HowTo posts, photos and bookmarks » Man Made DIY. DIY Club Inc. Make your own canvas! In high school, i was the art teachers T.A.
(teacher’s assistant) (I spent a lot of time in my art room in high school…) and one of my assignments was prepping the canvas by painting it with gesso. and it sucked. 25 canvases…and they weren’t small. Painted Wall Art for Non-Artists. Some people think that if you're crafty, you're also an artist--and vice versa.
That's not totally true, however. In fact, neither Sharon nor myself consider ourselves artists, but we still pretend every now and then. Inspirational Art–Part One {Day 12} As I was working with my {rescued!}
Planks, I realized I wanted to make some signs that were larger than just one plank width. After experimenting around with a few different methods, we finally came up with this one… My husband cut some of the planks to be equal lengths. I squeezed a line of wood glue onto the edge of one board and stuck another board tightly up against it, and repeated until I had as many boards glued together that I wanted.
Tutorial: Vintage-looking painted sign from salvaged wood. Today I have a little tutorial for you.
I'm going to show you how to (easily!) Make these sweet wooden signs. I promise- they're a cinch, they don't take long at all to make and cost pretty much nothing. You will need: piece of salvaged wood upholstery tacks or short nails (optional) hammer acrylic paint (background color) black acrylic paint (or other color to fill in letters) large paint brush small paint brushink jet printer twine Sharpie Marker or other dull, rounded tool This project started with a pile of cedar fence pieces that we've had sitting in our backyard for ages. I loved how grey and weathered they had become from sitting outside.
Next, distress the wood to your liking. Next, choose your paint. T-shirt shag rug tutorial. Song Lyric Wall Art / D.I.Y. Project. Personalised 'happily ever after' canvas by gorgeous graffiti. Made in Britain can be personalised eco-friendly 'and they lived happily ever after' Personalised hand-made typography canvas by Gorgeous Graffiti, a stunning collection of designs hand-made from our little studio in Scotland, UK.
Designed especially as a stunning and unusual gift for most occasions where couples buy for each other. Broken. Painting with condensed milk « ECE made Easy. String of lantern lights tutorial. We spend a lot of time grilling, eating and watching the sun set on our deck and for the summer I typically hang all kinds of lights and lanterns for an extra dose of whimsy.
16. Advent Calendar Craft. Scrap Wood Pendants. I had some thin pieces of scrap wood, that I thought might work well for a necklace.
So I cut some up, painted them, drilled a tiny hole, and threaded silk strand through them. Then I used some clasps from the bead store and crimped them on with pliers. It was pretty fun. My daughter painted one too, but it’s “not done yet”, so I’ll add it to the Facebook page later. Cardboard Crown Tutorial Kids Craft. Hi Joel and readers, I’m excited to be here again!
Our house has been a busy one with a 3½ year old boy who is seriously into creative dress-up play (mostly as a firefighter as you will see in the photos below) and a 10 month old boy who is on the move! One of my favorite things is to make something out of nothing. These crowns were made from cereal boxes, the boys had a great time playing with them and they are crazy easy to make!
I’ve included a pattern for two of the styles, the Max and Fancy Crown. You certainly don’t need to use a pattern, feel free to let your creativity guide you and come up with your own style. The whole project is super straight forward, I hope you enjoy watching how our crowns came together, and that you enjoy making your own. Here we go: Gather materials {cardboard (not too thick), glue gun, rubber band or elastic and decorating materials} Cut out your piece(s), use the pattern (link here) or get creative on your own. Earth Day Kids Crafts and Toys with Repurposed Materials. Oobleck: The Dr. Seuss Science Experiment. Oobleck is a classic science experiment that's perfect for entertaining both kids and adults.
If you haven't seen it in action it's very fascinating stuff and before too long you'll have your hands covered with it, happily making a mess that can be washed away with water. Oobleck is a non-newtonian fluid. Acorn Cap Jewels. I love the natural art materials the earth provides this time of year!
My four-year-old daughter and I have been having a great time making all sorts of things with acorn caps, such as tiny acorn cap candles, felted wool balls with acorn caps on them, and little fairies acorn caps for hats. Wooden tangram tutorial. July 22nd, 2010 I’m sure you know what a tangram is but didn’t know it was called a tangram (when I looked it up, I think I might have typed, “that clever triangle-y puzzle thing”). If you’ve never even seen one, well then: it’s sort of a puzzle and sort of a game that involves five triangles, one square, and one parallelogram. The objective is to figure out how to make a given shape, which is shown only in silhouette, using the pieces and not overlapping any. All for the Boys - All for the Boys - DIY PAPER BALL! Today we have a tutorial to make your own paper ball! A craft you can play with - my boys' favorite type (or they only type of craft they'll do lately) Who else used to make these as a kid?
You'll need a square sheet of paper, if you don't have one that's already square just cut one! Fold the paper in half, the other half, and in a triangle from each side. So you end up with something looking like this Push in 2 of the sides so it creates a triangle Then you're going to pull the bottom corner of one side up to the point of the triangle. All categories and all links.