Sculpey and Swirly Designs have another tutorial up – a bunny treat box. This one uses Sculpey’s Model Air clay which is fun stuff. Model Air is a lightweight, air dry clay with a nice soft finish to it. … Read More ...
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Faux Basket Ring Dish
Use air dry clay
(or oven bake!), rolled out into thin snakes to mimic a coiled rope basket look. After your basket is dry or cured, use acrylic paint to add details.
You can use the widest circle setting … Read More ...
Star Wall Hanging
Amy Christie of This Heart of Mine makes this neat starry wall hanging as part of a review of a book. The star hanging is a project in the book – and the book sounds interesting – with cut out … Read More ...
Imprinted Summer Coasters
Need a little summer cheer for your kitchen? Stamp plain, air drying (or oven bake!) clay with summery, floral stamps and make great coasters in this tutorial by Jessa of Sparkle Living blog.
You could totally make this into a … Read More ...
A Whale of a Phone Holder
I love when people use their clay to make useful stuff. In this case, Rachel from Doodle and Stitch makes a fun phone holder from air dry clay. Air dry clay is ideal for this sort of project because it … Read More ...
DIY Fancy Christmas Balls
This tutorial, by Debi Beard of Debi’s Design Diary, uses air dry clay, dollar store plastic ball ornaments, good decorative paint and molds. You can use oven bake polymer clay and I’d suggest grabbing the inexpensive glass balls (which … Read More ...
Making Leaf Bowls
These leaf bowls are great crafts – from earth clay fired in a kiln to oven bake to air dry
– for kids and, really, anyone who thinks leaf motifs are pretty awesome. A fired ceramic piece or a well … Read More ...
Fun Cable Holders
This project uses Sugru, a great air drying modeling clay that is best suited for things like tool handles, repairs to small breaks and stuff like this. The finished, cured product is silicone and sturdy. It also sticks to most … Read More ...
DIY Make Your Own Footprint Bowls
My daughter is a little old for this craft and I wish some well meaning person had used her baby feet to make one for me 18 years ago. Louise from Messy Little Monster has the details for a heart … Read More ...
Little Bowls for Mother’s Day
This is a Mother’s Day project for the younger set – little ring dishes embellished to look like flowers or starry skies. These are made from Model Magic
, a really great air dry material from Crayola. It’s fun, easy … Read More ...
Tiny Aloe Vera Plants
Susi Martinez has a great stack of miniatures on her blog including this tutorial to build a teeny tiny (dollhouse scale) aloe plant. The blog text is in Spanish but you can hit http://translate.google.com if you need. I found the … Read More ...
Sculpt Your Succulents
This is one of the fondant sculpting tutorials that applies perfectly to air dry or oven bake clay. So many of them do! I even bought myself Wilton fondant tools for my clay ages ago since they were easier to … Read More ...
Tutorial: Stamped Canada Day Keepsake
It’s Canada Day here – great summer weather, the local county fair and rodeo and a small fireworks show later – and I’ve got a Canada Day craft that uses jewelry clay, an air drying resin based clay from the … Read More ...
Tutorial: Father’s Day Rocks
How to tell your dad he rocks? Make daddy rocks. This tutorial is pretty straight forward: take a good sized rock, cover with clay, stamp letters, cure your piece (or, if using air dry clay, let dry), and highlight the … Read More ...
Tutorial: Heart Cutout Tea Light Holders
I haven’t tried Fimo Air yet – or I haven’t tried microwaving it – but I guess it makes sense that you could. It’s not plastic-y polymer clay that would burn badly and I’ve dried paper pulp in the microwave. … Read More ...