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DEC
26
Sitting Santa
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DEC
26
Make this charming Santa to decorate for the holidays. Quick and easy craft suitable for beginners. Materials needed: Air-dry clay in white, flesh, red & brown or black for boots. Optional black seed beads for eyes. Create pieces as shown in step diagram below. Assemble all parts as pictured. Position arm, legs...adding white trims. Attach head,
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DEC
26
Candy Cane Santa
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DEC
26
Materials needed: Air-dry clay in white, flesh, red & green. Blush for cheeks. Optional black seed beads for eyes. Create pieces as shown in diagram below. Cone shaped body should be about 1 1/4" high. Arms should be slightly curved and slightly tapered at one end. For candy canes, coil together one thin white snake with red snake. Assemble all parts as pictured.
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JAN
22
Make this cute owl
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JAN
22
Make this cute owl from your favorite air dry clay. Easy to make...great for beginners (kid-friendly)....just follow these step-by-step photos (from the "Cake Duchess"). If you have any trouble with the clay notsticking to itself, just use a tiny bit of white glue to attach feet, wings, etc. Here are 2 suggestions for an air dry clay for this project...soft and
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JAN
21
Snoopy
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JAN
21
Everyone's favorite cartoon dog Snoopy! Easy to make...great for beginners (kid-friendly)....just follow these step-by-step photos (from an Asian website). If you have any trouble with the clay not sticking to itself, just use a tiny bit of white glue for arms, legs, etc. Here are 2 suggestions for an air dry clay for this type of project...soft and pre-colored.
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JUL
18
Floral Week: Daylily Tutorial
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JUL
18
Ending 'Floral Week' with this Lily tutorial from Marrietta in Russia. Marietta is creating with uncolored cold porcelain and painting when cured with oil paints. You could choose to use acrylic paint, it adheres to clay just fine and should work OK on the plastic parts. You could also pre-tint your clay (yellow and green) and just use paint for details. Translate
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JUL
17
Floral Week: Carnation Tutorial
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JUL
17
Let's continue our week full of flower tutorials with this great carnation tutorial from Marrietta in Russia. She makes it look very easy! It's a step by step photo tutorial with very little text (so translation not really necessary). If you want to translate Russian, type text or website address here: translate.google.com/ You will need plenty of
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JUL
16
Floral Week: Tulip Tutorial
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JUL
16
How to make tulips with thin, transparent petals (and simplified stamens). Tutorial by Antonina Melnichenko is in Russian. Translate by typing text or website address here: translate.google.com/ Author says this master class is designed for those artists who already have some experience with cold porcelain or polymer clay. Materials needed are: Cold Porcelain or a soft
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JUL
15
Floral Week: Rose Tutorial
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JUL
15
"Cherry On a Cake" explains how to make sugar roses with wired petals. The process is the same for air dry clay. You'll need some pre-tinted clay, floral wire and plastic spoons (to shape petals). It'd also help to have a petal cutter, leaf cutter and veiner but can be done without. Here's a source for some tools mentioned in tutorial.....
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JUL
13
Floral Week: Wild Rose Tutorial
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JUL
13
Let's begin a week full of flower tutorials with this wild rose arrangement. Make lovely roses following this tutorial from Marrietta in Russia. It's a step by step photo tutorial with very little text (so translation not really necessary). Instructions for filler flowers included to make arrangement shown above. If you want to translate Russian, type text or website
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JUL
12
Cute Critter Week ~ Bluebird Tutorial
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JUL
12
Finishing our week of creating cute and uncomplicated critters with a step-by-step bluebird photo tutorial from "Treehouse Cakes". Again, one of the softer clays or cold porcelain would probably be a good choice to use for this but just about any clay (or fondant) would do. Start with a blue teardrop shape large enough for the body, a ball for the head and 2 teardrop shapes
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JUL
10
Cute Critter Tutorial ~ Lion
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JUL
10
Continuing our week of creating cute and uncomplicated critters with a step-by-step wordless photo tutorial from the Polish site "Cakeroom". Author shows us how to create this cute little lion. Again, one of the softer clays or cold porcelain would probably be a good choice to use for this.
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JUL
09
Cute Critter Week ~ Meercat Tutorial
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JUL
09
Let's continue our week full of cute and uncomplicated critter tutorials with a step-by-step meercat tuterial from CakeDutchess. One of the softer clays or cold porcelain would probably be a good choice to use for this.
