Showing posts with label craft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label craft. Show all posts
Slinky Pencil Holder
The end.
Slinkys come in colors, junior size, giant size, plastic, and light up. Oh yeah, maybe I need a light up pencil holder.
What else can you make with a Slinky?
Use your Vitamin C!
Keep it Covered
I got out the glitter and did a Girl World Excavation to find trinkety kinds of things. Then I attached them to cell phone covers. I have rhinestones, sequins, old jewelry, buttons, sew on patches, mirrors, and who knows what else on them.
A big pile of excavation mess and 10 cool phone covers later, I might be feeling a little more interested in creating. Time will tell.
Would you put one of these on your phone?
Don't let your Vitamin C get killed like I did!!!
Dorm Room Purse Name Plaques
And now a dorm room project for Niece 1! She requested name plaques of some kind for herself and her two roomies. I had fun making these!
To make your own purse name plaques, you need:
- short handles leather purse(s) Mine are orange, lime green, hot pink
- gesso
- acrylic paint: black, white, hot pink, turquoise, orange, bright yellow, lime green
- paint brushes: small round, medium flat
- silk flowers on stems
- black permanent marker (optional)
- Tip Pen
- clear matte spray finish
- palette
Here is what I did:
1. Paint gesso on the area of the purse you want to decorate. Let dry. Gesso is like a primer. It hides what is underneath.
7. Using the small round brush, add some green tendrils. Let paint dry a day. Spray a coat or two of clear finish over the paint.
You could paint words instead of names:
Live Laugh Love
Hope Dreams Wishes
Pick up. Your. Clothes.
Use your Vitamin C!
Recycled Frame/Magnet Board
1. Take the frame apart. Spray paint the frame hot pink.
3. Make a border of zebra print duct tape.
My frame already had a sawtooth hanger on it, so it was ready to go. Cute for $7!
Use your Vitamin C!
Steering Wheel Dress Up
You have a name for your car, right? It's not just me?
But, it didn't seem quite right to me and besides i did not want to spend money.
And today, two things made me take action:
- it finally bugged me just enough
- the air conditioner in my car works better than the one in the house
So I got out the cool duct tape and sat in the car with the air and the radio on. My neighbors already think I am nuts, so that didn't matter.
All I had to do was wrap it around the steering wheel. I found it was easier to tear off a section than to wrap with the entire roll attached. But, it will probably depend on how roomy your dashboard is.
Naturally it needed dots. I put them on with acrylic paint and the end of the brush handle.
I don't know how durable it will be but I have more tape! And I like it! And there isn't another one like it...unless you do yours too! You know duct tape comes in all colors and patterns now. Check it out.
Take your Vitamin C before it melts!
Weekend Variety
I spent the holiday weekend in the basement where it was cool and creative. Working on several different things, my creative ADD was satisfied.
First, I finished my canvas that I started during collage class last week. I have been singing this song in my head and it came out here on the canvas. Anyone know the song? When I started this canvas, I was ready to pitch it. I had done too much dark brown on it and it was heavy looking. But, I worked and re-worked and I am now happy with it. It is not in my happiest color palette, but it is good to break out and do something a little different.
Next. Glitter!
Take your Vitamin C!
Imaginina Steals a Mod Podge Lamp Idea
Very funny. It was not exactly stealing, more like a collaboration. A couple weeks ago, I was assigned the endless task of collecting good ideas and pitching dumb ideas. So far, I have looked through ONE journal.
Here is my new advice: when you get a good idea, work on it immediately. Out of a whole journal full of notes, ideas, and drawings, only one thing seemed valid to me. Everything else was outdated, been there done that. Things trend. Strike while the iron is hot.
These cliches and more to come are brought to you by my entrapment in this office.
Yesterday, I found this green tissue paper blowing around in the yard. I have no idea where it came from. The first second I looked at it, I said to myself. "lamp." A hanging tube lamp was the one drawing in the journal I thought was worth working on. Here ya go:
I started with a mylar stencil blank. It was 9" x 18". The black markings were easily removed with nail polish remover.
Here is the paper I found. Thanks to the litterbug that lives in the neighborhood.
I used the paper formula of Mod Podge to attach the paper to the stencil. Brush it on gently, tissue paper is fragile. To make it a big tube, I overlapped the stencil mylar and a flap of paper. See? Let it dry.
While it was drying, I picked through the bead stash to find enough E beads to make dangles.
Then I used a hole punch around the bottom, made dangles on craft wire, and quick as a wink, Bob's your uncle.
It is on a super long electric cord that has a lightbulb at the end of it. I got that at IKEA, but probably all hardware stores have such things. I punched 4 holes at the top edge and wired the cord into the top of the tube. It hangs by the cord over a work table in the studio. The cord is so long, it can be moved over any work station as needed.
It would have been nice to use two layers of stencil mylar for a little more stability, but I had a heck of a time hole punching through just one. So, don't even try it.
And don't burn your house down by putting a high wattage bulb in there.
Do I have to remind you that this project has unlimited applications? Fabrics? Papers? Photos? Doilies? You're creative, think about it.
Imaginina
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