Donna Herron wrote up a great tutorial for making a framed angel wing ornament on HubPages. She uses pearl Sculpey 3 but you could do this with any clay and colour combo – I’d probably go with Frost White Glitter, … Read More ...
Cell Phone Stands with Polymer Clay
I was looking for ideas for my kids class to make for gifts and I decided it’ll be holders – cell phone holders, ring dishes… that sort of thing. Here’s one straight forward tutorial(English translation) of sorts … Read More ...
Mini Poinsettia Wreath
This fun mini poinsettia wreath tutorial works with all sorts of holiday decor – change up your picks or embellishments accordingly – as Jessa of the Sparkle Living blog commented. She also remarked to be careful to use the same … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Gift Tags
Gift tags and simple ornaments like these are pretty much the instant gratification polymer clay project for Christmas embellishments and token gifts. This tutorial from Movita of MovitaBeaucoup uses white Sculpey, paint, stamps, stencils and fun twine. You could do … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Cyber Sales
Happy Thanksgiving to the American readers out there! We – the Canadian we – did Thanksgiving last month but one tradition we seem to be adopting here is the whole crazy shopping season starting up after the US Thanksgiving holiday. … Read More ...
Paisley Christmas Ornaments
I sort of like paisley. There is a great paisley scarf in my closet and one of my favourite craft stamps is a fabulous paisley. Here’s a fun paisley ornament by Sculpey and Amy Koranek. I haven’t tried painting an … Read More ...
Clay Leaf Shaped Clay Ring Dish
Make a clever leaf ring dish for a gift this season and pair it with a pair of earrings or other trinket. This monstera dish tutorial from LiaGriffith uses air dry clay
and paint (and a monstera leaf) but you … Read More ...
Make Faux Gingerbread Ornaments with Clay and Ink
Create these cute gingerbread ornaments with cookie cutters, clay and crafting ink in this post by Kyriakos Pachadiroglou for Imagine Crafts. This craft uses air dry clay but you could do the same with regular oven bake polymer clay. The … Read More ...
Oven Bake Snowflake Christmas Winter Salt Dough Ornaments
I’m an oven bake polymer clay girl but long ago, for the rare treat, my favourite sitter would make us a batch of salt dough. We’d cut up shapes and bake them. Decorating them was so much fun. Turns out, … Read More ...
Matte Black and Metal Foil on Clay
In my internet wanderings this morning I saw this piece by syndee holt for Sculpey. It’s deceptively simple – texture adds interest while making all of the little imperfections less noticeable and the metal foil stands out elegantly from a … Read More ...
Clay Acorn Ornaments
I’ve occasionally made acorn beads when requested – both cane slice ones like these and just acorn shaped beads – but it’s always a little weird. Acorns aren’t common where I live. Pinecones by the bucket full, yes, but not … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Leaf Table Settings
Sculpey and syndee holt bring us some really pretty place settings with polymer clay leaf designs. syndee uses texture and Pearl Ex to embellish cut out leaf shapes, turning them into napking ring holders or an embellished votive holder. … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Winter Rose
I am a sucker for a well made polymer clay rose and this is a lovely one, in great blue shades. And to make it particularly wintry, it has sparkly faux snow to create frosted edges. The faux snow is … Read More ...
White and Translucent Bubble Cane
When I was growing up (in polymer clay) we called all of the white and translucent canes that you’d layer over the rest of your canes “ghost” canes because the effect is like that – a design ghosting over the … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Snowflake Cane
It snowed a bunch here today. It won’t stick around – well, probably not – but it’s definitely a heads up that winter is coming to my neck of the woods. Snow is a pretty big theme around here. Fellow … Read More ...