Here’s a cute project from KatersAcres – a cockatoo sculpt. Katie’s site has a stack of good stuff including many other free tutorals for cute creatures.
I found this particular tutorial when I went searching for polymer clay bird … Read More...
DIY Jewellery Dish
This is one of the prettier jewellery dish tutorials. The artist use white Sculpey but you could use Premo in the base colour you want and save yourself the base layer of paint issue.
One of the issues with … Read More...
Tutorial: Polymer Clay Cuff Bracelet
Sculpey has brought a bunch of new tools to market the last few years geared at helping clayers explore more complex clay techniques. There’s also a variety of interesting jewellery findings and tools to try out. This tutorial uses the … Read More...
DIY: Moon Phase Wall Hanging
Continuing along with my space-y theme here’s a neat idea: a moon phase as a wall hanging. The marbled black and white clay is very effective visually and I like the idea of the moon phases being charted out. … Read More...
Tutorial: Saturn Beads from Clay
Ever found Saturn beads? Nested beads where the outer rings rotate around an inner disk bead? This is a tutorial for a clay version. These are only very slightly related on the space theme but they’re neat visually – … Read More...
Tutorial: A Globe Container
This would be super as any little planet, of course, but I admit I’m particularly attached to the Earth one. PieBieW has many other polymer clay videos on their channel so take a peek!
Tutorial: Planets from Polymer
As a cheerful polymer clay artist and enthusiastic science geek I often look for projects where the two intersect. Yes, I make art for work but I also enjoy using my clay for technical pursuits such as building models or … Read More...
Tutorial: Clay Stamps
This tutorial from PolymerClayCentral.com works just fine without an extruder but with one it goes so much quicker. The various strands and shapes of strands you can extrude can be laid out to create words and images fairly quickly. This … Read More...
Tutorial: Make a Hole Pendant
Angelique put a tutorial online a bit ago for a dramatic pendant made of “holes” or, in this case, circles and holes. A combination of clever cutting and baking on a curved surface creates a great lentil pendant. For added … Read More...
DIY Miniature Ice Cream Sundaes
We’re having a bit of a heat wave here (at least, it’s hot for here). This means more than the average amount of ice cream is being consumed and thought about. Here’s a video tutorial for a doll house 1:12 … Read More...
DIY Polymer Clay Jar with Lid
The folks at PolymerClayTV.com have been doing great polymer clay tutorials and videos and awesome stuff for ages and ages. Here’s a video from their Youtube Channel featuring Kira demonstrating a textured jar with fitting lid.
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Tutorial: Covering Drawer Knobs
You can pretty much cover anything that doesn’t move away on it’s own in clay. Drawer and doorknobs are no different and, let’s face it, can sometimes use a little bit more awesome.
Amy shares the basic method for covering … Read More...
Tutorial: Copper and Clay Vases
Moving away from miniatures and onto a bit of house decor today. The vases above are modern looking and repurpose leftover plumbing copper. You can use leftover pex or other pipes from similar projects, as well. The ones I’ve experimented … Read More...
Tutorial: Sculpt Miniature Bread
Betsy Niederer offers a great tutorial on how to sculpt detailed, accurate loaves of artisan bread and buns. Tips on colour, texture and detail are a big part of the tutorial. Whenever I get the chance to take lessons or … Read More...
DIY Miniature Shoes
Since the last post was about handbags here are some beautiful, detailed miniature shoes to go with it. The detail involved in these beats the little extra fashion doll shoes I would make my daughter as she lost hers. Make … Read More...
Little Polymer Clay Cheesecakes
Now here’s a miniature cheesecake to put on yesterdays bistro table. You can find many other miniatures tutorials on Christel Jensen’s site including one on how to make the perfect doily for under that cheesecake.
DIY Miniature Table
If you like making dollhouse miniatures here’s a little bistro table. The original tutorial is in French but here’s a translated version.You can change up the faux marble top for the type of your choice, to better suit your … Read More...
Little Clay Planters
I’m a lucky crafty type. Not only do I get to do polymer clay for my day job I have a physical shop in my small town. In that shop I have seedlings in my windows that need cute little … Read More...
DIY Fancy Planters
This project is a great idea for embellishing a simple terra cotta pot. I would suggest another glue than hot glue – given my less than awesome experience with it and polymer clay – but the overall idea is great. … Read More...
Tutorial: Faux Stone Planter
The tutorial talks about making one of these little planters to preserve summer but I’m pretty sure any sunny window could use a few of these to brighten up even DURING the summer. And really, where I live, summer is … Read More...