…compilation of tutorials
A great idea again: customize accessories to your clothes with spray paints.
This way you can make i.e. comfortable shoes for dancing matching your ball dress ;-)
Or follow the ideas of Buy Nothing Day and revamp a by now shabby handbag to match your newest coat.
You also could have coloured one of your boots in red and fill it with some sweets ;-))
Links:
Spraypainting Accessories
Here at unikatissima:
Tie Feathers Dress
Buy Nothing Day
I don’t find the title exceptional.
The tie feathers dress is :)
It would hit the spot at the next ball :)
Links:
Tie Feathers Tutorial
Here at unikatissima:
What else can you do with ties:
Two-Tie Sling
Necktie Flower Brooches
I found a really nice decoration for cylindrical containers, the tutorial on how to make a vase from recycled magazine paper tutorial on how to make a vase from recycled magazine paper. You need a glass or a can, but for other containers that don’t have to be watertight a cardboard tube will suffice.
I like it, especially because it is often difficult to make watertight containers from paper.
Links:
Recycled Magazine Rollups
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive: Recycled Magazine Rollups
See also here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘paper maché’
I found it via the Buy Nothing Swap thread which I found browsing the craftster Swap Galleries and where I found the gallery of the Buy Nothing Swap and the Buy Nothing Swap Round 2 ;-)
I want to see if I can’t realize the idea behind in some small ways it in the following year :)
Links:
Buy Nothing Day
I love recycling tutorials and therefore this tutorial on how to make aluminium can jewelry should hit the spot.
Additionally I really like the items, better than others.
But I haven’t bought aluminium cans for years and I don’t think that I will begin to buy them now just to make jewelry from the them ;-))
Links:
Aluminium Can Jewelry
Some time ago I presented the DIY Shrinky Dinks, now I found at craftster the Faux Fused Glass.
Sheer lunacy!
She published the actual tutorial in her blog.
She uses the ‘real’ shrinky dinks, but it should work with the self-made as well?!
Links:
At craftster: Faux Fused Glass
Tutorial on how to make faux fused glass
Here at unikatissima: DIY Shrinky Dinks
Once I browsed flickr and found the Teabag Problem Box. He called it this way because some teas are packed in such boxes.
But what I liked best is the the fact that he ‘offers’ the creasing pattern directly (see links below).
On the photo you can see my first try. I burned some CD’s and used the paper where you write what’s on the CD and that I usually throw away for this box.
I think it’s not too bad for a first try ;-)
They can easily be used for an advent calendar.
I looked further for boxes usable for advent calendars and found the following:
Links:
At flickr: Teabag Problem Box
At The Fitful Flog: PDF file with the creasing pattern (ca. 10 KB)
Check also the Model Menu
More boxes that can be used in advent calendars:
And here at unikatissima:
Furthermore there are links on how to decorate in the entry Pattern Paper.
And what can you put into the boxes?
Here at unikatissima:
This week I will present more possible fillings.
This time it’s no tutorial for the necktie flower brooches, but I really liked them and want to see if I can make one.
It cant’ be soo hard ;-)
(The brooch on the photo is a fake, I didn’t want to cut my necktie ;-))
Links:
Necktie Flower Brooches
via art for housewives
I found a very inspiring tutorial on how to make backgound stamps tutorial on how to make backgound stamps.
I say inspiring, because she shows photos of her beautiful backgrounds.
At my Artist-Book I could have done with the stamps, instead I stamped every single diamond.
But it was great, too ;-)
Links:
Handmade Background Stamps: unfortunately the link isn’t available no more.
Here at unikatissima: Artist-Book
Via browsing art for housewives I found the tutorial on how to make a t-shirt with a twist. You sew it from a plain t-shirt and it doesn’t seem to be difficult.
After I lost a little weight I will give it a try ;-)
Links:
T-Shirt With A Twist
via art for housewives