Polymer Clay Marbling Tutorial – “Shattered Marbling”

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Polymer Clay Shattered Marbling Technique by Katie Oskin

Knowing how to marble clay to your liking takes time, patience, and experimentation. I’ll be honest, in many cases when I was first starting out I made some major mistakes … not enough marbling, too much marbling, choosing the wrong colors to put together. Marbling is a fantastic technique that can bridge the gap from a delicate and lightly streaked look, like Christi Friesen’s “lookat technique” (click here to get the free tutorial from the Friesen Project) to flat out striped!

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Pen & Pen Holder Desk Accessory Set

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August - Pavelka Project | Make Your Own Extruded Desk Accessories

Polymer Clay Desk Accessory Tutorial Set

Welcome back for month 8 of our project. This month finds us with a tutorial that is more than beads, techniques, or jewelry. This month you are going to make a desk accessory set. Lisa demonstrates 3 separate “office” project in her Polymer Clay Extravaganza Book. You can use these as a springboard to make your own projects. Or if you are an extruder junkie, you might have some fun with this tutorial too.

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DIY Book of Polymer Clay Color Recipes

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DIY Polymer Clay Color Recipe Book Project | Make your own book of color for your #polymerclay recipes

Here’s a Simple & Fun Way to Make Your Own

Polymer Clay Color Recipes

After gathering several of my polymer clay color recipes (you can see them all here), one of my readers asked me how I kept those color recipes. So today, I thought I would take a moment and show you my system for keeping my colors. Please know that there are literally dozens of ways you can do this. I have chosen to organize my colors this way because it is the most helpful and useful to me. Feel free to use some, parts, or all of these ideas to make your own polymer clay color recipe book.

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July Pavelka Project – Sutton Slice Technique

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Sutton Slice Technique Tutorial | Make your own DIY birdhouse with the 2015 Pavelka Project hosted by Lisa Pavelka & Katie Oskin

July Pavelka Project

Polymer Clay Sutton Slice Technique

The 2015 Pavelka Project by Lisa Pavelka & KatersAcres

Polymer Clay Covered Birdhouse Tutorial

Welcome back for month 7 of our project. This month finds us with another tutorial that is based around a technique. What does this mean? It means that you can make whatever you want and enter it to win, as long as it uses the Sutton Slice Technique.

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Polymer Clay Tutorial: Flower Head Pins from Scrap Canes

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Polymer Clay Tutorial - Flower Head Pins Using Scrap Cane Ends & Leftovers by KatersAcres | FREE Tutorial - PIN NOW, Make later
Polymer Clay Flower Head Pins by KatersAcres | CLICK for tutorial

 Why throw out all those tiny little cane ends? You can still use them, even if there’s not enough for a large project. I’ve been making these little flower head pins ever since I began making my own canes. For those of you who don’t already know, I have a thing for flowers. I LOVE them. But … I live in the woods. Flowers don’t grow well here. So instead, I made a TON of flowers in the spring & summer months from clay.

This project is a fun & quick way to use up those wonky ends & slices you may have cut from your canes. Placing these flowers on longer pieces of wire will allow them to be used as plant pokeys, tied into the center of a bow for a gift, jewelry head pins, and so much more.

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May Pavelka Project – Garden Markers Tutorial

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DIY Polymer Clay Garden Markers by KatersAcres

Welcome back to the Pavelka Project! This month we are doing a really fun project. We are making your own Garden Markers! Lisa has an excellent project in her book. My project is entirely different, but I think you’ll like it too. Feel free to use either my tutorial or the one Lisa provides in her book.

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Butterfly Wing Cane Tutorial

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Polymer Clay Tutorial Millefiori Butterfly Wing Cane by KatersAcres

 

This spring I’ve been busily making some new canes to enjoy and be creative with. Canes are especially great when you’re trying to use up some scrap clay from different projects. All you need is some scrap clay and a few clever Skinner Blends and you can create so many awesome millefiori canes, (including butterfly wing canes); it’s truly amazing.

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The Pavelka Project: Foiling Techniques

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April Pavelka Project: Foiling Techniques by Lisa Pavelka & Kater's Acres

The Pavelka Project – Polymer Clay Tutorial

April: Foiling Techniques

This month’s project takes us on a new journey with polymer clay. In case you missed the project assignment or materials, CLICK HERE to get them now. This month you are specifically using foiling techniques to make anything you’d like! YAY!

Here’s a very simple project that you can do with foils. Remember that foils can be used for jewelry, sculpture, beads, polymer painting and so much more. Feel free to use your own design ideas for your project.

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Polymer Clay Fluffy Bird Tutorial

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Polymer Clay Fluffy Bird Tutorial

Just in time for spring, this adorable fluffy bird is quick and easy to make.

My newest project for Polyform is part of my series of blog posts from the month of April. This project uses my favorite, Premo! polymer clay. Don’t forget to make this fluffy bird in as many colors as you can dream, create, and blend.

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