(87) Pagan/ Wiccan / Witchcraft. Make a magic bottle - a tutorial | artsy ants. Good morning everybody! It's time for another crafty tutorial, don't you think? So today, we'd like to share how to make a magic bottle. We've shared a tutorial last year about how to make snow domes already, but for those of you who would like something magical on your desk or windowsill all year, why not make a magic bottle? It even involves a few less steps then the snow globes. Plus you don't need to let any glue dry.
It's an instant gratification project, and who doesn't love that? So, let's get started! Gather the ingredients: What you will need: • a clear, empty bottle (I used one with a cork but lids work as well)• distilled water• glycerin (i bought mine at the pharmacy)• glitter flakes, sequins, light plastic beads - anything that sparkles and is light enough to float around• some pretty twine or lace to wrap around the bottleneck Make your bottle: Give the bottle a good shake, hold it against the light or sunshine and enjoy the swirling and twirling and sparkling! Beaded Frost Luminaries. I really love the look of luminaries, especially in the garden. I have an herb garden that has plenty of green, but really no color to speak of. I’ve planted a few flowers in there each year to pretty it up, but it never seems to be quite enough.
These soft colored luminaries add just the right amount of soft color and light and, since my herb garden is near the front door, double as a lovely way to welcome people to my home. All of these luminaries are made from recycled jars. I keep just about every jar once the contents have been used up. Therefore, with Earth Day right around the corner, and the weather getting warmer, I thought it would be a great time to share these with you. I used Martha Stewart Frost glass paint for this project.
After painting the jars, fold you wire in half to find the center. Using the center of the wire as your starting point, hold the wire against the jar rim, wrap around and twist together in front to hold it in place. Then, simply light them up. Needle Felting | Little Birdies. Look, what have I made from the plain mini felt Easter eggs? I have turned them into little tweet tweet birdies and some other cuties. Hope this will get you into the mood of spring and Easter. Previously, you have learned how to make felted egg with wet felting, now, you can decorate the eggs into some cuties with needle felting method.
This tutorial is showing little birdies by adding wings, beak, eyes and tail with felt and wool. You can adapt the method and make them into egg-shaped chicks or embellish the eggs with polka dots and stripes just like those at the back. Again, to show you how I made the little birdie, I made a short video to show you the process with my bionic-women hands. So….. have you got your needle felting tools and materials ready? {Get full details on next page.} Pages: 1 2 Get all updates via email: Highlights from Our Partners. Tutorials | Jones Design Company | stylish custom designs for life. Jones Design Company | stylish custom designs for life. Wp-content/uploads/2011/05/flower-week.png. Rolled paper flowers {tutorial.
Welcome to flower week – five days of simple and delightful flower projects. I could probably do three weeks of flowers because there are so many different ways to create them, but I’ve limited it to five of my current favorites. Before we get started, let me make a few disclaimers: 1. I find inspiration for projects all over the place {online, in shops, in magazines}, then figure out how to re-create them on my own. Each of these projects are my adaptation of something I’ve seen elsewhere. In other words, I do not take credit for ‘inventing’ these blossoms. 2. 3. Okay, so let’s begin. Here’s what you’ll need: :: paper {either cover or text weight} :: florist wire :: scissors, pencil, glue gun STEP ONE: cut irregular circle This circle is approximately 8 inches, but you can do any size you wish.
STEP TWO: cut spiral Start at the outside edge and cut in a spiral fashion to the center. I like a sort of bumpy shape so that the petals end up a bit irregular STEP THREE: roll your blossom. Diy & crafts. HELLOmynameisHeather. Henrietta and I have a new friend at the studio. Meet Effie, keeper of pink pins and patron of happy thoughts. Doing tricks and back flips is Effie's younger brother, Ollie, the circus star. Several religions claim that the world rests on the back of an elephant, standing on a tortoise. Though neither is ready to carry the weight of the world, Effie & Henrietta are happy to hold some pins for you. Kudos to them for knowing their limits. These sweet little elephants make fun baby toys too -- great for girls and for boys.
Check out the perfect, sloping elephant bums and cute little tails. Tomato Pincushion. Sewing / "Homegrown" Tomato Pincushions - Martha Stewart Crafts. Search results for marthastewart. Johnnie (Saved By Love Creations) Lanier (savedbylove) on Pinterest. Scottie Dog Days of the Week: {Cross Stitch & Embroidery. Here’s the latest vintage cross stitch and embroidery set from my personal collection, it features a lively scottish terrier character for each day of the week…use for kitchen towels or whatever else you like. The details and individual downloads are available below, I hope you like them!
