Hotwheels Flash Drive This Instructable will show you how to take a simple hotwheels car, and turn it into the coolest flash drive ever! I would love to see your creations. If you have made a Hotwheels flash drive post a pic as a comment. Step 1: Selecting a car The fist I made was a Hotwheels 07 Dodge Challenger. Step 2: Tools you will need The tools you will need are a Dremel and a flat-head screwdriver. Step 3: Taking apart the car Taking apart the car is easy. Step 4: Taking apart the USB case Now take your flash drive. Step 5: Cut the rivet off of the frame If your car has a rivet on the end you want to put the flash drive, you will need to cut it off of the frame of the car. Step 6: Cut through the interior If you chose a car with an interior, you have to cut a hole through the back seat to make room for the drive.
Embroidery + Metal? Here's something I've been noodling around with lately - embroidered metal discs! Wait - what? I bought a bag of these perforated beading discs a while back, intending to make some beaded pieces a la Miriam Haskell. Only I never quite got around to those, and eventually a different light bulb went on over my head. The resulting discs are so cute and easy to make, and lend themselves beautifully to lots of crafts. Like this simple cuff bracelet! The stitchery part is dead simple. Just leave a few inches of thread hanging from the back when you start stitching. Then you just follow the holes, making stitches in different colors and patterns. At the end of the strand, tie the ends of the floss into a double knot. The only thing to watch out for as you stitch is the fact that, for some reason, the outermost row of holes in the disc is not in a symmetrical pattern. The back of your stitching, then, forms a nice, porous surface, which you can easily glue to things. Cute, eh?
Plastic Lid Ladybugs I’ve been saving the lids from my milk jugs just to make these little cuties, they make a very simple kid’s craft and and fit perfectly in the recycled crafts category! I absolutely love ladybug crafts, you might remember my paper plate ladybugs, or the ladybug rocks I did for Kaboose a few years ago, or the egg carton ladybugs I have on FamilyCorner. I have another ladybug craft I’m working on now and hope to have that posted soon, they are just so cute! In case you’re wondering about all the different colored lids, they come from whole milk, 1% milk, buttermilk and juice. I didn’t take any step by step photos of these as they are so easy, step by steps just aren’t necessary. Plastic Lid Ladybugs by Amanda Formaro printable version What You Need plastic lid from milk jug black acrylic craft paint 2 small wiggle eyes paintbrush white craft glue What You Do Wash and dry the plastic lid. Use the handle end of a paintbrush dipped in black paint to add the spots.
DichroicGlassman.com Halloween Painted Jar Luminaries This isn’t the first time I’ve made luminaries for Halloween. Several years ago I made these painted Ghost Luminaries which are posted on FamilyCorner, these decoupaged Pumpkin Luminaries and this Candy Corn luminary which are both posted on Disney’s Kaboose. Today I made some colorful luminaries inspired by the ones I saw on this cute blog called Not So Idle Hands. Aside from the new luminaries I made (which I describe below), I also spruced up my others after unpacking my Halloween boxes. To spruce up the Pumpkin Luminaries, which are decoupaged orange material, I used a damp rag to wipe them down, then I painted the yellow facial features black. You can see that the white ghost luminaries have been around for quite a few years. Over the summer I bought a couple of boxes of canning jars with the intention of canning. One layer of acrylic craft paint on the OUTSIDE of the jar was enough for these, but you can add another if you like. I painted the jar rims with black paint.
Headband Refashion Our headband had a flower that was starting to look a little tired and worn so we made it new again! This braided ribbon could embellish many things— a hair clip would be cute too! These headbands would make great handmade gifts for little girls to make each other! Woven Ribbon Headband Gather a headband and about 4 1/2 yards of ribbon. You can use any with — I chose 1/4 inch. Begin by finding the middle of the ribbon. Now bring the bottom ribbon up and make a loop and send it through the beginning loop that you just made by crossing the ribbon. Pull the right side snug. Now repeat for the other side, picking up the right side, making a loop and sending it up through the loop just made on the other side. Pull the left side snug. Pull right side snug. Continue braiding until you have a piece long enough to cover the headband. Bring the other side over and then trim. Hot glue ribbon to headband. Finished!
d20 Handbag of Holding: How to build it By popular request following the d12 bag, here it is: the d20 bag! Now you can make your very own icosahedron. We’re making a pattern and kit for this project available in two sizes: darling and practical. There are a deceptively large number of parts to cut out, which is one of the main reasons that a kit makes sense here. Our kit includes twenty canvas pieces, twenty iron-on stiffener triangles, twenty cotton liner pieces, a cord for the handle, a zipper, and iron-on numbers 1-20 in the lovely font BPreplay. d20 bag instructions: If you’re using your own materials, the small pattern is available here (26 kB PDF) and the large pattern is available here (24 kB PDF). There are two sizes of iron-on stiffener panels: little ones (eight of these) and bigger ones (twelve of these). Arrange your numbers and fuse them under the iron for 5-8 seconds. The first set of pieces to sew together are the ten that form the band around the center of the bag. Follow the same pattern as for the bag body.
Kodachrome Curtains - Updated! Now with lampy goodness! So, it's been a while since I've made anything Craftster-worthy, but my husband and I busted out the Dremel tool a few days ago and we made this: It's a pair of curtains made out of old Kodachrome slides! I'm really interested in photography, and will buy old cameras in antique and thrift stores in order to develop film that's inside of it. From time to time, I'll find collections of old slides and will buy those, too. I hate the idea that these pictures would just be resigned to the garbage or something, and wanted to display them (besides just scanning them in and putting them on Flickr - here's a link to my old found negative/slide collection, though, if you want to check that out: ). Travis has this neat drill press set up for the Dremel tool, so he taped a cardboard jig to it and started drilling all of the little holes. Then I connected them all together with chainmail rings. Each panel is made up of 114 slides.