Holiday How-to Christmas: Snowman Wreath Ornament

With the hustle and bustle of Christmas we didn’t get around to share our 2017 Sculpey & Swirly Holiday how-to project.
Our festive Snowman wreath ornament is telling you to hang in there and enjoy the holidays with your love ones. A fun project to make for your a holiday swap, gives as a gift or just hang on your tree.
You can find this project here.
Merry Christmas!

This project is for personal, non-commercial use ONLY.

Holiday How-to Easter: Petite Bunny Basket

This project is for personal, non-commercial use ONLY.

We are so Egg~cited to share our New Polyform Easter how-to:
Create and celebrate Easter with these sweet petite Bunny Baskets. These mulit-purpose designs can be used as décor pieces, to adore your Easter tree or placecard favors for your guests. Designed by Lianne and Paul Stoddard of Swirly Designs - Handmade Polymer Clay ornaments - these baskets are easy and adorable! You can find the project here.

Holiday How-to Halloween: Happy Haunting Door Wreath

This project is for personal, non-commercial use ONLY.

We are EEKcited to share with you our new ghoulish Halloween how-to project we created for Sculpey. You can find the project here and we will share more images in our next post.

Look who Swirled by the Studio

It's always nice to have visitors come to the Swirly Studio. It's a great way for us to really get the studio clean and organized. (Don't mind the vacuum cleaner, trying to get it spotless!)

Plus it give us another reason to decorate the studio with seasonal flowers.

The visitor we had the pleasure of finally meeting, after working with her only threw social media for the a few years now, is Iris Weiss from Polyform Products. Which makes our all-time favorite crafting material!

Even though there is two of us working here most of the time, it's always nice to exchange stories and ideas with other creative professionals. It was so nice of Iris to visit our little Swirly studio. We had a wonderful time talking shop, sharing marketing ideas and giving her a peak into our new Sculpey & Swirly Halloween and Christmas Holiday how-to projects coming soon!

Be sure to follow Polyform Products on Facebook and Swirly Designs to stay updated on our upcoming how-to projects.
Also, are you on Instagram? We would love for you to follow us.

Holiday How-to Easter: Egg Cup Bunny

The Easter season is in full swing, even if the weather is still holding out on us.
We are eager and egg~cited to share with you our new Sculpey & Swirly Holiday How-to project for Easter.

How cute are these Egg Cup Bunny?  We've created a unique way to display your beautifully decorated eggs this season. You can find the how-to here on the Polyform Products website.

 

Once you try this project you won't be able to stop at just one. We have our own bunny colony of 

Egg Cup bunnies here at the studio.  ;-) 

 

Let your creativity blossom with the possibilities.  Try different clay color combination; experiment with fun patterns and textures.

 

Not only can you use them to display your festive Easter eggs, but these Egg Cup Bunnies make wonderful place card holders for your Easter brunch or fill plastic eggs with candies for a 

special treat for the kids.

 

If you like this project and want to keep seeing Swirly Designs create more, be sure to visit Polyform Products facebook page and share your thoughts. You can also visit our Swirly Designs Facebook page and share your feedback and share pictures of your finished Egg Cup Bunny.
Enjoy the Swirly Easter Season!
xo Lianne & Paul  

This project is for personal, non-commercial use ONLY.

Holiday How-to Valentine: Sweet Treat Jar

 

Love is in full swing here in the Swirly studio. 

As Valentine's Day approaches, our work space is adorned with all things lovely! A palette of reds and pinks, the scent of fresh paints and the aroma of yummy sweets greet us each day.

In our first of 2014 how-to series with Sculpey, we created this
really "tweet" Valentine Sweet Treat Jar.  Find the how-to here.

 We are tickled pink to be collaborating once again this year with the wonderful folks at Polyform Products creating holiday inspired clay projects. 

We have built up a nice collection of how-to projects over the past 4 years, so we thought we needed a good way to keep all these project together under one name. We came up with  Sculpey & Swirly Holiday How-to projects. 

We have added this logo to the side of the blog, so when you click on it your will
see all of our past Holiday how-tos.

