I found a tutorial on how to make a beautiful necklace from buttons and wire. It seems to be quite easy but the necklace is striking.
Soon I’ll have to go through my buttons and buy som silver wire ;-))
Links:
Recycled Button Necklace
…compilation of tutorials
I found a tutorial on how to make a beautiful necklace from buttons and wire. It seems to be quite easy but the necklace is striking.
Soon I’ll have to go through my buttons and buy som silver wire ;-))
Links:
Recycled Button Necklace
I find this bracelet beautiful. Unfortunately we never drink from aluminium cans, so no poptabs pile up. Therefore I will have to do without my own poptab bracelet.
Links:
At flickr: Poptab Bracelet
There are solely very good explaining photos, no text, simply view always the next photo.
I stll have some old cassettes I don’t listen to anymore. But because I’m always reluctant to throw anything away I’m thinking of making some purses from the cassettes by following the tutorial at craftster ;-)
Links:
At craftster: Cassette Tape Coin Purse
The description how she made the purse is somewhere in the thread.
I don’t like rubber gloves because they 1. don’t feel good and 2. look silly.
Now I can do something against the silly look by following the instruction on how to revamp rubber gloves.
Because I haven’t found anything yet against the first point, I think that I won’t never try them, but I found them great anyway :)
When seeing this tutorial on how to make jewelry from hardware store stuff I feel the urge to drive to the next hardware store immediately and rummage around.
But I will stay strong and wait until the next occasion.
Or perhaps I just sneak off to my basement…
;-)))
Links:
Wire Wrapped Hardware (It’s a Wrap)
Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘wire’
If it’s cold outside I confess that I often wear tights and when they become eventually laddered I always find it a pity to throw them away.
And I won’t in the future because I found an instruction on how to make a necklace out of laddered stockings and tights ;-))
At the moment I’m still wearing them at my legs, but soon…
;-)
Links:
How to Make a Necklace out of Laddered Stockings and Tights.
(found via art for housewives)
I found an instruction on how to make glass table lights with translucent mosaic. They are made in an interesting and easy way with Window Colours*, but of course you can do this with translucent polymer clay as well.
* Window Colours are those glass paints that come in plastic bottles and can be used on acetate, I don’t know the exact English name.
That’s how they do it:
(see images on instruction site for better understanding)
One day then… Sigh.
;-))
Links:
Mosaik mit WindowColour (German)
votive
People who craft a lot with paper often have many interesting papers laying around, but mostly scrap you can only make cards from.
But now I found a tutorial on how to make mini recycle bin books, which I find great!
Soon I will have to comb through my piles ;-))
Links:
Mini Recycle Bin Books
If you want to make Altered Books or Artist Books, or maybe book purses, or you want possibly remove individual book pages to make a beautiful card, then the tutorial on how to easily remove pages from books may be helpful: you moist a thread, lay it into the book at the place where you want to remove a page, close the book firmly, so that the moisture can enter the paper and then you can tear the paper cleanly.
It’s the same principle as for tearing paper, but here the moist line is certainly straight and much thinner.
Ingenious!
Links:
At instructables: How to easily and cleanly remove pages from books
Here at unikatissima:
Artist Book
Notebook Purse
Tearing Paper
I find bags, purses and totes somehow interesting, especially when made from unusual materials (although I think that I will always stick to my knapsack ;-)).
That is the reason why I like the shoulder pad purse (scroll down to “Shoulder Pad Mini-Purses,”) so much!
Unfortunately I have only found boring white shoulder pads.
Well, they’d never make a knapsack ;-))
Links:
Shoulder Pad Purse (scroll down to “Shoulder Pad Mini-Purses,”)
Note: When I downloaded the PDF file, it had about 2.5 MB.