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JUL
08
Cute Critter Week ~ Rainbow Unicorn Tutorial
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JUL
08
Continuing our week of creating cute and uncomplicated critters with a step-by-step wordless photo tutorial from the Polish site "Cakeroom". Author shows us how to create this cute little unicorn. Again, one of the softer clays or cold porcelain would probably be a good choice to use for this.
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JUL
07
Cute Critter Week ~ Bulldog Tutorial
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JUL
07
Let's continue our week full of cute and uncomplicated critter tutorials with a step-by-step pudgy Bulldog. One of the softer clays or cold porcelain would probably be a good choice to use for this. 1. Roll a ball, flatten one side, imress a nose wrinkle. 2. Make a pancake shape for lower jaw. 3. Indent for eyes. 4, 5. Add brown 'patch'. 6. Add balls of black clay for eyes
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JUL
06
Cute Critter Week: Snoopy tutorial
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JUL
06
Let's start a week full of cute and uncomplicated critter tutorials with step-by-step Snoopy by Miss Kawaii. One of the softer clays or cold porcelain would probably be a good choice here.
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JUN
02
How to make vases with air dry clay
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JUN
02
Make decorative vases with air dry clay following this tutorial from "Craft & Creativity". These lovely vases with stamped designs start out as a slab of clay flattened with roller (or pasta machine). Cooking oil is used as a release agent when forming clay around glass. I'd suggest Creative Paperclay for this project but many brands of ADC should be suitable,
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FEB
13
Be My Valentine
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FEB
13
Gloriann Irizarry (byglori.com) says: lets celebrate Valentine's Day "....with a special Be Mine Valentine 3D wall art canvas. Using my Black cat Romeo has an inspiration I created this OOAK Be Mine Card in a canvas using the Creative Paperclay to sculpted 3D and make it literally pop out of the canvas." Click here for step by step photo tutorial.
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FEB
12
Easter Bunny Tutorial
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FEB
12
Step by step photo demo to make this Balancing Bunny cake topper from Rouvelee's Creations. Uses Styrofoam balls for body armature and Styrofoam eggs covered in clay. Fondant was used here but cold porcelain or any of the softer types of air dry clay would be suitable.
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JUL
14
Make a Ballerina Doll
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JUL
14
Clay used in this tutorial is a soft air-dry clay such as Makin's Clay, Deco Clay or Cold Porcelain. Some white, a small amount that's been tinted pink, and a larger quantity tinted flesh. Cut a strip of pink clay for bodice. Tool shown is a fondant cutting and embossing tool with changeable blades for creating different textures. It's inexpensive and works well with
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JUN
06
Craft Some Lavender Sprigs with Air Dry Clay
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JUN
06
Tatiana (aka) Mokko has prepared a great step by step tutorial at the Russian site 'Fair Masters" for making lavender from air dry clay. Because computer translations are notoriously full of errors, especially when it comes to crafting terminology, I've provided an English interpretation below for your convenience. If you'd rather work from the original, click here. (Note
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NOV
07
Cute and Easy Doll Figurine Tutorial
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NOV
07
Create this cute doll following the step-by-step photo tutorial shown below. Supplies include air-dry-clay (softer brands would probably be best) or cold porcelain in your favorite shade of blue (overalls), pink (shirt), white (socks), brown (shoes & accents), fleshtone and hair color. A dowel/skewer/toothpick is used to poke hole in shoes/socks for insertion of legs.
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OCT
27
Modeling a Doll with Paperclay, Part 4 of 4. Dressing & Posing
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OCT
27
The final part of this step-by-step tutorial from Russian artist Dyachenko Oksana creates the clothing, shoes and props for posing the doll created in Parts 1-3. Lots of photos show how she applies fabric to the doll body, cuts to fit, and sews concealed seams directly on the doll. Hope you've enjoyed this 4 part tutorial and the techniques presented to create this cute doll made of
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OCT
21
Modeling a Doll with Paperclay, Part 3 of 4, Finishing Body
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OCT
21
Part 3 of this step-by-step tutorial from Russian artist Dyachenko Oksana shows how to sculpt and attach hands to the body we made in Part 2 and additional finishing steps. Lots of photos show the modeling of the hands with Creative Paperclay along with covering the arms and legs in the 'clay over cloth' technique. Shoes made of Paperclay are also
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OCT
17
Modeling a Doll with Paperclay, Part 2 of 4. Armature & Body
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OCT
17
This step-by-step doll tutorial from Russian artist Dyachenko Oksana describes her method for creating a sturdy body armature and increasing volume of the body with paper. (She says it's toilet paper but looks more like paper towels...LOL) There's lots of photos showing how she stuffs and wraps armature with paper and then secures it with string before posing the doll. The next
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