DIY Botanical Silhouette Decorating the home will involve at some point, working with your walls. In one way or another, you are bound to eventually feel the urge to paint them. But most of the times, (re)designing or (re)painting walls have a more permanent impact than paintings do. So, before you change the look and feeling of your home in a semi-permanent manner, try the relatively temporary and simpler way. Grab these items: • a couple of brushes (thin and thick); • a piece of paper; • a board of canvas; • a twig of leaves; • a small bowl; • a bottle of acrylic paint; • a can of spray paint; • a can of spray adhesive; The steps are quite easy and will definitely take you back to arts & crafts classes from school.
DIY: Wearable words When I was looking around for tutorials on making paper beads, I found some really striking "book beads" and accessories, now collected in this post. I understand (after all the browsing) that you can make really durable "beads" easily ... very little time, skill or money required. Woohoo! First, this wonderful necklace. Inexpensive, easy scrap-paper earrings? Need a little more inspiration? Fiches techniques Utilisez ces guides pour apprendre comment réaliser différentes techniques pour fabriquer des bijoux, étape par étape. Si vous le désirez, vous pouvez imprimer toutes ces fiches techniques et les conserver, tel un guide de référence. Vous pourrez ensuite vous amuser à faire des bijoux de styles différents, de la suspension sur Tigertail à l’enfilage traditionnel de perles, en passant par la cotte de mailles. Que vous soyez débutant en création de bijoux ou que vous soyez déjà un pro, il y a toujours quelque chose de nouveau à apprendre. Des heures de plaisir en perspective ! Cotte de mailles La cotte de mailles - simple La cotte de mailles - byzantine La cotte de mailles - japonaise La cotte de mailles - torsade Tissage La fleur tissée Le métier à tisser Le tissage de base(angle droit) Le tissage - bague diamant Le tissage - boule en cristal Le tissage - coeur Le tissage - coupole Le tissage - cube Le tissage herringbone Le tissage triangulaire Le tissage peyote Le tissage - victorien Fils métalliques
suspension pour plantes Nowadays most of the people recycle. It’s true that we need to correct our disposable culture and our Eco-nomically. Recycling is the most popular solution to our plastic pollution problem. Reuse plastic bottles and transform them into different solutions for your home. In fact, if you are reusing junk, you are helping to make the initial energy that went into the production of that material last longer and go farther. You can reuse most of the plastic bottles if you clean them properly using hot soapy water. Get Updates pelote de fil avec t shirt Reader Blair liked our t-shirt yarn dishcloths, but had a major question about t-shirt yarn: "So I don’t know how when one piece of yarn ends, to begin again with a new one… Does that make sense? Someone please email me.and tell me!" Well, Blair, I'll do you one better and write a whole post about it! How do you turn t-shirts into yarn, and then attach the ends? Read on! There are a few common methods for making t-shirt yarn. This seems to be the most common method for cutting a t-shirt into yarn, and it also seems the most time-economical. When you get to the end of one piece of yarn you can attach it like this: 1. Amanda's Happy Hearth shows how you can attach yarn ends simply by stitching through the ends of the t-shirts. 2. Another way to attach ends is by just tying the ends together in a square knot (if you don’t mind the nubs in your finished project), or just twist them together when you are crocheting or knitting to create a more seamless join. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Lucky Wishing Stars Tutorial You’ve probably seen these little puffy origami stars before. They are really quick to make, and you don’t need any special materials to make them. You can buy lucky star pre-cut strips from origami stores, but you can just as easily make your own from medium weight coloured paper, e.g. scrapbooking paper, or even strips cut from magazine pages – as the strips are so narrow, the original text or image won’t be obvious in the finished star. Anti-clockwise from top left: pre-cut strips, paper cutter, scrapbook paper, magazine page. Now on to the tutorial! To give you an idea of size, I’ve made stars in 3 different sizes to show you: blue stars (from pre-cut strips): 35cm x 1.25cmpink stars (from a magazine page): 30cm x 1cmgreen stars (scrapbook paper): 15cm x 0.6cm The finished star will be approx 1.5 x the width of your strip, so pick an appropriate size for the size of star you’d like to end up with. For the rest of this tutorial, I will be using a paper strip cut from a magazine page.
