Soon will be Easter and I found the tutorial on how to make rustic egg cups (very rustic as I find) suitable ;-)
Links:
Rustic Egg Cups (coquetiers déco) (French)
Month: April 2009
Candy Shot Glasses
I loved the tutorial for candy shot glasses: you cast candy in glass molds and get glasses that you can suck.
Eh…
;-)
But because 1. I don’t have such glass molds and 2. I am dieting those candy glasses don’t come into consideration for me.
For the time being ;-)
Links:
At craftster: Candy Shot Glasses
Lentil Swirled Beads
I find those polymer clay beads so beautiful and there is a great tutorial on how to make them ;-)
Have fun swirling :)
Links:
Lentil Swirled Beads
Painting with Sand
Ok, the video ‘You’ve got a friend 2009’ is no tutorial, but so beautiful that I really wanted to present it.
And who knows, perhaps it is an inspiration to somebody?
I’ve only seen the video ‘You’ve got a friend 2009’ until now, the others will follow.
I want to relish them.
Links:
Painting with sand at SandFantasy, i.e. the video ‘You’ve got a friend 2009’
Needle Felting Your Knit
I presented before some tutorials and inspirations on the subject of ‘felting’, but it were mostly instructions on how to produce something from felt.
The tutorial on how to felt on self-knitted items is a little different: we take a sweater or bag or the like that we have knitted (ok, bought works also ;-)) and applique a felt decoration.
I surely will give it a try once!
Links:
Decorate Your Knitting with Needle Felting
Here at unikatissima: entries with the tag ‘felting’
Water Balloon Luminaries
Aren’t those beautiful?
When finding the instruction on how to make water balloon luminaries I was thrilled.
It looks so easy (I haven’t tested it yet) and it’s worth to read the comments, too, to get the experience and more ideas:
- several comments tell about their experience with this technique: some had problems with popping balloons while dipping them into the wax and hot wax got everywhere, so it seems that one has to be very careful;
- somebody said that they saw poured sand at the bottom to prevent overheating/melting, somebody else suggested to put some water in the luminary for the same reason;
- I’ve seen mentioned somewhere to cast some plaster of paris on the bottom for the same reason;
- as Carol said for the geometric cut paper table lamp you can use battery operated tea lights;
- suggestions were given to put something between the layers, like leaves and somebody else told their erperience with this;
- I’ve seen somewhere that somebody glued (somehow?) the top layer of paper napkins on such wax luminaries;
- someone wanted to make parts of the luminary opaque which didn’t work, but somebody else suggested to use different coloured wax for the layers with a dark colour as outer layer and then carefully carve out a pattern through the outer layers;
- one comment even suggests to do a similar technique with chocolate syrup in place of wax to get chocolate bowls (hmmm! ;-));
- and somebody gave a tip on what to use if you don’t have a double boiler.
I’m not quite sure if I want to play around with this, but the temptation is strong ;-))
Links:
Water Balloon Luminaries
Wire Wrapped Ring
I already presented several tutorials for rings and the wire wrapped ring wire wrapped ring matches great.
I find it beautiful.
If you don’t have a ring mandrel to wrap the wire around you can possibly use the solid paper roll from the woven ring.
I’m still determined not to buy some wire, too.
We will see how long I hold out ;-)
Links:
‘Rosette’ Wire Wrapped Ring
Tutorial moved to: ‘Rosette’ Wire Wrapped Ring
Here at unikatissima:
Woven Ring for the solid paper roll
More tutorials for rings
Self-made Shoes
Some people are fantastic!
At craftster somebody published a tutorial on how to make yourself cheap shoes.
I don’t know whether I will make some, but I wanted to present it anyhow!
Links:
At craftster: Self-made Shoes (Shoes!)
Plastic Bottle Beads
There remained some leftovers from our cut plastic bottle, from which we already made a knitting loom and a plastic box and we can use them to make some beads.
In the instruction on how to make plastic bottle beads they roll up the plastic strip and melt it together with a heat gun.
I don’t have no heat gun and I’m a little afraid of possibly developing fumes, therefore I did it in a different way:
I brought water to the boil in my craft pan (which I don’t use for food preparation anymore!).
Then I cut a stripe from the plastic bottle and rolled tightly using some tweezers.
Look out, it always try to uncoil!
I hold the rolled ‘bead’ with my craft wooden pliers (also not used for food preparation anymore) into the simmering water and in seconds the bead was finished.
I don’t know if I could have coloured the bead with permanent markers, I’ve forgotten to test this.
Besides the end doesn’t fuse with the bead, but it doesn’t open neither.
Because it always wanted to uncoil I hold it quite firm with my wooden pliers and the bead became a little flat.
Pressing it in the other direction and dipping into the simmering water again didn’t make the bead round.
But 1. I like the shape and 2. I think it’s only a matter of practice.
Links:
Plastic Bottle Beads
Plastic Bottle Box
Yesterday we cut a plastic bottle to make a knitting loom, today we can make a box from the cut off bottom of the bottle.
It’s not a real instruction, but when you look closely at the photos you can see that the plastic bottoms are perforated at the edge and that a zipper is sewn into the holes.
Fantastic!
Addendum: There are instructions now, you can find the English ones here (thanks, Nina).
Links:
Plastic Bottle Box (recycled box/Recycling Box)
English instructions
German instructions
I’ve seen the photo and found it time-consuming to find the source:
I found the link to the plastic bottle box:
via Need More Fiber,
via Dollar Store Crafts (they have more great ideas!),
via greenUPGRADER,
via Superuse.org
I thought that I’d never reach an end ;-))
By the way I suggest to take a look a the flickr group TRASHION NATION, they also have great ideas!