…compilation of tutorials
I really like the idea for those plastic bottle candle holders – only the colours are not my cup of tea.
I imagine them vividly coloured – that would be great for a beautiful summer evening where you make a barbecue on the patio.
Now I only have to get a patio and a barbecue ;-)
Links:
Plastic Bottle Candle Holder (Recycled Pop Bottle Candle Holders)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘plastic bottle’
‘Whitewash paper’ sounds strange, but that’s exactly what she does in her tutorial with the decorative paper: she tints stripes of the decorative paper so that the original pattern shows through.
I find it very elegant.
I think that should be possible with gesso, too (as are so many other things: Wow!) – but I still have to try it out.
If you have experience with this I’d be pleased if you post it in a comment (by the way I’d always be pleased if you comment ;-))
Links:
Alter Your Paper with Krylon’s Whitewash Paper Finish
Even if the ‘pendants’ don’t really match my liking, I find the idea and the workmanship really great!
In fact she only wrotes as ‘instruction’: “I don’t really have a process on
how I make them it’s a trial and error thing.”
That means that it is my part to realize something to my liking – as necklace, as earring, as pin and so on ;-))
And I have already some tutorials for buttons ;-)
Links:
Button Collage Necklaces (New Collage necklaces)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘button’
Entries with the tag ‘necklace’
Entries with the tag ‘earring’
Entries with the tag ‘pin’
I simply don’t know why I’m so about racks at the moment, especially because I don’t need any.
They seem to be extra ‘susceptible’ to creative treatment ;-))
I, for one find the rack from clothes hangers fun :)
Links:
Rack from Clothes Hangers (Garderobe: Raffinierte Deko-Idee) (German)
Here at unikatissima: Juice Rack
This is a page from a creative diary (‘journal’), but I would love it as a collage, too!
Today I have not to do with a tutorial but an inspiration, especially with regard to ready-bought material versus material ‘saved’ from the trash.
When I’m visiting craft stores – especially the paper and scrap book sections – I’m often disgusted by the commerce that rules the originally creative use of trash.
The author shows in her article what wonderful and unique things can be made with material found a little bit everywhere by keeping your mind open.
I persevere in my attempt to emulate her ;-)
Links:
Inspired by Trash (Trash inside your journal )
Here at unikatissima: Keep Your Mind Open
Don’t they look beautiful?
These pompoms are all made from coffee filters – and it seems to be quite easy.
In addition I’ve found a tutorial for a necklace from coffee filters which I also found great, even though I’d prefer it as a pin ;-)
But I wouldn’t know where to put such decorations ;-))
Links:
Coffee Filter Pompoms Part 1 (i’m crushing on coffee filters)
Coffee Filter Pompoms Part 2 (coffee filter love continues…)
via: Recycled Crafts @ CraftGossip
Coffee filter necklace (How-to transform a coffee filter into a dreamy neck piece…)
I always like the simple yet striking ideas and this cork vase is for me one of them: simply take a ready-made glass vase and decorate with self-adhesive cork :)
Links:
Cork Vase (Think Outside the Bottle 1: Flower Vase)
Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘vase’
I presented already some tutorials with t-shirts, this time it is about making a necklace from the t-shirt (the link isn’t available no more, but she presents a tutorial for a recycled t-shirt bracelet which is done similarly).
When I heard it first I thought: ‘That’s silly’ but the photos convinced me that it’s not ;-)
And if you don’t have a t-shirt at hand take some old stockings ;-)
Links:
DIY Recycled Fabric Necklace
The link isn’t available no more, but she presents a tutorial for a recycled t-shirt bracelet which is done similarly
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘t-shirt’
Necklace out of Laddered Stockings and Tights
I had some tutorials concerning ‘plastic bottles’ before, but I find this one still special: I would never have had the idea to work a plastic bottle this way!
Links:
Plastic Bottle Vase (Recycle a Plastic Bottle into a Vase)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘plastic bottle’
I’m always fascinated of all those ideas that people have – just as of this juice rack: simply nail some beverage cartons to a plank and you get a coat rack.
Sheer lunacy ;-))
If you have a coat rack already or you find this one interesting but don’t want to have it at your home ;-), you can make a lot of other stuff from your beverage cartons: beverage carton crochet, a Marudai, a weaving loom, a coin purse or a vase.
I’m sure that in the course of time more will come ;-))
And if you’d like to have a coat rack but not especially from beverage cartons take a look at the Bookhooks (from my entry Recycle books).
Links:
Juice Rack
Bookhooks (from my entry Recycle books)
Here at unikatissima:
Beverage Carton Crochet
Links to self-made marudai in my Kumihimo entry
Cardboard Box Loom
Tetrapak Coin Purse
Woven Newspaper Vase
Recycle books