Here’s an air dry clay tutorial for a trinket dish. This one has a lovely finish and pretty detailing. As with many of the air dry clay tutorials you could use the same techniques in polymer clay by curing at … Read More...

If you’re looking for a fun and creative Valentine’s Day craft project, this polymer clay love bug tutorial from Craftbits is a great choice.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for making a cute and whimsical love bug using polymer clay. … Read More...

Sometimes, the best new ideas happen when you mix old ideas (and old canes, for extra credit). This project makes intricate-looking spirals by using very simple base clay canes combined over and over again into another simple cane. Little bullseye … Read More...

Or, using die cutters with your clay. This isn’t so much a tutorial as a quick browse of people using polymer clay with their die cut tools to either engrave their clay or cut designs into their raw or cured … Read More...

EfZn uses air dry Fimo for this project but you could make some plain coloured – white, black or brain would be great, particularly if you needed to distress the houses a bit after – houses, cure them and then … Read More...

The link previously included here no longer works. We’re scouring the crafty internet for another good tin-covering tutorial.

Here’s another covered box idea – this one with slider tins – to make small boxes. Store your mints, sewing needles or … Read More...

These lovely rose pieces are made with air dry Deco Clay. Many of the pieces I’ve seen Deco used for are absolutely fabulous florals. The tutorial for these pieces is in Russian but here is a translated link to browse. … Read More...

I realize this witchy feet bookmark might work better for Halloween but if you need a Christmas version… Santa or reindeer feet would be a perfect gift for the bibliophile on your gift-giving list. The video tutorial has all the … Read More...

Here’s a good use of scrap or neutral coloured clay to make, as Josie comments, a flower to accent that little black dress. She uses metallic paste to add the bling. You could use whatever tone of paste you’d like … Read More...

If you are looking for some fun little craft ideas to keep your hands busy during the holidays, then look at these 6 Christmas decorations we found made from polymer clay.  They are all fairly simple, yet very cute and … Read More...

If, like New Clayer Me, you couldn’t find a good snowflake cutter set and still wanted great, detailed snowflakes this idea was a bit of a lightbulb moment. Using a simple six petaled flower cutter – which is common in … Read More...

I fully admit to not being a very brave clayer. Yes, I have my stash of metal leafs, pigments, powders, some specialty paints, scads of textures… but most of my stuff is clay with very little else. It’s not … Read More...

I am a sucker for fun beads and Rebekah Payne’s beads are just my type of thing. Even better, she shares her bead making as with this tutorial. These make clever, organic textured beads. You could use any texture, … Read More...

This is another fondant tutorial (edible air dry clay anyone?) but I’ve made super similar polymer clay bears just like this. To Christmassify your clay bear tuck a jump ring in it’s head while it’s still soft to form a … Read More...

If you are having a hard time finding the perfect ornaments for your Christmas tree, then maybe try making your own.  These 8 polymer clay tutorials will give you some great inspiration for making your own custom ornaments to fit … Read More...

This project uses air dry clay – and she comments not to use oven bake – like Fimo Air. You absolutely COULD use oven bake clay to make this ornament if you were using a glass ornament or an oven … Read More...

This is one of those simple little photo tutorials that abounds on Pinterest. I would use a core of foil for my tree so that the base stuck in better and you saved on clay and curing time. The scissors … Read More...

Truly large items from clay present a challenge. They take a lot of materials but they also require a great deal of curing time and it’s hard to be sure that every section has cured enough. You get around this … Read More...

While I work primarily with polymer clay – oven bake or low firing plastic clays – I do also play with air dry clays, both earth and paper based, as well as high fire stoneware clay. And occasionally with fondant. … Read More...