DIY Friendship Bracelet. For several months now, we’ve been receiving emails requesting a friendship bracelet DIY. Well, friends, ask and you shall receive! Today, we’ll give you a step by step tutorial on the classic chevron pattern. If you used to whip up friendship bracelets like a champ in grade school and have since forgotten how, consider this a refresher course. And if you can make these with your eyes closed and arms tied . . . umm, can we still be friends? You’ll need:embroidery threada safety pin or tapea pair of scissors Start by cutting several strands of embroidery thread at about 24 inches each.
Start on the left side with the outermost color (shown here in red) and make a forward knot by creating a 4-shape over the 2nd color, loop it under and back through the opening. Pull up and to the right to tighten. Now pick up the outermost color on the right side (show here in red) and make a backward knot, creating a reverse 4-shape over the 2nd color, loop it under and back through the opening. The Burlap Bag - High Quality Handmade Goods Shop - Austin Texas. I had a cardboard box full of earrings. Because sometimes, I'm classy.
But sooner or later I opened my eyes and saw that I was a mess. I saw some beautiful earring holders online for.... $$150!!!!!!! What. So instead, I made my own for $20!! And then I made a huge one for the shop for $30. And then I made a cute little one for $2. You’ll need: -One of the following: a hanger, a small print drawer, a large print drawer, or an old coke bottle wood crate. So no matter which holder you use, you’ll use the same basic principles: -Drill a hole in the wood with a 1/16 drill bit. Screwing in all the eyelets will get SO tiring on your hands (especially if you do the one that has like 80 spaces, that’s 160 to screw in!) For the hanger: Space the holes about an inch apart if you want to put one pair in one hook. This one is a huge antique printer drawer. And this is the “half sized” printer drawer. Ok, one last step. Leave comments with any questions if you have any!
Series 9: Old Towel New - Washcloths. I hope you're enjoying some well-deserved rest this lovely Easter weekend. A quick and quiet "Old Towel New" installment today. I'm transforming old towels into other stuff in this series. This one's a no-brainer. It goes a little something like this... If you're not familiar with how to make seam binding, an extremely thorough binding tutorial resides right here! Once you've made the binding, then... Don't forget to sew it down! All of which leaves you with... Match them to your bathroom or kitchen and enjoy! Have a safe and Happy Easter! View installment 1 of this series HERE. Quick And Easy Steering Wheel Cover. Eco-Friendly Bath Mat – DIY. Sunday Planning – design finch. I recently read a statistic that said every minute invested in planning will save you ten minutes down the road. I can personally attest that not only does a little planning ahead help with time management, but it also saves money and reduces stress.
Don’t we all want more help in those areas? Um, I sure do! No matter how busy I am, I try to set aside about an hour on Sunday afternoons to prepare for the week ahead. Since today is Sunday and I’m in the process of doing my weekly planning, I felt inspired to share the tasks that keep me organized. Check calendar for appointments.Make a “to do” list.Jot down a plan for dinners.Create a shopping list.Take items out of the freezer to defrost.Check the weather forecast.Iron work clothes for the week.
When I don’t take the time to do these things on Sunday, I feel like I spend the rest of the week playing catch-up. Download Printables Here: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 Download Printables Here: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5. Owl Weekly Meal Planner. 5 Easy Ideas for Storing Your Stickers - Club CK Blog - Club CK - The Online Community and Scrapbook Club from Creating Keepsakes. Organizing your sticker stash doesn't have to be a sticky situation. Thanks to these five simple approaches, it's a breeze to find an orderly system that works for your unique scrapbooking style. 1.
On-the-Wall Container: Store your stickers in a decorative rack that you can hang above your creative workspace. This approach will keep the creativity at your fingertips without interfering with your desk space. 2. DIY Sticker Spinner: Finding the sticker sheet you need is just a twist away with this organized approach. Turn a paper-towel holder into a rotating sticker station by first sliding pieces of sturdy cardstock into 8.5" x 11" sheet protectors (for added stability) and then inserting your stickers.
Bonus Idea: If premade is your preferred method when it comes to finding organization solutions, check out the Clip-It-Up by Simply Renee. 3. 4. 5. Ready to try out these sticker-organizing ideas? --Megan Hoeppner, Creating Keepsakes creative editor.
