How-To: Recycle Junk Mail into Paper Beads. With just a few pieces of basic equipment, you can turn your boring old junk mail into cute paper beads! These lightweight, bulky beads are great for making fun chunky jewelry, festive garlands, or a bead curtain to hang in your doorway (if you're feeling ambitious!) Equipment: - Kitchen blender- 2 Buckets- Large bowl or tub- Sieve- Awl- Cutting mat- PVA (white) glue- Acrylic gesso- Acrylic paints- Clear varnish- Paintbrushes- Paper for recycling. For this tutorial, I loosely packed a 1-gallon bucket about 3/4 full with scraps, which yielded around 100 beads ranging in size from 1/2"-1".
Ideal papers to use: anything printed on standard office paper, business envelopes, take-out menus with a matte finish, kraft paper. Papers to avoid: glossy or coated papers such as magazine pages, waxed paper, newspapers and phonebooks (the ink is very messy and gross), facial tissue, paper towels. STEP 1: Tear paper into 1" scraps.
STEP 2: Now it's time to make pulp! STEP 4: Roll yourself some beads! Puffy Paint. I can't believe I've never tried this project before. It was so easy and fun that I ended up doing it three times this week... first with my own kids, then as a project at my son's school, and then with our music class. I have a little bit of PTSD after working with lots and lots of squirrelly little 4 and 5 year olds. In particular my own kids, who tend to just dump out all the paint, smear it all over their bodies, and then run away screaming. They can engage with art projects sometimes, but it's a delicate trick... figuring out what will draw them in. This project was perfect because the bottles are just so irresistible to squeeze that no one could deny their hypnotic powers.
Puffy Paint 1 c. salt 1 c. flour 1 c. water a healthy squirt of food coloring or tempera paint. Put in squeeze bottles for Puffy Paint Paradise. Kleas: Lantern Walk. Despite the rain, our preschool celebrated Martinmas last night with a traditional lantern walk. We ended up making lanterns that look very much like last years. I experimented with something new and Peanut and I made these... ...a cross between paper lanterns and yarn bowls. And while the idea seemed like fun and they DO look pretty, they were a bit difficult for my five-year-old to make and the yarn uses alot (ALOT) of glue so I decided not to challenge my preschoolers with this project. Instead we made the same kind as last year.
Day 1: using a mix of glue and water we pasted white tissue paper over the bottom part of balloons. They dried over-night in the basement. Day 2: The kids added colorful tissue paper. Again, drying in the basement. Once dry, we cut the balloons out. Then we punched four holes along the edge, strung yarn through them and attached them to sticks, for carrying. How to make Paper Clay. I fell in love with sculpting with paper mache during my first project five years ago. However, I never really found a recipe that was worth the time and effort and mess that it took to get what I wanted. As a result, I used Celluclay for most projects. However, I recently stumbled upon an incredible blog called, Ultimate Paper Mache where Jonni (the artist and blogger) shares all sorts of tips, tutorials and recipes to help anyone on their way to successfully paper mache-ing.
I am blown away by what Jonni can create, but I was especially grateful for the recipe she shared on how to make your own paper mache clay. For my purposes, I ended up altering the recipe just slightly so that I could get the thicker consistency that I like. Paper Clay: 2 Cups toilet paper 1 Cup regular joint compound (the premixed kind. 3/4 Cups flour (The original recipe calls for Linseed Oil, but I didn't really find much difference, other than it was smelly and one more thing to keep out of reach of my boys.) Carnets uniques - Photos des carnets de Bariza. Rolled paper flowers {tutorial.
Welcome to flower week – five days of simple and delightful flower projects. I could probably do three weeks of flowers because there are so many different ways to create them, but I’ve limited it to five of my current favorites. Before we get started, let me make a few disclaimers: 1. I find inspiration for projects all over the place {online, in shops, in magazines}, then figure out how to re-create them on my own.
