The other day I dragged my family to the Maker Faire and saw all the cool DIY stuff folks are getting up to. In that extended tribe of creative, technical types tips and hints are called hacks. In that spirit, … Read More...
Polymer Clay River Rocks and Beach Stones
Maria Jam Brown, the Blonde Crow, has a pdf tutorial with several faux stone techniques. There’s a recipe for a great smooth beach stone to complete your polymer clay summer accessories or decorations.
Make a variety of faux stones for … Read More...
Beehive Pendant with Clay
Most of the time I work with traditional, oven bake, polymer clay but there’s so many other types of cool clay products out there. One of those is crytal clay which is an epoxy clay used, primarily, in jewellery making. … Read More...
Polymer Clay Koi Fish
A little dish of koi, topped in water / resin, is a great polymer clay presentation. Or, turn your adorable miniature koi into a charm or pendant. PolymerPrincess has a channel full of other clay goodies to check out.
Polymer Clay Starfish
Beach and sea life are popular summer themes. These polymer clay starfish use fairly simple tools and a single colour of clay to make fun decorations or jewellery charms. The original tutorial is in Russian but you can see a … Read More...
Polymer Puffer Fish Pendant
Christi has a fun stack of free tutorials on her site and this puffer fish pendant project is just one of them. Make a whole school of little puffer fish and have some CF style fun. And, if you get … Read More...
Autumn Leaves from Clay
These autumn leaves decorate a ring base and make delightful earrings. The actual process uses a combination of texturing, chalk, inks and acrylic paint to build up layers of rich, autumn colours on a neutral base clay. Miheala of Beads … Read More...
Back to School Polymer Clay Picks
And to wrap up my back to school obsession for now… Etsy clayers have some clever goods:
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| Covered USB Drive by CloverPowers |
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| Coloured Pencil Barrette by Right2BearCharms |
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| Clay Covered Pen by FlowertonOriginals |
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| Macaroon Paper Clip by TheMocaShop |
Polymer Clay Erasers
One of the nifty niche clays is Sculpey eraser clay. The clay comes in a few colours and some kits, complete with project sheets and makes a reasonable eraser as long as you don’t over bake it. Over curing … Read More...
Backpack Tags from Polymer Clay
One of the things I won’t miss now that I don’t have a school age kid is the labeling of everything. Here’s a fun way to add a little personality to your child’s backpack, jacket or pencil case. If you’d … Read More...
Polymer Clay Gnome Pens
Here’s a whimsical treat for your back to school (or anything really) preparations: garden gnome pens. Kris of Creative Me, Inspired You uses clay compatible pens to create fun garden gnome themed tools.
I used to use Bic Stic … Read More...
Emoji Back To School Charms from Clay
These cute charms might lessen the pain of back to school – emojis add fun to simple back to school themed clay charms. Add a jump ring to your raw charm so that you can hang it on your backpack … Read More...
Basic Flower Cane in Polymer Clay
Before I got a pasta machine – that was about 3 years into what I call my Serious Fimo Polymer Clay phase – I made canes without it using my rolling pin, a ruler, and taped down markers to use … Read More...
Mica Powder and Clay Resources
If you want to find mica powders and give them a shot try the regular crafty places: Michael’s, JoAnn’s, Hobby Lobby or your local scrapbooking shops and local hobby places. Online, try:
Polymer Clay Rondelle Beads with Mica Powder
Jacquard, which makes all sorts of great crafty stuff including Pearl Ex mica powders, has a tutorial on how to make sparkly beads using polymer clay and mica powders. Written by Carolyn Hasenfratz, the tutorial covers some valuable techniques: how … Read More...
Mica and Polymer Clay Embellishments
Polymer clay is a fabulous way to add custom made, colour matched embellishments to your projects in the forms of buttons for fibre items or ephemera for scrapbooking. Gabriella of Such a Pretty Mess shares one project she did where … Read More...
More Mica Powder Ideas
Mica powders are basically strongly pigmented, very fine, mineral powders. A little goes a very long way and if you use them more than very occasionally, do it somewhere with good ventilation (not a draft mind you) or with a … Read More...
Polymer Clay, Mica Powders and Makeup
I’ve never had much in the way of makeup hanging around so it never occurred to me to use it on my clay until friends started discussing it in the polymer clay forums. Turns out cheap, sparkly eye makeup is … Read More...
More Crackling for Your Clay
This pretty pendant tutorial from Jeanette Kandray and Sculpey.com is a good example of a well done crackle effect on polymer clay. Using acrylic paint and Kroma crackle for the medium, she layers attractive colours and creates a nicely done … Read More...
Make Polymer Clay Crackles
Crackling paint or foils on polymer clay is a great surface technique. Depending on the method and substrates – paints, foils, inks, powders – you can get all sorts of effects to use. Once you have a great decorated sheet … Read More...