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By Mutti. How to Make Illuminated Yarn Lanterns. If you’re an avid crafter, you’ve likely seen the classic Yarn Glue Lantern is some form or another. If you haven’t, well it’s time to get in the know. All you need is yarn, corn starch, glue, and a balloon to create a sweet piece of ceiling candy. The twist? Add a hanging light bulb to take things to a much more illuminated level. Materials: - corn starch (1 cup per 2 lanterns) - Elmer’s School Glue (1 bottle per 2 lanterns) - balloons - yarn - spray shellac - pendant lights Gather your materials.

Mix 1/4 cup water with 1/2 cup corn starch and a whole 4 ounce bottle of Elmer’s Glue. Wrap a good length of yarn around your hand so that it’s about an inch thick. Inflate your balloon and draw a circle around the top. Now it’s time to wrap!! Let dry overnight. To seal the deal, spray it with clear spray shellac. Let your lanterns dry for an hour before hanging. Attach a pendant lamp kit to your lantern by tying yarn around the top of the lantern, and that’s it. Let there be light! How to Turn Wine Bottles into Tumblers. You knew you’d been saving all those wine bottles for a reason! With this in-depth tutorial, we’re pumped to show you how to turn old wine bottles into gorgeous new tumblers. Not only are these green (both in color and in eco-ness), they make a great gift for the holidays and are an instant conversation piece.

This tutorial is definitely on the more advanced end of the spectrum, and requires a few tools you may not be familiar with. As long as you follow the steps you can definitely make it happen, but feel free to shoot questions our way via the comments below or send an email to hello@brit.co. Materials: - wine bottles with parallel sides - bottle cutter (available on Amazon) - rags or towels - large pot + potholder - candle - 2-3 sheets of dry or wet sandpaper ranging from medium (~150) to fine (~300-400) - 1 sheet of craft-foam - safety mask & goggles (not necessary if using sandpaper) First thing to do is remove those labels. Now, it’s time to start cutting your bottle! How to Create Christmas Wall Trees Using Nothing But Tape. We love us a good old traditional Christmas tree, but sometimes we find ourselves short of time, space, and the patience to clean up pine needles on a daily basis. Luckily, there’s a magical tape that’s all the rage in the crafting world these days: Washi Tape!

Washi tape is a Japanese stationery tape used to decorate packages, envelopes, and more. It peels off paper and walls quite easily and comes in dozens and dozens of patterns. We went with a decidedly holiday palette, but you could certainly create wall art for any time of year using similar steps. Materials: - washi tape Seriously, that’s it! All you need is washi tape. First, we’ll create a tree out of a few floating triangles. Start by creating a triangle at the top. Done! Now, the stacked stripes tree. How cute are these two trees? But wait, there’s one more! For the triangle tree, create a large pine tree-shaped triangle. Gotta love the asterisk star at the top! Three trees is better than one, don’t you think? Popper & Mimi Paper Crafts. Painted bottles diy. This is an adorable quick and easy diy that i saw in a magazine last summer and never got around to doing. i actually had already posted/shared this great idea on my white dress photography blog a while back and felt it appropriate to share in this setting as well!

Find some old bottles, from anything really....oil, pop, wine, etc....clean them really good, so as to get the sticky labels off. take some old paint from previous projects (or you could always buy samples at your paint store for about $5) and thin it with a little water. very little water, or it will run! Coat evenly by moving bottle. allow to dry. because i use laytex paint, i can't fill these with water and put flowers in them. solution? Next time you buy real flowers, collect the little stem water containers or purchase some from a florist. now you can enjoy your bottles with single blooms. really pretty. super easy. enjoy! Www.cut-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/Quadratschachtel.pdf.