CD-ROM Rosettes. Remember about this time last year when I went on my Frayed Rosettes bender? Well, the snip/tear/roll urge has hit me one again, but this time I wanted to do something even larger, grander, and...ummm...less labor intensive (hey, my house is on the market..a lot of my energy is spent swiffering dog hair and firing up LED tealights for showings).
Anyway, I came up with something fun, fast and completely giftable (my mom is in town and she says so...the prototypes are already in her suitcase, so that is a good sign)! All you need to make these big, beautiful rosettes are 1) an old, scratched up CD, 2) about 1/4 yard of fabric and 3) a hot glue gun. For the demo, I used gorgeous, hot-off-the-press pink Maeve from Jennifer's Queen Street line. To start out with a nice even torn edge, you will need to snip an inch or so above the cut edge, then grasp either side of the snip and tear (for more details on snipping and tearing, download the Frayed Rosettes tutorial). Now for the fun part!
Anthro Necklace Week – Potentilla Bib. This fun necklace is part of my first Anthro Necklace Week – A whole week of fun tutorial sharing Anthro Knockoffs! Disclaimer: I am not a jewelry-making expert by any means! I’ve tried to show you the way I do these – but believe me when I say that if I can do these – anyone can! :) Today we’re doing the Potentilla Bib Necklace – which I just love. I don’t get the price though. Here’s the Made in Carlsbad version: And here’s the French Anthro Version. This is really one of my favorites for the week. Materials: ScissorsNeedle & ThreadNeedle Nose PliersWire Cutters Supplies: 1 18″ Silver Chain Necklace (Or supplies to make your own)Knit fabric (just scraps)Seed BeadsCone or Small Ribbon Clamp3 Jump Rings (Silver)Felt scrap The first step is to make the flowers.
Trace a small 4 leaf flower onto the fabric. Cut out four flowers this size. For your largest flower, layer the 4 large pieces on top of each other, rotating them just a bit so the different petals show through. Sigh. Close your rings. How to Make a Bag from a T-Shirt. Zipper Bracelet | Version | Cut Out. Rustic Braided Rag Rugs. Spink_tshirt_print. The following tutorial will show you how to use stencils to print a design on a shirt using Freezer Paper. I've printed on shirts using cardstock, overhead tracetate transparency sheets, laminated sheets of plastic, cereal box cardboard, foam board, etc... and using Freezer Paper generally gets the best print because you physically mold the plastic edge of the paper to the shirt so theres next to no space for any underspray or for some excess paint to leak outside the cut boundary.
Another benefit of freezer paper is that you can avoid bridges in a stencil (ie: the thick line holding together the middle of an O) and I elaborate more on that issue in this tutorial. For use as an example for this tutorial, I'm going to be printing the basic Black Flag logo/design for my friend Rachel. 1) coupon catalogs from the newspaper 2) scissors 3) white Speedball brand screen printing ink 4) foam brushes (one + two inches) 5) masking tape 6) a regular ball-point pen.