If you have an urge to make a few clay pieces to use leading up to Halloween, here’s a good one: Halloween themed serving-ware. The tutorial details include basic, simple cutlery to cover, a pottery tool for making the marks, … Read More...
Miniature Plants in Polymer Clay
People make insanely detailed miniatures using polymer clay. Here’s a fairly dedicated miniaturist’s approach to making leaves and plants.
You could use a cane for the individual leaves if it were a fairly subtle one. Most of the leaf … Read More...
Tutorial: A Miniature Autumn
If you love miniature things this whole page is a treasure – there’s a wealth of material on how to build up your whole autumn scene. All of the details including the building of props from planters to primitive decorations. … Read More...
DIY Polymer Clay Halloween Placecard Holders
Paul and Lianne of Swirly Designs have another great project up on Sculpey.com that’s just perfect for Halloween. These make great placecard holders for your Halloween event but would also be good for notes, photos or whimsical signs as part … Read More...
Miniature Pumpkins from Polymer Clay
This time of year there are pumpkin decorations everywhere. Thanksgiving, harvest and Halloween themes all need their pumpkins and polymer clay can be used to make some pretty great faux ones. Here’s a video tutorial for miniature realistic ones from … Read More...
DIY Mushrooms from Polymer Clay
This Charming Stuff‘s mushrooms look pretty realistic and would, with the addition of a pin in the bottom or a loop in the top make great planter decorations or hanging charms. You could tuck a few of these into … Read More...
Make Polymer Clay Monster Plants
I’m pretty sure these would be perfect Halloween decorations. You could add tentacles to your potted plants (or teeny ones here and there in them at least). The tutorial, from Freaky Cute Kreations, builds a structure up from a … Read More...
Tutorial: Miniature Polymer Clay Pumpkin Pies
It’s Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. Like the US, one of the traditional desserts is pumpkin pie. I’m not a big fan of the real deal but the polymer clay miniature version is pretty adorable. ThreeMoonBabies has a quick and easy … Read More...
Complex Canes from Polymer Clay
Most of the canes I make are straightforward pictures of real world objects. I make a lot of flowers, for example, and quite a few birds, leaves and butterflies. I don’t do a lot of complex but pattern based canes. … Read More...
Making Polymer Clay Fish… Canes
One of the requests I had this summer was for little fish beads. I made a small fish cane quickly, turned it into beads and gave those to the customer. Then cursed myself for not photographing the silly thing. It … Read More...
Tutorial – Making Scrap Clay Canes
This scrap clay cane by the super talented Ronit Golan uses scrap bits like cane slices, blends, good mixes and the crumbs you get as you go along. Combined with a bit of background colour to tie it together, you … Read More...
Beads from Clay Scrap
The tutorial appears in Russian but the pictures are pretty explanatory (English translation here anyways). You can chop and toss the scrap crumbs without a food processor or use a manual chopper. The tutorial adds glitter from a nail supply … Read More...
Using Scrap Clay: Scrap Feather Cane
This tutorial is great because it helps you use scrap clay attractively and is a great, simple instruction for a feather cane. Feather canes make great slicing canes for beads, detailed, built up work or as components in larger, more … Read More...
Using Your Polymer Clay Scraps
Today I hosted a kid’s birthday party in my studio – this is a regular thing – and, for the most part, we played with my scraps. My “good” scraps are the stuff that haven’t been mixed into shades of … Read More...
DIY: Sunset Blends in Clay
In polymer clay clay, mixing colours can be a bit of an art. The manufacturers offer their picks which change on a fairly random basis. Artists get to mix and mix again to meet whatever needs they have. Need a … Read More...
Autumn Picks from Clayers
Colour-wise, I like autumn best: the earthy colours, slightly toned down from summer brights. In polymer clay these are often the metallics or the base colours toned with the metallics. These Etsy finds are filled with autumnal colours:
 Autumn Necklace |
How-to: Using a Mold and Making a Cameo from Clay
Ginger Allman, of the Blue Bottle Tree, has a great how-to about how to use silicone molds with your polymer clay. The process is a tutorial for new clayers and mold users and helpful tips for folks who’ve done … Read More...
Tutorial: Halloween Miniatures
Here’s a great miniature Halloween Jack O’ Lantern tutorial by Jeff Stahl. He’s used it as the nicely creepy centre in a Hallowween themed diorama. Because the pumpkin is painted, you could use bolder, less antiqued colours to make a … Read More...
Tutorial: Costume Horns from Clay
Whether it’s Halloween or a good cosplay event, a little bit of costume can be fun. Tiny decorative horns are an easy accessory to do – you could make animal ears or antennae just as simply and this tutorial covers … Read More...
Tutorial: Making and Using Clay Leaves
You can take advantage of some of the great textured cookie cutters that come out in the fall and use them to make fabulous clay leaves. I got a handful at a Williams-Sonoma clearance sale last year and found a … Read More...