These colorful little stud earrings are easy to make, and fun to wear! The design possibilities are endless, limited only by your imagination! Try some of the foil ones at the top, use any small stamps to impress a design on the foil, or maybe a slice of an old cane, add a coat of resin, and Wha-la, the perfect...
It is back to school time and I have created an easy peasy project that you can do with your students or children to support successful transitions and learning. Kiddos do great with progress charting and measurement of their good decisions. This chart is bound to be super helpful and making it is really fun! Using Baked Sculpey Clay for...
Rainbows are so bright, colorful and fun to create. This rainbow makes a great decoration for a jar but would also work fantastic as part of a wrapped gift, an ornament or the accent piece of a wreath. I used my fave clay, Bake Shop, to make this one and had a ball doing it. I sorted my colors first...
This Hoppy Valentines Day Frog is adorable and simple to create. It is great for a little love gift or holiday decor. Baking Clay for Adorable Holiday Decor I used my designs for inspiration along with a new package of Bake Shop clay. To make the frog, I did the following... Roll the green around until it is soft...
These gobble gobble place card turkeys are adorable and fun to create. Because they are simple, the project works well for beginners and kids alike. I love this because not only is the completed masterpiece cute and festive but also practical. I used Sculpey's Bake Shop to make these. All of the pieces are hand molded based on a little...
These spooky note clips with a matching printable are awesome sauce adorable and really simple to create. I used the Bake Shop clay because, well because I love it so much. To get inspiration, I consulted my portfolio. I used my fingers to hand mold all of the pieces then stuck large metal paper clips into the center bottoms of...
Gift giving season is just around the corner; and, if you're like me, a beautiful container makes any gift more fun to give. Polymer clay can make even the most ordinary box beautiful. Try this little one for starters and you'll want to make them for everybody on your gift list. You will need: A small wooden box 2...
I'm working on some Faux Raku tab beads this week. Using brown hemp cord to assemble them into a bracelet. I used antique brass chain, and large end caps to complete the earthy look. The pink/orange/gold tab bracelet was an experiment in Faux Raku. The pink/orange/gold tab bead bracelet, was an experiment of my...
Let's make these beautiful mini Iced Sugar Cookies using mini metal cutters and TLS icing! ...
I’m crazy about Premo White Translucent. I’ve used it in all kinds of projects, from sculpture to caning; but the easiest things to do with translucents are tinting and silk screening. This easy project will use those techniques and have you dreaming up all kinds of variations. Have fun and make several pairs. Everyone will want them! You will need...
Creating in patriotic colors is always so much fun for Memorial Day in the late spring, the Fourth of July in mid-summer and then Veterans Day in the fall. These adorable little patriotic flowers are fabulous to create an use in variety of fun ways. To get started, you are going to need Sculpey III clay in red, white and...
Polymer Clay Fluffy Bird Tutorial
Just in time for spring, this adorable little "fluffy bird" can be made in any color of your choice!
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I diligently search the fashion magazines for trends in fashion that could relate to clay . Seriously, don't we try to relate EVERYTHING to clay? "look at the wall texture-good for clay" or "I could cane this pattern".. It seems that one of the biggest trends for Spring/Summer will be gingham! As well as pale blues for nails. So I...
Easter Crafts are a fun activity for children. This year is no exception since Easter is early and winter is still here and indoor activities are needed. The winter this year in Ohio has been on the extra cold side so it is fun to fire up the oven and make the kitchen warm. You can use any variety of...
Premo Penguin debuts on TV! Have you heard of Bubble Gum necklaces? I hadn't until my niece (a teacher) saw some of her young students wearing them to class. They are chunky beaded necklaces for baby girls-up through adults really-that are adorable! They aren't hard to make and many are showing up with polymer clay focal pendants and accent beads...
Does it seem to you like the holidays seem to arrive earlier each year, or is it just me? Thanksgiving came and went and I can’t believe that Christmas is just a few weeks away! I love making handmade gifts but sometimes I just don’t have enough time. If you can relate, here’s a few quick ornament ideas that you...
