From the category archives:

Oddball Crafts

A Plastic Canvas Design… by me!

September 24, 2009

I know what you’re saying…

“Sure, Diane, you blog about this plastic canvas stuff all the time, but why don’t you put your weird obsession where your mouth is and MAKE something with it?”

Right you are! And I just did!

  

I turned the PC into a sturdy case for crafty tools. This Hook, Needle, Pencil Case also [...]

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Embroidery + Metal?

August 10, 2009

Here’s something I’ve been noodling around with lately – embroidered metal discs!

Wait – what?

I bought a bag of these perforated beading discs a while back, intending to make some beaded pieces a la Miriam Haskell.

Only I never quite got around to those, and eventually a different light bulb went on over my head. I could [...]

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Playing with Hambly Screen Prints: Ceramic and Glass

June 26, 2009

 

I’m knee-deep in a couple big projects this week, but carved out a little time to do some more playing with my Hambly rub-ons. I had a thrifted ceramic plate and a dollar store candle holder. Perfect!

I was mostly interested in how these bad-boys perform on a curved surface. And I was really happy with [...]

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Giveaway! Geeking Out! The Art of Handmade Flowers

June 9, 2009

So, I reviewed this book a while back, but the nice people at New Sheer Creations sent me a copy to give away, and some supplies to make flowers with. (Thank you, Fe!)

Last night, I entirely redeemed a not-so-great day by diving into nylon flowers. Wanna see?

The materials are simple – I’ve made pantyhose flowers [...]

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Makin’ for Maker Faire: Further Cricut Hacks

May 29, 2009

By the time you read this, I’ll be on a plane to Maker Faire! So I thought I’d wrap up this Provo Craft week by sharing some cool resources I found online for the Cricut.

The Cricut message boards are filled with users figuring out interesting things to do with the machine. If you’re curious about [...]

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Makin’ for Maker Faire: A rather crazy embossed duct tape wallet

May 28, 2009

So, I’ve also been playing with a Cuttlebug for the past week. It’s a cute little embosser and die-cutter – again, designed for paper crafting, but I fed a bunch of other things into it instead.

Above is a wallet I made by laminating fabric to duct tape and then embossing them. You would think that, [...]

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Yudu… and now I Du Tu.

May 22, 2009

I’ve been crafting up a storm over here in preparation for Maker Faire! (I’ll have more details next week on that, too.)

One of my projects was to learn the wonders of the Yudu, that personal screen printing machine you’ve seen on other blogs lately. This was my first foray into screen printing. Hoo-boy, that’s [...]

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Mystery Solved: Ric Rac Roses

May 14, 2009

Ah, the joys of being in a community of crafty minds!

A couple days ago, I asked for some help figuring out how these ric rac flowers were made.

Astaryth shared this link, and Alice shared this link. Both are pretty ric rac flowers, but not quite the same as these. As you can see in the [...]

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Even MORE Recycled Crafts

April 24, 2009

Just a few goodies for y’all while I’m flying around meeting deadlines…
Here’s my tutorial on CraftStylish this week: I made this flower brooch by cutting up a soda can, and then stitching two metal cut-outs together with beads and craft wire. I like how it came out.
And if you ever need, say, nine million [...]

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In which I explore the Sharpie Paint Marker

April 8, 2009

I finally got some time last night to noodle around with my new Sharpie Paint Markers. I first discovered these bad-boys while doing this embellished button project, and had to go acquire a bunch more colors.

(Interesting side note: In one of the Jo-Ann stores I shopped, these markers are out on a public shelf with [...]

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