Fimo and clay tips and tutorials
This video by Shabby Crafter makes a useful polymer clay charm or dangle for adding to jewellery, pulls or other projects. Vary your base clay and powder colours for the whole gamut of autumn colours.
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Sarah, of Stepping Thru Crazy, has a great autumn themed tutorial. She uses a real acorn cap and polymer clay to make a fun pendant. If you don’t have acorn caps near you, you could easily do the whole … Read More ...
It’s Thanksgiving today in Canada. I am blessed to have family visiting, food roasting in the oven, and time to enjoy it all. One of the things I am constantly thankful for is how very lucky I am to have … Read More ...
Like most parents I’m behind the times. I got onto Instagram a while ago but it was still ages after my teenager. Of course, one of the first things I did on there was go looking for other polymer clayers. … Read More ...
Primatoide, a French polymer clayer, makes clever nautilus style shells – hollow ones at that – with a combination of wash away play-doh clay and polymer clays. She uses a log of Play-Doh wrapped in a thin layer of clay … Read More ...
Still playing around with glow in the dark polymer clay at my place! I’ve been mixing it with colours to make some little creatures (a la Christi Friesen ghoulies). Polymer Clay Artist, who’s video this is, has a channel with … Read More ...
A nicely crackled decoration is one of the prettiest ways to make an interesting surface on your clay pieces. Ludmilla shares a video on the process, using a combination of alcohol inks and metallic foils. Her channel has a sweet … Read More ...
I got myself… er, the kids!… a bunch of glow in the dark polymer clay to use for upcoming polymer clay classes and went out to look for ideas. We’ll be doing something Halloween themed for the October class but … Read More ...
This tutorial is a whole stack of useful techniques: hollow beads (using polystyrene / shrink plastic balls), pastels for colour and silk screens. Petra Nemravka’s site has a wealth of tutorials, tips, and great supplies available.… Read More ...
Mollie of Wild Olive has the perfect necklace for my last few rainy days: a polymer clay raindrop necklace. It’s hard to be sad with this cute kawaii style raindrop and it’s a simple project. Use coloured clay if … Read More ...
This project makes adorable little clay umbrellas. I’m heading into a damp couple of days so this was the perfect “theme” project. The original is in Russian but here’s a translation.… Read More ...
Picking up different style elements or cultural themes in your polymer clay pieces can give them an extra zing. This piece by Sculpey and Dr. Pritish brings a little of the exotic, detailed gold tones of Indian art to it. … Read More ...
Here’s a clever idea – use your clay to make a pendant lamp. Take a standard lamp bulb set up and create the “shade” for it. This tutorial uses air dry clay super effectively – the white minimalist and simple … Read More ...
Just like I have piles of clay and clay pieces, I have a good stash of tools of all shapes and sizes. Not the least of those are my cutters. Some of them – a couple plastic shoeboxes worth – … Read More ...
After those first few blocks of Fimo clay, about when you realize you’ll need a few of every colour and one of each tool you find, you start to think about storage. Since polymer clay stays usable for a long, … Read More ...