…compilation of tutorials
We’re nearly out of plastic bottles – a pity, because these recycled planters seem to be for people also who don’t have a green thumb ;-)
Links:
Repurposed Pop Bottle & Food Container Planters
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the words ‘plastic’ and ‘bottle’
Still not springtime yet? Then simply make you some flowery curtains ;-)
And if it is, you can simply use real flowers ;-)
Links:
Flowery Curtains (Add Artificial Flowers To Sheer Curtains: Wow!)
Here at unikatissima: Stitched Flowers
This leather flower looks really good, doesn’t it?
Links:
How to make moulded leather flowers
via: Leather roses (with tute)
I’m a city kid and don’t have the slightest idea on when to present such an entry, but the original entry has been published around the same time of year ;-))
Links:
Recycling Bird Feeder (Recycling-Vogelfutterhaus) (German)
Google translation of the article
Note: In the orange text Google translates the text as follows: ”…, and ruckzuck was the bird food in the house.”, but the bird food fall underneath the (bird) house ;-)
It’s cold here and my lips need care.
Why not mix myself? I know then at least what’s in there ;-))
Links:
Homemade Lip Balm
I really like the idea of the Advent wreath which is assembled from tea glasses :)
Links:
Advent Wreath in Glasses (Adventkranz in 10 Gefäßen) (German)
Google translation of the article
If you want to know more about Advent wreaths in Germany and perhaps even want to make one yourself, check out Christmas Craft Projects – Advent Wreath and How to Make Natural Green Wreaths on the same site.
I never worked with straw before and the straw marquetry doesn’t look too difficult ;-)
Mainly it is straw, made softer with water, cut open and flattet and then glued on plain printing paper as parallel as possible.
She made two sheets, one with natural straw, one with straw dyed with batik colours.
Both sheets are stacked with a template and then cut carefully with an X-acto knife.
Then she put the pieces together as you can see in the tutorial.
Links:
Straw Marquetry (Bilder aus Stroh – Anleitung) (German) => scroll down to ‘Stroh-Intarsienbilder’
The pictures are from Intarsien aus Stroh.
Recently I had a nice idea, inspired by the nature bracelet and the clip art candles or faux quilt votives, resp.: a quick autum votive.
It became more beautiful than I expected ;-))
That’s what you do:
Tape the cardboard to a cylinder that has to be wider than the tealight but not especially beautiful.
Important note: my Votive was too narrow with this circumference and became warm very fast. I suggest strongly to make the cylinder wider!
Put the transparent tape around the cardboard cylinder with the sticky side outside(!).
My tape is about 5 cm broad therefore I put two on top of each other. The arrow shows where they overlap.
Now simply tape on colurful leaves. They may even overlap.
When you’ve finished you can decide whether you want to wrap everything with another layer of tape – this time sticky side inside ;-), then you simply pull your votive from the cardboard cylinder and put a tealight inside.
Another important note: The votive is very light and can therefore easily be blown into the flame.
When I will make this again, I think that I will put small tape stripes crosswise from side to side and weigh down everything with sand or a little plate.
Or I will work it directly around a glass, I think that’s smarter, because nothing can be blown away then ;-)
So don’t forget: Never leave burning candles unattended!
By the way, the leaves become brown as fast as ‘untreated’, but it is a beautiful decoration for an autumn table anyway.
Addendum: In the comments of the German entry Menoora writes, that leaves apparently keep their colours when gently ironed.
It’s worth a try, isn’t? ;-)
You can make it even more beautiful by taping a layer of packing tape transfers with interesting texts or comic pictures over the leaves :)
How about e.g. with a beautiful layed autumn table and the votives in place of name cards? The names could be designed in the style of the beautiful labels.
Anyway: Have much fun with this!
Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Nature Bracelets
Clip Art Candles
Faux Quilt Votives
Packing Tape Transfers
Beautiful Labels for the Kitchen
Now that the real autumn leaves slowly disappear it’s time to make your own.
At least, that’s what I think ;-))
