One of the most effective polymer clay techniques is marbling colours. You can make all sorts of great beads, colour mixes and faux materials such as wood or, in this case, stone. In this tutorial, the artist is creating … Read More ...
Tutorial: Make a Hole Pendant
Angelique put a tutorial online a bit ago for a dramatic pendant made of “holes” or, in this case, circles and holes. A combination of clever cutting and baking on a curved surface creates a great lentil pendant. For added … Read More ...
Tutorial: Polymer Clay Sand Dollars
Looking for summery themed projects – I’m on a sea shell bead cane kick at work right now – I stumbled across the sand dollar tutorial by Kellie of Make It With Me. Here’s a not too tough way to … Read More ...
DIY Miniature Ice Cream Sundaes
We’re having a bit of a heat wave here (at least, it’s hot for here). This means more than the average amount of ice cream is being consumed and thought about. Here’s a video tutorial for a doll house 1:12 … Read More ...
DIY Herb Markers
I was looking for ideas for signposts in my fairy garden set up and realized a lot of the polymer clay herb marker tutorials would scale well for this. This tutorial from Jessica of ContemporaryDomestics uses thin dowels for the … Read More ...
Mini Adobe House Planters
One of the adorable things air dry and polymer clay seem to have become trendy for is building tiny succulent and air cactus planters. And why not? Great material to make decorative containers from. This tutorial, by Naomi and … Read More ...
Tiny Garden Art In Clay
My interest in miniatures and fairy garden themed items met up with Etsy. The talented clayers there have some fabulous pieces to offer:
Tiny Morel Mushrooms by TypicalKat image above
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Fairy Dinette Set by MiscAwesomeness |
Fairy Door by ClayByKim |
Tutorial: Mini Gnomes for your Garden
This tutorial uses molding putty and 2 part epoxy to create outdoor garden gnomes. If that sounds a little intimidating go ahead and use polymer clay. Polymer clay gnomes would do best inside although I’ve had herb markers and garden … Read More ...
Tutorial: Garden Art
As I’ve mentioned before I’m a big fan of clay. Mostly, that’s polymer clay but I’ve played with a lot of other varieties of clays – ceramics, air dry, model magic, paper clay… all sorts of good stuff. This tutorial… Read More ...
DIY Polymer Clay Jar with Lid
The folks at PolymerClayTV.com have been doing great polymer clay tutorials and videos and awesome stuff for ages and ages. Here’s a video from their Youtube Channel featuring Kira demonstrating a textured jar with fitting lid.
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DIY Cute Clay Robots
Donna, of the PolymerClayBakery, has a super cute tutorial on miniature robots. The video tutorial is for a very kawaii robot but the techniques are transferrable and you can use the same idea to make your own little robots … Read More ...
Tutorial: Fan or Light Pulls
Carolyn Good is one of those fabulously talented people who shares an awful lot of good stuff along the way. Her and her husband are a couple of the Canadian clayers I’ve stumbled across in my time playing with polymer … Read More ...
Tutorial: Covering Drawer Knobs
You can pretty much cover anything that doesn’t move away on it’s own in clay. Drawer and doorknobs are no different and, let’s face it, can sometimes use a little bit more awesome.
Amy shares the basic method for covering … Read More ...
DIY Faceted Clay Pot
The tutorial calls for air dry clay but go ahead and substitute oven bake (and where they talk about drying, bake the pot). The facets can be cleaned up to be sharper / cleaner with a good sharp knife and … Read More ...
DIY Coasters
Here’s a cute coaster project. When I initially saw it I thought, you could totally do this with canework instead of paint but really, it’s LOVELY paint work. She comments that she’s using about a package of clay per … Read More ...