Poinsettia ornaments made with little poinsettia leaf canes and a bit of sculpting. Simple but pretty elegant. Sandy has many other videos on her channel. If you want to do more traditionally red poinsettia bracts / leaves make the … Read More...
Homemade Clay and Penguin Photo Holder
This is a pretty good, straightforward recipe for air drying clay or cold porcelain. Since it’s a white glue base it makes a nice, translucent finished product when it dries. That means to get an opaque quality you need to … Read More...
Clay Goddess Pendants
I remember a swap with other clayers years ago where we made our own interpretation of goddess pendants. Lots of talented clayers took part and we all ended up with a huge variety of little goddesses. Here’s a take on … Read More...
Cute Clay Monkeys
Saru-Hime has a fun – and simple! – tutorial for making little monkey characters. Like many DeviantArt tutorials it’s one giant image… click to enlarge. Add your relevant monkey embellishments (my students did bananas and ice cream cones!) and voila, … 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...
Clay Transfers with Paper Napkins
One of my favourite things to do with Silly Putty when I was lucky enough to get some as a kid was make transfers from comic book pages. I was thrilled when I realized you could do similar with polymer … Read More...
Macaron Ornaments
These adorable ornaments are polymer clay versions of French macarons. Mindy of GetCreativeJuice made her tutorial straightforward and perfectly photographed. I would use jump rings instead of the eye screws because they stay in the clay better. Insert them half … Read More...
Thanksgiving Turkey Placecard Holder
If your Thanksgiving decor needs a little MORE turkey here’s a fun Sculpey project for placecard holders… shaped like turkeys.
We had ham on our Thanksgiving one year for which I made small turkey napkin holders as tokens of … Read More...
Thanksgiving Turkey… Made Tiny
If your miniatures collection needs their Thanksgiving turkey check out this tutorial from AkameruKawaii. My partner looked over my shoulder while I was watching and said, impressed, “That’s CLAY?”
Pumpkin Luminaries for Halloween
These are adorable little luminaries! Translucent clay, tinted orange, and glow in the dark details make this tutorial from Swirly Designs and Sculpey 
a fabulous little project for Halloween. Put your LED tealights
in there and deck your porch or … Read More...
Miniature Clay Pumpkins
For either your Halloween or Thanksgiving decor, miniature pumpkins come in handy. Use polymer clay
and this tutorial (English translation) to make some fairly realistic looking minis.
You could use clay or paint to turn these into little … Read More...
For the Really Windy Days
I live on the Canadian prairies. Every stereotype of big, open, flat spaces is true. And it’s windy. On the best of days it’s a light breeze pushing perfect puffy clouds around in the famed Big Sky. Days like yesterday, … Read More...
Polymer Clay Pumpkin Cane
If you cane in polymer clay
you may be trying to make fall and Halloween themed goodies. PolymerClayCentral has a good little pumpkin cane tutorial that makes something similar to Heather’s pieces above. The cane is pretty close to how … Read More...
Clay Tealight Ghosts
These little ghosties, by Jen Walshaw of Mum in the Mad House, are made with air dry clay over a shaper. The tutorial uses a styrofoam ball as one of the shapes to drape the ghost over but if you … Read More...
Essential Oil Diffusers and Polymer Clay
Here’s a cute idea for an essential oil diffuser for your car. I appreciate that the authors updated their post once they had tested their project for a bit and received feedback.
As a polymer clayer I know that oils … Read More...
Mixed Media Clay Bat
Christi Friesen strikes again. This bat project incorporates a stack of fun extras. Christi designed as a pendant but I think it’d be a great hanging accent for your Halloween decor.
You can check out all of Christi’s free and … Read More...
Black Cat Trinket Dish
My favourite designer couple – Paul and Lianne Stoddard – on Sculpey have another project available – a great black cat trinket dish! This is geared for Halloween decor but is adorable enough I’d be hard put to store … Read More...
Tiny Houses in Clay
Rose and Cora of Paper & Landscapes have a great tutorial for tiny clay houses. The houses are whimsical little miniatures that would be perfect tucked in as a decoration in your flower pot or lined up on a … Read More...
Modern Trinket Dish from Clay
I liked how clean and neat this trinket dish looked with the extra little touch to the shaping. Jaymee Srp mentions she uses a shot glass to give the dish the actual dish shape in her tutorial. She also … Read More...
Coffee Cups and Polymer Clay
Did you know October 1st is International Coffee Day? Here’s a coffee cup (and coffee!) tutorial from Cihutka123 on DeviantArt.
These sort of charms make fabulous earrings for your coffee loving buds. Little coffee beans are pretty easy coffee lover … Read More...