I know it’s a little early. Here’s a bit of what’s coming up for autumn in polymer clay:

Pear Dioarama by ADifferentPlace	Leaf Earrings by CurlyGirlDesigns
Pumpkin Cane by ikandiclay	Acorn Necklace by MySelvagedLife

The link includes a video about how to sculpt a face from air dry clay – the same technique works great for regular oven bake polymer clay. In this video, Christina Albuquerque of Brazil shows us how to model a … Read More...

Sara of FlowerLandShop dropped me a line to tell me about her Etsy shop. She has some adorable pieces! She works in her Rome, Italy based studio, with clay and other media to make jewellery and other small decor items.… Read More...

Todd’s Toys has a little treasure trove of tutorials for minis on this page including the one for the basket pictured above. Check them out!

Picture by Todd’s Toys and Miniatures

Here’s an adorable  Fimo project for a Mother’s Day gift, made of clay. You could customize your basket to your Mom’s favourites and add the little details in to make it extra special. In my Mom’s case, I’d probably tuck … Read More...

Here’s a neat mixed media bracelet tutorial using clay, resin and jewellery findings. I love the way the resin sets up and magnifies the look of the inks. I really will have to give my resin a better try…

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These are a few of the clay flower treasures I found today:

Flower Ring by FloraJewelryShop	Flower Mold by WhysperFairy
Flower Cane by sigalsart	Floral Beads by ClayHappy

Check out this book on how to make polymer clay flowers.

Continuing on with the floral theme for the week here is a tutorial for a rose necklace by Meredith of Haute to Sew. There are other tutorials out there for making this style of clay rose but this one … Read More...

I’m skipping right over the showers portion of the program – as in April showers brings May flowers – and going to the flowers this week:

1. Polymer clay Cactus, 2. polymer garden, 3. Floral pendant – gold … Read More...

On with the garden theme – one of my favourites, CraftyGoat, has a tutorial for plant markers. I made a few of my own version to use in my container garden.

Do you know a little gardener? Check out these … Read More...

As far as gardening goes I am a Rank Amateur but it doesn’t mean I don’t spend a little more time on it each year… and my prep work for this years garden lead me to thinking of gardens and … Read More...

Here’s a lovely flower cane tutorial from Kael Mijoy. Her pictures are great and she goes into some details on how to put the background in so that you have less distortion in reducing the cane.

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I realize this is more of an air dry, from home materials kid’s clay rather than technically what we call polymer clay but I’m sticking it up here because it’s awesome (and makes me wonder if there’s a way of … Read More...

This would be pretty much summer on your wrist. Angela’s lovely bracelet is just perfect.Check out this book on how to make polymer clay flowers.

Check out this book on how to make polymer clay flowers.

I went looking for more non-jewellery, non-topper clay items made from clay, for weddings and found this talented artist’s work. I’m not the first person, she’s been featured in a stack of magazines it seems!

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Following right after Canada Day is Independence Day in the US. Just try to get anything done at work that week if your company does business mostly across the border and they fall on weekdays. Hummingbird Miniature has an adorable … Read More...

A lovely necklace with clay beads made by a talented artist from the Ukraine.

Check out this book on how to make polymer clay flowers.

Polymer clay mokume gane can have the prettiest patterns. This one from Samantha Braund on Flickr is absolutely lovely. She has a variety of lovely items in her photos and you should definitely have a look.

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