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Wee Bit O’ Irish!

Posted by on March 14, 2012 Leave a Comment

Baby Bodysuit or Kid’s T-Shirt for St. Patrick’s Day

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.

 

Cute St. Paddy's Day Tees For Kids

 

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.

 

St. Paddy's Day 3 Leaf Clover Tee

 

Now use fabric marker to highlight the outline

 

St. Paddy's Day 3 Leaf Clover Tee

 

Fill the design with green color fabric marker.

 

St. Paddy's Day 3 Leaf Clover Tee

 

Done.

 

St. Paddy's Day 3 Leaf Clover Tee

 

Similarly you can make a four-leaf clover design with smiley face in it.

 

St. Paddy's Day 3 Leaf Clover Tee

 

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.)

 

 

 

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Happy Easter!

Posted by on February 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

Easter Decoration Candle DIY Project

Many of  you commented on and appreciated my earlier DIY projects (St. Patrick day candle and Valentine’s day candle, thanks so much for all the comments.) about how to decorate candles in an easy way. With that I’m encouraged to put one more candle decoration project but this time for Easter.

 

Note: This DIY project idea is inspired by  the blog post “Graphic printed candles DIY” which can be found on the wonderful blog called “Crafty, Scrappy, Happy” by Jaime Lyn.

 

For this candle decoration you can use any photo. For example you can use your family photo, baby photo, sticker, cartoon and even a book picture. In this DIY project I have used a bunny picture from a paper napkin. Let’s get started! First we have to get a picture of our choice and then we will laminate the picture on the candle using liquid wax coating. This is a little tricky part and I’ll explain how to do this below. Once this step is done, I promise you that everybody who looks at this candle will ask you about it and about how did you do it? This is an inexpensive way to custom design your candles. I learned this technique long time back from my art teacher. This is a great way to laminate any art work with wax and save it.

 

Let’s get started. You will need a photo, a plain white candle, scissors and hot liquid paraffin wax.

Easter Candle Decoration DIY

Cut your picture and put it on the white candle.

 

Easter Candle Decoration DIY

 

You can find paraffin wax in your local art store. Make sure that you only use “Paraffin Wax” and don’t try to use just any wax.

 

WARNING: Make sure that you use proper gloves for melting and then handling liquid paraffin wax. Remember to work in a well ventilated area and never heat paraffin wax hotter than 240º F (it will burst into flames).

Easter Candle Decoration DIY

 

Now you can use this liquid wax just as any other paint. So get your painting brush and dip it in and paint over the photo on the candle. Try to give a nice coat of wax all over the photo specially around the edges.

 

Easter Candle Decoration DIY

 

 

Happy Easter Candle Decoration DIY

 

Easter Candle Decoration DIY

 

With this liquid wax painting technique you can laminate a photo on the candle.

 

How are your candle decorations coming along? Share your links/pictures, comments, feedback in the comments below.

 

Happy Easter to you with all best wishes!

 

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St. Pat’s Day

Posted by on February 26, 2012 2 Comments

St. Patrick’s Day Candle Decoration DIY

 

St. Patrick’s day isn’t too far and I hope that all Irish and Irish American folks and even those who are not Irish but like to celebrate, take part and enjoy all holidays of the world are getting ready –

  • with their Shamrock’s inspired designs for the parade,
  • the big feast,
  • sunday church,
  • dancing and singing along the tune of  wonderful ballad “The Wearing of the Green”
  • and of course who can forget the beer :-).
This DIY is very similar to my earlier “Valentine Candle” DIY project. Please check out the details in that blog post if you want to see the instructions/steps for how to paint a candle, what paints can be used etc.
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Celebrate Love!

Posted by on February 14, 2012 Leave a Comment

Micro DIY #9

Valentine’s day  2012  – The celebration of love!

 

In this last and ninth Micro DIY I have combined 2 of my other micro DIY’s. This DIY can make your day special with very simple and quick steps. Just tie a ribbon bow around the wine glass and a stirrer with a message foam sticker.

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed these simple, quick and fun Micro DIY (Do it Yourself) projects on Valentine’s day. In total I created nine such project. You can check them all out here –

Stir & Wrap
Cozy Times!
Love!
Sweep with Love
Valentine Candle
Sweet Love
Love Necklace 
Valentine Heart

Comments/Suggestions are very much welcome.

 

Happy Valentine’s day and Happy Crafting!!

 

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Valentine Heart

Posted by on February 14, 2012 Leave a Comment

Micro DIY #8

Valentine’s Day Ribbon Heart. 

 

A ribbon heart can be made in just two steps and under two minutes.

 

 

Step1: Simple knot


 

Step2: Fold it down

 

 

When ready you can either use fabric glue or stitch to keep the heart shape.

