Carol Simmons is one of the Queens of Clay. She makes fabulous – reliably fabulous – cane designs with wonderful, vibrant colours. Turns out she makes cute little bowls, too. She posted a walk through of how she made a … Read More ...
Tutorial: Rainbow Pinch Pots
Meri calls this tutorial a colour sorting exercise – I’d say it’s just plain old fun. Pinch pots are a great project with air dry, oven bake or kiln fired clays. Of course, with polymer clay you can do them … Read More ...
Tutorial: Marble-y Trinket Dish
Steph Moore’s tutorial makes a fun marble-y ring bowl using the simplest of techniques. Drape the sheet of marbled clay in folds within a bowl (a former or mold), bake and then use a metallic paint pen
to gild your … Read More ...
Tutorial: Decorative Cutwork Bowl
This project combines polymer clay and a die cut machine – in this case, the Silhouette Cameo. Mags Bonham has been teaching this the last few years and has now released it on the Sculpey.com site for folks to take … Read More ...
Tutorial: Polymer Clay Acorns
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 ...
DIY Faceted Clay Pot
The tutorial calls for air dry clay but go ahead and substitute oven bake (and where they talk about drying, bake the pot). The facets can be cleaned up to be sharper / cleaner with a good sharp knife and … Read More ...
Tutorial: Pressed Flower Trinket Dish
This bowl is a variation on a popular theme – making small dishes and bowls from polymer clay. You could do the same from air dry clay but this tutorial uses oven bake clay, flowers to create an impression and … Read More ...
DIY Clay Yarn Bowl
I was looking for gift ideas for Mother’s Day crafts and stumbled across something else on my list – yarn bowls. I’ve made yarn bowls from ceramic a few times, with varying degrees of success, but it’s hard. I’m a … Read More ...
DIY Ring Bowls and Candle Houses
These tutorials (the original is not in English. Here is a link to the translated version) are meant to illustrate some great options for air dry clay but, as with many air dry clay projects, they work equally well … Read More ...
Tutorial: Rose Champagne Flutes
Here’s a neat way to dress up the champagne flutes for your event (wedding season anyone?). White is a great colour but you could use your wedding colours. This same technique would also work to decorate little bits of glassware … Read More ...
Little Polymer Bowls
Here’s a cute trinket dish for the kiddos to make – perhaps for Mother’s Day, perhaps to store their own treasures. The coil pot method to make the initial circle mixes the colours prettily.
If your kiddos are up for … Read More ...
Tutorial: Faux Ceramic Trinket Dish
Here’s an air dry clay tutorial for a trinket dish. This one has a lovely finish and pretty detailing. As with many of the air dry clay tutorials you could use the same techniques in polymer clay by curing at … Read More ...
Tutorial: Gift Tag Ornaments
Another star tutorial – this time for gift tag ornaments. To get the nice metallic paint colour block you can use craft acrylics as well. The post author is right, as well, with how cute these would look en masse … Read More ...
Tutorial: Make a Faux Stone Planter
One of the first things I made when I began poking at my clay was marbled beads. Even then I thought, “Wow, those are like nifty rocks.” Later, I found you really could make faux rocks just about the same … Read More ...
Making Clay Leaf Bowls
I’ve dabbled in ceramic and air dry clays and I’ve done polymer clay as my day job for years now. Apart from making canes and beads, my favourite item to build is bowls. Little bowls, great soup bowls (from ceramic … Read More ...