Marc Jacobs- Striped Star Hair Clip. I think this next tutorial is just plain cool! I loved these Marc by Marc Jacobs Star Hair Clips. Their simplicity but cool color combinations in contrasting stripes really stand out in hair. So, obviously I found a way to make my own. I used polymer clay and added rhinestones for extra sparkle. I also made mine on bobby pins so I could stick them anywhere on my hair! Below is the full tutorial. Again, like many of my tutorials, this can be customized to fit your liking. Step 1: Gather materials. Step 2: Choose 3 colors of your clay, shape into balls.
Step 3: Cut about 1/4" strips from your sheets. Step 4: Find a nice place for your cutout, and use your cookie cutter to make the cutout. Here are pics of a red/orange/purple one I made. Run this panel through pasta machine.... Place stripes on top of plain panel, cut out. Step 5: Add rhinestones. Bake these at about 125 degrees for 20 min. Step 6: Finishing. Wear, wear, wear!! If you share/use/post this tutorial, please link back to me. DIY: wrapped feather gel pens. I got this idea from Design Sponge's feature on making your own old fashioned feather pen. I really did intend to do it completely the way indicated, but then I found myself in the dollar store face to face with a bag of multi-coloured feathers for a buck.
It kind of excited me because if I bought them, I wouldn't have to go about dying my own feather AND they were only a buck. For a whole bag! Then I scrounged around for pen refills. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any (you'd think a dollar store would have that), but I did find cute miniature gel pens for a buck. I thought my feather pen idea would be so much cuter if I used pens to match the feather and oh, the rainbow-y coloured cuteness that would ensue! Until I got home, cut into my first feather, unscrewed my first gel pen and realized the feather was too small and the gel pen too thick. There are a lot of feathers to choose from, so try to pick one with the thickest and longest quill (that's the long non-feathery part). Reversible Coffee Cup Sleeves. I’m gonna tell you right now, you can’t throw a rock and not hit a tutorial for a coffee cup sleeve out there on the web. Reversible, not reversible, buttons, Velcro, skinny, wide, you name it.
For that matter, you can probably work a pattern out yourself. However, just in case your rock lands here, I’m going to share my version with you. I’ve made a few of these for Christmas and birthday gifts. You can see the one I made for my grandma here. I also have a few in my Etsy store right now. I made a holiday version for myself, but I realized in the middle of Starbucks last week it’s not Christmas anymore. I was trying to decide which fabrics to use for a new one and my wandering eyes landed on my seasonal fabric stack. To make one, you’ll need this coffee cup sleeve pattern . Cut one from cotton batting, two from ironing board cover fabric and two from cotton fabric. You’ll only need half of the hair tie, so zigzag stitch through the center, about 3/8” long, then clip through the center. Pick a Pocket Cozies. Both pretty and practical, pocket cozies have the perfect space to tuck in some extra sweetener or an extra teabag for later!
Quick and easy – these clever little cozies make a perfect gift you can stitch up in an evening with less than 50 yards. Wrap them around a reusable cup and tuck in a giftcard to your favorite coffee house for a gift they’ll use again and again… Gauge: approximately 6 stitches per inch Needles: size 3.25 to 3.5 mm, (US 4 – 5), needles Yarn: sport weight Pictured cozies are knit with Brown Sheep Lanaloft Sport Plain Pocket Cozy: CO 52 stitches and join to knit in round, being careful not to twist stitches. (P2, K2) around x 6 rows K around x 10 rows To make opening for pocket: K2, then K next 14 stitches on a length of waste yarn in a different color than project.
K 11 rows (P2, K2) around x 5 rows Bind off in pattern To make pocket: Turn cozy inside out. To finish outside of pocket opening: Turn cozy right side out. Knit ribbing: Row 1: P1, (K2, P2)x3, K2, P1, turn. Creative Kismet » Blog Archive » little guiding stars. Since the new year has started I’ve been trying to think of ways to be more kind to my self. Especially when that nasty gremlins try to creep in and stump me. I remembered this origami star video on You Tube and had to get them involved in my plan.
I thought it would be fun to make a whole bunch with kind words and “you are….” phrases inside. I made 60 of them, enough to last me the whole year if I open one a week, plus a few extra just in case. I used 12 x 12 inch scrapbook paper and cut 1/2 x 12″ strips, then followed the video HERE*. *UPDATE! Be Sociable, Share!