In honor of the warmer weather and my love for mosaics, today's post is all about decorating tiny pots with eggshell mosaics.
Mosaic Eggshell Pots
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Make Eggshell Mosaic Pots
Can you feel spring in the air?
In honor of the warmer weather and my love for mosaics, today's post is all about decorating tiny pots with eggshell mosaics.
In honor of the warmer weather and my love for mosaics, today's post is all about decorating tiny pots with eggshell mosaics.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Make a Mosaic Bean Pendant
Hi everyone!
How was your weekend? We had a pretty quiet Sunday, but our Saturday was full of fun activity. I attended a bridal shower while hubby and Toddler Chuck visited family. (I'll post up photos from the bridal shower later on this week.) I thought I'd start off the week with this crapty (and slightly crappy?) pendant that I made.
I think mosaics are lovely. There's something quite special (and dare I say, possibly mathematical?) about laying pieces of varying shapes and/or colors together so that they fit a space and create a desired image or pattern.
Wanting to make a wearable mosaic of my own, I used some household materials to create this mosaic bean pendant:
Yeah. I know what you're thinking. Girl, that's a lot of look. And my reply? Girl, I know. But really, what does one wear with beans anyway?
Erm.... I'm not sure if I like the result, but I did have fun making it. And who knows? If you ever find yourself trapped at home with a couple of bored children, then perhaps you could whip these up for fun.
Materials:
- dried beans
- cereal box cardboard <--crap!
- craft paint
- paint brushes
- Tacky glue (I used Aleene's)
- String
- Felt
- Scissors
How was your weekend? We had a pretty quiet Sunday, but our Saturday was full of fun activity. I attended a bridal shower while hubby and Toddler Chuck visited family. (I'll post up photos from the bridal shower later on this week.) I thought I'd start off the week with this crapty (and slightly crappy?) pendant that I made.
I think mosaics are lovely. There's something quite special (and dare I say, possibly mathematical?) about laying pieces of varying shapes and/or colors together so that they fit a space and create a desired image or pattern.
Wanting to make a wearable mosaic of my own, I used some household materials to create this mosaic bean pendant:
Yeah. I know what you're thinking. Girl, that's a lot of look. And my reply? Girl, I know. But really, what does one wear with beans anyway?
Erm.... I'm not sure if I like the result, but I did have fun making it. And who knows? If you ever find yourself trapped at home with a couple of bored children, then perhaps you could whip these up for fun.
Materials:
- dried beans
- cereal box cardboard <--crap!
- craft paint
- paint brushes
- Tacky glue (I used Aleene's)
- String
- Felt
- Scissors
Friday, February 22, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Making Styrofoam stamps
Hello there!
I'm on a crapting roll, so I figured I'd upload two posts today.
As you can see, I'm still working on my greeting card designs for the upcoming craft show. Here's my newest attempt at crapting stamps:
These are the materials that I used:
- Scissors
- Craft knife
- Pencil
- Tacky glue
- Cardboard
- Styrofoam (I used one that originally held ground beef-- I know... gross when you think about it, but I promise I washed it really well)
To make these crapty beauties, I used a pencil to sketch out my designs onto the Styrofoam. Then, I used my scissors and craft knife to cut out the different pieces. Then, I used tacky glue to attach them to pieces of cardboard. Once the Styrofoam was stuck on tight, I trimmed the cardboard so that it was slightly bigger than my stamp.
Instead of making a sponge ink pad, this time I used a paintbrush and painted a thin layer of craft paint onto each stamp before each use. Here are my results:
These stamps were fun to crapt... and I feel like I'm moving in the right direction... but I definitely have a ways to go if I want to make cards that are good enough to sell.
So currently I'm going back to the drawing board and channeling the mantra of Chuck's favorite book character: "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can..."
I'm on a crapting roll, so I figured I'd upload two posts today.
As you can see, I'm still working on my greeting card designs for the upcoming craft show. Here's my newest attempt at crapting stamps:
- Scissors
- Craft knife
- Pencil
- Tacky glue
- Cardboard
- Styrofoam (I used one that originally held ground beef-- I know... gross when you think about it, but I promise I washed it really well)
To make these crapty beauties, I used a pencil to sketch out my designs onto the Styrofoam. Then, I used my scissors and craft knife to cut out the different pieces. Then, I used tacky glue to attach them to pieces of cardboard. Once the Styrofoam was stuck on tight, I trimmed the cardboard so that it was slightly bigger than my stamp.
Instead of making a sponge ink pad, this time I used a paintbrush and painted a thin layer of craft paint onto each stamp before each use. Here are my results:
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| Look! My lettering came out the right way. Hooray! |
These stamps were fun to crapt... and I feel like I'm moving in the right direction... but I definitely have a ways to go if I want to make cards that are good enough to sell.
So currently I'm going back to the drawing board and channeling the mantra of Chuck's favorite book character: "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can..."
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