Mixed media, embroidery, fabric painting, DIY project, Banner and handmade handicrafts
A winter themed banner with fun characters and white snow just sparkling. Perfect for kids room to brighten their days during the long, wintery cold months.
This banner is based on my Do it yourself (DIY) project which you can access here (http://bit.ly/wm9lBo) and get step by step instructions for how to make this banner with pictures. I used a floral fabric banner in the project but the technique is the same.
No great Halloween costume is complete without some fun accessories. And these accessories can be made even more fun when you make them yourself. Here’s an easy way of making cute Halloween accessories, appropriate for all ages, without breaking the bank, and having fun at the same time.
Materials – Halloween Eraser from dollar shop, Ribbon or lace,Needle, screwdriver or skewers.
Using the screwdriver, make a hole in the top of each eraser.
Run the string through the hole made.
Thanks for visiting my website! There’s more fun Halloween crafts and accessories on the way, so keep coming back to my website and checking for them! Feel free to post any pictures of your crafts on my blog, I’m always looking for new ideas!
Super cute hand painted Halloween Pumpkin banner bunting. It will be the best Halloween decor in the neighborhood and will make guests, everybody smile & love.
Happy Smiley Halloween Pumpkin
Check this banner on my Etsy store
This adorable DIY project  will show how to easily hand paint and design baby’s bodysuit or T-Shirt with four-leaf clover design. You can dress your baby and show Irish pride…. even if they’re only a wee bit Irish or even if you are not Irish but want to celebrate this day and have fun.
This is a very easy and quick DIY and looks great too. The paint used is non-toxic fabric paint. Bodysuits and t-shirt’s could be white or any other color of your choice. This T-Shirt has a lucky three leaf clover design that will keep kids from getting pinched. The design can be easily painted on to onesies, t-shirts, bibs and even blankets.
All you need for this DIY is fabric marker and any T- Shirt.
Draw outline of a three-leaf clover symbol. If you unable to draw it for any reason, there is an even easier way to do this. Just follow the simple instructions for how to draw clover leaf outline here.
Now use fabric marker to highlight the outline
Fill the design with green color fabric marker.
Done.
Similarly you can make a four-leaf clover design with smiley face in it.
The tee with a cute, green clover leaf logo is ready. Your baby can wear it now with pride!
How are you celebrating your St. Patrick’s day? Are you and your family taking part in the parade or going to watch the parade in your town? Share below your creative ideas or DIY that you are creating to make this day more fun!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
(Note: This year St. Patrick’s day in on Saturday Mar 17th 2012.)
Window Treatment on Valentine's Day
So many authors have written thousands of word about it, so many unsuccessful attempts have been made to define it but still this most wonderful feeling in life eludes us from defining it. May be the mystery of love is what makes it so interesting. May be it isn’t supposed to be defined!
It’s strange that water, oxygen, food, shelter, money are not just enough in life. Everybody needs and wants to share love.
A combination of twenty-six alphabets are not enough to define the feeling which only a heart can feel. Valentine’s Day is meant to share, spread, show and celebrate love.
This year I want to share this love with the world by saying “Life is Beautiful”, it’s the most wonderful story in the universe. There can’t be anything more touching than a man’s true love story. A story without love is not worth telling! The artwork below sums of this feeling better than anything I have ever seen.
This artwork is from the creative genius and cartoonist Hugh McLeod.
This DIY is a follow up to my previous blog post. This DIY is even simple and a lot more fun. All you need for this one are the following items –
You can draw with permanent marker any face or cartoon character of your choice on the Ornament ball. Use felt to create hat and beard and then glue them to the ball. I created few of them and enjoyed each one. Every time you will create something new and different.
I would love to hear about your experiences. Please leave your comments about my blog and DIY projects and feel free to share yours. Go and have some fun.
We all know “Christmas†is around the corner and just ready to knock on our doors. I have been fascinated like many other craft junkies with the desire to never stop making Christmas ornaments. So this time I have a DIY to design your own Christmas ornament and give new look to your decoration or your tree. This is going to be a short, sweet and quick project for the whole family including the kids.
I wish this DIY Christmas ornaments may festoon your Christmas tree with joy and love.
Now let’s start cranking!!
#1: First choose your Christmas ornament design.
I know choosing is hard and even harder is the question of where to find these designs/patterns? Well I think I can help a little bit to get you started there. One of the easiest and most creative way is to draw a design/pattern by hand. Of course that ain’t easy and if you are like me then you would rather prefer a pre-made design or pattern . Who doesn’t love easy, premade, free stuff? I do!
There are numerous such resources on the internet. Check out few of the awesome resources listed below –
#2: Choose a Holiday/Christmas pattern fabric
You can buy this from your local favorite craft store or from stores like Joann. Below is one such pattern-
Simplicity Pattern 2723-Christmas Decorations-One Size.
#3: You would need a Pellon Iron-on-backing (Single Sided Fusible Ultra Firm Stabilizer) and you get it from your local craft store or from Joann.
#4: You would also need Satin ribbon.
#5: Lastly you would need a Scissor or Precision Knife. If you already have one then we all are set to start creating our DIY project.
Here are some of the Christmas ornament designs.
