Years and years ago I used to make bangle bracelets from clay. I cut and shaped aluminum strips into cores and carefully covered. They were a little touchy to do but pretty art jewellery. I’ve been pondering cuffs and bangles … Read More...
Tutorial: The Valentine’s Day Owl
Valentine’s Day has a special spot in my heart (ha!) because it’s also my birthday. This birthday I didn’t get the chance to clay but if I had I would have been making Katie’s cute owl. I’m posting this … Read More...
Mixing Polymer Clay and Macramé
If you make jewellery you might have seen a little trend of knotted pieces in the last few years. Micro macramé, with dainty sized cords, great beads and fabulous findings. Leave it to Iris Mishly of PolyPedia Online to figure … Read More...
Tutorial: Tiny Bowls
Carol Simmons is one of the Queens of Clay. She makes fabulous – reliably fabulous – cane designs with wonderful, vibrant colours. Turns out she makes cute little bowls, too. She posted a walk through of how she made a … 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...
Tutorial: Rainbow Pinch Pots
Meri calls this tutorial a colour sorting exercise – I’d say it’s just plain old fun. Pinch pots are a great project with air dry, oven bake or kiln fired clays. Of course, with polymer clay you can do them … Read More...
Tutorial: Marble-y Trinket Dish
Steph Moore’s tutorial makes a fun marble-y ring bowl using the simplest of techniques. Drape the sheet of marbled clay in folds within a bowl (a former or mold), bake and then use a metallic paint pen
to gild your … Read More...
Tutorial: More Polymer Clay Buttons
These pretty buttons are done simply (translation here) – rolled out air dry cay, acrylic paints, wooden skewers and a couple coats of waterproof varnish. In the comments the author remarks not to make them not too thin … Read More...
Tutorial: Kaleidoscope cane
Kaleidoscope canes are a bit of magic. I know you can plan them out, just like any other cane, but the mirror image and repetition effect is still always just a bit interesting. La Perle Rouge has a step by … Read More...
Geodes with Polymer Clay
This sparkly geode project uses polymer clay to make the casing of a geode. This sort of DIY crystal growing is always fun – and you should try it, perhaps with your kids, because it’s cool – and the idea … Read More...
Tutorial: Doodling on Your Clay
Anke Humpbert combines forces with Sculpey to bring a tutorial for the doodle loving clayers out there. In this project the clay is used to make a white pendant blank to doodle on. Anke uses the alcohol ink based Chameleon … Read More...
Tutorial: Batik Beads
In this case, resistance is not futile. In fact, a little resist makes very good beads. Batik, as a technique, relies on a resist and layers of colours built up. These beads by Artybecca use a fine tipped resist pen … Read More...
Tips: Things To Do With Liquid Clay
I was helping a student use liquid clay to reinforce some joins and thin spots on a creation. They were puzzled by why I was insisting on adding “glue” to the project when baking it would make it stick just … Read More...
Tutorial: Hobbit Door Charms
This week I’m making little fairy doors in my studio. This was one of the bookmarked bits of research in my file but it scales up to fairy door size just perfectly. Plus it makes fabulous charms.
You absolutely should … Read More...
Tutorial: Make a Gargoyle
I have to talk about Katie of KatersAcres again because she has a free tutorial this week – something she does pretty often – to coincide with promotions and giveaways around Christi Friesen’s newest book, Dogs. You should stop by … Read More...
Polymer Clay Miniature Foods for Valentine’s Day
Making Clay Tools
Garie, from Singapore, teaches many children and is a prolific polymer clayer. He also shares many of his tips and findings as he goes. This post is about some of the tools he’s made from found pieces and clay scraps. … Read More...
Tutorial: Letter Shaped Storage
These are adorable and the perfect start to great personalized gifts. The tutorial uses air drying clay but the process would be similar for polymer clay. I like the simple, plain colours but you could, obviously, go crazy with ornamentation … Read More...
Tutorial: Tiny Flower Jewellery Sets
This technique, from Make It With Me, makes small cupped flowers in groups, like little bouquets of tulips. With a slightly different edge and colour on the flowers you could make other cluster flowers such as hydrangea or lilac. … Read More...
Pincushions with Polymer Clay
I think this is an adorable example of using clay to make useful things. Nette shapes the owl free hand but you could use a few layers of cookie cutter cut outs with the top couple having a circle … Read More...