DIY Decor Inspiration: 14 Eco Crafts for the Home. Hang a wreath on your door made from the pages of unwanted books, custom-color your own vases and mason jars, turn torn doilies into a pretty hanging lamp or organize your jewelry with a reclaimed rake.
These 14 fun, crafty DIY projects for the home transform cast-off materials into stylish new decorative items. Custom Colored Mason Jars (images via: creative little daisy) Vintage blue mason jars can make a pretty addition to home decor, but a single jar – once tossed away as junk – can cost as much as $12 at an antique store. This tutorial, by Creative Little Daisy, shows you how to glaze clear jars and vases in any color you want using nothing more than Mod Podge glue and food coloring. Branch Candle Holders (images via: fossil blog) Add rustic beauty to your mantle with twig candle holders. Tiered Cupcake Stand (images via: giverslog) Round Lace Lantern (images vía: dos family) Recycled Barrel Planter (images via: design sponge) Fabric-Covered Pots (images via: ashley ann photography)
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Diy {wire fence frame} Paper crafts. Knitting. Craftaholics Anonymous: Tutorials. Craftaholics Anonymous: Sweater Flower and Pearl necklace TUTORIAL. Wow, what a response!
I received so many emails and requests for how-to’s on this necklace, I was shocked. Here’s the tutorial. It is for personal use only, thanks! Supplies. Craft DIY Projects, Patterns, How-tos, Fashion, Recipes @ Craftzine.com - Felting, Sewing, Knitting, Crocheting, Home & More. Quilling, the coiling and shaping of narrow paper strips to create a design, has been around for years — hundreds, in fact.
During the Renaissance, nuns and monks would roll gold-gilded paper remnants trimmed during the bookmaking process, and use them to decorate religious objects as an alternative to costly gold filigree. Quilling later became a pastime of 18th and 19th century young ladies in England, who would decorate tea caddies and pieces of furniture with paper filigree. The practice crossed the Atlantic with colonists, who added quilling to candle sconces and trays as home decorations.
In all of that time, the process has remained very much the same, but quilling designs and specialty supplies have definitely caught up to the 21st century. Today some aficionados focus on making incredibly detailed 3-D figures, while others favor wall-sized museum installations. Many arts and crafts stores sell basic tools and packages of multicolor paper strips. Materials. Talk Crafty To Me - Dedicated to all things handmade. Piratecore: How to make a Soft Cover Wrap Around Notebook. How it was done:1.Cut the 25 sheets of paper to 5 x 8 inches.
Put them into 5 stacks, with 5 sheets in each stack.2.Using the bone folder, fold each of the stacks in half.3.Using the sewing machine on the widest stitch setting, sew down the center of the crease on each of the five plies.4.This is what each of the piles will look like. 5.Fold the pages in half again and pile them up neatly, with the sewn side facing out.6.Using a press, or something to keep the pile of sewn papers together, put an old board on either side of the pile and insert it all into the press.7.You can see here the paper clamped inside of the press with the two pieces of scrap board on either side.8.With a brush, spread a generous amount of glue across the paper. 11.Now cut two pieces of card stock that measure 5 x 8 inches.
Fold them each in half with the bone folder. These will be the end papers for the book.12.Take the vinyl material and cut a 11 by 5.25 inch piece. Always Chrysti - Always Chrysti - 100+ Ways to Creatively Reuse Old Magazines. Make and share step-by-step craft tutorials. Beautiful Paper Snowflake. Star Books. Cute&Simple Owl. Socktopus. Pleated Paper Flowers. Most favorited all-time.