I admit it. I like my miniatures. Here’s a video tutorial for making a simple but stable Christmas tree mini from polymer clay. Once you have the tree, you can add decorations or a little skiff of snow to it. … Read More...
Thanksgiving Pumpkins from Clay
If you’re looking for a little last minute claying before Thanksgiving these pumpkins would make cute table decorations. Add a little slit into them or tuck a paper clip into them before baking and they become great place card holders. … Read More...
Sculpt Mushroom Houses from Clay
These fabulous houses are done with air dry clay – the regular kids kind you can find fairly easily. The technique would work with polymer clay with a few modifications. There’s detail on how to properly paint at the end … Read More...
Polymer Clay Snowflake Ornaments
It’s finally beginning to snow here, a little, and we’re considering putting up our Christmas tree. Ornaments are one of my favourite things to make from clay and snowflakes make great, slightly fancy, projects to do. Cookie cutter ornaments, like … Read More...
Cupcake Toppers and Food Picks
Make adorable, unique decorations for your cupcakes with the simplest of polymer clay techniques and tools. Using toothpicks and tiny cutters make little flags for your cupcakes or fancy foods. Use paint to add stamped details – labels even – … Read More...
Polymer Clay Mini Bunting and Flags
Cake toppers are one of the Big Fun Things to do with polymer clay. Fimo site has a modern spin on popular decorating trends with this cute mini bunting and cupcake topper idea.
As always with even simple techniques … Read More...
Polymer Clay Bracelets for Kids
Here’s a pretty great list of bracelet making options for the kiddos. All of the clay in the tutorial is a mix of scraps, marbled and basic colours. The materials used for formers or armatures (except the bracelet cuff band) … Read More...
Poppies from Polymer
This tutorial, linked to from a Russian blog, is all pictures but explains fairly clearly how to build a great, detailed poppy. It looks like the tutorial is using cold porcelain and paints to colour it. You, obviously, can … Read More...
Picture Canes from… Pictures
When I make a new cane – one that I haven’t done so often my fingers remember by themselves – I tend to draw a sketch first. I mark where the lines will go and which direction the shading will … Read More...
Basket Weaving in Polymer Clay
AlekSanta shares a Fimo circular “basket” weave project on her livejournal. The original tutorial appears in Russian which I’m not sharp with so here’s a link in English to try. The project creates a lovely pendant but the techniques, including … Read More...
Polymer Clay Mustaches for Movember
November gets some play for Movember, the movement for fundraising and awareness raising about men’s cancers, with men growing their mustaches. And at some point I won adorable mustache cookie cutters so we tend to get mustache cookies for work. … Read More...
Polymer Clay for Diwali
Today is Diwali
, the festival of lights, and my small town has a community event for it at the multicultural centre. There will be lots of diyas or lights / lamps there. Making tiny votive holders is one of … Read More...
Polymer Clay Spider Webs
Sunni Bergeron popped a tutorial up for a spider web cane way back… it was one of the ones I played with back when I was new. It still works just great for an overlay effect on your Halloween designs. … Read More...
Creepy Clay Roses
Perfect for Halloween is this slightly creepy, odd twist on a normal polymer clay rose pendant or charm. You could go full goth chic and do the rose in black, as well. MaGa DollieLife has a stack of other cute-goth … Read More...
Halloween Signs from Clay
Are you ready for Halloween yet? Make yourself a little sign for your door. Karen Prince used a variety of Sculpey clays to create a “Beware” sign but you could obviously add whatever spooky sentiment you’d like to yours. … Read More...
Tweaking Your Skinner Blends
In caning, I use a lot of Skinner blends. Colour shading is a huge part of making great picture canes and also in adding interest to projects using your blends. A simple tweak to your blend adds a neat stepped … Read More...
Pantone and Polymer Clay
Long ago in a previous life I worked in print shops. Part of that world is using the Pantone colour system for all sorts of things and Pantone is the industry fixture for colour recipes and colour forecasts. Carolyn Good … Read More...
Make Leaves from Polymer Clay
This video by Shabby Crafter makes a useful polymer clay charm or dangle for adding to jewellery, pulls or other projects. Vary your base clay and powder colours for the whole gamut of autumn colours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mX9Y7GF-H4
Polymer Clay Acorn Pendants
Sarah, of Stepping Thru Crazy, has a great autumn themed tutorial. She uses a real acorn cap and polymer clay to make a fun pendant. If you don’t have acorn caps near you, you could easily do the whole … Read More...
Happy Turkey Day! with Polymer Clay of Course
It’s Thanksgiving today in Canada. I am blessed to have family visiting, food roasting in the oven, and time to enjoy it all. One of the things I am constantly thankful for is how very lucky I am to have … Read More...