I admit I haven’t been a big mold user. In the past I haven’t done a lot of sculpting and most of the base shapes I use are simple enough that I can use cutters and shape by hand quickly … Read More...
Tutorial: Making Ombre Necklaces
One of those trends the last year or two has been ombre everything so it’s not surprising people are making clay ombre pieces. This tutorial is for simple ombre beads (and other simple, colourful clay beads) and a necklace made … Read More...
Tutorial: Gradient Cane and Jewellery
Ronit Golan – who has a shop FULL of loveliness – generously released another great tutorial: how to make a very graphic gradient cane and some simple pieces using it. As always, her work is clearly photographed and well … Read More...
Summer Finds in Clay
Polymer clay is particularly awesome for bright and wonderful colours and summer is the season for all of the colours you can dream up. These are just a few picks.
1. Summer Flower Dangle, 2. Summer Flowers, 3. … Read More...
Tutorial: Gifts for Dad
I occasionally struggle with making crafty gifts for the guys in my world. Key fobs are a simple, practical idea and this tutorial by Jenny of Crafts Unleashed is basic enough for the kiddos to do as well. You could … Read More...
Tutorial: Cat Sculpture
Here’s a great tutorial for sculpting a folk-style cat. The original blog post is in Slovenian but is clearly illustrated or you can use the nifty translator widget from Google. The tutorial uses earth clay and slip but you … Read More...
Tutorial: Making Drawer Pulls
Carmen Rose shares with us a tutorial for using simple canes – jelly rolls – to decorate drawer knobs. A great way to customize your decor. The same idea makes great magnets or brooch pins.
Tutorials Galore: Wedding Clay and Sculpey
I went looking for ideas for polymer clay wedding crafts and it turns out I didn’t have to go far – Patricia Kimle has a whole series of good stuff on Sculpey.com:
… Read More...Tutorial: Wedding Glasses
These lovely glasses have beautiful, time-consuming details. Art-ioma has picture steps on how to make them but some details are missing. I often adhere clay to glass without an adhesive but for this, with the open work and the tiny … Read More...
Ideas: Wedding Cake Toppers
The most common wedding craft made from polymer clay seems to be the wedding cake toppers. While I’m not talented enough to do realistic sculptures of people… I’m not the only one who thinks a more stylized shape would work … Read More...
Wedding Minis in Clay
Because everything is cuter in miniature (and in polymer clay):
1. Black and white butterflies dollhouse wedding cake, 2. Rainbow Croquembouche – Miniature Food, 3. Wedding cake, 4. Ladurée Wedding Cake – Ivory
Tutorial Offer: Polymer Clay Jewelrymaking
Jewelry Making Daily is offering a five tutorial ebook with material by Kato, Kimle and more on their site. You need to sign up for their newsletter in order to receive it but the projects all look good!
Tutorial: Quick Caning
A simple way to do canes is the way Velody describes in her photo tutorial. Having done some similar canes I can say you want to start with an inch tall of clay and not too much more than … Read More...
Clay Cake Toppers
One of the best things to do with clay is to sculpt. And with wedding season going full tilt you see some of the niftiest little cake toppers:
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| Mouse Topper by MeliMariStudio | Topper with Pets by clayphory |
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| Steampunk Cake Topper |
New in Clay
Usually I sneak my mosaic in earlier in the week but I’ve had a heckuva cold and got all mixed up this week – so here’s a little of what’s showing up in polymer clay:
Tutorial: Cross Stitch Clay Pins
Daria of Kittenhood passed along a neat tutorial of hers – how to make a cross stitch base from clay. She turns the little sampler into a pin but the idea would obviously work for other sorts of items.
Polymer Clay Challenges
Clay related things to participate in:
- If you make clay beads and jewellery from them consider entering the monthly Art Bead Scene challenge and blog hop
- PCC’s challenge for May has two themes to pick from: Flowers or Bracelets. You
Tutorial: Hot Air Balloon Pins
Elizabeth Magee shares her tutorial for these whimsical pins with us in a tribute to the Great Balloon Race part of the Kentucky Derby festivities.
A Collection for Mothers
My little jaunt through Flickr turned up mom themed work from favourite artists and new finds alike. What are you planning on claying for Mother’s Day?
1. Mother Nature Bottle Art Doll, 2. Mum Mouse and Puppy, 3. … Read More...
Tutorial: A Bird Feeder
Stephanie sent this in as an idea for Earth Day. I totally spaced on that but it IS a good idea if you would like to attract a few feathered friends to watch. By my place, the house finches, sparrows … Read More...