PolymerClayer Blog
Polymer clay techniques, tutorials, gadgets, classes and most importantly... people creating great stuff.
Aug 06, 2021
OxyClay! Go Beyond Translucent Polymer Clay to Transparency
Amazing OxyClay! It’s not translucent polymer clay, it’s the first transparent one made with bleach! In fact, it’s so invisible that it can only be viewed in the light of your imagination
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Jul 25, 2021
Baking Polymer Clay Perfectly Every Time
Baking polymer clay made easy. Answers to your questions on choosing oven temperature, timing and methods for cooking beads safely and beautifully.
Sep 06, 2019
Get a New Rolling Organizer Before Your Old One Tries to Kill You Too!
My old rolling organizer failed in heavy traffic! Here’s how I survived and chose a great traveling craft storage container for my beads, jewelry making, scrapbooking and polymer clay
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May 24, 2019
Bindu Namburi's Cute Coffee Cup
Bindu Namburi's captured the essence of cute with this little pink octopus on a coffee cup. I think she used a bit of epoxy or super glue to hold on the baked polymer clay pieces that are not connected. Smart.
May 24, 2018
Spock’s Craft Storage Solutions for Smart Polymer Clayers
Finding safe craft storage solutions for polymer clay and choosing cabinets, furniture, containers, boxes and wraps is easy with a few logical rules
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Aug 16, 2017
Stop Sculpey Clay Problems! Smart Buying & Crafting Tips
Sculpey Clay for Dummies - Here’s polymer baking instructions, a Polyform product types/uses chart, conditioning machines, sculpting and craft ideas
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May 23, 2017
Elephant Sculpture - Kenneth Weston's Polymer Claying for Conservation
How this elephant sculpture of a mother and her calf were imperiled by polymer clay baking confusion
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Feb 13, 2017
Find color schemes for Premo Sculpey colors in seconds
Color combinations for packaged Premo Sculpey colors made easy — and also get their blending/mixing recipes! No guessing. No tedious mixing and baking.
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Jun 25, 2016
It's Polymer Clay Art Inspiration Day!
Polymer clay art to launch you into an artist weekend full of creative projects and glitter!
Jun 03, 2016
Following Your Dreams This Weekend
Believing in your dreams is one thing, building them is another. It doesn't take much to make something beautiful. Take a few minutes this weekend and...
May 27, 2016
Share Yourself Through Your Art This Weekend
Sometimes we feel that making art is selfish. Click the image above to get a glimpse of Doreen Kassel's art in the video and you know that is not true. We might have to sometimes withdraw from others to create. But Art connects us to other people on a profound level. So enjoy creating and connecting this weekend!
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May 20, 2016
Take A Creative Leap This Weekend
Making this video was sparked by a desire to take a few chances this week. Watch it, and don't overthink your art or your life. Sometimes you've just got to just strap on your creativity and jump!
May 13, 2016
Polymer Clay Art Inspiration Friday!
Get your buds on this weekend
Here's a motivational video to get you up, get you into your studio space and CREATING! Don't let the demands of the past week weigh you down. Spend some time making and your soul will feel like blooming again.
Apr 01, 2016
Go Beyond Polymer Clay Classes to MasterMind Modules
Polymer clay classes - instantly learn the latest techniques from master artists - KickFarter project
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Mar 09, 2016
How to Subscribe to ColorMixr After Your Free Trial is Over
This Subscribe to ColorMixr video shows how to keep your Fimo and Sculpey Premo color mixing tools after your free 30 day trial
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Dec 24, 2015
ColorMixr - InstantlyCreate Polymer ClayColorsThat LookGreat Together
ColorMixr instantly creates Fimo and Premo Sculpey color mixing recipes from your favorite photos, clothing and nature and art
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Dec 23, 2015
Instant ColorMixr Recipes from Your Photos
How you can use ColorMixr to quickly transform photos into Fimo and Sculpey Premo! polymer clay color recipes for your projects.
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Nov 18, 2015
Why 'Polymer Clay Color Inspirations' Made Me Cry
I own Polymer Clay Color Inspirations not because it contains color wheels, charts, palettes, mixing recipes, blending tips, and color combinations, but because it made me cry.
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Oct 23, 2015
ColorMixr User Guide - Color Wheel and Playing With Colors
Using the Color Mixing Wheel to play with polymer clay colors the easy way
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Oct 19, 2015
ColorMixr for Polymer Clay User Guide, FAQs and Answers
ColorMixr App hints and tips for creating the Fimo Professional & Premo Sculpey colors in seconds.
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Dec 01, 2014
Sculpey Clay Conditioning Machine - Too Cheap for Polymer?
Sculpey Clay Conditioning Machine compared to Atlas 150 and other polymer clay pasta machines. Plus fixes for common problems so this budget tool works for you
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Jul 07, 2014
Which Oven Thermometer to Choose for Baking Polymer Clay?
Oven thermometer accuracy is critical to baking polymer clay. Which is best, the oven’s controller, a separate digital probe or a standard round one?
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Apr 29, 2014
Polymer Clay Photography Frustration
Yeah, this is a simple heart covered with mokume gane slices. But what is incredibly frustrating to me is how my cell phone camera highlighted the blues in the heart. It's a magenta/wine colored heart!
I don't have a CLUE where all that violet coloring came from. Maybe from the ambient daylight interacting with the gold leaf in the mokume slices?
Does anyone have any idea how I can prevent this optical effect? It didn't seem to show up in the agate beads that make up the necklace. Maybe there's a filter technique that I can use to counteract this?
Apr 08, 2014
Polymer Clay Gemstones - the Art of Deception - Author Interview - II
Part 2 of Polymer Clay Gemstones - The Art of Deception video interview and review of the book by 4 artists
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I'm Nancy Ulrich, and I'm a Polymer addict. I live in San Diego with my husband Bob. And I've never eaten anything rolled from my pasta machine...More