Playful Scottie Dogs Vintage Scottie Dog Pattern Set This pattern contains motifs to be worked in the simplest of embroidery stitches to be used on kitchen towels or other kitchen linens. Toweling should be used for towels. Linen, unbleached muslin, gingham or a similar cotton material would do for other articles. Material Requirements: One Towel: 1 yard of 16 or 18 inch materialSix strand cotton in each color to be used. Transferring Pattern: Hem each towel end. Embroidery: Follow Color Suggestions and work crosses, cross stitch; continuous lines, outline stitch; single lines, single stitch; broken lines, running stitch. Instructions For Stitches - Click To View Larger Size. Puppy Days of the Week: {Cross Stitch & Embroidery. Home / Crafts / Puppy Days of the Week: {Cross Stitch & Embroidery} Vintage Puppy Pattern Series Here’s the latest set of Days of the Week (DOW) free vintage embroidery and cross stitch patterns.
This is a cute puppy series from Laura Wheeler circa 1960s (I believe), each day features a puppy doing a daily chore. Here are the details and instructions: This pattern contains directions and 7 cross-stitch motifs to be used on towels or dinette cloths. Use linen, cotton poplin or any similar fabric for articles; six-strand cotton for embroidery. Material Requirements Towels: 3/4 yard 36″ fabric or 1-1/2 yards finished toweling for 2.
Dinette Cloths: 1-1/2 yards 54″ fabric for a 52″ x 52″ cloth or 2 yards 54″ fabric for a 52″ x 70″ cloth. For All: Six-strand embroidery cotton; sewing thread. Color Suggestions Placing Motifs Center a motif at one end about 1″ above hem. Cut away lettering before placing and stamping motifs. Free Downloads Embroidery Embroidery Stitches - Click Image To View Larger Finishing: 50 Recycled T-Shirt Tutorials. DIY - recycle / upcycle / 50+ Upcycled T-Shirt Projects. Delightful Busy Bees – Days Of The Week Set. This month’s vintage pattern freebie is from the 1940s or 1950s and has a sweet embroidery design for every day of the week (7 in total) with each featuring a charming “bee” couple performing a certain task for the day. Each motif has a wise piece of advice or goal such as “Thrifty”, “Tidy”, “Tasty”, etc., and are intended to be used on dish towels.
You’ll also find three additional designs that are suitable for pot holders (does not include directions for making the pot holders). The free file downloads are found at the bottom of the page but first, here are the original pattern details… These busy little bees will make any housewife smile–one for each day of the week and amusing pot holders to match. They’ll make a big hit as a shower gift–and in your own kitchen everyone from Junior to Grandma will “Bee glad” to help wipe the dishes! Colors: The modern housewife likes a cheerful kitchen and these busy bees will blend with any chosen color scheme.
Click To View Larger Size. Little Susan Days-Of-The-Week Motifs {1950s. Here’s a pattern set from the 1950s for this month’s vintage pattern freebie, it’s reminiscent of “Sunbonnet Sue” featuring a young girl wearing a bonnet doing chores around the house. She also has a little friend tagging alongside her while she runs about, a sweet little Scotty dog. Pattern Cover – Click To View Larger Size There’s a different motif for each day of the week as well as one that is suitable for embellishing an apron and four little square designs to use on potholders. You’ll find the files at the bottom of this page (each in jpg format) but first, here are the original details from the back of the pattern envelope… Little Susan happily dashes through each day’s chores as easily as you embroider.
The simple stitches in cheerful colors are heaps of fun to do and in no time at all–you’re finished with a lovely set as your reward for a few moments stitchery. There are four cute motifs to use on pot holders or kitchen mitts and an extra Little Susan to put on an apron or cloth. Craftiness / 50+ Glass Bottle Projects. Be Healthy. Craftiness / 1950's Days of the week embroidery patterns (download) Craftiness / 50+ Cereal box projects. Crafts+diy / Helpful tennis ball. It all started with paint: fabric flower ‘how to’ I have a new obsession to add to my growing list of obsessions … Numbers – check Hooks – check Board & Batten – check Drop Cloth as Fabric – check And now fabric flower rosettes … … check. I can’t get enough of them and will sew them onto anything that stands still.
