Hi friends, about a month ago I shared the 5 x 7 Expanding Accordion Card, which many of you have loved. I then received quite a few comments and messages asking for me to do a 6 x 6 version, so he…
Abgott, Anne (b,1832 Canada)
Fabric postcard, hot melt glue, raw silk background, sequins a a little bit of beading.
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HOW TO MAKE AN EXPLODING SCRAPBOOK: Making an exploding book is such an easy yet impressive project and can be made to suit any theme from holidays to vacations to hobbies, pets, birthdays, and more! I have been making them for years and I still get questions on how to put them …
I love butterfly crafts, and this is a very straightforward one. A great excuse to use lots of bright colours too! You will need: Toilet paper rolls Paints (we used bottles of poster paints) Scissors Pencil Pipe cleaner 1. Paint your tubes first. To get a really nice mix of bright colours, put two or three blobs of colours that work well together on different plates (ones that don't make sludgy brown when mixed!). Like yellow and red, blue and white, or blue and yellow, green and yellow, yellow and pink, or blue, pink and white. White added to any of these colour combos looks great. We had some ready mixed purple too, which looked lovely with the pink and the blue. This is a great way for kids to experiment with colour mixing, using a simple palette of complementary colours. Give them a big brush to paint with (we often use a pastry brush) - this helps with the mixing and with speed.. and then let them loose! We painted the inside of the tubes as well, but you really don't need to. Works just as well without. Mixing up the complementary colours gives a lovely marbly or sort of tie-dye effect. But if you wanted to do stripes of colours instead, or add some dots, that's totally up to you! 2. When the paint is dry, flatten a tube with your hand and press along the creases, so it's easier to draw on. 3. Use a pencil to mark the outline of your butterfly - for the butterfly body, mark about 3cm/1in along the crease, on the left-hand-side. To get the proportions of the top and bottom wings right, we drew this body line a little closer to the bottom of the tube than the top. (As a guide, our TP roll was about 10cm, the body line starts 4cm from the top of the tube, and finishes roughly 3cm from the bottom of the tube. Draw a curved line from the top of the body line to the top right-hand corner. Make a pencil mark halfway down the body line on the LHS. Draw a straight line from the right-hand edge towards this mark, but leave a gap (of about 2cm). From the end of this line in the centre of the tube, draw a big curve down to the bottom right-hand corner. Then, from the bottom of the body line on the LHS, draw another sweeping curve towards the same corner, but for fuller bottom wings, don't take this line right to the corner, stop a little before. See photo below. 4. Cut out your butterfly, cutting through the doubled-over card. With the middle section, it's easier if you cut along the straight line first, then cut along the curve below, starting at the bottom right-hand corner. 5. Cut away a little sliver of the top wing crease. Cut it at a slight angle. See below. Don't cut off too much! 6. Open up your butterfly. The natural curve of the tube makes a lovely shape. 7. Bend a pipe-cleaner in half and hook it around the middle of your butterfly. Twist the two pieces together to fasten, then wrap one tightly around the other, to make a head. When you're happy, decide how long you want the antennae to be and trim the pipe-cleaners, allowing a little extra if you want to bend over the pointy tips so they're not so sharp. Bend into shape. 8. We made so many butterflies we needed somewhere to put them! So we painted some old cardboard packaging brown (you could leave it its natural colour) and cut out a tree trunk and some branches. We glued them all onto some brown wrapping paper with pva craft glue. But didn't stick down the very ends of the branches, so they stuck out a bit. Then attach a paper clip to the pipe-cleaner on the underside of a butterfly and clip this onto the end of a branch. If you don't want to be able to remove them, you could of course glue the butterflies onto the tree.
Paints, inks and rubber stamps all by Dylusions I just love combining acrylic paints with ink sprays, you can create some lovely effects. I...
Rust & Sunshine shows you how to use toilet paper tubes shaped like a heart and dipped in paint to make cute Valentine's Day cards.
Hope you are enjoying the long weekend with family and friends and celebrating our country! Hope to be back soon with SOMETHING creative to share.
It's been a while, I know. Just too busy with other stuff and just needed some sunlight ;) but ... I started this TP (= toilet...
These DIY constellation cards are the perfect project for a summer afternoon. It's a great way to introduce constellations for kids!
It doesn't get more frugal than this when it comes to a great rhyming activity for kids.
Feel free to use in your artwork.
Ashford Inkle Loom Using an Inkle Loom you can weave warp-faced braids, bands and belts. The Ashford Inkle loom is made from natural finish Silver Beech hard wood and is strongly constructed. The warp tension can be adjusted with the adjustable tension peg. It will hold a warp length up to 2.8m. You can check out the instruction booklet for the Inkle Loom here. If you are looking for a good book to help you get the most out of your Inkle Loom then we recommend The Weavers' Inkle Pattern Directory by Anne Dixon. Specification: Finish: Natural Assembly Required Warp Length: Warp length up to 280cm (110") Included Accessories: - belt shuttle- clamp- step-by-step instruction booklet
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It almost seems like the recycled tp tube can do anything. Today you can transform it into a loom to create fun little friendship bracelets. Pop on over to the blog Happy Hooligans for the easy tut…
