Fimo and clay tips and tutorials
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 ...
If you cane in polymer clay
you may be trying to make fall and Halloween themed goodies. PolymerClayCentral has a good little pumpkin cane tutorial that makes something similar to Heather’s pieces above. The cane is pretty close to how … Read More ...
These little ghosties, by Jen Walshaw of Mum in the Mad House, are made with air dry clay over a shaper. The tutorial uses a styrofoam ball as one of the shapes to drape the ghost over but if you … Read More ...
Here’s a cute idea for an essential oil diffuser for your car. I appreciate that the authors updated their post once they had tested their project for a bit and received feedback.
As a polymer clayer I know that oils … Read More ...
Christi Friesen strikes again. This bat project incorporates a stack of fun extras. Christi designed as a pendant but I think it’d be a great hanging accent for your Halloween decor.
You can check out all of Christi’s free and … Read More ...
My favourite designer couple – Paul and Lianne Stoddard – on Sculpey have another project available – a great black cat trinket dish! This is geared for Halloween decor but is adorable enough I’d be hard put to store … Read More ...
Rose and Cora of Paper & Landscapes have a great tutorial for tiny clay houses. The houses are whimsical little miniatures that would be perfect tucked in as a decoration in your flower pot or lined up on a … Read More ...
I liked how clean and neat this trinket dish looked with the extra little touch to the shaping. Jaymee Srp mentions she uses a shot glass to give the dish the actual dish shape in her tutorial. She also … Read More ...
Did you know October 1st is International Coffee Day? Here’s a coffee cup (and coffee!) tutorial from Cihutka123 on DeviantArt.
These sort of charms make fabulous earrings for your coffee loving buds. Little coffee beans are pretty easy coffee lover … Read More ...
The hands down favourite polymer clay colour in my shop, in the under 12 group, is glow in the dark(GID) clay. The kids will happily make glow in the dark everything. This Halloween project, from Sculpey, has all of … Read More ...
These leaf bowls are great crafts – from earth clay fired in a kiln to oven bake to air dry
– for kids and, really, anyone who thinks leaf motifs are pretty awesome. A fired ceramic piece or a well … Read More ...
Michael’s has a great last summer hurrah type project with these brightly coloured marbled coasters. They use Fimo Sculpey 3 in the tutorial but I’d highly recommend something a little sturdier since these will actually be handled. Premo! or … Read More ...
Unruly Housewife shares a tutorial for a combed pattern veneer in her video. Veneers are great for creating pendants, tiles, pens and anything you can cover with a flat sheet. Little magnets made with simple cutters, a veneer sheet and … Read More ...
Where I live, fall is on it’s way. There are leaves falling everywhere. This leaf shaped incense holder, from Marwa of Enthralling Gumption, is a salute to the theme. Make it with white air dry clay, like Marwa, … Read More ...
I consider various blades to be part of my basic polymer clay set up. I have a flexible and a rigid “tissue blade”, an xacto knife and, usually, a ripple blade. I may not use it much but slicing into … Read More ...