And on my present pillows here … I sewed them onto my daughter’s plain white school shirts … … and even made a giant one and put it on a pillow … In preparation for tomorrow’s post, I’ve been busy making these little rosettes. And be sure to check back tomorrow to find out how I’ll put them to use this time around … Linking up: Inserting Spring into My Wreath. Have you been following me for a while? Do you remember this base wreath (below) that I bought from Target a while ago? I challenged myself to use this wreath through every season for one year. Well, I’m now about 6 months in and I have given this wreath its fourth transformation. I injected some pretty yellow paper flowers into the wreath to greet the budding flowers and trees outside my window. From Christmas – Valentine’s Day our wreath was red, white and green: For Thanksgiving, I added some feathers to the wreath: For fall, I simply inserted magnolia leaves into the wreath: Here is My Tutorial for a Spring Paper Flower Wreath: Materials: Two coordinating scrapbook paper sheetsButtons for flower centersScissorsWire cuttersFloral Wire Begin by cutting out flower shapes.
Lay your flower on top of the coordinating paper and cut a flower shape larger than the first. Lay both flowers on top of one another and cut slits in toward the center of your flowers. Thread the wire through your button. Happy Fall Leaf Bunting! (no-sew) Bunting is so popular right now, and I have wanted to try my hand at it for a while. I have been mulling over exactly how I wanted it to look though, and finally came up with this idea the other day. Since I live in New England, I felt that fall leaves would be fitting - because you see vibrant foliage everywhere, and this is a fun representation to have inside the house!
Here is how I did it:This is the leaf shape, and stem shape - to use as a guide. For each leaf, cut a piece of fabric, a piece of heat-n-bond, and piece of felt, each big enough to fit one leaf. Apply the heat-n-bond to the wrong side of the fabric according to package directions. Trace the leaf shape onto the felt and cut it out. I chose scraps of yellow, orange, and green fabrics for my leaves, and used orange, brown, tan and green felt for the backs. Cut stems out of stiff brown felt. Using fabric glue, glue the stems to the back, top of the leaves. I decided to add decorative stitches to the outside of the leaves. You Made a Wreath Out of What?! A Linky Party. 20 Ways to Decorate With Book Pages {and other things about the book party} Satin Flower Pillows.
I'll admit it - I'm not ashamed - I have a small obsession with making pillows! Eventually I would like to turn my obsession into profit by opening an Etsy shop, but for now I enjoy making pillows for my home, family and friends. So when my friend celebrated her birthday last month, it came as no surprise that I'd make her a couple of pillows(in the colors of her choice). Rather than cut out a bunch of felt I decided to purchase some polyester satin to embellish her pillows. I purchased the polyester satin from Hobby Lobby. It was cheap, and easy to work with and a very forgiving fabric. I added the flowers to the pillows using a method I saw at Jones Design Company.
Using my glue gun, I attached each flower to the pillow. So simple and easy to make! Lace bellbottoms DIY. Key ring notebooks... I am sorry, I can't show you the other ones anymore. I sold them at my first market (and had no time to take pictures before. Finally sleep won the battle! ^^) The sides are covered card boards. This one I made with a fabric I love... still have to try to make the edges a little bit better. From the side... And beetles on both sides... this one is covered with paper... ...and all the books got several layers of laquer! PS: I'll try to take better pictures at daylight. Burlap & Doily Luminaries: Rustic meets Romance.
Doilies are dainty. Candles are romantic. Burlap is rustic. Here I’ve combined all of them to make these pretty luminaries that would be great for a romantic Valentine’s Day meal or even as a wedding reception accent. Play around with different ribbons, buttons, twine and burlap while experimenting with various doily designs as well. I found my doilies at the thrift store for about $0.35 each. I tried paper doilies but they aren’t as pretty and they are solid in the center, missing the lovely designs that real doilies possess.
Burlap and Doily Luminariesprintable version Glass jarsAdhesive spray (like Elmer’s Craft Bond) DoiliesBurlap Twine , buttons, and/or ribbon Make sure your jars are clean and dry. . Funny thing is I tried this project with paper doilies first and I DID spray the paper doily and then place it on the jar. Place the doily onto the jar and position it, making sure it’s not bunched up anywhere. Spray the rim with adhesive, then wrap the jar rim with burlap. Final-collage.jpg (563×362) Glass jars turned vintage. DIY - Bird Cage Lanterns. How to Make a Scrap Paper Tree {stationary. Two-Liter Jewelry Stand. Many a potion bottle « Cheeky Magpie.