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I’ve got things to share with you all this week, but having dropped and mortally wounded my camera, I’m pictureless for a couple days. So instead, here are a few things from around the crafty universe that have caught my eye lately:
Sugar Ornaments have me all compelled. You mix sugar with egg whites and color, and then press it into candy molds or cookie cutters. It apparently dries hard, and you can pipe royal icing decorations onto it. You can even add glitter to the sugar. These appear to be stencilled. And check out Carol Duvall’s take – a hollowed-out sugar diorama!
Q-Tip Snowflakes, my friends. Seriously, I see great potential here. Imagine them with a little of that fantastic Martha Stewart glitter.
I think Cathy of California has firmly re-established folded magazine crafts in the modern lexicon. Check out this folded magazine tree from the Reader’s Digest website. Now here’s what I’m thinking: wouldn’t it be cool to make these in a tiny, ornament size? You could start with just a little hand-stapled booklet, made from a fairly thin paper so it has lots of pages. Hmmmmmm . . . .
On a Flickr bender recently, I stumbled across Su’s gorgeous pipecleaner wreaths! I am SO making some of these. So many cute things to see in this set of hers.
When my family made sugar decorations for Easter several years ago, we used royal icing for decoration. Fun, but hard to control, and not kid friendly. But this year, when we decorated sugar skulls for Day of the Dead, we got a great tip and used magic markers! The rough sugar surface does cause the marker tip to felt, but the marker is bright, easy to control, involves no clean up, and is simple for kids to use. My daughter’s second grade class decorated sugar skulls with markers and had a blast! The sugar ornaments do dry hard, although in our wet climate, you may need to assist the drying process in a very, very low oven (200 degrees, maybe).
When my family made sugar decorations for Easter several years ago, we used royal icing for decoration. Fun, but hard to control, and not kid friendly. But this year, when we decorated sugar skulls for Day of the Dead, we got a great tip and used magic markers! The rough sugar surface does cause the marker tip to felt, but the marker is bright, easy to control, involves no clean up, and is simple for kids to use. My daughter’s second grade class decorated sugar skulls with markers and had a blast! The sugar ornaments do dry hard, although in our wet climate, you may need to assist the drying process in a very, very low oven (200 degrees, maybe).
so glad those folks at reader’s digest are into crafts!
so glad those folks at reader’s digest are into crafts!