Tutorial: Clay Peonies

Here's another flower tutorial from CreativeNimi at Crafts For All.    This time she uses Delight air-dry clay to show us how to make a Peony.   Cold porcelain and many other brands of air-dry would work as well (the softer clays seem to work best).   

With 3 Peonies and some flower buds, she demonstrates this lovely floral arrangement.

Kissing Ball Made with Clay Flowers

A few days  ago I came across this great idea from CreativeNimi at  Craft Ideas for All.    It's a Pomander Ball, also known as Kissing Ball, made from clay flowers.  These decorative flower balls are used in weddings, at Christmas, at baby showers and other festive occasions.   The clay flowers can be made from cold porcelain or any of the softer air-dry clays, such as Deco clay.  To make the flowers, see our list of Clay Flower tutorials in the menu tab above.

CreativeNimi made the beautiful blue and white clay flower ball shown above.  She says: "Usually fresh flowers are used as it requires a lot of flowers. Making them in clay makes it extra special and this way it lasts longer. Pomander Ball with clay flowers is a labor intensive project, but once completed you really get the satisfaction of creating something magnificent."   Read more about her idea at Craft ideas for All.

Tutorial: Clay flowers-Make this festive rose arrangment

This flower arrangement is very striking. I like the red, green, white color combination.   This would make a lovely decoration for the Christmas holidays.   Maybe if I get started on making an arrangement like this now, I might finish it by December!  LOL  


Deco Clay was used to create flowers shown in demo.   Homemade cold Porcelain, purchased Craft Porcelain, Delight, Daisy, Hearty and Makin's Clay are a few other clays suitable for this project.


See tutorial at Craft Ideas for All


Red, white and green clay will be needed.   For cold porcelain and clay brands that aren't available pre-colored, tint your white clay with a little acrylic paint, with color paste made for cake decorating & sugarcraft or with colorants made especially for cold porcelain.    


If you're not familiar with colorants, Wilton Icing Colors, shown here, is one example of colorants that are available in paste form from cake decorating suppliers,  at Michaels and online at Amazon.   Jars of paste colorants can be purchased as individual colors or as sets. 


Colorants specifically for cold porcelain are not readily available in USA, but you might find a supplier on the web. 

Tutorial: Roses made with air-dry clay

Follow this tutorial to make a beautiful white rose floral arrangement with green and red accents.  The green buds are made with clay but the red berries are purchased fillers.  Delight clay (lightweight clay made by Creative Paperclay) is used in demo  but many other brands of air-dry clay would be suitable, as well as cold porcelain.   See step-by-step tutorial for beautiful clay roses.

Tutorial: How to Make a Clay Doll

Hamkaastostie at Deviant Art shows us her method for sculpting a doll with air-dry clay.   Click the image on this page to enlarge to a readable size.