More paper stars.

[abirdalone.livejournal.com]

I stumbled upon a website tutorial on how to make "Finnish Stars." I thought they looked really interesting and figured that someone might find the information useful.

Stenciled Hoodie

[liebschien.livejournal.com]

Hello. Tonight I started stenciling a ( hoodie. )

Necklace for Xmas

[marcymoshalot.livejournal.com]

So I made my friend a charm necklace for Xmas...
All the charms represent something that she likes....
1)Hearts
2)Fleur de lis
3)Babies @ Safety pins
4) The Letter "F" for her name
5)Armadillos
6)Axes
7)Saws
8)Keys
9)Guns
10)Spoon, Knife and Fork for Food :)
11)Bows
the only thing I left out was the Roller Skate and Cat
oh well

Here it is:)






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[reebert.livejournal.com]

This is an ordinary kids table from Ikea that I spruced up for a little girl who's favorite colors are pink and yellow.

Texted only -sorry

[h473-l0v3.livejournal.com]

Hey all..

i have a question..

Does anyone know where i can get this or what its called?

when you close envolopes then you can put some sort of wax design on it?
like a rose or etc.

thanks for helping me. <3

Trying Woodcut printing

[kiiosells.livejournal.com]

Well, I thought I'd branch out from my normal craftiness this Christmas and do some woodcut/wood block printing on my Christmas cards. I vaguely remember how to do this from high school art class, and I'm pretty good with the wood side of things, but what sort of paint/ink should I use? Is card stock okay for the paper? Thanks!

painting computers

[nakedyouth.livejournal.com]

so. i'm moving out next month and i finally get to do neat grown up things like paint my walls whatever color i damn well please.
and being that i am painting everything i own brown, i wnat to paint my computer. especially my computer. because its ancient, huge and hideous. much like most technological inventions. if they could make a nice wooden or wrought iron computer casing, i would be pleased.

but my question is this: is it even a good idea to paint a computer? i know they can get warm. would the cause a problem with the paint? and what about painting the enormous monitor? i don't want to spray paint it lest the paint spray inside through the vents. i could use a paintbrush of course, but i'm still concerned about drippage.
anyone done this before?

if i fuck up, its no skin off my teeth because i got this thing for free from freegeek so its not like i'm losing any money. but i'd rather not because its the computer with the FUN stuff on it, whereas my laptop is my music box.

bedside table

[anairdna.livejournal.com]

i finished this a couple months ago. i started off as a kind of pale pinkish maybe, and had some chips in the drawer. i filled in the missing parts of the drawer, and painted it. the pictures arent great because all i have is a little webcam.

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Present for my niece

[sparkyk1971.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure this qualifies as a craft, but I just made it for my niece and I'm pretty proud of how it came out.  Backstory:  My niece, who is twelve years old, saw Hotel Rwanda and astounded us all by asking us to donate to www.helpdarfurnow.org instead of buying her any Christmas presents this year.  Twelve years old!!!  A girl after my own little activist heart.

Of course I respected her wishes and donated!  I am so proud of her.  But so she has something to open under the tree, I just made her this poster which I will print out on Monday.  I love to collage in any format!!!  Our printer at work inserts an automatic 1/4" border around everything, so that's why any image that I want the whole thing to show does not reach quite all the way to the edge.



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Something for Christmas.

[blinkyshinyme.livejournal.com]

The doves are made with fimo clay and I added swarovski crystals to the white dove for a little touch of class. :)

Peace
 

They can be worn both ways... with or without the blings.

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I Need Crafty Responses!

[imindiaunajones.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I made every member of my family felted bowls for Christmas and I'm going to fill them with some pretty rocks. The problem: I have no idea how to wrap them. The bowls are really flimsy and I don't want to wrap them all on their own like that (especially with rocks, as the rocks will probably tear through wrapping paper). So I want to put them in little boxes, but I don't have any little boxes! I only have big brown boxes that definately will not work for gifts.

What are some creative ideas that do NOT involve buying boxes to put them in? As a last resort, I'll go out and purchase some gift boxes, but I'd like to avoid that. =)

Thanks!

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[sister.livejournal.com]

i had a general question: I wanted to try something with scultpy, but im at my grandmothers for the weekend and by the time i get back from the store she'll probably be asleep - when you bake clay, does it smell? I dont want to wake her up.

questions about resin

[mezzanine27.livejournal.com]

( tartedelune do not read!!! )

Christmas crafts

[bluehwys.livejournal.com]

I finished my neighbor's baby blanket Sunday night, yay! I used the same pattern I used for the first baby blanket I did (that I never got pictures of, boo) so it was pretty easy. I like the yarn I used for this one better than the yarn for the first one.

( Baby blanket )

Now I'm working on some small blankets for one of the local animal shelters. I figure it's a good way to get some practice without the pressure of it having to be 'perfect', plus the animals get little blankies to cuddle. :)

I also shamelessly stole tydyehippo's 'snowman kit' idea. :P

( Snowman kits )

I couldn't find little jars, so used those plastic ornaments that you can fill and snap together. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to put labels on them or not. Their scarves are actually a darker blue than in the pictures, and I used orange toothpick ends for carrots because I couldn't find mini carrots and no way was I making my own. I also glued the ornaments together because they didn't close very tight. I'm giving them away to family, co-workers, and neighbors. I still have nine more to make, but I think I'm done for the night, lol.

Another tree....

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I hope you guys aren't getting tired of seeing trees...eep!
The red is very deep and quite beautiful. The background is very bright but the colours are richer than they are here.
I'll have to try and get a photo of it in the daylight.

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[meankitten.livejournal.com]

I have parents who "have everything" so for Christmas this year I decided to do something home-made for them. They are wine lovers so I thought of making wine charms. I don't have experience with wire work or beading, but I found a few good tutorials online. Problem is, they all say to use something different. Some say earring findings, some say memory wire coils, and some say just wire hoops. Considering my lack of experience, what do you suggest? Also, they all suggest different size of beads. Some 3mm, some 5mm, etc. Does it matter? Anything else I should know before heading to Joann's tomorrow?

Thanks!

new bat

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

just had to use this cute fabric on something :]

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[exousia.livejournal.com]

( New Charm Bracelets )

Such a Busy Elf!

[vamprayne.livejournal.com]

I was so busy yesterday!

I had to mail out (most) of my holiday cards, finish up some gift card shopping, do some of my own shopping, more holiday shopping then home to craft.

Since I got most of my out of town family gift cards, and the envelopes they come in are lame, and the fancy ones are expensive, I thought I'd make my own!

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Enjoy