Somewhere along the line we started doing Advent calendars in my family – mostly the little chocolate ones from the department store – and it’s a tradition I’ve kept up in various forms with my own daughter. I admit mine … Read More...
Tutorial: Faux Ceramic Glaze
While the tutorial is for how to get the faux ceramic look, she mentions these would make great ornaments and she’s right. Cut out some stars, run through the tutorial, hang with twine on your tree. Since the reverse is … Read More...
DIY Clay Stamps
This sort of texture tool is one I’ve made from polymer clay before – stick a button or other texture-y item to the end of a log of clay, bake, and voila texture stick. It’s a little more clever (and … Read More...
Tutorial: Santa Claus Cane
Here’s a new cane from Monica Resta, perfect for the holidays: a Santa cane. Don’t forget to check out Monica’s whole channel of helpful stuff as well or her Facebook page.
DIY Miniature Gingerbread Cookie Ornaments
This little ornament has a bunch of my faves: polymer clay, a miniature vignette, tiny polymer clay foods and a creative mix of media. Nicole, from Tikkido, put it together with craft store wood blanks, polymer clay, twine, store bought … Read More...
Tutorial: Winter Tree Cane
Wendy Jorre de St Jorre’s Year of Trees – where she made a different tree cane each week of 2014 – resulted in a wealth of tree canes as well as tutorials for a bunch of those. With winter and … Read More...
Tutorial: Decorative Cutwork Bowl
This project combines polymer clay and a die cut machine – in this case, the Silhouette Cameo. Mags Bonham has been teaching this the last few years and has now released it on the Sculpey.com site for folks to take … Read More...
Clay Covered Pens
One of the projects every clayer should do is cover a pen. I did scads of covered Bic stick and Papermate pens and, later, a few pen kits like the ones in this tutorial. They take Cross type pen refills … Read More...
Polymer Clay Macaron Ornaments
I’m busily cranking out ornaments for my last few weeks of holiday sales and craft fairs and I’m mostly making critter ones but these sweet macaron ornaments caught my eye. I could totally see a little stack of these for … Read More...
DIY Polymer Clay Napkin Rings
This napkin ring tutorial, by Domestic Diva, uses Fimo Sculpey Ultralight which is nifty, lightweight polymer clay. It comes in white but takes colour easily with paint or mixing with other types of clays like Premo or Sculpey 3. … Read More...
Tutorial: Air Dry Clay Cornucopia
Here’s a clever clay cornucopia project for your Thanksgiving decorating. The horn is made with a “frog” in it to hold the stems placed in the leaf cutouts and clay vegetables which I thought was pretty clever.
As with many … Read More...
Tutorial: Feather Ornaments
Allison, of CraftPaperScissors, shares a quick, colourful embellished feather ornament tutorial with us. With mica powders and press on embellishments you could make any sort of glittery feather or leaf shaped ornament you want. These would be great to hang … Read More...
Fall Polymer Clay Beads and Jewelry Ideas
While searching for other topics, I came across Shirley Rufener’s site again. There is a wealth of art and craft material there including a good stack of in-depth, appealing polymer clay tutorials like this one for fall toned jewelry. On … Read More...
Light Up Mushrooms with Clay
I don’t mix my clay with other mediums very often – and really, almost never anything other than other crafty bits – but to get a light up effect you need a light. And I’ve been searching for lit projects … Read More...
Tutorial: Air Dry Clay Projects Using Kmart Clay
As with most air dry clay projects
… these work just as well with oven baked polymer clay
. I was looking for little holiday houses to use for the upcoming Christmas holidays and this one was just the thing. … Read More...
Tweaking your Polymer Clay Buttons
Long ago, when I was newer to clay and to blogging on the internet I met Lisa Clarke who was also doing polymer clay and blogging. I’ve watched her tackle all sorts of other crafts since then including knitting where … Read More...
Tutorial: Acorn Pendants
Acorns are one of those autumn motifs that clay just does perfectly. You can do serious, nature like ones or a little more fun and colourful versions. Stepping Thru Crazy’s Sarah has a fun tutorial that can great a great … Read More...
Happy Clayful Halloween
I’m absolutely borrowing (and showing off) the very talented Lisa Pavelka’s Halloweenies for today’s Halloween post: this Facebook post has the pictures in one spot or you can poke through the October postings in her blog section dedicated to her … Read More...
Tutorial: Sleeping Bat Pendant from Clay
Here’s a neat Halloween decoration to try that isn’t one more pumpkin: a sleeping bat, either as pendant or hanging decoration. In the video, the bat is highlighted with mica powders but you could simply use paint and a … Read More...
Polymer Clay Halloween Goodies
I have to admit to really liking Halloween silliness. Candy, slightly creepy-tacky decorations, costumes, general oddness and then done. Polymer clay – being pretty much the perfect medium – can capture an awful lot of that sentiment. Etsy clayers have … Read More...