Sometimes the neatest clay projects come from using the basic tools – in this case, circle cutters – in interesting ways. This tutorial (English translation) explores how to use circle cutters and nested cut outs to make a … Read More ...
Snowmen Ornaments from Clay
I think this is one of those clever clay projects for Christmas great for the whole family. You can make smaller versions from solid clay or use aluminum foil balls (or ornaments) for the head on larger ones. Nell, of … Read More ...
A Whale of a Phone Holder
I love when people use their clay to make useful stuff. In this case, Rachel from Doodle and Stitch makes a fun phone holder from air dry clay. Air dry clay is ideal for this sort of project because it … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Poinsettia Ornaments
Poinsettia ornaments made with little poinsettia leaf canes and a bit of sculpting. Simple but pretty elegant. Sandy has many other videos on her channel. If you want to do more traditionally red poinsettia bracts / leaves make the … Read More ...
Homemade Clay and Penguin Photo Holder
This is a pretty good, straightforward recipe for air drying clay or cold porcelain. Since it’s a white glue base it makes a nice, translucent finished product when it dries. That means to get an opaque quality you need to … Read More ...
Clay Goddess Pendants
I remember a swap with other clayers years ago where we made our own interpretation of goddess pendants. Lots of talented clayers took part and we all ended up with a huge variety of little goddesses. Here’s a take on … Read More ...
Cute Clay Monkeys
Saru-Hime has a fun – and simple! – tutorial for making little monkey characters. Like many DeviantArt tutorials it’s one giant image… click to enlarge. Add your relevant monkey embellishments (my students did bananas and ice cream cones!) and voila, … Read More ...
DIY Fancy Christmas Balls
This tutorial, by Debi Beard of Debi’s Design Diary, uses air dry clay, dollar store plastic ball ornaments, good decorative paint and molds. You can use oven bake polymer clay and I’d suggest grabbing the inexpensive glass balls (which … Read More ...
Clay Transfers with Paper Napkins
One of my favourite things to do with Silly Putty when I was lucky enough to get some as a kid was make transfers from comic book pages. I was thrilled when I realized you could do similar with polymer … Read More ...
Macaron Ornaments
These adorable ornaments are polymer clay versions of French macarons. Mindy of GetCreativeJuice made her tutorial straightforward and perfectly photographed. I would use jump rings instead of the eye screws because they stay in the clay better. Insert them half … Read More ...
Thanksgiving Turkey Placecard Holder
If your Thanksgiving decor needs a little MORE turkey here’s a fun Sculpey project for placecard holders… shaped like turkeys.
We had ham on our Thanksgiving one year for which I made small turkey napkin holders as tokens of … Read More ...
Thanksgiving Turkey… Made Tiny
If your miniatures collection needs their Thanksgiving turkey check out this tutorial from AkameruKawaii. My partner looked over my shoulder while I was watching and said, impressed, “That’s CLAY?”
Pumpkin Luminaries for Halloween
These are adorable little luminaries! Translucent clay, tinted orange, and glow in the dark details make this tutorial from Swirly Designs and Sculpey 
a fabulous little project for Halloween. Put your LED tealights
in there and deck your porch or … Read More ...
Miniature Clay Pumpkins
For either your Halloween or Thanksgiving decor, miniature pumpkins come in handy. Use polymer clay
and this tutorial (English translation) to make some fairly realistic looking minis.
You could use clay or paint to turn these into little … Read More ...
For the Really Windy Days
Polymer Clay Wind Chimes
I live on the Canadian prairies. Every stereotype of big, open, flat spaces is true. And it’s windy. On the best of days it’s a light breeze pushing perfect puffy clouds around in the famed Big … Read More ...