How cute are these? We used baby jars which come in various heights but 

the widths are all pretty much standard. Our kids enjoyed a lot of baby apple sauce for this project. ;-)

Once you get the basic steps down from the how-to, you can really create whatever you want as far as colors and subject matter and colors go.

Wouldn't these make perfect baby shower favors or bridal shower gifts?   

If you like this project and want to keep seeing Swirly Designs create more holiday inspired how-tos, be sure to visit Polyform Products facebook page and share your thoughts. You can also visit the Swirly Designs facebook page and share your feedback and pictures of your finished Sweet Treat Jars.

Have a Swirly Valentine

xoxo

This project is for personal, non-commercial use ONLY.

A Sweet Valentines How-to Project is Coming

 

We just finished up the photos for a really "Sweet" Valentine's day how-to project 

coming very soon to Polyform Products.

Scupley & Swirly Holiday How-to Series

We are very happy to announce that Sculpey and Swirly will be collaborating on 5 more Holiday How-to projects for 2014!

We really hope you enjoy these creative and fun Holiday themed how-to projects as much as we do  creating them.  To be notified when the projects are online make sure you like Swirly Designs and Sculpey facebook pages.

Below are the projects we created in 2013 

scroll down to see the links for the step by step how-to projects

All projects are for personal, non-commercial use ONLY.

 

The Bunny Egg Treat Box we created for Easter 

 

 We created two Halloween how-to's

Premo! Miniature Vampire Halloween Cup 

and

Halloween Place Card Holder Trio

 Autumn Fox Figurine

Christmas Saint Nick Sculpture

Holiday How-to Easter: Bunny Egg Treat Box

The two of us here at Swirly Designs are so happy to be working again this year with Polyform Products. Together we can share with you some wonderful seasonal how-to projects. Our first

project this year is one of our personal favorites. You can create this really sweet and practical

Bunny Egg Treat Box. Find the how-to here. You can fill it with special treats for your kids basket, add it to your holiday centerpiece or even make it the golden prize for your annual egg hunt.   

The clay used in this project is called Model Air, air dry clay from Polyform. If you haven't tried it, we would really recommend experimenting with it. It's perfect for this type of project because you don't have to cook your piece and worry about the papier mache egg in your oven. But it is a lot more messier than we are used to working with since we mostly have worked with a cleaner clay like Premo for our own designs. That did take a little time getting use to. We kept a spray bottle and roll of paper towels with in hands reach so we could keep our hands clean.... but  you know it's good to get messy especially when you're in your creative groove.

Our project shows how to make feet for your bunny egg, but we also created a few without feet. On those we just decoupaged the bottom half of the egg with colored tissue paper, paint mini flowers and added a dusting of glitter. These work great to compliment your footed bunny. They also work if you plan on keeping them in a basket because they tend to be a little top heavy and roll over without the feet support. 

 

Let your creativity go crazy and paint your bunny to fit your own holiday decor. 

These are all the versions of the bunny egg we created for this how-to project. Once we made one they just started muiltiplying. :-)

The bigger the papier mache egg you choose to use in this project the more treats they can hold.

If you like this project and want to keep seeing Swirly Designs create more, be sure to visit Polyform Products facebook page and share your thoughts. You can also visit the Swirly Designs facebook page and share your feedback and share pictures of your finished Bunny Egg Treat Box.

Have a fun and Swirly Easter!

xo Lianne & Paul 

This project is for personal, non-commercial use ONLY.

Holiday How-to Christmas: Penguin Snow Day

Now that the Christmas season is over, we can't think of a better project to do on the cold and snowy days that are ahead. Our new 2012 winter  how-to project is online at Polyform. You can follow these easy steps to create your own winter wonderland with this penguin trio snow day sculpture.

and once you figure out the basic steps you can let your creativity go wild. You can even add little hearts to your penguins and change out the snow sign for your special Valentine.

 

Be sure to like Swirly on Facebook and if you really enjoy this project and would like us to keep creating more it would be so nice if you could "like" the project on Polyform Product fb page and comment telling them. ~ Lianne & Paul

 This project is for personal, non-commercial use.