Each of these projects are my adaptation of something I’ve seen elsewhere. 2. 3. Okay, so let’s begin. Here’s what you’ll need: :: paper {either cover or text weight} :: florist wire :: scissors, pencil, glue gun STEP ONE: cut irregular circle This circle is approximately 8 inches, but you can do any size you wish. STEP TWO: cut spiral Start at the outside edge and cut in a spiral fashion to the center. I like a sort of bumpy shape so that the petals end up a bit irregular If you aren’t so sure about your cutting skills, feel free to draw your spiral before cutting.
Anastassia Elias - Pluie. Www.vertcerise.com/wp-content/uploads/vertcerise_chocolat-rhabille.pdf. Bonne année ! Pour vous souhaiter une bonne année 2012, j’ai réalisé un calendrier mensuel avec mon fidèle spirographe. Pour le télécharger, cliquez ici. Mise à jour : Oups, un petit soucis s’était glissé dans les dates de ce calendrier. C’est à présent corrigé ! Moule à cake en carton. « J’apporterai un gâteau » annonce Fille ainée à ses copains qui préparent une fête pour ce week-end… En la voyant sortir son beau cake bien gonflé du four, je me dis que c’est encore un moule ou un plat qui va disparaitre de mes placards (Et je ne peux même pas me fâcher, je ne compte plus les saladiers et plats à tartes que j’ai moi-même disséminés au fil des réunions joyeuses et gourmandes) Une cartonette et un rouleau de masking tape trainant sur la table de la cuisine m’ont suggérés la solution : Un moule en carton, présentable et oubliable faites un clic droit, imprimer, et cochez « adapter au format » pour imprimer en A4, ce gabarit convient pour un moule à cake en pyrex, vous saurez l’adapter à vos moules, c’est plus que facile !
Make a Recycled Paper Bird Mobile. Corey marie ♥ com » 12 DIY Watercolor Techniques: It’s How-to Tuesday! Here are 12 easy DIY Watercolor Techniques to create interesting textures for art journals and other projects, too! These all involve things you probably already have around the house! Have fun experimenting and enjoy! True Blue Me & You: I'll Try Not to Waste Our Time. True Blue Me & You: I'll Try Not to Waste Our Time. My Origami Butterfly How To. Hello my dear friends, I am sure there are many tutorials out there on how to make an origami butterfly but I thought I would put a short tutorial together to share with you on how I made mine. The nice thing about this butterfly is that you should have everything right there with you that you will need to make these lovely fluttering creatures.
Beautiful paper butterflies! You will need the following: ~ Paper of your choice (nothing too thin or brittle)~ Scissors~ Ruler~ Pencil~ Ink pad (color of you choice) ~ Glue~ Thin wire~ Wire nose pliers So, let's start ... Choose the size you would like your square to be, mark it out on your paper and cut it out. Now start folding your paper as follows ... Fold your paper in half both ways. Then fold your paper diagonally both ways. Now fold the center folds inwards to make a big triangle that is open at the bottom ... ... like this. Next fold the top layer upwards towards the top. This is what your paper should look like at this stage. Karen B. Paper Calla Lilies DIY. By Chiara Alberetti Milott Usually when I think of calla lilies, I think of plain old white ones. But there is a whole world of colored calla lilies out there. Gorgeous pinks, corals, mangos, yellows, and deep purple, even. Colors that make me want to go find gelato or sorbet right this instant.
Materials needed: various colored paper, tape, stapler, hole punch, yellow crepe paper streamer, scissors. Step 1: Begin by cutting a square of paper in the shape of the top left image shown above. Step 2: Cut a 5 inch piece of crepe paper, fold it in thirds width wise, then in half length wise (I made a bunch of these all at once, production line-style). Step 3: Repeat, and staple this flower to your first flower. Step 4: Punch a hole through the leaf and flowers, for your ribbon, twine or string to go through. Step 5: Wrap your gift and tightly tie your flowers on top. You can put as many flowers on each gift as you like – check out the photos below where I went kind of nutso with the flowers! WonderlandRoom par WonderlandRoom.