Celluclay is basically a very fine papier maché or very coarse paper clay material that you make by adding water to a dry product. You can model it as you do clay and roll it out. Like other clays, you … Read More...

While the tutorial is for how to get the faux ceramic look, she mentions these would make great ornaments and she’s right. Cut out some stars, run through the tutorial, hang with twine on your tree. Since the reverse is … Read More...

This sort of texture tool is one I’ve made from polymer clay before – stick a button or other texture-y item to the end of a log of clay, bake, and voila texture stick. It’s a little more clever (and … Read More...

Here’s a clever clay cornucopia project for your Thanksgiving decorating. The horn is made with a “frog” in it to hold the stems placed in the leaf cutouts and clay vegetables which I thought was pretty clever.

As with many … Read More...

As with most air dry clay projects… these work just as well with oven baked polymer clay. I was looking for little holiday houses to use for the upcoming Christmas holidays and this one was just the thing. … Read More...

This tutorial is great because it helps you use scrap clay attractively and is a great, simple instruction for a feather cane. Feather canes make great slicing canes for beads, detailed, built up work or as components in larger, more … Read More...

Whether it’s Halloween or a good cosplay event, a little bit of costume can be fun. Tiny decorative horns are an easy accessory to do – you could make animal ears or antennae just as simply and this tutorial covers … Read More...

Sometimes out of all the fabulous art and huge shared tutorials out on the internet it’s the little hints and tips that have the biggest impact. The ah-has. Genevieve Williamson has a post about how to accurately size your rings… Read More...

Here’s a whimsical tutorial from KalinkaPolinka for fish canes. The tutorial is written in Russian but an English translation is included which is great because the best part are the hints and tips. The pictures are great and self explanatory … Read More...

In polymer clay, molds and textures are fabulous tools to have. Some of us (ahem, me) spend a lot of time and money collecting different clay molds to use on our work.

Barbara, from Buntwerkstatt, shares a tutorial for … Read More...

It’s a pumpkin patch without having to grow the silly things. The tutorial for the above piece uses Celluclay which is a fairly grainy air drying paper clay that is great for larger projects. If you’ve ever done a similar … Read More...

I made so many watermelon and other fruit beads this summer I was looking through my hoarded links for other Fimo fruit canes to play with. Here’s one from a French artist for a kiwi cane. The original is … Read More...

I lucked into a couple books on fairy gardens to review. While I’m trying out some of the gardening projects in those, I’m going back through notes and links on fairy garden decorations and props like this adorable fairy house. … Read More...

Because extruders crank out perfectly even elements it’s not surprising people use them to create canes, particularly canes that require precision such as quilt, repeating tile patterns or “pixel” image ones. These canes rely on lines matching up and extruders … Read More...

As a modeling medium, polymer clay is very versatile and instructions that work for a variety of other products work equally well with oven bake clay. For example, this great fondant unicorn from a Polish cake decorating site translates beautifully … Read More...

I was looking for ideas for signposts in my fairy garden set up and realized a lot of the polymer clay herb marker tutorials would scale well for this. This tutorial from Jessica of ContemporaryDomestics uses thin dowels for the … Read More...

One of the adorable things air dry and polymer clay seem to have become trendy for is building tiny succulent and air cactus planters. And why not? Great material to make decorative containers from. This tutorial, by Naomi and … Read More...

As I’ve mentioned before I’m a big fan of clay. Mostly, that’s polymer clay but I’ve played with a lot of other varieties of clays – ceramics, air dry, model magic, paper clay… all sorts of good stuff. This tutorial… Read More...