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[brainysmurf.livejournal.com]

I work for a public library and help run our summer reading programs (3 different programs, 6 hours of events a week for about 7 weeks). Tonight was our third teen summer reading program event and we had a local artist come in and teach a workshop on altered books. I've done collage art before (I make handmade journals), but never tried an altered book, so of course I had to get in on the fun! ( Check out my handiwork! )

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[blamebpd.livejournal.com]

I've been a member of this community for so long and had never posted. Well, here's the new reversible purse I made a few days ago based on this tutorial.

( reversible purse, YAAAYYYY )

And also a purse I knitted a few months ago but it was my first knitted purse and came out horrible so I had put it away, but now I sewed a lining for it and it's wearable, my next one is definitely going to be wider and is not going to have that wide bottom.
( knitted ugly purse )

3 Ovens died on Me

[blinkyshinyme.livejournal.com]

But I am back with vengence with my sewing machine and other crafts!

I bought 3 brand new ovens and they all died on me.  It took me 3 ovens to realise that there was nothing wrong with the ovens initially, it was all my wall sockets fault! Argh!

Thankfully, it is all fixed now, and I made new rings with my new oven and new wall socket.



So when i had no oven to work with, I turned to my sewing machine and made some wrist clutches.

( MAD SEWING )

Sheepish

[azufre.livejournal.com]

Aren't they cute? It is the first project I made of which (?) everything was hand made... accept the wool ofcourse, i had to steal that from some sheep. But go me.

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[blamebpd.livejournal.com]

What can I do with Starbucks cards that won't damage them but will still show their prettiness?

I'm a BANANA!

[reenii.livejournal.com]

So my little sister and I are both broke yet we are at times material girls, so i began crafting
This is for her friend maddy's birthday. Maddy likes bananas


( banana+heffalump bag +gingy the shrek gingerbread man )

Question for the Masses

[brainysmurf.livejournal.com]

For those of you who make 1 inch buttons, I was curious as to what press you use/where you got it? I have an old Badge-a-minit button maker, but it's the larger version... I'd love to invest in a 1 inch button maker, but I'd kind of like to find out whether there's a variety of makers -- or whether I *have* to go with one of the ones that costs hundreds of dollars.

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[sabbitha.livejournal.com]

ive been making puppets recently, and these are two for a client. they wanted two australian monsters as cute puppets for an exhbition.

so introducing the Bunyip and the Doolagah!



( right this way for more pics of the monster puppets and the monster myths )

and for those of you who work with toy and fake fur, the best thing i ever learned about that is when youre cutting it, dont use sissors and jsut hack away like you do with material, because you always end up with short hairs at the cut and makes it much harder to hide seams. instead, turn the fur over and gently slit the backing material with a razor or scaple. that way you part the material without cutting the hair in any way. SO useful i needed to share it.

and for those of you who are wanting to make foam puppets like these (how the muppets were made) i cannot recommend more highly the book 'The Foam Book, an easy guide to building polyfoam puppets' by drew allison and donald devet

New Wristlets

[flapi.livejournal.com]

Now I've started to make wristlets for my Measuring Tape Collection. What do you think? :-)

Horror Chest

[exquisitegeek.livejournal.com]

I decoupaged this jewelry box three years ago. It was glued and painted in the kitchen and lived there for a long time until my mother got tired of it sitting in the kitchen, and I moved it up to my room, unfinished. I've since been using it, and fearing wear and tear after three years, I finally decided to touch up the paint and give it a good coat of protective varnish. And a craftgrrl post, of course.

All the images came from old issues of Fangoria and Nickelodeon magazines. It's painted in acrylics and glued with modge podge. The dripping blood is red glass paint, and the black flowers were, I believe, just done in sharpie. It used to have a cherry-like finish. There is a picture of what it originally looked like deep, deeeep in my image folders, but you can imagine, can't you?

If I were covering it today, I would incorporate a little Pinhead and Regan MacNeil and cover the front doors more like the top and sides. I could do a cleaner paint job now, too, but I like it just the same. ^_^


( Horror movies and I have been in love with eachother for a long time. )

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[grammardog]

Okay, I know no one likes a "what can I do with _____?" post, but it's got to be done.

Does anyone have any brilliant ideas for a bunch of single mittens? I've been cleaning up my basement and I've found a ton of pretty handknitted one-of's that I hate to throw away, but seriously - single mittens.

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[naughtyknitty.livejournal.com]

I didn't see anything about this in the memories... please help! 

I want to do a stencil of Happy Cat, but unfortunately the stencil I have is not one big piece of black to cut out... I will be trying to cut out the white parts of this stencil (picture under cut) but some bits of the cat that should not be painted will be lost from the stencil when I cut out the rest, like his eyebrows and pupils. How do I fix that? I will be using freezer paper to do it if that helps at all. Can I iron on the freezer paper first, then cut out the white parts and peel them off, leaving the unconnected black bits freestanding and sealed onto the shirt in the correct place for me to paint around? I hope this makes sense, please let me know if I need to clarify anything. 

( Happy Cat stencil is here )

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[swandive452.livejournal.com]

Im finishing up the tail end of this pattern

http://www.amybutlerdesign.com/products/patterns_display.php?id=23

and am putting the zipper in - but have never ever done a zipper - i dont know if my machine even has a zipper foot and so im wondering - can i do this part by hand?
any recommendations as to what kind of stitch to use?

the pattern turned out awesome thus far btw... im supper happy with it as im NOT so good at this sewing thing

my first post

[urass.livejournal.com]

I've been watching this community for about a week or so now, and first and foremost I'd like to say that you girls are SO talented! I don't think there has been one thing posted on here that I wasn't in awe of! So keep up the good work (as if you need any encouragement, but ya know.. ;) )
Anyways, its gotten my creative juices flowing again, which I'm very thankful for, because I always seem to be more at peace when I'm able to get all that out. So, I decided my first "craft" would be a t-shirt for my niece's birthday today.

( check it out )

Forest Spirit box

[dolphin-daze.livejournal.com]

Here is a new box I painted recently. I actually liked how it turned out so much that I painted two more similar boxes and am going to do matching clay pendants I think for the box.



( Read more... )

Project 3, 30 projects in 30 days

[genericgirl.livejournal.com]

Hey all, I just finished my 3rd project, down to the wire but I still got it done.

This one is a lined wristlet with a crow die-cut. I need to take better pictures tomorrow but I wanted to get it up for day number 3.

EDIT: I switched out the pictures for better ones.



( more images this way. )

Poopstick.

[lamp90210.livejournal.com]

Hey guys,
Been sewing since I was 13, Im now 17. This is actually, sadly, my first post in this community. Ive been lurking here for years.. Thought it was about damned time!
Purse made out of a 70's pillowcase
Lining is black felt.

( And the men march further on... )

Photo Slide Night Light

[halofire.livejournal.com]

A co-worker adopted a child from Korea and we got to have a baby shower where the guest of honor was actually present (and fully developed!)! He's adorable!

I pulled some photos the new mom had taken and shared with us of some of his "firsts" and printed them out on laser-printer transparency sheets, and put them into slide mounts.

Making the little frame for the slides to hang on was the biggest pain. I just cut up an old hanger and bent it around until it worked. I drilled two holes into the side of the plastic bulb shield of a plain old boring night light to fix the frame to.

( Photo Slide Night Light )