I’m a caner so I’m always interested in canes or cane components and how they can be used to build clay projects. This cane(English translation) from Czech blog Davona, makes a sort of ruffled design that looks … Read More...
Robot Head Magnets
Polymer clay is pretty cool stuff. My niche is canes and things using canes, mostly beads. There are people who do insanely great surface decor. People who do fabulous minis. And at least one artist who makes robots. She has … Read More...
Clay Wedding Favor Gift Tags
Christina, of Intimate Weddings, clayed up great tags to use as wedding favors. This sort of favor is infinitely flexible. You can use a meaningful image for your favor, names and dates, the wedding colours… pretty much whatever you … Read More...
Wedding Favour Succulent Pots
Emily, of Merry Pad, decided she would make little succulent favours for her wedding. She used white Sculpey for the pots, faceting each one. She then added tiny succulent plants . I think the idea is adorable particularly if you … Read More...
Polymer Clay Planter Updates
Cari, from Well-Made Heart, is welcoming spring by sprucing up some of her plain planters with polymer clay and paint. I particularly dig the cactus planter. In her tutorial she uses hot glue or crazy glue but I’d probably drill … Read More...
Polymer Clay Opals with Mokume Gane
If you’ve had the chance to find a few opals in real life you know they’re a little bit magical with the layers of different shine, flash and colour. Faux opals are one of those polymer clay projects that’s such … Read More...
The Heart Guy
One of the fabulous, fabulous things in the clay world is how many clayers spend a lot of their time and resources making clay pieces for charitable efforts. One of those is Ron Lehocky who has made many thousands of … Read More...
Polymer Clay Mini Mosaics
This is an oldie but goodie – making micro mosaics with polymer clay “tiles”. Kael Mijoy builds her mosaic based on a simple sketch. She uses a handful of bright colours from her scrap box. Using plastic canvas she press … Read More...
The Free Polymer Clay Tools You Already Have
In the years since I started working with polymer clay I have bought a lot of tools. When I started doing clay I was pretty poor and buying tools for crafting was a mater of serious budgeting. Luckily polymer clay … Read More...
Faux Terrazzo with Polymer Clay
Claire of Adorablest has a really great tutorial on how she made a faux terrazzo with polymer clay. As she mentions in the tutorial, use the colours you want – for the colour chips and the background colours. I would … Read More...
Bunny Treat Box
Sculpey and Swirly Designs have another tutorial up – a bunny treat box. This one uses Sculpey’s Model Air clay which is fun stuff. Model Air is a lightweight, air dry clay with a nice soft finish to it. … Read More...
Faux Basket Ring Dish
Use air dry clay
(or oven bake!), rolled out into thin snakes to mimic a coiled rope basket look. After your basket is dry or cured, use acrylic paint to add details.
You can use the widest circle setting … Read More...
Easter Place Card Holders
From La Perle Rouge’s blog I found a cute little Easter project – a place card holder (or note / card) for your Easter decor. The little chicks are super cute and using cutters like she does in her tutorial, … Read More...
Polymer St Patrick’s Day Earrings
Here’s a quick, simple St. Patrick’s Day craft – little leprechaun hat earrings by Lucy Li. You can check out her channel which has piles of other polymer clay projects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBYfX07-QIs
Polymer Clay Shamrocks
Maggy of Red Ted Art shares a simple shamrock pendant or charm tutorial. This is a nice, simple project for kids to try. You can attach the resulting charm to a necklace as a pendant, or a finding to … Read More...
Polymer Clay Fruit for Your Wrist
Make a whimsical bracelet full of fruit charms with some basic sculpting and jewellery making techniques. A contributor on Livemaster (a Russian craft site) shares the tutorial with us. I’m including this link for an English translation but the pictures … Read More...
Polymer Clay Pot of Gold
Swirly Designs and Sculpey bring us this adorable pot of gold decoration complete with little mixed media rainbow. Make your own St. Patrick’s Day treats!
Clay Flower Cones
If you have little sprays of flowers – like lavender, as in the tutorial – or nosegays in tiny jars of water why not try this option? Make an embossed clay cone to hold your flowers. Sam from A Happy … Read More...
Marbled Clay Eggs
These marbled Easter eggs from Ice Pandora make cute little bowl fillers. Add a handful to a decorative dish or vase or spring flower pot to decorate for Easter. Hole them and string on twine for little garlands.
Use leftover … Read More...
Easter Bunny Games
Dani of Gingered Things made a simple Easter bunny game(English translation) from polymer clay. She made simple white rabbits with hollowed out bottoms to hide marbled eggs under.
Obviously marble your eggs whatever great Easter colours you … Read More...