Build/Make/Craft/Bake: How-to: Hammered flower and leaf prints. Get out the hammer, it's how-to Tuesday and we have some botanical prints to make! I learned this technique, which makes an image using the natural dyes in plants, from my college roommate Sarah. It's great for making cards or simple botanical prints. Actually, you'll need a little more than just a hammer. Here's a supply list: flowers or leaves to printwatercolor or other rough, acid-free paperselection of hammers (including ball-peen or cross-peen, if possible)hard work surface (cutting board, slab of wood, etc.)paper towelsscissorspentweezers or toothpicksacrylic finishing spray (optional) Start by going on a walk or visiting your garden to find leaves and flowers to work with.
Then set up your work surface. Next, trim any chunky or squishy bits off of the plants and arrange them on your watercolor paper. Cover the plant with 2-3 layers of paper towels. On the paper towels, sketch the borders of the area you'll need to hammer. Peel back the paper towel to check your progress. Rusty Rooster Vintage. Book page flower wreath. To see the tutorial for the book page flower click here to make the wreath you need a wire coat hanger, and then you need to pull it and make it into a circle shape. then following my other tutorial make 8 flowers and cut 8 pieces of felt {you can use tape if you want} then use a glue gun to attach them to the coat hanger using the felt this is the back of the wreath when you are done now its finished, use the hanger bit of the coat hanger to hang were ever you want. BirdJournal - inside backcover.
My {travel} Journal for Venice. I´m going to Venice and this time it´s not a class it´s for real In one week, on April 22th I´m flying in for the Marco Polo Airport and will be spending one week in beautiful Venice. I´ve never been there before so I´m looking very much forward to this trip. I´ve made myself a travel journal for this trip. Gathering paper for the pages. The blue book cover with the pretty flowers you can see in the right hand upper corner in this photo is going to be the cover for my journal preparing the signatures sewing the spine. I´ve used some of my book cloth tape and some pretty matching waxed thread I´ve also sewed in some pockets to store stuff made from pretty overlays.
Here´s a look at the pages inside. different sizes and pages made from my vintage photo albums Here´s the finished look This is the first time I´m going to bring a travel journal like this. Can´t wait to start using it. Still need to decide what to take with me as journaling suppliers. Looks like spring is on it´s way over here. Finally. Tina ♥♥♥ Christmas Gift Bag Tutorial. Hello my friends, hope you are all well. Christmas is fast approaching and I so enjoy making things for this holiday. I thought of making these sweet little gifts bags and paper ornaments, and after I had finished the first I decided to take photos for a tutorial, but first a few finished pictures :) The Ginger is made from a scrap of brown kraft wrapping paper.
Same for the start and I also made a heart. Punch tiny holes and add a hanger for your tree. It's easier if you draw your design on the doubled paper first, then stitch around it before cutting it out. I hope you enjoy this tutorial, it's been ages since I made one. Happy Kindness Day to you all, Lynn. The ArtsyGirl Connection: A Special Christmas Soiree...{1st Feature *Ornament*} Hello artsy friends stopping in today.
I am very excited to officially jump into Christmas crafts starting TODAY!! I'm sure you've seen my posts pointing to "A Special Christmas Soiree" with my very lovely friend Jenn from Vintage Gwen. Or Advent Calendar's for Christmas! These ornaments tie into my "Three Weeks Of Thanks Project" ~ Thankful for Family & Friends. Upcycled TP Roll ...... These ornaments are very festive, pretty and feature hidden little treats for the lovely family member's I created them for. Placed to add a special moment to Christmas morning. With you today. **Magical Items Needed** TP Rolls (as many as you need per amount of people you are crafting for) Burlap Red Raffia Candy Snowflake Stickers Glue Gun Gold Rope (Ribbon will do too) Christmas Letter Stickers ** Lets Get To Work Lovely Elfs** To begin, flatten your TP roll as flat as you can.
Cut (allow for overlapping of burlap a little for folding), wrap and glue on your burlap around your TP roll. Will need to. Awesome ornaments. The ArtsyGirl Connection: Vintage Bottle ... {I'm Playing Dress Up....} Join Me! Happiest Of day's to you all stopping in today... It's been such a beautiful day here in Boston.. It's almost scary.. "Calm Before The Storm"...I've been busy on pinterest lately looking for fun crafty inspiration from YOU.. Yes YOU, after all, without your creativity and shared inspired features, how else will pinterest function and go on..? Came across this beautiful burlap lace dressed up bottle that TOTALLY inspired my featured item here today..
