jueves 2 de julio de 2009

Plant Pot Pets


What you need

Plant pot
Pom-pom
Acrylic paint
Wobbly eyes
Silver wire
Small beads
Glue or double sided tape

How to make

1-Paint a plant pot with acrylic paint, applying two coats if required. Allow to dry.
2-Decorate with spots or stripes in a contrasting colour.
3-Glue two wobbly eyes onto a pom-pom. Attach a bead onto the end of a fine piece of wire. Wind the wire around the bead and back through the hole then cut off any excess.
4-Thread the other end of the wire through the pom-pom and back up again to form antennae. Attach a bead on the other end of the wire in the same way.
5-Secure the pom-pom to the rim of the pot using glue or double sided tape to make your plant pot pet.

By: Hobbycraft

Foam Heart Pins


What you'll need:

Large craft foam hearts (blue or pink)
Colorful beads or alphabet beads
Glitter glue in blue and pink
White craft glue
Pin backs

How to make it:

1-For pink heart, draw a heart in the middle of the pink foam heart with white craft glue. Place colorful beads onto the heart shaped glue.
2-Squeeze pink glitter glue into the middle of the beaded heart. Let dry.
3-For the blue heart, glue letters onto the front spelling out “BE MINE”.
4-Pipe green glitter glue around the outer border of the blue heart. Let dry.
5-When completely dry, glue a pin back onto the back and let dry.

Tips:
1-Foam hearts are available in any craft supply store and can be bought in small packages or large bonus bags.
2-Use an old fishing tackle box to sort out your beads, pins, and buttons.
3-If you don’t have glitter glue, pipe white glue on and sprinkle glitter on top and let dry.

By: Kaboose

domingo 6 de julio de 2008

Cross Stitch: Disney Magic- Creative Crafts for All











Nice rooster - Creative Crafts for All




Materials

White, yellow, red and black felt

Cotton rope

Plastic rings,

Fleece


Instructions

1-Transferir the patterns to a acetate base through a indelible fiber.Then cut the parts marked.

2-Sewing the head, beak, wings, legs and body, leaving slits to fill with fleece.

3-Sewing eyes peer and peak.

4-Joining the neck by the head and body. Then stick to the sides of the body wings through the silicon gun.

5-Then, sewing beak and eyes. For legs, cut two strips of cotton rope A tip of the rope hitting the leg and another tip to the body.

6-Cut a strip of red felt (32 x 8 cm) to makethe rooster's crest. Fold the same in 4 parties and then by half. Then cut strips along. Finally paste the ridge with silicone to rooster's head.

7-Finally, embroider the pupils of the eyes by the contour and delineate the grooves in the legs, wings and peak, with stitches backward. sew the plastic ring behind the head.

Angel for Baptism - Creative Crafts for all



Materials:

*Plant Pot of mud

*Wooden stick of 2 x 30cm

*Star of wood

*Foam board

*Squares pink paper

*2 pink malleable sticks
*2 white malleable sticks

*Acrylic Paintings: cake pink, pink, white, unbleached titanium, cream, black.

*Silicon Gun

*Indelible fibre

*Small wooden stick

*Sponge


Instructions
1-Paint the pot in pink. Waiting to dry and detail the edge with white and pink dots.

2-With a ruler mark a horizontal line in the past two peaks of the
star to differentiate the shades.

3-Paint part the top and the stick with pastel pink; and the
bottom with cream.

3-Transfer the design angel at the top of the star and paint in pink.Paint the wings in cream color and the face in unbleached titanium color. With the liner brush perform dots and stripes on the edge of the star.

4-Paste a piece of Foam board in the plant pot and putting the wooden stick with the star.
Cover with the pink paper and decorate with pink and white malleable sticks.

5-Paint the star in pink cake. Finally, decorate the edge of the lid with white and pink dots, using the stick of wood.