I bet we all have painted furniture that includes drawers. I have never though thought about painting or decorating the sides of them. Well, Ann sent in this tutorial where she dress up the side of her drawers with decoupaged … Read More...
Tutorial and template: Woodland stenciled onesies
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Seriously, what’s better then tea and cats? Nothing! Here’s a fun coloring page that’s free to download from Dover Publication, click here to get it.
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DIY pegboard thread storage in a drawer
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Are you Irish? Although I don’t have any Irish in my blood, I just LOVE St. Patrick’s Day! I guess I’m just obsessed with lucky charms, rainbows, and pinching people who don’t wear green! I also love anything “cloud”, so this year I decided to make some no-sew cloud utensil pockets with pom-pom rainbows for our St. Patrick’s celebration. It has been an extra cloudy winter here, so I figured I would embrace the weather and find a way to celebrate!
These could also be used for any party involving rainbows…Rainbow Brite, My Little Pony, just plain rainbows, etc. They are such a cute addition to your table setting, and every March 17th, you can bring them out again!
Although I used them as utensil pockets, they could also hold favors, gold chocolate coins, or even leprechaun bait!
Step 1
Fold a piece of 8.5×11” cardstock in half, and draw a cloud shape, or find a cloud online and print off a template.
Step 2
Fold your 8.5×11” piece of felt in half, and trace your cloud template on one side, using a permanent marker. With the piece of felt still folded in half, cut right inside the lines to cut out your cloud. Now you should have two felt clouds.
Step 3
Using a needle and fishing line, thread 3 pom-poms in different sizes and colors onto the line. Spread them out with a couple of inches in between each pom-pom.
Step 4
Tie one end of the fishing line around the bottom pom-pom. Cut the fishing line off the spool about 2-3 inches above the top pom-pom. Thread a bead on the top end of fishing line, and make several knots around the bead, leaving a couple inches between the bead and pom-pom.
Step 5
Repeat step 4 two more times, so that you have 3 strands of pom-poms, with a single bead at the top of each strand.
Step 6
Squeeze a line of glue onto one felt cloud about ½” from the edges, but leave a good portion of the top of the cloud un-glued.
Step 7
Lay the beads from your pom-pom strands over the glue at the bottom of the cloud, and place your second felt cloud directly over the first cloud. Push the clouds together all the way around the glued edges, and squeeze them together until they begin to dry.
Step 8
Place a pair of false eyelashes on top of the cloud, and move them around until you are satisfied with their placement. The kind I used were sticky enough to stay on their own, but you may need to add a tiny strip of glue to the lashes.
Step 9
Use a blush brush to apply a small circle of blush to the “cheeks” of your cloud.
Once your cloud is dry, you may add utensils, napkins, straws, or even favors!
Happy crafting!
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A clay that I’ve had very little chance to try is resin clay. There’s a few brands out there and they mostly seem to work like air drying clay, curing at room temperature over a period of time.
Designer Pam Bray combined lots of different technique like dry embossing, wire twisting, die cutting, stamping and stenciling for this fun camper card. Visit the Eileen Hull blog for the tutorial.
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One of our mottos here is to reduce, reuse, and recycle! Some of our all-time favorite craft projects are born from recycling or repurposing materials and we do it as often as we can! We hold onto neat looking bottles and cool colored containers for as long as possible, and then turn it all into a super fun craft! Some crafty messes do need a trash bag though, and we can always count on Glad. Crafting and DIY messes are no match for Glad’s new Kitchen Pro trash bags – they come with double the protection making it Glad’s biggest, strongest kitchen trash bag yet!
This time, we spent an afternoon dreaming up these DIY boats. Most of our recyclables are clear or neutral in color, so we decorated them with blue and green tape for a playful, nautical vibe. We made a few different styles of boats using the materials we had on hand, but the possibilities are really endless! Keep on reading for a free printable template to make your own custom paper boats. When we were done crafting for the day, we put all our supplies away, toss the recyclables in the bin, and anything we can’t possibly repurpose anymore goes into the trash. Glad Kitchen Pro offers 53% more bag, for 53% more fun – so go ahead, enjoy more fun-filled crafty afternoons!
Step 1
Print out the boat template and cut out. Trace onto a piece of thin cardboard, like an empty cereal box.
Step 2
Cut out the cardboard boat and fold along the dotted lines.
Step 3
Use hot glue to secure the tabs together to form a triangle-shaped boat. Now the fun part – start covering your boat with duct tape! This will help keep your boat dry in water.
Step 4
Continue covering your boat with duct tape. Electrical tape is a great option too – we used it here to make these stripes inside the boat.
Step 5
To make the sail, cut a paper triangle and hot glue one edge to a wooden skewer. You can play around with the size of your sail, but this one was 3 1/4” across the bottom and 4 1/2” tall. Use paint or tape to decorate your sails if you like!
Step 6
Use a dab of hot glue to temporarily attach the wooden skewer into the center of the boat, holding it in place until dry. To make it more secure, cut a piece of electrical tape about 1” long and snip one edge into mini fringe. Wrap the tape around the skewer, pressing the fringed tape onto the boat to secure. Your paper boat is now complete!
Step 7
For a pontoon-style boat, cut a piece of cardboard into a rectangle to be the top-raft portion of the boat. Cover the cardboard in tape.
Step 8
Use more tape to attach two water bottles together, and then tape or hot glue the raft on top. Make and attach a sail the same way as before.
Step 9
For an even simpler boat, use an empty shampoo or conditioner bottle as the base, decorate with tape, and attach the sail on top.
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This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Glad. The opinions and text are all mine.
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