*Vintage Dressed Up Bottle* This dress up was FUN and very easy..I Love the way the bottle turned out.. It'll be great to bottle up wine or some sort of fun cocktail for a nice spring picnic.. *What YOU Need* Fabric Of Choice (Strip) Lace Strip Glue Rope (I used a natural twine/rope with metal rod in it) *Lets Play Dress Up* To begin, I cut a strip of the cloth I wanted and measured it up to where I wanted to fit the bottle. Lace. After the fabric was in place, I decided to add a natural feel to the bottle by decorating it with some natural tone rope. The ArtsyGirl Connection: Light Bulb Vases... {Upcycled Delicate Decor} Good morning friends stopping in today.. Hope you are having a lovely start to your 1st weekend of 2012! I am thrilled to share some fun decor I created for our kitchen window with you today..
I have been admiring glass vases lately made using old light bulbs and LOVE the idea of ❤Upcycling instead of simply recycling! My Take On It..? Be the judge.. Upcycled Light Bulb Vases ...............J'Adore!! These where a bit tricky to put together but after breaking one and walking on egg shells with the other's I finally completed them with SMILES..I have to be honest, they were NOT fun in the beginning, but the hope of getting to decorate them after the fact was WORTH me not giving up..
Lots Of Patience Needed...Payoff = Pretty Priceless..!! * Artsy Items Needed * Used Bulbs Floral Pieces Of Choice Wire Color Of Choice * Lets Get Crafty * (Use this AWESOME CUTE tutorial HERE to open up the bulbs) (SCAREDY ME -- I couldn't get into the tutorial so to open up my bulbs, I removed cover. Weave out everything! The ArtsyGirl Connection. {it's in the news} Tub Teas. Home Office Organizing Tips and DIY Projects. I finally found that part time job I’d been searching for, and this past Friday I started my first day of work as an office assistant.
It’s a great job, and while I still have a lot to learn, I’m excited to not only be working for a small family owned company, but to have friendly and awesome co-workers as well. As it turns out, however, I now have two offices. The office at work and my office at home. While there’s not a lot I can do about the office that isn’t mine – at least there are no scary cubicles lurking about – I can find ways to make mine better organized. Because no matter what there never seems to be quite enough desk space to keep the clutter at bay without daily filing. And drawers tend to eat important necessities that I need for running my office smoothly. To solve this problem I’ve taken to seeking out the advice of others on the subject of office organization. Desk space is always going to limit you, so the key to finding more space is looking up. Need more ideas?
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I wanted to share with you a project from one of my readers who shares with us how to make leaf skeletons. I LOVE this! I have several leafs in various forms displayed in my home and knew I needed to make some of her leaf skeletons to add to my decor. I love how a pattern of leaves can enhance the beauty in your home. So I asked Heather if she would mind sharing her project with you. You can find more great projects from Heather at her blog The Other White House. I have spent hours and tried various ways of making these. You need washing soda, not baking soda! Gather your leaves. Washing soda is a strong base so you may want to wear gloves when handling the leaves. You will add 3/4 cup of washing soda and 4 cups of water to your pot of leaves.
Keep going, you will need to add more water so your pan doesn’t dry out. When 1.75 hours are up fill a glass baking dish with cool water. I carefully removed them and rinsed with water and added clean water to the pan. 37.1Kstumbleupon. 101 Crafty Gifts.
Creative Kismet » DIY ideas. Here is a list of Tutorials that I have found, tried or have wanted to try. I had been keeping them bookmarked and tagged, but still found it hard to keep track of them all. So, here is my compiled list of wonderful tutorials by all kinds of amazing crafters and artists. Of course, there is not enough time in the world to make ALL of these great things, but when I need an idea for a gift, this is where I can go- and maybe you too. I’ll be adding more as I find them. Tutorials by Me! Clothes & Refashions Flowers Softies and Dolls Sewing Knitting, Crocheting and other needlework Jewelry Baby & Kid stuff Party!
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The measurements are in centimetres because that's the way I was brought up (sorry). A seam allowance of 1cm is included in these measurements. This basket's base is 15cm wide, but you could make any size using this slightly haphazard formula, where x is the width of the base and y is the height of the basket. And 2 is cm and seam allowance. (Edit: Remember to include seam allowance in the height.)
Pieces cut, sew right sides together along these seams: Sew the boxed corners of the linings by folding the pieces open, matching the side seams with the bottom seams, and stitching across: Zig-zag the top edge of the smaller lining piece. Hem the bottom edge of the outer sleeve piece, turning up 1cm all round and stitching it down. Turn the lining pieces so that their right side faces out, and slide the outer sleeve over.