DIY: Owl Brooch. Thanks Arrielle for sending me the link to the owl brooch tutorial by Tammy. The instructions are simple and easy, I guess anyone can do it (including me). With different colors of fabric you can create handmade holiday stocking stuffer, Christmas ornaments or a fun project to work on with kids. Go to Tammy's blog for template or bookmark this one for later! DIY Anatomical Heart Pin. For Valentine’s Day I wanted to create a project that veered away from your typical hearts and flowers. Although this one still includes a heart, it’s of the anatomical variety, so hopefully it’s a bit more edgy than sweet.
Plus, now you’ll always be prepared to wear your heart on your sleeve. Sorry, Valentine’s Day is all about terrible puns (and chocolate). Materials: Printable shrink plastic (I used Grafix Printable White Inkjet Sheets) Pin backs Scissors Glue Baking pan Oven Parchment paper/cardboard/vellum Clear spray sealer Methods: 1. Download and print the heart image (adapted from the vintage one here) onto a piece of shrink plastic. 2. Post-shrinking on the left, pre-shrinking on the right. 3. 4.
Sailboat Pendant DIY with Ruche. Hey hey! I’ve got such a fun little bit of craftiness to share today! Hop over to Ruche’s lovely youtube channel to see my sailboat pendant DIY, Melissa and I both are sharing our nautical themed DIYs from when we visited their headquarters during our trip to LA. We had so much fun shooting these videos, and it was fascinating for me to the see the behind-the-scenes of Ruche, I was so impressed. I loved the craft room!! They have such a wonderful team, and they were so fantastic to work with. Thanks Ruche! The pendant is a spin-off of my gold confetti earrings, and the instructions in the video can be applied to them as well, so bonus! Shamrock pin. Some of my favorite projects seem to come together quite by accident. Ideas like a pin celebrating an Irish holiday and made using a Japanese technique. I was thinking that I wanted to make a little shamrock, then out of nowhere I spotted some flowers that I knew needed to become my clover pin.
In Japan, they make hair accessories with folded fabric flowers and the technique is commonly called kanashi or tsumami kanzashi. There are tons of ways to make these flowers, and a quick search for "diy japanese fabric flowers" will turn up plenty. I especially like the tutorial from The Thread and Kanzashi in Bloom. These really are quick to make, and I'm confident that even kids could learn how to do this! Here's what you need: Green fabric Green felt Embroidery floss Pin back Fabric glue Scissors Needle and thread SHAMROCK PIN PDF TEMPLATE (This is optional, as you could create these pieces without printing an entire page...I'll explain along the way) Here's what you do: Oh dear. Poinsettia Pin. Let's cut these guys out! I first scored my plastic with the Silhouette Cameo. For one pin you need: 2 of the large ones, 1 medium and 1 small. I'm not providing the file since the design is for sale in the Silhouette Design Store (it is 3D Poinsettia Flower by Lori Whitlock, I saw it is on sale for 50 cents right now!).
I resized all of them with the largest being about 2.5 inches from top tip to the bottom of the bottom two leaves. Make sure you resize them all together including their center circles. I did use the Silhouette to score my plastic, but it was too thick (or I just couldn't figure it out) to cut all the way. I then cut out the scored pieces with an exacto. I cut them out the best I could and then trimmed the edges a bit.