…compilation of tutorials
I found an instruction on how to make easy gift bags from envelopes. The result looks really nice and I already arranged my envelopes and stamps…
Links:
Very Easy Gift Bagalopes
Here at unikatissima:
Eraser Stamps
More entries with the tag ‘stamping’
A nice method to create beautiful Christmas tree ornaments (and much more) shows this tutorial on how to make string decorated ornaments (French).
It’s very easy:
Best if you check the photos of the instruction, they explain every thing very well.
Links:
String Decorated Ornaments (Décors divers en ficelle) (French)
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.
I’ve seen those boxes in shops and was therefore amazed to find a tutorial on how to make a washi box.
This box stands quite high on my just-try-it-list ;-))
Links:
At evil mad scientist: How to Make Japanese Papercraft Boxes
On a brasilian recycling website I found a good tutorial on how to make a box from PET bottles (click there on ‘Tutorial – How to make a square box’).
I won’t do this because we don’t buy so many PET bottles and if we do we can give them back.
But I think that the tutorial can be used with other materials, too, I will once take a look.
Links:
Utsumi – Crafts with PET plastic, click there on ‘Tutorial – How to make a square box’
I found a tutorial on how to make cute, fast, self-made packages. They are self painted, respectively self stamped boxes like the recycled card pillow box I presented some time ago.
Concerning the stamping I even found an instruction on how to mass produce greeting cards (it is no real mass production, but she’s making a good many beautiful greeting cards ;-))
I had no reason yet to make this, but it is not soo long until Christmas ;-))
On the photo I already arranged my (for a good deal self carved) stamps ;-)
Links:
Decorating Boxes for Special Occasions
Pattern Paper & Mass Produced Cards
At unikatissima:
Recycled Card Pillow Box
Eraser Stamps
I found a tutorial on how to make box dolls – stunning!
Something for my to-do-list! :)
Links:
Box Dolls by Catherine Moore
As mentioned before you sometimes need a little box.
I found instructions on how-to fold a custom card box which can easily be used as little gift box.
And best of all there is Craig Forbes’ Tuckbox Generator where you can fill in the sizes you want and get a PDF file with your special custom template.
Links:
Custom Card Box
Craig Forbes’ Tuckbox Generator
unikatissima’s entry:
Recycled Card Pillow Box
This Thursday started its first challenge which theme is ‘fresh’.
When I heard about I thought immediately about the little polymer clay box I made long ago but am still fond of (not least because of its freshness ;-))
It is a little cardboard box that I covered with polymer clay and embellished with self-made flower and leaf canes (for links to tutorials see links below).
On this picture you see one side of the box. The finger isn’t there by accident, but to show how small the box is ;-))
This is a close-up from the lid. You can see the purple Hydrangea-like flowers with the Jellyroll center and the leaves.
I made the transparent cane with the white dots to simulate those white flower tufts often used by florists.
Just a last close-up.
I mentioned the clothesline crochet before when I described the Simple Cro-Tat.
But because I find clothesline crochet a handy technique when I want to work something stiff (for a little bowl e.g.) I wanted to present the tutorial on how to make clothesline crochet in the round with its own entry (tutorial see links below).
Priscilla Hewitt has also other clothesline crochet tutorials and tipps about what yarns and what clothesline to use (see links below).
On the photo you see my attempt on crocheting such a little bowl.
I used quite a thick string and crocheted with crochet cotton, which is rather thin.
Because I’m always working very loosely, I could never have created a bowl with this yarn.
The clothesline crochet technique made it possible.
Links:
Tutorial on how to make clothesline crochet in the round
Other clothesline crochet tutorials and tipps
Addendum of February 2009: The links above don’t work anymore, you can find the instructions for the clothesline crochet now as PDF (about 540 KB) at Priscilla’s Crochet – Free Pattern Index, check there for ‘Clothesline Crochet’.
Here at unikatissima:
Simple Cro-Tat