Personalization Made Simple

A short video from Glenn and Debi of Deb & Co shows how to personalize your clay Christmas ornaments with simple, easy to learn techniques that give your ornaments a professional look.   Tips on how to fit lettering in a small space plus how to correct errors.

How to Use a Doll Face Push Mold

Baby Face "Scarecrow" Doll by Jorge Rubicce

In this video from the South American TV show "Bienvenidas" (Welcome), Jorge Rubicce demonstrates the proper method for using his doll face push molds.    Rubicce is a well-known cold porcelain clay artist and is designer of these molds, which are much larger than the doll push molds

Make Your Own Petal Cutters

If you don't have the proper petal cutter for making some clay flowers, you can make your own.   See posts at The New Clay News for Making Your Own Cutters and a video with Free Cutting Tool Ideas.

Amazon also has a kit for making your own cookie cutters....which, of course, will also work for clay.  Just look for R & M International Design Your Own Cookie Cutter Gift Set .

Make a Cute Reindeer

Today we have a video demo showing you how to create a cute little reindeer with polymer clay.  But Air-Dry-Clay.com is suppose to be about air-dry clay, right?   It is.   This demo is a good one to use as an example of how to modify a polymer clay tutorial when using air dry clay.   The types of air-dry clays that work best for

Hydrangea

Today's tutorial is a step-by-step demonstration of Hydrangea flowers from Petalsweet.   These flowers are being created from gumpaste, but many of the techniques and materials used for gumpaste may also be used with air-dry clay. With one exception! There's no need

How to Make Clay Carnations

Here's a step-by-step tutorial for creating clay Carnations by Priya Nanthakumar  using air-dry clay.   The result is quite realistic.

 Priya doesn't say which air-dry clay is being used but many brands would be

How to Add Faux Stitches to Clay Figure

The following video demo from a guy in Sweden called Guldies shows us how to add whimsical stitches to a sculpt.  Detailed, dimensional and authentic looking.  The sculpture he creates in this video is quite wild, whimsical and colorful!

Air Dry Clay Name Tags or Ornaments

Stephanie shows us a no-calorie way to use candy molds. She uses air dry clay (Creative Paperclay) to create name tags or ornaments.

Got a Glue Question?

Sometimes you just don't know which glue would be best to glue two different kinds of materials together.   Here's one place to start looking for answers....the "Glue It To It' widget at Michaels.   Just select the name of the two items you want to glue together from the drop down lists and Michaels will suggest a glue product that'll do the job!