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Watercolor Cards

Watercolor Cards
If you have been loving the watercolor and ombre trend recently, you are going to LOVE this amazing DIY Sarah is bringing us today! She is sharing a sweet way to ask your bridesmaids if they will stand by your side on your wedding day. This DIY is so adorable and super easy! It is even more awesome because this technique can be applied to so many elements in your wedding (hello, fabulous escort cards and favor tags!) It’s DIY time again, lovely readers! Materials Watercolor paper cut into 9″x6.25″ rectangles, folded into cards(size A6: 4.5″x6.25″), 1 per bridesmaidWatercolor paints (the cheap Crayola one will work just fine!) Helpful hints: Using a bone folder to fold the paper is very helpful, since watercolor paper tends to be thicker than printer or scrapbooking paper. Step 1: Cut all of the paper (watercolor and scrapbook) to the sizes indicated above. Step 2: After the design is fully traced onto the card, un-tape and place on your work surface. Share:

Watercolour Pencils Would ya look at that? I'm blogging at night. That's weird. Short-and-sweet-disclaimer: I do not claim to be an expert, a teacher, or an art prodigy when it comes to any of these tiplets or media. So, in the true spirit of CREATING and letting go and being loose - leave your mark. Okay. Let's get a little wishy-washy. You need a few things to get started here. The Watercolour Pencils. Alright - rip a page out of your sketchbook (you don't have to!) Throw down some colours. Spray it. NOTE from COMMENTS: I just let it air dry. Look at how beautiful that is. This is a scan of the finished product. A couple of months back I put out an ALL-CALL for starfish... and I got about 35 starfish photos in less that 24 hours. Alright. Have a beautiful night.

D.I.Y Inspiration from ScrapHacker.com Disco Diva D.I.Y Posted by ScrapHacker.com on juni 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment Today’s my birthday! And not any birthday, my 30th, yay/yikes! I’ve been tapping into disco diva fiesta mode browsing the best Disco D.I.Y the blogosphere has to offer – and there are some pretty neat Disco hacks out there I tell you! Hopefully all of you D.I.Y disco divas can find some nuggets of interest [...] Ice Cream D.I.Y ideas Posted by ScrapHacker.com on juni 7, 2012 · 3 Comments ”I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!” Pimp an old tee Posted by ScrapHacker.com on juni 5, 2012 · 5 Comments With temperatures rising so is the annual epidemic of fashion fever, making many of us feverishly hit the high street (although our wardrobes are already stuffed full…). New life for ladders Posted by ScrapHacker.com on juni 4, 2012 · 19 Comments Pillowcase Pimpin’ D.I.Y Funky Chunky D.I.Y Tiimb-eerr! Monogram Monday It’s Monogram Monday! Mothers Day D.I.Y Posted by ScrapHacker.com on maj 11, 2012 · 1 Comment

Gesso ©2004 - 2006 by Aisling D'Art Gesso is a useful option for art journaling. It's also used for painting and mixed media art. I use gesso often. However, many (perhaps most) artists never use gesso in their journals. Here's what gesso is and tips for how you can use it. Gesso can go under paint or heavy collage or embellishments, to make your journal pages stronger. Gesso is a primer. Originally, gesso only came in white. Gesso makes the surface a little stiffer. Today, gesso comes in many colors. It's useful for mixed media work as well as fine art paintings. Gesso is different from paint. Originally, gesso was a mixture of calcium--like chalk--in a thin base of animal glue. When you see religious paintings and icons on wood, they were probably painted over gesso. But, gesso changed in the 20th century. In recent years, some artists have begun to question whether or not acrylic gesso is the right product to use under oil paint. When I journal, I use white gesso as well as black gesso.

DIY Sequin Collar - Inspiration & Links to 10 Awesome DIY Tutorials Posted by ScrapHacker.com on torsdag, mars 8, 2012 · 5 Comments Today is International Womens Day…today is also the day of the H&M and Marni designer collaboration global launch. I say celebrate girl power and Marni by letting the collection inspire some D.I.Y action. There are lots of goodies among the Marni pieces, a personal favorite is the Sequin Peter Pan collar… It so happens that collars have been a popular D.I.Y project among crafty online DIY fashionistas for quite a while now so embrace diversity and tap into the inspiration from the line-up of no less than 10 D.I.Y collar tutorials from around the web, all ready to help you launch your very own D.I.Y collar project – Enjoy! Gold Leather Collar from aPair&aSpare – TUTORIAL HERE DIY Stitch-on PEARL COLLAR from Virginiescinema.blogspot.com – TUTORIAL HERE D.I.Y Punched Felt Collar from HonestlyWtf.com – TUTORIAL HERE D.I.Y Big Sequin Collar from RepublicOfChic – TUTORIAL HERE D.I.Y Pearl Collar from ItsThea – TUTORIAL HERE

Art Journal Every Day Q: How can I find all the previous Art Journal Every Day posts? A: Find them all listed by category and linked here. Q: What is Art Journal Every Day? A: Art Journal Every Day is weekly feature on this blog. Q: What does the title "Art Journal Every Day" mean? A: I do my best to art journal every day. Q: How can I participate? A: Lots of different ways! There is a free flickr group here for sharing photos of your pages. Also, you can grab this button... ...for your blog by copying the text in the box and pasting it into your sidebar. Q: What if I've never art journaled before? A: Jump right in! Q: What supplies do I need to get started? A: You don't "need" anything.

Coin ring This craft will literally cost you just a view cents. In the Netherlands we don’t use one and two Euro cent coins. Except for one store. So when you went to that store you’ve got those coins you can’t use any where else. I thought I could make a nice craft with them. Read the full instructions for this coin ring after the jump. . . - two small coins (in my case two one Euro cent coins) - one coin a little bigger then the first one (in my case a two Euro cent coin) - nailpolish - hot glue gun - ring base Use nailpolis to color the small coins inside the border. And you’re coin ring is ready! Related posts:

DIY Project: Tape Sponge Lamp This tape sponge lamp project was the grand prize second place* winner from our DIY contest, and it’s easy to see why it was such a hit among voters. By creating a simple repeating shape, Giselle managed to transform the material into something organic, elegant and almost unrecognizable as tape. There are very few materials or steps to this project; the process is almost simple enough to figure out on your own, but luckily Giselle has shared a full tutorial with details on how to start, how large to make the piece and how to add the lighting element. *sorry about the error: this project won second place; our first place winner was Donna Yu’s 3D cube wall. Read the full how-to after the jump . . . Materials roll of tapescissorsacetate (plastic) sheet (to sit the lamp on so it doesn’t get stuck to anything)marker (to draw your circle onto the acetate)lamp cord kitlow wattage bulb (25W or lower is recommended) Instructions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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