This tutorial, linked to from a Russian blog, is all pictures but explains fairly clearly how to build a great, detailed poppy. It looks like the tutorial is using cold porcelain and paints to colour it. You, obviously, can … Read More ...
Picture Canes from… Pictures
When I make a new cane – one that I haven’t done so often my fingers remember by themselves – I tend to draw a sketch first. I mark where the lines will go and which direction the shading will … Read More ...
Basket Weaving in Polymer Clay
AlekSanta shares a Fimo circular “basket” weave project on her livejournal. The original tutorial appears in Russian which I’m not sharp with so here’s a link in English to try. The project creates a lovely pendant but the techniques, including … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Mustaches for Movember
November gets some play for Movember, the movement for fundraising and awareness raising about men’s cancers, with men growing their mustaches. And at some point I won adorable mustache cookie cutters so we tend to get mustache cookies for work. … Read More ...
Polymer Clay for Diwali
Today is Diwali
, the festival of lights, and my small town has a community event for it at the multicultural centre. There will be lots of diyas or lights / lamps there. Making tiny votive holders is one of … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Spider Webs
Sunni Bergeron popped a tutorial up for a spider web cane way back… it was one of the ones I played with back when I was new. It still works just great for an overlay effect on your Halloween designs. … Read More ...
Creepy Clay Roses
Perfect for Halloween is this slightly creepy, odd twist on a normal polymer clay rose pendant or charm. You could go full goth chic and do the rose in black, as well. MaGa DollieLife has a stack of other cute-goth … Read More ...
Halloween Signs from Clay
Are you ready for Halloween yet? Make yourself a little sign for your door. Karen Prince used a variety of Sculpey clays to create a “Beware” sign but you could obviously add whatever spooky sentiment you’d like to yours. … Read More ...
Tweaking Your Skinner Blends
In caning, I use a lot of Skinner blends. Colour shading is a huge part of making great picture canes and also in adding interest to projects using your blends. A simple tweak to your blend adds a neat stepped … Read More ...
Pantone and Polymer Clay
Long ago in a previous life I worked in print shops. Part of that world is using the Pantone colour system for all sorts of things and Pantone is the industry fixture for colour recipes and colour forecasts. Carolyn Good … Read More ...
Make Leaves from Polymer Clay
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mX9Y7GF-H4… Read More ...
Polymer Clay Acorn Pendants
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 ...
Happy Turkey Day! with Polymer Clay of Course
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 ...
Polymer Clay and Instagram
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 ...
Hollow Polymer Clay Shells
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 ...