tutu help

[penguin-ford.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know how to make a tutu that stands out straight like this, instead of going down like a skirt, like this?

hooking CDs together?

[xnikki118x.livejournal.com]

I have a bunch of otherwise unusable CDs that I'd like to make...something out of. I plan on hooking them together using large-ish jump rings to form some kind of cool wall hanging or something.

Problem? I can't figure out how to put small holes in the discs to fit the jump rings through. My old standby of making small holes in things was to hold a nail with a pair of pliers over an open flame and use that to burn a small hole through something. [It worked well when I was dating a musician early in high school and liked to wear his guitar picks as jewelry.] That didn't work this time, though. A CD is obviously too strong for your standard paper hole punch.

I'd use a drill if I had to, but I'd rather not go to that extreme...and plus, wouldn't it crack the disc anyway?

I know this is a really dumb question and it's probably very obvious, but I just can't figure out how I can get holes into these discs. Help! =)

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[izziebitt.livejournal.com]

 so my birthday is on nov. 2nd which is all souls day and i thought it be fun to make sugar skulls this year. well, does anyone know where i can get sugar skull molds? or even skull molds? i know of this website, but i was wondering if anyone knows of a store that has them. thanks!

Vintage Halloween ATC

[acidtrix.livejournal.com]

Hi all :) I made this for a contest on Craftster - the challenge was to create a vintage halloween-themed ATC. This is the first ATC i've ever done and i found it challenging to do something so small. but also very fun. ^_^ just thought i'd share since none of my other halloween crafts are ready just yet.

( boo! )

Frame?

[sisterite.livejournal.com]

So I've hit a bit of a road block, creatively, so I figured I'd come over here and talk to you lovely ladies about the issue I'm having. XD

I have a wooden frame that has been painted silver. The inside of the frame (or, the size of whatever would go inside of it) is about 6" by 6" square.

I have no idea what to put in it! I don't have any photos that need frames, or any artwork that I haven't framed yet ... I was thinking about a mixed media piece, but I've never done mixed media before and I have no idea where to start with something like that.

So! Any crafty ideas as to what I could do with a small, empty frame?

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[gardenpicnic.livejournal.com]

Craftgrrls:

I think a lot of us are influenced by vintage & antiques. So i invite you all to join leavesoftea and show off your antique, vintage & thrift finds.

Art Dolls

[empressjad.livejournal.com]

Anyone have suggestions for tutorials/books/magazines for art dolls? My goddaughter is interested in learning how tomake them. What she had in mind was a wire armature covered in muslin and padded out, but with faces/hands/feet sculpted of polymer clay. She's a bit afraid of doing hands, though, so does anyone know a source for various sizes/positioned/ hands? Oh, and eyes. Where can she find realistic glass eyes for dolls? She's thinking 12" to 18" tall.

Felt cutting?

[rdhdsnippet.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know any tips or hints to make it easier to cut felt? Just your normal craft store felt, not wool. I'm trying to cut some pieces to make my son a felt board set of his favorite book and it's a LOT harder than I expected!!

Another felt issue: adhering felt to felt?

[rdhdsnippet.livejournal.com]

Bleh. One more felt question. What's the best thing to glue or otherwise adhere felt to felt, hopefully while remaining reasonably nontoxic?

I'm piecing the parts together of different colored felt on a felt background (think Eric Carle collages), and I'm using a glue stick as of right now, but it's not holding well enough... my two year old will have a field day pulling the bits apart and I will have to cry or kill him, neither of which is a particularly attractive option. :)

I promise I'll post pics when I'm done. :)

New to the community

[princess-magpie.livejournal.com]

Hi, all!

I make hand painted cloth horse dolls, called 'Sparkle Dobbins,' because I cover them in a rainbow sparkle glaze.

Here's one of my favorites, a chestnut Appaloosa mare named 'Beauty Rose':





I use a cotton/polyester mix cloth, polyester stuffing, and acrylic paints and non-toxic sparkle glaze.

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[katjekattekop.livejournal.com]

( necklace pendants, keychain type things. and a piece of history )

Postcards of my visual journal pages

[bestill.livejournal.com]

I had over-sized postcards made of some of my journal pages, and they turned out great! I am really pleased with them. They are 8-1/2" x 11" and I packaged them 5 to a set.

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Halloween costume

[zaqurus.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone, it's my first time posting, and sadly it's all a call for creative genius, not any projects I have completed. My work is having a costume contest and since it's a computer centric field I wanted to be clever and go as a computer virus. I have a red/black leather mask from a rennaisance festival I went to that looks very sinister. I figured I would try and tranform a white tshirt into something I could attach to other clothing, and put random 0s and 1s for binary code. I was also going to tear the shirt to make it look like the binary was torn apart by me, the scary computer virus. I was also thinking of putting labels of random viruses on my clothing or shoes. I have a great pair of ankle boots that have tears in them and can be recycled for the costume.

What I'm looking for is some clever crafty ideas about what I can do to win this contest and how to put a costume together to be completely badass. ANY advice would be awesome!!

Pictures will be taken of end result I promise!

stuff

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( might be a li'l offensive... and enDEERing! )