…compilation of tutorials
I’m reading a lot and therefore I always need bookmarks.
I love most those where an elastic that holds the pages together and now I’ve found an easy and simply great tutorial for it.
Perhaps I should read just a little bit less and instead make such a bookmark ;-))
Now that the leaves get coloured comes perhaps the right time to make cute cards with them.
Isn’t it?
;-))
Links:
Create a Fancy Flower Card
The gift tags on the photo aren’t ready yet: I simply can’t decide with which yarn I should wrap them.
But I find the idea really great: flatten the cardboard tube, cut it in strips and wrap the pieces with yarn.
I think that it could look beautiful, too, when wrapped in a piece of beautiful polymer clay and worn as necklace, earring or pin.
Hm.
When reading the instructions for the gift tags I had to think somehow at the surprise ball gifts ;-)
But she had other ideas, too, about what to make with these paper shapes, namely a cute tealight and an interesting lamp decoration.
I presented before entries about recycled cardboard tubes here in this blog, namely the beaded amulet bag, the plaster photo holder and the knitting loom from a plastic bottle.
But there the cardboard tube was ‘only’ a tool.
Links:
recycling project no. 19 – yarn gift tag
recycle project no. 12 – tealight decoration
recycle project no. 16 – hurricane cover
Here at unikatissima:
Surprise Ball Gifts
Beaded Amulet Bag
Plaster Photo Holder
Knitting Loom from Plastic Bottle
Looks great, doesn’t it really?
I always thought about what to make from pop-ups apart from cards – now I know ;-))
Links:
Origamic Architecture Pencil Holder
Here at unikatissima: Entries containing the word ‘pop-up’
I find this 12-sided calendar a nice idea for a gift.
It is made for 2009 but you can adapt it to 2010 from the blank template yourself, possibly even handwritten and embellished with funny sketches.
Links:
Rhombic Dodecahedron and Calendar 2009: paper strips for plaiting
There is also a German version.
(Click photo to enlarge)
Recently I needed a birthday card and that is the reason why I played around with stencilling again ;-)
I wanted to have a negativ stencilled feather and sketched and cut therefore a feather.
Here I’ve made my first tests already.
I covered my feather with light brown chalk and smeared the chalk with my fingers outwards.
This way I got white areas around my stencil which made the quill of my feather much too broad for my liking (see arrow).
Therefore I cut two half-stencils and used them.
It worked great!
Another advantage of this half-stencil method is the fact, that the really narrow quill of my feather can’t slip or even tear anymore.
I glued a cut-out feather shifted on my stencilled feather and because I thought that something is missing, I embroidered some lines with golden thread.
I used a running stitch back and forth as I always do.
That’s how the inside of the card looks – I left it this way and wrote on the right side of the card.
(Click photo to enlarge)
And that’s how the finished card looks: I liked it ;-) and the adressee liked it, too :)
Admittedly the card looks still a little bumpy here because I fixed the chalk with hair spray. After everything was (really!) dry I put it under a heavy book and afterwards it was beautifully flat again.
Links:
Instruction on how to make the Running Stitch (English)
Instruction on how to make the Running Stitch (Vorstich) (German)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘stencil’
Entries with the tag ’embroidery’
Once I’ve seen pictures of beautiful postcard boxes (that I don’t find back, unfortunately ;-() and I always wanted to make some.
Up until now I haven’t found the time but now that I even have templates for them, it should work somehow ;-))
Links:
Postcard Boxes (Back The Day It Was Frugal – Today It’s Going Green)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘box’
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
I always like to look for boxes and I like the hexagonal box very much – just as much as the Washi box because they have both this ‘extra box on the inside’.
Coming soon! ;-)
Links:
Hexagonal Box (Sekskantet papæske Hexagonal box) (Danish and Englisch) – the first text is always Danish, the English text follows in italic font
Here at unikatissima:
Make a Washi Box
Entries with the tag ‘box’
I found two tutorials on how to make a hairpin lace loom (see links below) and because I hadn’t the appropriate material at hand (in fact that’s strange seeing all the stuff I have lying here about ;-)) I did it a little different:
I took two toilet paper tubes, cut them lengthwise, rolled them up strongly and taped them all around.
Then I pricked two metal kebeb skewers through those thick cardboard rolls: my hairpin lace loom was done!
;-)
At last I could give hairpin lace a try and it – worked.
That is to say that I haven’t read the hairpin lace instruction at stichdiva thoroughly(!) and therefore it didn’t work in the beginning.
They write ‘Insert hook under thread of topmost loop’, but for me it isn’t the topmost thread (blue arrow) but the foremost thread (red arrow).
After I took the foremost thread everything worked fine.
At the moment I don’t have the time for it but in future I will play around with hairpin lace :)
Links:
Instructions for self-made hairpin lace looms:
Instruction at ehow – from metal
there you can find further down (Resources) links to hair pin lace tutorials
Instruction at Little Projects – from bamboo skewers and hot glue sticks
via: DIY Hairpin Lace Loom: the link isn’t available no more.
Tutorial for base hairpin lace at stitchdiva
Google search result for ‘hair pin lace’
Google image search result for ‘hair pin lace’
Google search result for ‘Gabelhäkelei’
Google image search result for ‘Gabelhäkelei’