and if you’re like me you have a couple anyways). These ones would show off your fancy eggs even if you’re not likely to … Read More ...
5 Tutorials To Keep You “Green” On St. Patrick’s Day
The color green has long been associated with the well known holiday of Saint Patrick himself. It’s said that if you are caught not wearing some type of green attire on this day, you can be pinched! Ouch! Well, St. … Read More ...
Tutorial: Chicks for Easter Decoration
I often end up borrowing from cake decorating tutorials to get the inspiration for simple clay sculpts and this one was particularly perfect. This colourful tutorial for decorative Easter chicks comes by way of Monika from Germany. The tutorial is … Read More ...
Tutorial: Stenciled Clay Bookmarks
Mixing up clay and paint and stencils makes some great bookmarks as Judy proves with this tutorial. You could use the exact same technique to decorate anything clay. Covers for notebooks or tags for gifts or magnets.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Clay Easter Eggs
Josie, the blogger who shared this tutorial, offers these as religious Easter eggs but I think they’re perfect for anyone. And, as she mentioned, they’d make great word pebbles.
Josie uses air dry clay for the project and makes … Read More ...
Tutorial: Pavé Pendant
Here’s a flexible tutorial for how to make a very blinged out Fimo pavé style pendant. Amy comments that she uses acrylic and air dry clay for her first try because you can’t bake the less expensive acrylic rhinestones… but … Read More ...