 

Happy Valentine’s Day!

 

This is the 2nd last and #7 Micro DIY in the series that I created for Valentine’s day. Some of my earlier posts in this series are –
Stir & Wrap
Cozy Times!
Love!
Sweep with Love
Valentine Candle
Sweet Love
Love Necklace 

 

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Love Necklace

Posted by on February 14, 2012 Leave a Comment

Micro DIY #7

Valentine’s Day Necklace

 

 

For this DIY you can follow the DIY steps as described in my “Thank you Gift Tag & Necklace” blog post.

 

Happy Valentine’s Day!

 

This Micro DIY is part of the series that I created for Valentine’s day. Some of my earlier posts in this series are –
Stir & Wrap
Cozy Times!
Love!
Sweep Love
Valentine Candle 
Sweet Love

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Sweet Love

Posted by on February 10, 2012 2 Comments

Micro DIY #6

Valentine Cupcakes

It was a lot of fun to decorate these little cupcakes. All you need is “foam stickers” which you can find at Joann’s or at your local favorite craft store. Then glue these stickers to tooth pricks and put them on the cupcakes.

Don’t they look cute now and probably sweeter?

 

 

I chose the stickers that made most sense for Valentine’s day.

 

 

This Micro DIY is part of the series that I created for Valentine’s day. Some of my earlier posts in this series are –

Stir & Wrap
Cozy Times!
Love!
Sweep Love
Valentine Candle 

 

Happy Crafting!

 

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Valentine Candle

Posted by on February 10, 2012 13 Comments

Micro DIY #5

Your love is like a candle that warms my heart!

This is my 5th Micro DIY in the Valentine series of 9. You can check the previous four here, here, here and here.

There is nothing more beautiful and romantic than a candle to express ones love. With this thought in mind I have created this simple DIY that can be done in under 10 mins and won’t cost you anything.

You can use any solid colored, thick candle that might be sitting somewhere in your garage, basement or closet. I used a white color candle that I bought many years ago and was sitting in my laundry room (not sure why it was in there).

With a bit of creativity you can convert this candle into a wonderful Valentine’s day decor. This is how the decorated & painted candle will look like finally.

 

 

 

You can paint heart shapes on the candle with brush and fabric paint.

 

 

You can paint heart shapes on the candle with fabric or any marker.

 

 

You can also use glitter paint to decorate the candle.

 

 

Happy Crafting!

 

Update as of Feb 21st 2012: I have submitted this post to “Topsy Turvy Tuesdays” run by beautiful Ashlee of I’m Topsy Turvy.

Update as of Feb 20th 2012: I have submitted this post to “American Crafters Audition #4” an awesome blog run by Amy of Nap Time Crafters.

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Love!

Posted by on February 9, 2012 2 Comments

Micro DIY #3

Continuing with my Micro DIY series in which I have created nine small, fun project specially for Valentine’s day. Check out my last two blog posts – “Cozy Love” and “Stir & Love“.

 

The most beautiful and at the same time most complex emotion in the universe is  “Love”. There are so many shades and expressions of love that it is hard to list them. It can  be expressed just with a glance or  a simple gift that costs less than a dollar and sometime with the most magnificent building in the world “Taj Mahal“.

 

So go ahead and express it in your own unique way, whatever that might be to the one whom you love.

 

 

 

 

 

The source of inspiration for this DIY series is the wonderful post “Yarn Love by Camilla Fabrri on her blog Family Chic“.

Happy Crafting!

 

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Cozy Times!

Posted by on February 9, 2012 Leave a Comment

Micro DIY #2

This the 2nd part of the Micro DIY series that I have created specially for Valentine’s day. In the previous DIY project I wrapped woolen yarn around a small container in which I store the stirrers in my kitchen.

 

In this second post I want to make something to remember our cozy times with ones we love. I mean literally making the time cozy. Check the pictures below and I’m sure you will feel warm too.

 

 

Two down seven more micro DIYs to go!

 

Happy Crafting!!

 

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Stir & Wrap

Posted by on February 3, 2012 Leave a Comment

Micro DIY Project – #1

I’m going to put a series of micro DIY projects for Valentine’s day. The idea is to be able to do these projects from start to finish in a short time. Each of these projects are simple, can be done by anybody, don’t need many tools and I guarantee 100% they would help you spread some love and make your home pretty.

 

 

I have a transparent plastic holder in which I keep coffee and tea stirrers. In this DIY I have wrapped it in yarn that matches the sofa in my living room. You can choose any yarn color you like to match your home decor.

 

 

Happy crafting!!

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Life is Beautiful – Valentine’s Day!

Posted by on January 27, 2012 1 Comment

 

Window Treatment on Valentine's Day

What is love?

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.

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