Beginner Polymer Clay Tutorials

Enlarging sheets of polymer clay is useful if you made a pattern, design or gradient with a set amount of clay, that ended up smaller than what you needed, but don’t want to redo everything from scratch. Connect multiple sheets of polymer clay is a polymer clay technique that allows you to create large-scale patterns […]

You should be periodically cleaning your pasta machine to remove buildup that accumulates on the rollers and guide blades. Overtime, the plasticizers from clay can cause a chemical reaction with steel rollers resulting in black streaks in your clay. In addition to cleaning your rollers, it’s also important to clean the guide blades because it […]

Read this before using a pasta machine for clay. Nearly all clay work can be done with an acrylic roller, but a pasta machine reduces the amount of laboring and time needed to do numerous tasks and techniques. In this guide I talk about some tips for caring & handling your pasta machine which will […]

Create Bulls Eye Canes, Gradient Loaves and Ribbons (Easy Basket Weave Pattern). Hi everyone, this is a beginner tutorial on how to create simple canes, loaves and ribbons with polymer clay. In my previous tutorial I walked through how to create a gradient sheets which will be used for the polymer clay techniques in this […]

Say Hello to the Skinner Blend Polymer Clay Technique. Want to up your polymer clay game? Learn the Skinner Blend Technique and you’ll be able to produce more visual dimension and depth with your canes, veneers, sculptures and other polymer clay projects! You may read the text below as an outline for what to do, […]

Learn the differences between Sculpey III, Sculpey Premo, FIMO Professional, FIMO Soft, Kato Polyclay & Cernit In this guide I go over 7 of some of the most popular types of polymer clay and discuss their properties so that you can make a better informed choice in terms of which polymer clay brand is best […]