In polymer clay, molds and textures are fabulous tools to have. Some of us (ahem, me) spend a lot of time and money collecting different clay molds to use on our work.
Barbara, from Buntwerkstatt, shares a tutorial for … Read More ...
DIY Extruder Slice Beads
Extruders are fun tools for polymer clayers. You can use any of the better ones to crank out tons of little strings of shaped clay, cane components and whatever else with relative ease. Georgia P uses a stack of complimentary … Read More ...
Tutorial: Mokume Gane Beads
Margaret Schindel put together an absolutely fabulous primer on mokume gane, in terms of historical and traditional techniques as well as how it relates to polymer clay. She finishes the article with a really great step by step polymer … Read More ...
DIY Pumpkin Patch with Air Dry Clays
It’s a pumpkin patch without having to grow the silly things. The tutorial for the above piece uses Celluclay 
which is a fairly grainy air drying paper clay that is great for larger projects. If you’ve ever done a similar … Read More ...
Tutorial: Autumn Leaf Dish
We’ve had a great, hot shiny summer here but the heat broke the other day and you can definitely feel autumn not too far off. As a nod here’s a trinket dish with an autumn leaf theme by Dora Daily. … Read More ...
Tutorial: Polymer Clay Acorns
Amy, from the B Line, shares with us her method on making little polymer clay acorns. The texturing on the bead cap with a paper twist is perfect and yet so simple.
You don’t need to make acorns in natural … Read More ...
Tutorial: Polymer Clay Skull Necklace
Looking forward to Halloween, here’s a string of handmade skull beads. You could add more beads or use a firmer clay and get more details on the beads. The tutorial comments that clay is pretty hard out of the package … Read More ...
Tutorial: Sculpting a Cockatoo
Here’s a cute project from KatersAcres – a cockatoo sculpt. Katie’s site has a stack of good stuff including many other free tutorals for cute creatures.
I found this particular tutorial when I went searching for polymer clay bird … Read More ...
DIY Jewellery Dish
This is one of the prettier jewellery dish tutorials. The artist use white Sculpey but you could use Premo in the base colour you want and save yourself the base layer of paint issue.
One of the issues with … Read More ...
Fantasy Inspirations in Clay
As show season approaches I’m poking around for ideas on how to add fantasy and quirky themes to my line. This neat bottle is done in a bit of a Steampunk design but I find that’s often got a lot … Read More ...
Tutorial: Making Leeks
My mini food fondness is probably a big part of why I like food canes and the teeny tiny beads that result from them (in my case). Shay Aron does fabulous food minis – here’s his flickr album for them … Read More ...
Experimenting with Polymer Clay and Die Cutters
For a technical person I’m not much of a tool junkie. I try things out but usually end up with a couple tried and true tools. It took years and good friends before I got a motor for my pasta … Read More ...
Tutorial: Tomato Slice Cane
This is a cute way of getting very realistic tomato slices. Being a caner, I’d probably add a lot more of the colouring detail to the cane instead of doing it to individual slices but I have to admit the … Read More ...
DIY Apple Charms
This tutorial is translated from Russian(here’s the translation). The pictures are explanatory which is good because the translation has a few head scratching moments. What the translation records as toothpick, the tutorial means eyepins (the charm loops, trimmed to … Read More ...
Tutorial: Kiwi Cane
I made so many watermelon and other fruit beads this summer I was looking through my hoarded links for other Fimo fruit canes to play with. Here’s one from a French artist for a kiwi cane. The original is … Read More ...