Steampunk polymer clay honeybee with gears, rhinestones, and translucent wing details

Polymer Clay Art, Tutorials & Techniques | Blonde Crow Studio

Discover handmade polymer clay artwork, free step-by-step tutorials, faux-stone techniques, ornaments, beads, miniature projects, and creative experiments. Blonde Crow Studio is the online journal of Seattle artist and cartographer Maria Jam Brown, where curiosity, color, and a little crow magic turn ordinary blocks of clay into something unexpected.

Featured Free Tutorials

Try a new polymer clay technique with one of these free downloadable tutorials.

Colorful faux dichroic glass pieces made from polymer clay

Dichroic Polymer

Create luminous, glass-like polymer pieces with layered color, shimmer, and translucent effects.

Two-story miniature gingerbread house made from polymer clay

Gingerbread House Patterns

Download printable patterns for building tiny polymer clay gingerbread houses to decorate and treasure.

Handmade Persian blue turquoise pieces created from polymer clay

Polymer Clay Turquoise

Learn how to create convincing Persian blue turquoise with realistic color, texture, and matrix lines.

About Blonde Crow Studio

By day, I’m a cartographer in the Emerald City, mapping the world one line and one polygon at a time. By night (and most weekends) I’m up to my elbows in polymer clay. This journal is my creative field notebook—a place to record experiments, share techniques, and post free tutorials. If it inspires your next project or helps you avoid one of my mistakes, then it’s doing exactly what I hoped. Whether you’re here for inspiration or simply to see what I do with a block of clay and a little imagination, I’m glad you stopped by.

Maria Jam Brown

Blonde Crow Studio, Seattle, Washington