Build/Make/Craft/Bake: How-to: Hammered flower and leaf prints. Get out the hammer, it's how-to Tuesday and we have some botanical prints to make!
I learned this technique, which makes an image using the natural dyes in plants, from my college roommate Sarah. It's great for making cards or simple botanical prints. Actually, you'll need a little more than just a hammer. Here's a supply list: flowers or leaves to printwatercolor or other rough, acid-free paperselection of hammers (including ball-peen or cross-peen, if possible)hard work surface (cutting board, slab of wood, etc.)paper towelsscissorspentweezers or toothpicksacrylic finishing spray (optional) Start by going on a walk or visiting your garden to find leaves and flowers to work with.
Then set up your work surface. Next, trim any chunky or squishy bits off of the plants and arrange them on your watercolor paper. Cover the plant with 2-3 layers of paper towels. On the paper towels, sketch the borders of the area you'll need to hammer. Peel back the paper towel to check your progress. Tote Craft - Making a Purse. Weblog. Altered matchboxes are easy and fun to make!
To view a step-by-step tutorial with photos for making these paper boxes, check out the Matchbox Valentines How Tuesday post on the Etsy Storque blog. These little boxes are approximately the size of standard, store-bought, 32-count matchboxes (1.5″ x 2″ x .5″). They make lovely mini gift boxes, and are also fun to swap! Here you can download the PDF template I created and use for creating these matchboxes from scratch using heavy card stock.
DIY Photo Canvas. Hey there! So, I have seen so many cool DIY photo canvas projects on Pinterest and I had to do one of my own! My son is playing his first season of tackle football and I have taken a ton of pictures! I thought he would love to show them off in his room so I came up with this! It was so quick, easy and cheap! How to make an elephant from towels. I Love You Pop-Up Card. Lilac City Momma » Parenting & Pregnancy Mom Blog. Drink Can Tinwork. Tinwork Embossed tinwork is sometimes used to decorate rustic style photo or mirror frames, or just to make decorative items such as Christmas tree decorations.
The metal used is usually thicker (tinplate) and is normally worked with hammered tools - I wanted to try to get a similar effect, but with a bit less effort. The Most Popular ArticleOn Atomic Shrimp No, really! I created this page towards the end of October 2008. More Metalwork If this project interested you, you might also like Lost Wax Casting Safety This project makes use of very thin sheet metal that is likely to have sharp, jagged edges and is prone to springing back.
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This project would be perfect for a holiday wedding, or any wedding where serious glamor is on the menu! This project is easy, quick and terribly festive for the holiday season. As always is the case with glitter, be prepared to find it everywhere…even weeks after making them. For this project we used your basic gold glitter, but later experimented with some specialty glitters/glitter sprays and loved the results. Be creative! Ask Anna...: DIY Picture Blocks. I was looking around for Mother’s Day gift ideas when I came across this great idea from How Does She?. I thought it would be a fun project to make for my mom so I headed to Micheal’s to buy some blocks. Here’s what you’ll need: 2″ blocks {the number of blocks will be determined by what picture size you choose} Mod Podge. Look to inspire - page 37.
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