…compilation of tutorials
Flower pots seem to be very versatile: you can not only set plants in or make lamps from, but you can assemble them to a most beautiful, big flower pot garden urn and set plants in then ;-)
Links:
Flower Pot Garden Urn
Here at unikatissima:
Self-made Lamp
This jar lid is for my kitschy moments ;-))
Links:
Jar Lids with Gilded Macaroni (Bath Salts and Gold Macaroni detail)
via: Gilded Macaroni Jar Lids
I don’t really like door wreaths, but even though I won’t make it and hang it on my door I find the paper leaves wreath somehow beautiful :)
It was made originally for Christmas, but I think that it could as well be a spring or summer wreath with green paper or an autumn wreath with paper in brown, red and yellow.
And with papers like those for the place mat it looks presumably great the whole year long :))
Links:
Paper Leaves Wreath (Paper Christmas Wreath Tutorial)
via: the red thread: Paper Christmas Wreath Tutorial
Here at unikatissima: Fabric/Paper Place Mat
I cut myself some eraser stamps already and even an eraser stamp with a repeated pattern, but if I try to print a background pattern from stamp repeats I always have problems.
The entry about spacing stamps helped me further :)
Links:
Spacing Stamps (Lining things up)
Here at unikatissima:
Eraser Stamps
Repeated Pattern Eraser Stamp
When I saw these place mats I was compleeetly thrilled: that’s exactly what I love so much!
She seems to use as well fabric as paper – many of these self coloured.
And I do love to work with paper, e.g. at my paper shopping bag or my paper Crazy Quilt ;-)
Links:
Fabric/Paper Place Mat (Fall Fiber Place Mat Tutorial)
Here at unikatissima:
Paper Shopping Bag
Paper Crazy Quilt
What a wonderful idea: to batik reasonably priced with children without getting it dangerous for the little ones she simply uses washable (school) glue!
And what children can do, I can, too.
Very often ;-)))
By the way, she uses watered down acrylic colours to colour everything in.
Great!
Links:
No-wax Batik (How to do Batik with Kids)
via: Gel Glue Batik
Google search result for ‘Washable Glue’
Google search result for ‘auswaschbarer Kleber’
I must confess that in fact I like to crochet doilies – but I don’t want to have them, because I don’t have a clue about what to do with them ;-).
That’s perhaps the reason why I like so much putting together things from squares or the like ;-))
Well, now I can make me such a doily scarf ;-)
I think that you can very well hand-dye it with tea or coffee.
Links:
Tea Dyed Doily Scarf (Arsenic and Old Lace Scarf SOLD)
via: clothes that cover and expose
Google Suchergebnis für ‘dye fabric with tea’
Google Suchergebnis für ‘dye fabric with coffee’
Google Suchergebnis für ‘Stoff mit Tee färben’
Google Suchergebnis für ‘Stoff mit Kaffee färben’
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘medaillon’
Again a wonderful idea: stamp little polymer clay tiles, cure, dye and afterwards sand away dye excesses.
In principle it’s the same as my carved candle holder, only there I pressed polymer clay into the crease and cured it a second time.
I think that dye is more ‘sand-friendly’ ;-))
Links:
Fill-Ins with Polymer Clay and Paint
Here at unikatissima:
Carving Polymer Clay
I wrote already an entry about rolling pin prints, even so I find this instruction interesting, too.
As she says: you can use it easily to design your own gift wrap and it won’t take long until you possibly need some gift wrap ;-))
Links:
Rolling Pin Prints (Fabric Background Rollers – More Play Time)
More Rolling Pin Prints (More Rollers, More New Prints)
Here at unikatissima:
Rolling Pin Prints
‘Whitewash paper’ sounds strange, but that’s exactly what she does in her tutorial with the decorative paper: she tints stripes of the decorative paper so that the original pattern shows through.
I find it very elegant.
I think that should be possible with gesso, too (as are so many other things: Wow!) – but I still have to try it out.
If you have experience with this I’d be pleased if you post it in a comment (by the way I’d always be pleased if you comment ;-))
Links:
Alter Your Paper with Krylon’s Whitewash Paper Finish