A little before I found clay online – and watched my skills really improve when I was able to see what others were doing – a very talented artist named Mike Buesseler released videos about metallic effects and mica clays … Read More ...
Saving the Crumbly Clay: How to Rescue and Revive Your Polymer Clay
I had a curious customer in my shop today poking at some of the scraps on my work bench. Some of those are stiff, crumbly bits of clay that I don’t use for much except filler. The customer wanted to … Read More ...
Air Dry Clay Christmas Ornaments
Use little scraps of lace or other strongly texture material to impress your clay and then your favourite seasonal cutters to cut out a shape. Pierce with a straw to make a hanging hole and let dry. This project from … Read More ...
Tutorial: Merry Little Owl Ornaments
I’ve long been a fan of Heather Powers – she was the editor for this blog a while back – because she makes great beads from clay and has a pretty steady and darn good online presence. She’s also released … Read More ...
Celluclay Angel Tree Topper
Celluclay
is basically a very fine papier maché or very coarse paper clay material that you make by adding water to a dry product. You can model it as you do clay and roll it out. Like other clays, you … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Nativity Scene
One of the very first things I made out of polymer clay – other than beads – was a nativity scene for my then kindergarten aged child. The class had made parts of the scene out of ceramic clay, parts … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Advent Calendars
Somewhere along the line we started doing Advent calendars in my family – mostly the little chocolate ones from the department store – and it’s a tradition I’ve kept up in various forms with my own daughter. I admit mine … Read More ...
Clay Tutorial: Faux Ceramic Glaze
While the original tutorial focuses on creating that gorgeous faux ceramic finish, I couldn’t help but imagine how perfect these would be as handmade holiday ornaments. She’s absolutely right—cutting the shapes into stars, hearts, or even little Christmas trees … Read More ...
DIY Clay Stamps
This sort of texture tool is one I’ve made from polymer clay before – stick a button or other texture-y item to the end of a log of clay, bake, and voila texture stick. It’s a little more clever (and … Read More ...
Tutorial: Santa Claus Cane
Here’s a new cane from Monica Resta, perfect for the holidays: a Santa cane. Don’t forget to check out Monica’s whole channel of helpful stuff as well or her Facebook page.
DIY Miniature Gingerbread Cookie Ornaments
This little ornament has a bunch of my faves: polymer clay, a miniature vignette, tiny polymer clay foods and a creative mix of media. Nicole, from Tikkido, put it together with craft store wood blanks, polymer clay, twine, store bought … Read More ...
Tutorial: Winter Tree Cane
Wendy Jorre de St Jorre’s Year of Trees – where she made a different tree cane each week of 2014 – resulted in a wealth of tree canes as well as tutorials for a bunch of those. With winter and … Read More ...
Tutorial: Decorative Cutwork Bowl
This project combines polymer clay and a die cut machine – in this case, the Silhouette Cameo. Mags Bonham has been teaching this the last few years and has now released it on the Sculpey.com site for folks to take … Read More ...
Clay Covered Pens
One of the projects every clayer should do is cover a pen. I did scads of covered Bic stick and Papermate pens and, later, a few pen kits like the ones in this tutorial. They take Cross type pen refills … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Macaron Ornaments
I’m busily cranking out ornaments for my last few weeks of holiday sales and craft fairs and I’m mostly making critter ones but these sweet macaron ornaments caught my eye. I could totally see a little stack of these for … Read More ...