CadeauxFaitsMains Recycler et crocheter des sacs plastique ! En premier lieu avant de crocheter du plastique, il faut confectionner des pelotes de façon à pouvoir crocheter votre plastique comme vous le feriez avec de la laine. A partir de là, vous pourrez crocheter toutes sortes de choses et pratiquer l'art du crochet exactement comme avec de la vraie laine. Isabelle Kessedjian : tuto crocheter du plastique Avec des poches plastique on peut crocheter d'autres sacs plastique. Source : 1-fillesdufacteur.typepad.com 2-nellinello.canalblog.com Avec des sacs plastique, vous pouvez créer toutes sortes de choses. Source 1 : vracajo.canalblog.com 2 - : www.maison.com Pour recycler vos poches plastique vous pouvez aussi crocheter de jolies panières pour la maison Source : tutoriel crocheter panière plastique 2 - fillesdufacteur.typepad.com Avec des pelotes de plastique on peut confectionner de solides tapis pour la maison. Source : Nafeuse'magazine autres créations recyclage plastique
Popsicle Stick Bracelets: DIY Tutorial This month's Etsy Fort Worth Upcycle THIS! Craft Challenge 'secret ingredient' is popsicle sticks. I have been making popsicles like crazy (and eating them like crazy) so I could use the sticks for this project...you know, so they would be officially 'upcycled'. I'm really excited about the way these cute little bracelets turned out, and I can't wait to show you how I made them! TOOLS & SUPPLIES: • popsicle sticks (1 stick will make 2 bracelets) • craft knife • ruler • power drill with 1/32" drill bit • fine sandpaper (120-240 grit) • round needle file (optional) • container with water • wide rubber bands • cylindrical drinking glass (around 3" in diameter) • paintbrush • toothpick •Krylon Crystal Clear gloss finish spray (optional) • 32" 1mm leather or cord (cut into 2 16 inch pieces) • acrylic paints • *scrapbook paper (small scraps, at least 3/4" x 2 3/4") • *Mod Podge * You can either paint the wood with your own special design, or decoupage using the scrapbook paper and Mod Podge.
Article: Icônes libres pour webdesigners Sixrevision Le site de ressources anglophone SixRevision vient de nous gratifier récemment d'une sélection de plusieurs centaines d'icônes gratuites et libres de droit. Attention toutefois : toutes les icônes ne sont pas forcément utilisables sous licence commerciale. Réparties par thèmes et styles, ces icônes feront le bonheur des webdesigners, toujours avides de décorations pour affiner leurs œuvres. Et les autres... Il existe énormément de ressources liées aux icônes libres, mais certaines sont confuses, parfois payantes ou bourrées de publicités. Iconerz : quelques centaines d'icônes gratuites classées par thèmeIconfinder : un moteur de recherche d'icônes plutôt intuitif et réussiIconfu : un outil de création d'icônes en ligneWebdesignledger : une compilation d'icônes sur le thème "social" (facebook, twitter, linkedin,...)Google XXL : un article de référence qui regroupe des liens vers les moteurs de recherche d'icônes, les outils de création, les icônes par catégories, en vrac, etc.
DIY: Memories In A Jar Give an antique look to a photograph inside a glass jar. You just need to be a black and white photo, fill the jar with oil (preferably olive oil), add some dried flowers or branches and place the photo inside. It will look amazing! Memories in a bottle … Just put a picture inside a glass jar and add objects related to that time. A beautiful way to display a memory …. Look here for some ideas:
Article: The Best Social Media Icons All In One Place 464 shares 8 Free & Useful Minimal Icon Sets Icons are certainly a very important element of a design. It doesn’t matter if you are putting together a website or app, icons will be the key for several user interactions. This is why it’s always good to fill your library with good icons you can count on. The good thing is that there are… Read More 916 shares 8 Beautiful and Free Flat Icon Sets For the past few years in web design, we’ve noticed a trend in moving toward simplicity and minimalism. Spray Painted Glass Jars and Bottles I have a real problem throwing away perfectly good glass jars and bottles. To me they are little craft gems waiting for me to transform them. With Mother’s Day and Teacher Appreciation coming up, I decided to turn some of our recycled bottles into cute gifts for Mom and my sons’ teachers. Before you begin this project, I want to warn you to be flexible. Materials: Glass Bottles or JarsSpray PaintRubber GlovesPlastic BagsMasking or Painter’s TapeDrop Cloth, Tarp or PlasticFoam StickersX-acto KnifePencilEmbellishments: beads, transfer rub-ons, wire, fabric, ribbon, raffia, lace, or whatever you have lying aroundHot Glue Gun & Glue Sticks Instructions: Clean out the bottles/jars and let them dry completely. Select some foam stickers to use as a mask on your bottle. I chose a heart and then cut an “M” into a circle foam sticker using an X-acto knife. If the bottle neck is narrow, use the X-acto knife to feed the sticker into the jar. Set the bottles in a tarped area or box.
Standards and Guidelines for Crochet and Knitting | The publishers, fiber, needle and hook manufacturers and yarn members of the Craft Yarn Council have worked together to set up a series of guidelines and symbols to bring uniformity to yarn, needle and hook labeling and to patterns, whether they appear in books, magazines, leaflets or on yarn labels. Our goal is to make it easier for industry manufacturers, publishers and designers to prepare consumer-friendly products and for consumers to select the right materials for a project and complete it successfully. Included are: We urge manufacturers, publishers and designers, to adopt these guidelines. We received valuable input from allied associations in the United States, such as The National NeedleArts Association, the Crochet Guild of America, and The Knitting Guild Association, as well as designers and consumers.