So, have you noticed how BIG tiny is right now? Tiny boxes, miniature foods, tiny animals? And fairies! Fairy houses, fairy doors... So when I stumbled upon this little gingerbread house cookie cutter by Wilton, my mind immediately went to my beloved Sculpey! And though I started out with a "gingerbread color" I intend to use pastels for the spring...
Create stems for your no sew decorative pumpkins with Sculpey Polymer Clay. These pumpkins are pretty quick and easy to make. You do not even have to sew. If you know how you could, but with my special tip you will not have to sew. This is a front view of the stems. Material list for No Sew Pumpkins...
Whenever I do the New Color Tuesday mixes, I end up with some really nice "bits" left on my table. The colors always go really well with each other because most of them contain bits of a single (mix) color. This is a photo of one of the "bit stacks" that I created. I even like the patterns that the...
Easter is right around the corner and as the weather starts to think about warming up I am ready to decorate and add some touches of adorable fun to my home. I made these adorable spring chicks using the designs in my licensing portfolio to get started and can't wait to share them. The first step was to look through...
No thanks major department stores! As a matter-of-fact I DON'T want a boring sponge holder with suctions cups (seriously, it's the 21st century - we all know they don't work!). I'm trying to do the right thing and get a sponge holder to help cut down on bacteria left in an always-wet sponge. First of all, it took FOREVER to...
I wanted to share a holiday success story with you. I have a great friend from work who is not only an Ortho Trauma P.A., but she is so talented at beading and crafting! She also has raised and trained champion Bouvier de Flanders dogs. Now in case you can't immediately recall just what a Bouvier looks like, think BIG...
Mokume gane is not just for adults! As a step in helping my son and his fellow Webelo Boy Scouts pack achieve their Artist badge, we created Mokume Gane canes. The canes were placed in a metal Purse Hanger as Mother's Day gifts. Before we began making the canes we talked about color theory and the color wheel and how...
A Premo Polymer Clay covered tin with Swarovski Crystals is fabuous gift to give or to make for yourself. I recently shot a video demonstrating the Chevron cane and fel in love with it. I loved it so much that I decided to use the left overs to make a veneer to cove a tin with. To give the...
Sculpey polymer clay is a fabulous medium to use in jewelry making. Valentine’s day is fast approaching and it makes the perfect reason to give someone you love a piece of jewelry. Now, who would not love a piece of handmade jewelry? The first piece I want to show you today is a technique called Faux Sugar Beads. They are...
Brrr! It's cold in Ohio, and I am bundled up inside ready to go on a warm vacation to someplace sunny! I'm sure I'm not the only one bundled up, working on projects inside this time of the year. As for myself, it seems as when the weather turns cold, my art tend to favor projects that involve fibers, fabrics and felts. ...
I got a bit of Christmas shopping done yesterday. My husband has three nieces who are grade-school/middle-school ages. I don't know what toys they like, but I feel safe buying them clothes. So I picked out tops or sweaters for each of them, then brought them into the studio for a little personalizing! All the girls have long blonde hair...
My favorite words when a Sculpey RFP for a project comes are "can you make it different and/or edgy?" Yeah Baby! That's right up my crafting alley. But when the RFP for this urgent project for Michaels came and they wanted "different" and "mixed media" on one of these plastic pumpkins, I have to confess that my eyebrows did that...
I was thinking what I would like to write about next and I got this idea to make a gnome. I guess I am kind of sticking with a garden theme this month. My inspiration came from that funny travelocity gnome that you see on TV. I really love gnomes and have made them before but I wanted to make...
We are very lucky in Brunswick to have a wonderful farmer's market on our downtown green every Tuesday and Friday throughout the summer. I look forward to going each week. It is just so nice to walk around and look at all the beautiful stands filled with vegetables, fruits and berries. There are flowers, herbs, plants and local honey. The...
