Maggy of Red Ted Art shares a simple shamrock pendant or charm tutorial. This is a nice, simple project for kids to try. You can attach the resulting charm to a necklace as a pendant, or a finding to … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Fruit for Your Wrist
Make a whimsical bracelet full of fruit charms with some basic sculpting and jewellery making techniques. A contributor on Livemaster (a Russian craft site) shares the tutorial with us. I’m including this link for an English translation but the pictures … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Pot of Gold
Swirly Designs and Sculpey bring us this adorable pot of gold decoration complete with little mixed media rainbow. Make your own St. Patrick’s Day treats!… Read More ...
Clay Flower Cones
If you have little sprays of flowers – like lavender, as in the tutorial – or nosegays in tiny jars of water why not try this option? Make an embossed clay cone to hold your flowers. Sam from A Happy … Read More ...
Marbled Clay Eggs
These marbled Easter eggs from Ice Pandora make cute little bowl fillers. Add a handful to a decorative dish or vase or spring flower pot to decorate for Easter. Hole them and string on twine for little garlands.
Use leftover … Read More ...
Easter Bunny Games
Dani of Gingered Things made a simple Easter bunny game(English translation) from polymer clay. She made simple white rabbits with hollowed out bottoms to hide marbled eggs under.
Obviously marble your eggs whatever great Easter colours you … Read More ...
Happy Lunar New Year!
Make traditional good luck envelope charms to help celebrate the Chinese New Year. CoolRiceBunnies goes over the construction, detailing and finish work. Her channel has many other polymer clay videos to take a peek at.
A Polymer Clay Valentine Holder
I made a cute red little Valentine holder with one of my classes recently. I won’t lie – this was a great way to use scrap clay and some truly bright red Sculpey 3 in my studio. It’s holding one … Read More ...
Star Wall Hanging
Amy Christie of This Heart of Mine makes this neat starry wall hanging as part of a review of a book. The star hanging is a project in the book – and the book sounds interesting – with cut out … Read More ...
Extruder Mokume Gane
Kristie Foss did a little experimenting with her extrusions and worked up an extruder mokume gane. The extruded parts are made into the mokume gane slab and you take shavings off that. The key here would be to load … Read More ...
Make It a Steampunk Valentine
If you’re planning on making your Valentine a heart for the day… why not try a steampunk styled one? This tutorial from aliceazzo of DeviantArt is a simple approach and encourages you to mix it up however you’d like. Even … Read More ...
Valentine Clay Kitties
Although these adorable Valentine kitties were posted by Crumb Avenue as sugar paste creatures… polymer clay works pretty much the same. The tools are certainly the same. I use fondant tools half the time I work with clay. Use either … Read More ...
Covering a Switchplate
I was explaining to an in-person customer today how you could use clay to do all sorts of home decor projects including covering switchplates and outlet covers. I couldn’t find any of the ones I’ve done over the years so … Read More ...
Clay Heart Garlands
These sweet clay heart garlands and decorations would be perfect for Valentine’s Day or DIY wedding decor pieces. Linda, of Burlap & Blue, wrote the tutorial for Violet Hills Weddings. She uses Crayola Model Magic which is an air drying … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Valentines
Natasha of The Artisan Life has a tutorial for little gilded Valentines to give away. Use whatever textures and surface coatings you have for your own pieces. Rub n’ Buff is great stuff for metallic finishes.… Read More ...