Saturday, March 17, 2012

Easy like...well, Saturday Evening

While my friends are enjoying the final bits of SXSW, seeing The Cult (cry!), and having a Rock Band party equipped with a green screen and crazy glam rock costumes, I am home with El Gripe (the flu). boooo! I so wanted to leave and go to a craft store for fabric, stuff to make cute jewelry, and to make more cute stamps with which to decorate some of said fabric, but I know I should be a good girl and stay home. And instead of leaving and risking passing out all dramatic-like in the fabric aisle, I was good, stayed home, and made some new kind of bows.




These are SUPER easy. Here's how I done 'em!

You'll need felt, scissors, a needle and thread and maybe a tape measure. I only used my tape measure to give you all a good idea of how big to cut the felt. Or you can just go at it and eyeball what you think will be a good size.

Cut your rectangle. Mine is 4" x 2.5". Also, cut a little strip of felt for the bow's middle. Round the corners of the rectangle.





Squish the rectangle, like so:





Wrap your strip around the middle and sew, or you can hot glue it. I just don't trust hot glue to hold certain things.

Viola! A cute and really easy bow!





Saturday, February 25, 2012

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Cupcake Tier

I have wanted to make one of these for ages!

You'll need:

2-3  or wooden candlestick holders
plates of various sizes or shapes
spray paint in the color of your choice
a good adhesive, such as E-600 or Amazing Goop


First off, paint your candlesticks and let them dry completely.




Turn the plate that will be your bottom tier over and glue the first candle stick on.  Or you can leave this step out and go to step two.




















To ensure it sticks really well, add a bit more adhesive.




















Let this dry completely.   Flip it over and glue the second candlestick on in the same way.




















Glue the second plate on, and so forth, until the tier is as high as you want.


Sunday, January 15, 2012

Mini Bookshelf Wall Hanging

Hi everyone!  Here I am with this week's DIY!

This is a tiny and cute bookshelf hanging.  Here is how I did it.

You'll need:
















Paint in a color of your choice
a small wooden plaque
a miniature bookshelf (I got mine at Hobby Lobby)
wood glue
a picture hanger

Paint the plaque whatever color you want.  While it's drying, glue the mini books together.

















When the glue has dried, pure more glue on the bottom of the row of books and press it onto the bookshelf.

















When the books have dried on the bookshelf, glue the whole thing to the plaque.

When that's dry, glue a hanger to the back.  I used Amazing Goop for mine and let it dry for a couple of days.


















TA-DAH!



Sunday, January 8, 2012

Love is in the Air

These love-based items probably fit better in a Valentine's Day post.  However, my sister is getting married in a couple of weeks, so love-themed things are on my mind.
















I did this for my boyfriend.  It's framed in a 4" frame and took me about half an hour to stitch up.  I washed and dried it so that it's not all stiff and you can't see the transfer lines.  Have you tried embroidery?  It's one of my very favorite things to do.


Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Stampy stamp stamps

As promised, a DIY!

I love stamps.  When I see cute ones, I buy them.  I never use them.  I suppose they're another one of my collections!  I'd love any ideas on how to display them.

Anyhow, I also love the foam stamps you buy at craft stores.  However, they don't always have the shapes I want.  So I thought, " How can I make these?", and came up with a great idea!  It's pretty simple, actually.

What you will need:
a sheet of craft foam- any color.  I used white.
wooden blocks- I used some that were 1.5"
wood glue
templates for stamp shapes
scissors (I used embroidery scissors because I needed to make small details)
















Using your templates, cut shapes out of the craft foam.  Glue them onto the wooden blocks and let them dry.
















Let them dry for a bit, then dip them or paint them and stamp away!


Mustaches


Acorns (I don't know why these didn't turn out better.)




















Asterisks




Mushrooms (my favorite!)


Sunday, January 1, 2012

What I've Been Doing

Here are some photos of things I've done over the past few months.
>Tomorrow- a new project and some goals for the year!