Whimsical, wonderful clay creatures!
1. 3/11/2013, 2. IMG_2121, 3. Gold fish, 4. 3rd unicorn
Polymer Clay Dolls Mosaic
One of the things polymer clay (and polymer clay artists!) does best: making dolls. This selection is way out of my skill range and are just a tiny sample of what a sculptor can do with clay.
1. girlsjuly, … Read More...
All the Colours in Clay
My finds out in the clay-verse seem to have a common theme: rich, beautiful colours. There was lots of amazing colour in the flickr-stream for clay this week!
1. Clay Zentangle 1, 2. matryoshkabottle, 3. “Key West” Pendant… Read More...
New from Clayers
Alrighty, polymer clayers are feeling super creative it seems – Alice’s fabulous hand and the nifty aardvark are tied for cool on my Flickr photostream at the moment.
1. P1040197, 2. One hand , two sides, 3. green … 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...
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
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:
A Collection of Cool Clay
I try to browse Flickr (and elsewhere! everywhere, it seems, sometimes) every week to see what polymer clayers are up to and posting. This week there was super stuff around –
Clay In Depth
Vickie Turner has some excellent in-depth info and step by step discussion of polymer clay. A recent post series starts with her explaining how clay works and comparing it to wax and earth clay. Have a browse, pick up some … Read More...
Gone to the Birds
I was joking that my spring was gone to the birds (not shaping up to be very springy and awesome). But I love birds and like an crafty ADD person that got me thinking of birds and clay away went … Read More...
Ode to Aquariums
Today I got lucky and went to the Vancouver Aquarium – there are fish and sharks and sea turtles and otters and frogs… pretty much everything aquatic and awesome. It made picking this Monday’s Mosaic very simple:
1. Polymer clay … Read More...
Polymer Clay Finds
Part of the online clay community is seeing what folks are up to. One of my favourite ways is hitting Flickr, typing ‘polymer clay’ in the search bar and seeing what comes up in the recent list. Pinterest is another … Read More...
Tutorial: For Pi Day
Today, being March 14, is Pi Day – you know, the constant value that multiplied by the diameter of a circle equals it’s circumference? And yes, I am a big enough geek that this amuses me every year. Just wait … Read More...
Scrap Clay Mosaic
What do you do when this stuff piles up? This is part of the stack from my desk. I went and made a bunch of fun stuff. Other clayers seem to make great pieces from their scraps, too.
1. Polymer … Read More...
Obsessed with Mini Clay Foods
During reading week – which was last week, here – my daughter was roped into a lot of claying. In addition to helping me I made her do a little research and look for works she likes. This is generally … Read More...
CraftArtEdu Giveaway
Just a note that you should go enter the drawing at Donna Kato’s CraftArtEdu – every month they give away a year of free classes. Many fabulous clay instructors have lessons posted there!
Why Do You Clay?
I got into clay to make beads for my jewellery making hobby. And I made a ton of beads. Zedster66 tried out clay then moved onto felting… until she had a need for fabulous buttons.
One of the qualities … Read More...
Chilling Out or Avoiding It
I’m pretty sure I live in one of the climates with colder winters so there’s a lot of griping about the weather here when we get bone chilling cold. And being an obsessed clayer I often look to see what … Read More...