Posts Tagged ‘craft’

20 October

Forts!

Forts
I used to love to build forts with my cousins when we would take trips to Jekyll Island. Recently, I’ve had forts of the brain for a few weeks now, for no apparent reason. It tickled me to see that Booooooom recently had a Where the Wild Things Are fort competition. (You can view the winners here.) It’s too bad I didn’t know about this sooner, I would have loved to have entered!
Via Apartment Therapy

30 September

Book Strap Side Table, How-To

Book Strap Side Table, How-To
I love this tutorial for this adorable side table! It’s so easy and looks so neat!

15 September

Poppy Boutonniere Tutorial

Poppy Boutonniere Tutorial
I’ve been looking for a good cloth flower tutorial and this Poppy Boutonniere Tutorial is just perfect (even includes printable PDF patterns)!
Via Design Crush

26 June

Butterfly Bouquet

Butterfly Bouquet
Love it. Love it. LOVE IT!
Via FFFFOUND

17 March

Tiny Crown Tutorial

A friend of ours is having a Tiny Hat Party this weekend and for it, Jack and I made mini crowns. I had some much fun working on making our own crowns (I will post pictures of the set later),I wanted to see just how small I could make them. Thought it would be fun to put together a tutorial of me putting it all together!
Tiny Crown Tutorial
First thing’s first: supplies. Glue gun, bottle cap, thin foam sheet (in my case white), red and white felt, tape, scissors and/or X-Acto, gold spray paint, pencil, black marker, decorations! (jems, thin chains, etc.)

Tiny Crown Tutorial
Step 1: Start creating the outer “leaf” sections. You can either drawn lightly, with a pencil, on the thin foam itself or make a template on a peice of paper and trace it onto the foam.

Tiny Crown Tutorial
Step 2: Cut out the pieces and spray both sides with gold spray paint.

Tiny Crown Tutorial
Step 3: While your waiting for the “leaves” to dry you can move on to the base. Cut out the red felt in a circle slightly bigger than the bottle cap, so that it can cover all the edges. Hot glue gun it. I recommend starting to glue the outside first, then pulling and gluing the edges in.

Tiny Crown Tutorial
Step 4: Hot glue the “leaves” into the base, as evenly spaced as possible. Set aside for a sec.

Tiny Crown Tutorial
Step 5: Take a bit of tape and roll it into a ball. Make it so it will fill the interior of the base nicely. Glue on some nice fuzzy white fleece and fleck with a black marker to create some faux ermine fur.

Tiny Crown Tutorial
Step 6: Glue fur ball (hehe) into place.

Tiny Crown Tutorial
Step 7: Now, glue each of the “leaf” tips to the center of the ball. Work with the pairs across from each other; glue two down, then the next two on top of those. I topped it all off with a little gem to hid the seam.

Tiny Crown Tutorial
Step 8: Add the decorations!

Tiny Crown Tutorial
Final Results!