Still playing around with glow in the dark polymer clay at my place! I’ve been mixing it with colours to make some little creatures (a la Christi Friesen ghoulies). Polymer Clay Artist, who’s video this is, has a channel with … Read More...

Here’s a clever idea – use your clay to make a pendant lamp. Take a standard lamp bulb set up and create the “shade” for it. This tutorial uses air dry clay super effectively – the white minimalist and simple … Read More...

This is one of the fondant sculpting tutorials that applies perfectly to air dry or oven bake clay. So many of them do! I even bought myself Wilton fondant tools for my clay ages ago since they were easier to … Read More...

The tutorial for this clever (and punny) take on thumbtacks uses a molding agent and plaster of paris but it occurs to me this would work just fine with a molding agent like Amazing Mold Putty and some form of … Read More...

Most of the time I work with traditional, oven bake, polymer clay but there’s so many other types of cool clay products out there. One of those is crytal clay which is an epoxy clay used, primarily, in jewellery making. … Read More...

Before I got a pasta machine – that was about 3 years into what I call my Serious Fimo Polymer Clay phase – I made canes without it using my rolling pin, a ruler, and taped down markers to use … Read More...

Want to see what fabulous work polymer clayers doing for the 4th of July? Have a peek at Flickr and check it out. Adorable food minis, beads, canes, jewellery and way more.

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It’s Canada Day here – great summer weather, the local county fair and rodeo and a small fireworks show later – and I’ve got a Canada Day craft that uses jewelry clay, an air drying resin based clay from the … Read More...

Today my daughter graduated high school so of course I had a grad related polymer clay tutorial picked for the event.

Well, sort of clay. Like a lot of clever ideas for clay, this one uses fondant but would work … Read More...

Polymer clay and beads, some of my favourite things in the whole world. Mihaela of MichelleMaya shares a detailed tutorial to make colourful Boho inspired polymer clay beads. She uses powders, textures and microbeads to create her intricate beads.

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Karen Scofield generously shares a tutorial on how she builds her goddess beads, using templates or molds, good quality polymer clays, mica powders and a finish. You can use some of the tips and hints to make your own version.… Read More...

Here’s a useful clay craft – make a business card holder to suit your own decor. This project uses white, oven bake clay that is painted with acrylics after but you could use any variety of coloured oven bake clays … Read More...

Penni Jo, of Best Flexible Molds, has a cute bowl project. 

Creating a coil bowl using scrap fabric is a great way to upcycle old materials and give them new life. In this project, we take it a step … Read More...

Rachel from Lines Across has lots of good ideas on her blog. This simple but why-didn’t-I-think-of-that project would be great for whatever decor you have going on. White is useful but why not make a pencil or pen holder perfect … Read More...

From experience, I know that you can actually cover USB drives themselves just fine and bake the whole works. The trick is to take the plastic cover off so it doesn’t melt. The internal electronics are just fine at … Read More...

How to tell your dad he rocks? Make daddy rocks. This tutorial is pretty straight forward: take a good sized rock, cover with clay, stamp letters, cure your piece (or, if using air dry clay, let dry), and highlight the … Read More...

I may spend most of my days making polymer clay beads and canes but one of the things I try to push to people is how useful it is for other, day to day, uses. Make little dishes, holders, grips, … Read More...

As I’m finishing the window in my physical shop with little succulents – many in clay pots – I’m looking at a few spots in the shop which would benefit from cute succulents but are a pain to reach or … Read More...

I love mobiles and wind chimes and I’ve made a few in the past from hardware pieces and sticks but never, odddly, from any clay. This tutorial uses air dry clay and copper tubing. You could use polymer clays in … Read More...