Feeling a bit guilty about the big box of paper and craft bits I ordered with my birthday money, I decided to make up some card sets to bundle for charity sales have stared with Docrafts forever friends and will work to a target of selling 80 cards or raising £80 whichever is first achieved. Better get going!
A canister too nice to throw away but bearing branded copy needed playtime.
Ordinary craft paper (Docrafts floral collection) was stuck with mod podge gloss decoupage stuff and then sealed with it too. To cover some untidy cutting on the lid, I stuck on the ott fringe.
Now just need to decide what to store in it.
Wet Sunday means finish a craft project before you start a new one…
six large green pieces of glass found on the beach just by the house were painted with a coat of Dulux ‘made by me’ paint then roughly wire wrapped and strung on gold thread.
I even covered a nice tin with some Victorian Christmas paper to put them in. And there is one spare for us too.
The drinks coasters were looking a bit sad, after years of (over) use they needed replacing or refreshing…
I was feeling guilty after a craft supplies binge so this is a no spend craft session
Supplies: modpodge decoupage glue and a strip of wallpaper from the wrapping box (I buy the remnant rolls from time to time) plus some gold pigment ink from my stamping box
method: cut wallpaper to just a bit bigger than needed. Matt modpodge on paper and coaster then rub carefully on, when nearly dry turn coaster over and trim excess paper with a scalpel, care round the corners. Rub the ink pad around the edge of the coaster top to blend it in with the gilt sides. Let ink dry then seal with gloss modpodge.
cheers!
Ten cards and a box from my free (p&p only) hunkydory kit from create and craft. And I am only half way through the kit. Card bases and card from my stash was added but still a great value activity.
IKEA mirror upcycle – I found some Cath Kidston paper serviettes on sale (45p the packet!). They are soooo pretty that I decided to use them for crafting. I peeled off the plain paper liner and pasted a thin layer of mod podge on the mirror. Rather than tearing the napkin into pieces, decided to keep the chequerboard structure in tact which entailed some fussy tearing around the mirror. Decided my fussy tearing wasn’t neat enough so some contrast washi tape provided a central contrast to finish things off.
The napkins wrinkled to provide a lovely texture to the finished mirror.
As recommended, when I got my Janome decor doc 3050, I made a stitch sampler. But rather than have a useless but decorative piece hanging around – I decided to make it into a bag to hold the presses feet and accessories.
main challenge for this was putting the continuous zipper together, I find threading the zip on tough despite following YouTube videos carefully. Nevertheless continuous zips make financial sense and are worth the fiddle. Maybe I will be organized and thread all the bits together before I need them ?
Half of an embroidery hoop covered in bias binding – I didn’t have enough white ribbon to cover the hoop – then 16 scan n cut library shapes cut, each one twice, and sandwiched round some twine which was tied to the hoop. All fixed with hot glue and some buttons glued on to finish the hoop off.
next time I will use two dowels instead and some bakers twine instead. Loads of great circus shapes on the scan n cut canvas projects site to use or even a Christmas version with snowflakes etc.
An old tablecloth up cycled into a shoe bag and a something else drawstring bag with appliqué decoration.
i used my new ScanNCut to transform scraps into appliqué shapes. Heat and bond lite gives lightweight cotton enough support for the machine to cut fine lines.
after ironing the shapes into position on the bag front panels I used zig zag to stitch them down.
Then I cut a matching back panel and pinned the panels top sides facing. I marked a gap for the drawstring channel between 2 and 5 cm from the top of each side and sewed around the rest of the sides and bottom. I boxed the corners to give a bit more shape to the bag as well.
rather than lining this heavy fabric I just ironed a 0.5 hem at the top and used a length of 4 cm bias binding to form the drawstring casing as well as fix the hem down. I zig zagged each side of the bias binding in place to make sure it was firmly attached.
I folded two more lengths of the same binding for each bag as I didn’t have any ribbon long enough for the drawstrings. These were pinned to a safety pin and threaded through the gaps in the seams and around the casing, one from each side seam. Finally each length of binding was knotted to secure it, on one I sewed some buttons to make the knot even firmer.
what to do when you aren’t 100 percent? Craft of course!
Here is a selection of the cards made from kits. Now that my scan n cut is here, the next batch will be something else.
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