Free Your Mind « EDITED TO ADD: I’m pleased to see that people on Pinterest are finding this post, as I have found the Mind Jar to be a great parenting tool. After reading comments here and on Pinterest with worries about children throwing glass jars full of glitter across the room in anger, I thought I should add this note. I only use the Mind Jar to get through moments of fear or anxiousness with my kids. If they are worried about school, or a family member they know is ill, or strife with a friend. I’m usually sitting with them and we’ll talk it out, as we both enjoy the glitter show.
We’re two weeks into Kindergarten and Pix is finding ways to cope with her anxiety about school. Since this obviously isn’t an issue that needs medication we’re teaching Pix how to find ways to calm herself. What is a mind jar? Pix isn’t the only fan of this jar. Look at her state of calm. How to make: Just mix 1 tablespoon of glitter glue, per 1 cup of hot water, add extra glitter (I used an extra small tub). How to make gift bags from newspaper. When I bought something at a store recently, the clerk handed me my purchase in a bag made from a newspaper.
I liked it very much and had to make some more—thus today's DIY recycled newspaper project: gift bags made from the Wall Street Journal. You can vary the dimensions, of course, but here's what I used to create a bag that's 5" tall, 4.5" wide, and 3" deep. Stack two sheets of newspaper on top of each other. This will be a two-ply bag for extra sturdiness. Cut out a rectangle that's 15.5" wide and 8.25" tall. Fold a flap 1.25" down from the top. Cut two pieces of cardstock or chipboard to 4.25" x 1", then glue them on the widest two panels just under the top fold. Put glue on the outside of the 0.5" tab and bring the left-most panel over to form the body of the bag, aligning the cut edge of the panel with the folded edge of the flap.
Upend the bag so the 2" flap is now up. Put glue on both flaps and fold them inward to form the bottom of the bag. Tutorial: Easy Tiny Envelopes. Guest tutorial by Ruth Bleakley I discovered this envelope making method completely by accident when pulling soggy rain-soaked mail out of my leaky mailbox - I had a total *eureka* moment when the envelope I gingerly opened up completely unfolded at the seams revealing an envelope "template" perfectly. I've seen many envelope tutorials online, some offer downloadable templates, some show fancy paper folding techniques and some suggest specific measurements to create your own D.I.Y. envelopes. I'm going to show you how to replicate any interesting envelope that you might already have, no measuring involved! Click below for the how-to: 1.
Choose an envelope you already have that you like the size and shape of 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Ruth Bleakley is a paper addict who probably became a bookbinder soley as an excuse to obtain more paper. Crafts/DIY: Heart Envelopes. Valentine's Day craft part deux. Last time, I shared with you some crafty heart origami for letters. Then I posted a couple of links where you can print some free gift wrappers straight to your printer. Now, here's a quick and easy tutorial on creating an envelope from a heart. I used the mod poinsettia pattern from Paper Crave. Scanned Document-1. Faber Castell: Design Memory Craft: Art Journaling. Hi Everyone! Krista with you today showing you a few fun things you can do with Chalboard paint and Gelatos®.
Check out the video slide-show tutorial below to see how I created the above tag. I discovered that dried gelatos really 'pop' off the chalkboard paint creating a really nice contrast of colours! I hope you enjoy the video! This quick little tag can be used on a card, in an art journal, on a gift etc...It's fun to play around with the drips! Thanks for watching, have a great day! Krista :) Supplies: Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft: Textural Accents: Gesso, Chalkboard Paint, Gelatos®: Margarita Mix, Watermelon, Snowcone, Lavender, Stampers Big White Pen (#770013) Other: Plain tags, Unity Stamp (Quiet Voice), 3D Pop Dots, water spritzer, watercolour paper, heat tool.
Craftside: A Pepperidge Farm Goldfish box gets "Re-Bound" into a fun recycled journal. Giggle time! 'Cause isn't that what Pepperidge Farm Goldfish make you do? Someone who just met me and was in my car saw my gallon box of goldfish that I keep in my car and asked if I had kids and I said no. Goldfish aren't just for kids, I live on them! So by that rationale I must craft with them. You too? First cut the box apart along the corner with the seam.
Then trim the sides down to a front and back panel. I looked around to figure out what the pages would be made out of and wanting to keep with my recycling theme I remembered that my altered book was getting too thick for the spine because I had been adding a lot of stuff to it. Then I used the scallop blade in my Marvy Paper trimmer and trimmed down the outside edges of the pages with the top pages being narrower and gradually getting wider toward the last page.
Then I punched holes in the side that I was going to bind with my handy dandy Zutter Bind-it-all and laced a piece of ribbon through the holes.