Art Doll Artists

Art Dolls from some of the best Art Dollmakers on display at the 2007 Annual NIADA Conference.

Beautiful air-dry clay flower arrangement

Have you ever made flowers with clay?   Many brands of air-dry clay can be made into very thin, translucent petals that are also strong.   "Craft Ideas for All" has a nice little tutorial for creating roses and cherry blossoms to make the pretty arrangment shown here.     Other posts on their blog indicate that they use both Delight clay and Deco clay for their flowers.    

Tip:  This tutorial tints the air-dry clay with acrylic paints.   A less messy method is to use paste cake colorants like those made by Wilton .   Colorant sets are available in soft pastel, flower colors.

Hope you enjoy this tutorial!

Ideas for creating texture

Go to http://pottery.about.com/od/surfacetreatments/ss/impressed.htm for some ideas for creating texture in your clay using everyday objects such as rubber stamps, roulettes and coggles, pine cones, branches, twigs, stems, barrettes, balls of twine, bottoms of  bottles, woven wicker and grass baskets.

Tutorial: Easy holiday ornament

Here's a quick and easy air-dry clay ornament to make. I bet you could come up with all kinds of ideas for different words and for customizing this project.

Author includes a link to the font she used to trace letters.
http://ginghamcherry.blogspot.com/2009/12/joy-to-world.html

How to slice a banana

  Hi folks!   I'm running short on time today and don't have anything ready to post....so here's a bit of nonsense to make your day!  ;-)

Amaze your family and friends with this trick!
How to slice a banana inside its skin
http://spiritsdancing.com/msblog/how-to-slice-a-banana-inside-its-skin