Even if aren’t a fan of stitching, you can still use embroidery hoops for lots and lots of crafts. Hoops are almost an endless source of inspiration: you can make hanging lamps, various types of wall art, memory boards, floral arrangements and so on. Choose beautiful fabric, attach some cool buttons or charms and put...
Feathers are so soft and cute – why not add them to your big day decor? If you have a pack of soft natural feathers, you may gild them and attach to a thread to make a wonderful garland. You may decorate a wreath, a mobile, place cards for a party, make a chandelier for...
These cool applique artworks are easy to make and look cool. Prepare embroidery hoops 10 in., 3 pieces of 100% cotton fabric about 12 x 12″, various colors of 100% cotton fabric scraps, Heat n Bond Ultra Hold Iron-on Adhesive 17″x 1yd., autumn appliques, a printer, a ruler, scissors, an iron and ironing board, a...
This tutorial is perfect to spend time with kids while making it. The supplies are air drying clay, black acrylic paint, a paintbrush, super glue, beads or, ribbon or string, needle, baking paper, bat cookie cutter and a punch. Take a lump of clay and roll it out to the desired thickness. Punch out as...
Abstract wall art pieces are extremely popular right now because you needn’t any artist talent to create one, yet it looks beautiful and accentuates any wall. I’ve gathered some of such tutorials for you to choose from: there are different techniques and colors. Pastels are on top now: they are subtle and don’t pad the...
Pumpkins are a traditional piece for fall, Halloween and Thanksgiving, so every autumn we make various decorations with them. Today we’ll make original toque pumpkins, the supplies are a knitted toque in fall-like colours, a large sweater or tshirt to fill the toque with, elastic band, brown or tan yarn for the stem. The instructions...
Throwing a Halloween party? Then you need a couple of cool centerpieces! Prepare one big or two combined together twigs, smaller twigs from your garden, preferably with leaves, wild flowers and black spray paint. It’s important that when combining all the elements, you make sure that the both ends of the base twig are going...
This Halloween-themed project is based on wicker / rattan paper plate holders – you can make a lot with them! Take your plate holders and spray paint them with Krylon’s pumpkin orange spray paint. Once the paint dries, grab some scraps of felt – a mottled green for the stem, and black for the jack-o-lantern...
Need a cool statement abstract art? Here’s a way! You’ll need stretched and primed canvas, acrylic paint, a paint roller, a paint scraper. Cover your canvas with your chosen base colour. Once your canvas is completely covered, wait for the paint to dry. Use a paint scraper to start adding coloured strokes to your canvas....
This bottle stand can become a perfect decoration for any season, and now you can rock it for fall. You’ll need 10 empty small bottles, 3 wood boards (in size: 25cm / 23cm / 20cm), a hole saw with a diameter of 35mm, fine sandpaper, acrylic paint, wood glue, bar or tape measure, a pencil....