Christmas Ornament Designs
In the following image you can see all of my 5 items – Christmas Ornament Designs, Holiday themed fabric, Iron on backing, Scissor and Satin ribbon.
List of items for Christmas Ornament Design DIY
Step1: Apply Iron-on backing on the back side of the Holiday themed fabric to strengthen it.
Apply Iron-on backing
Check procedure of using pellon iron on backing  from the picture given below.
Instructions for how to use Pellon Iron-on backing?
Step2: Trace your designs on the Pellon iron-on backing i.e. on the back side of Holiday themed fabric. See ‘1’ below.
Now cut the fabric along the trace line with your scissor or precision fabric knife as shown in ‘2’ below.
You’re done cutting the design. Your ornaments are almost ready and will look like as shown in the image below.
Christmas Ornaments
Step3: Now we just need to thread the Satin ribbon through needle, then poke lightly with the fabric knife somewhere near the top of the ornament to make a small cut. Pass the satin ribbon through the cut and repeat the same for all other christmas ornaments.
You can hang the Christmas Ornaments garland around the Christmas tree or above your front door or porch or on any wall in your home.
You can also stick single ornaments any where in your home or even hang them on the Christmas tree.
The same above steps can be repeated for any ornament design. You can create single ornaments or a garland (kind of banner bunting) of Christmas ornaments.
Christmas Ornaments Garland
For your kids room the ornaments can be made with baby Christmas fabric designs & patterns.
For this DIY imagination is the limit to what you can create, depending on what theme you want to choose. I have few more DIY projects to share  that are related to this idea only and will be back soon to do that.
Happy Crafting till next time!
Hello dear friends I have a fun DIY to share. Holidays are all about celebrating life and thanking the people that matter in your life. There are different ways to express thanks, thank you notes, tags and thank you necklace is just one of them.
In this DIY (Do It Yourself) project I’m going to show how to create a beautiful flower tag with any message that your heart desire.
Step1)Â Material List for DIY thank you tag
Step2) Take your designer fabric strip, make sure the size is 4″ x 18″Â
Step3)Â Cut fabric strip straight with the rotary cutter.
Step4)Â Take needle and yarn for the running stitch [for me this was a difficult step because I couldn’t decide which yarn to use, which is obvious since my yarn box is a mess, I’m sure your’s is not :-)]
Step5)Â Connect corners of the fabric strip together with running stitch to make circle . Fold the strip and run stitches for gathers.
Step6)Â Pull thread from both the corners to pull gather in the middle and now you can see the flower shape. Tighten the knot then cut the extra thread.Â
Step7) Use Iron to press down the flower this will help to give flower a better shape .
Step8a) Now we will need a piece of sponge foam. Spread some fabric color of your choice smoothly on the foam. Tap on the color few times to smoothen the colored surface.
Step8b) Tap the “thank you” block/stamp on the sponge few times. Make sure your stamp is evenly dabbed in color.
Step9) Don’t forget to put your fabric or vinyl on hard surface before stamping
Step10) #1Â Draw a circle around your “thank you” stamp, with the help of compass.
Step10)Â #2Â Use super glue and stick the cut out in the centre of your flower.
 Step11) Tuck satin ribbon to the back side of the flower .
Step12) Show that you care and add personal touch to any gift with this “Thank You” tag. I used mine on a wine bottle as a gift.
I also used this flower gift tag with a necklace as shown below.
You can tuck the necklace to the flower tag with thread, needle and Jump ring.
A “thank you” Â tag is a fun and loving way to show your love, support, encouragement or gratitude for anybody whom is important in your life. So don’t wait, go ahead and create some fun tags.
Did you like this DIY? If you did please put few words or leave a comment. Even if you didn’t like this project, that’s cool too, still leave some suggestions.
Happy Holidays!
Five more days to go for Halloween and I have last DIY to share and I think it’s the easiest one so far (in comparison to all my previous DIY projects – “Halloween Necklace Garland“, “Banner Necklace” or “Halloween Accessory“) to do under 60 mins. I took lot of pictures while creating this project so most of it should self-explanatory. Hope you like it and here we go –
Material List for “Do It Yourself Halloween IRON ON TRANSFER BLACK KITTY”
Image1: Material list for DIY Iron On Transfer Halloween Kitty
Do It Yourself Last Minute Halloween Accessory
I have always loved belts and they look cool in every season and occasion. We are just few days away from halloween and I’ll help you to create a last minute accessory (belt) that is fun, makes you look pretty and is darn cute. Let’s get started –
You can make this “last minute dress accessory” in any size you want. According to the waist you can change  the length of the belt to whatever size you want.
Material List for DIY Last minute Halloween Accessory –
Image1: Material List for Last Minute Halloween Accessory
I have been playing with many ideas since last few days and wanted to create some artwork in the spirit of Thanksgiving and the Holidays. Every time I would sit on my desk, draw some new designs and then would drive up to Hobby Lobby to find items that I can use to create these designs. My good friend Morgan has helped me so much every time I am there, answering all the silly questions I have with the same enthusiasms and happiness on her face. I realized then that I should come up with something that reflects and states loudly “happiness and fun”. Something that you can wear and show it to all. Like a headband, bracelet or jewelry. Like Morgan’s smile!
