First Stencil.

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"A DUDE THAT GOES BY THE NAME, STEVE"
Wet Hot American Summer T-Shirt Stencil



My first stencil. I plan on adding more when I get my razor technique down. I deffinatly see my mistakes in this, and I'm going to work on them some more. Eventually I want to be doing layers & deffinition stencils with my own photographs. So how is it for a first try? Any tips?

ps. in my defense, the picture makes the edges look more rough than than actually are. ;)

2 Necklaces

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A few more pounds of seed beads to go....

( ...The Ocean & A Rose... )

teatime!!!

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Did this the other day with a square cork board, leftover tea slips, sharpie and white acrylic paint. My father is English so I've grown up with teatime everyday in some form. Now that I'm in college I tend to have 2-4 cups of tea a day, so I thought I'd pay homage to it. Sealed the entire thing with gloss medium. Works great with tacks but I use it as a mat for the tea kettle.

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hello everyone!

i, like most people, have been keeping up with the news, reading about what has been happening to hurricane victims. i feel the need to do something, and since being so low on money, i can't really afford to donate cash. however, i do have a yarn and fabric stash that's pretty big and i figured i could make a few homemade toys and blankets for the children who have lost everything. i can't imagine what they're going through right now, trying to get rescued, or being forced to live in a deteriorating football stadium. i think that something cheery and homemade would at least give them a bright spot in their days.

the thing is, i've looked around and i don't really see any sites that want that. has anyone found something? has anyone else donated something?

I made a shamble!

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From some random stuff on my desk.

Before:



In case you were wondering, that's:

• a marble


• a dice (die?)


• two screws


• a scrap of fabric


• a button


• a bit of masking tape


• a battery


• a piece of scoubidou


• a slightly mangled safety pin


• a little piece of paper


• a fairy-lights lightbulb


• a swirly rubber


• a shiny red glass pebble


• a pencil


• some thread


• a penny

( After: )

Miss Level would be proud...

PS. These are really fun to make - why don't you do your own?

x-posted to craftster.org, my journal, discworld, craftgrrl.

First Finished Custom Made Dress

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I had my very first custom order for a homecoming dress, and I just finished it yesterday.



( The Process )

ooh, there's a peek of our green walls in the background, now that I"m finished w/ this project I'll have some time to post some more pictures of our place!

Eh...how would you describe it?

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Beneath this cut is the most heinous hat known to man, and a pair of rather cute fingerless gloves. That hat and gloves I made without a pattern, using some Art Lab yarn (that's the chunky, pretty stuff). I am drafting a pattern (which I doubt any normal human would be able to understand, such is the oddness of my brain) so that the gloves will at least be the same size next time (one's longer than the other).

( Scary beyond all reason? )

Craftiness Abounds...

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I made a couple of scores last week in two of the upscale neighborhoods I work in. I found an Adirondack chair in Sunset Beach that someone was throwing away just because most of the varnish had peeled off. Brought it home, and it's solid as a rock and comphy as hell. I just need to sand it a little bit on the sides, and back to get rid of the last of the varnish, and fill a couple of small nail holes with wood putty. I've been looking for wallpaper for my doll "house", so my first fabulous idea was to wallpaper the Adirondack chair and then lacquer the whole thing, but now I'm thinking I will create some stencils of baroque wallpaper. So far I haven't found a pattern I like. So I need you help for suggestions and links… ;)

I'm always looking around for cute ideas for the garden and a while back I saw a headboard and footboard in someone's front yard... it took me half a second to get that it was a Flower Bed! Very cute, it was slatted and they even had sweet peas growing on the foot and headboards. Yeah, cute. But not something I'd probably do at home. Then Jake came home and told me about a headboard he saw. Said he thought it looked like an antique so I thought I'd go check it out. It wasn't an antique but it's really neat looking so we took it. I've decided to make it into a bench and paint the whole thing a pale, dreamy blue and put it in the white garden surrounded by potted ivy and gardenia, etc. When we move, I plan to make a pebble mosaic for it to sit on.

And! My grapevine produced lots of grapes this year. They were super sweet as you bit into them and then they turned incredibly sour. I composted most of them. But it also produced a mass of
thick cool looking vines, and as pruning time approaches I am brainstorming ideas for ways to use them. So far most of my ideas are pretty obvious... trellises... bean and pea teepees... picture frames… Of course, there are always wreaths. But I'm really not a wreath girl. Again, I need your suggestions!! You guys are crafty as hell, so you ought to be able to come up with some good stuff!
Much to do!
I'm looking so forward to the slow season this year!

First Post! Pics and a Question! And Image-Heavy!

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Hello hello! My name is Emily, and I've been crafting since, well, forever! I've been lurking here for weeks in an attempt to reawaken my crafting spirit.

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hey everyone!
I've been feeling crafty recently, and I didn't want to use my sewing mach so.. I've been knitting alot.
Squid. He helps protect Fredrico.

More pics of Squiddy under cut. Pluss More.

( *** Sushi Anyone?*** )

Enjoy!

origami art

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I made a TON of paper cranes & I want to make a mobile out of them.. but I heard somewhere that it's like.. bad luck to make things out of paper cranes. or maybe it was just bad luck to wear them? Does anybody know about this? haha sorry <3 I know it's kind of lame.. but im just wondering.

text only. sorry =[

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[100wonton.livejournal.com]

hi everyone =D
i have a quick question
do you know where i can get plain fitted hoodies ?
because they sell such cute fitted hoodies these days with designs on them but they run around $50.
i figure i can buy a plain one and design it myself :) so do you know where i can get one for less ?

thank you in advance ^_^

Record Album Sleeve Tote

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After seeing this little tutorial, I decided I simply had to have one for myself. However I am cheap and lazy and therefore did not find I needed grommets, hole punchers, laminating paper, and so on.



( nobody puts baby in the corner )

X-posted

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Stencil by me.

( Gee I'd like a Harley machine, Toolin' around like I was James Dean, Makin' all the guys on the corner turn green. )

A few somewhat odd questions for sculptural reference

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I have some questions about materials I pla on using in my AP Studio Design 3D class.

Wire:
What crochet/knitting needles would match 26-30 guage wire?
I'd like to use smallsmall wire, and not have the fabric too loopy as I want to use it along with wire mesh.

Fabric:
What is the most airy, sheer, yet solid fabric you can think of?(By sold I mean not tulle, or anything with largish holes)I was thinking thin silk or sheer drapery fabric... but what is the name of the drapery fabric?
What can dye said fabric easily?
And how would one spraypaint fabric without it being stiff and thick?
Or what sort of easily blendable, light paint/dye is there for fabric?

Finally, some plastic questions:
How would one melt plastic grocery bags just enough to attach them together?
And what somewhat common plastic could be melted enough to drape over an object while it's still warm?

If anyone can throw some pointers or links on the wire somtime before tommorow afternoon, that'd be AWESOMETASTIC.
Thanks guys! <3
[and if I get the the pointers and such after tommorow, I will just wait till next week to get the correct supplies, on our grocery run, with gas being so high and scarce here, there will be no extra running about ;-;]

And I will definately show what I am making when I'm done! But the topic is my secret for now :3