…compilation of tutorials
I always wanted to make beads from play dough, now I have an instruction.
While researching I also found an instruction for microwave salt dough ornaments and more salt daough recipes, perhaps they’re better?!
Links:
Salt Dough Beads (Homemade Beads! [tons of pics])
Microwave Salt Dough Ornaments
More Salt Dough Recipes (More recipes: Salt Dough Folk Art Projects)
I don’t know the name of this crochet pattern but I find it very nice.
I would’ve liked to crochet a sommer top with it but I’d never finish it.
Such a crochet sachet is therefore the right thing for me to work a little on the pattern ;-))
And it’s very apt to be a little gift and/or soap sachet.
Links:
Folder named ‘Sachets’
Photo of two crochet sachets
Diagrams for two crochet sachets
Well, I guess that it’s too late now to finish the Christmas Snow Flower Quilt before Christmas, but 1. you can’t begin too soon when quilting (and in a manner of speaking it’s close to Christmas 2010 ;-)) and 2. they have much more patterns on the page not only holiday patterns :)
Links:
Christmas Snow Flower Quilt (Download Gallery Quilt Patterns) – the pictures are very large (although they’re not shown large), therefore it takes it’s time to load the page
Lately two ideas crashed in my head and I like the result ;-)
One was the eraser stamp, the other the repeating patterns.
I marked the size of my eraser on paper, designed there a pattern following the technique of the repeating patterns, carved it from my eraser (it was mirrored but that’s no problem with this pattern) and begun stamping.
It is great to make repeating patterns on cards or the like, but when I’ll need to stamp a bigger area I’LL prefer to use the rolling pin print (here and here).
Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Eraser Stamps
Repeating Patterns
Rolling Pin Prints
Rolling Pin Prints II
The last days I presented some ornaments and they all have to be attached somehow.
I found the beaded wire ornament hooks very nice for this.
Links:
Fancy Beaded Ornament Hooks
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘ornament’
I found the instructions for Q-Tip snowflakes utterly funny, perhaps you’ll like it, too :)
Besides you can use them as (tree) ornaments ;-)
Links:
Q-Tip Snowflakes
Once when I was surfing the internet I found those cute purses, one knitted (left) and one crocheted (right).
With these I’m really contemplating making them…
Links:
Triangle Crochet Purse (Bag No. 2787)
Triangle Knit Purse (Bag No. 2793)
Recently I presented an ornament from mini wool skeins, I like these here, too: made from cardboard and decorated with beautiful paper or fabric.
What do you think? :))
Links:
tree ornaments from scraps with tutorial! (complete w/ photos)
via: Ornament
Recently I needed a Birthday card. I wanted to make something with a bunch of flowers and then remembered the Seven Flower Pop Up Card.
It was easily made, it just took a little bit time.
I used some pages from a bedclothes catalogue where the colours matched as paper ;-)
And I suggest to read the instructions thoroughly: First I glued the whole petals together and then the bunch of flowers didn’t open.
Luckily I could take everything apart and then I glued only the tips of the petals together.
With pop up cards I always find it difficult to decide what to make on the front of the card.
But here I didn’t have any problem: I simply made two more flowers that I didn’t cut but glued on the card. Some dashed lines with a felt tip pen – and the card was done.
As well the sender as the receiver are very satisfied with the results ;-))
Links:
Seven Flower Pop Up Card
Actually Advent should be a time of contemplativeness and so it should exactly be the right time to try something fiddly as beaded embroidery.
For those who experience a less contemplative Advent: you will have time to try it later, too ;-))
And if you don’t have beads at hand at the moment, try some ‘normal’ embroidery ;-)
On the photo you see a beaded cross stitch, I find it cute and put it on my list of things-to-try.
Links:
Making Bead Embroidery Samples Part I
Here you can find the beaded cross stitch, you must scroll down to ‘Bead Cross Stitch’.
Making Bead Embroidery Samples Part II
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ’embroidery’