Mixed media, embroidery, fabric painting, DIY project, Banner and handmade handicrafts
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!!
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!!
I like photo frames specially those that are decorated & crafted with a personal touch. Since it’s winter season and though it hasn’t snowed as much this year in the US mid-west so far (I’m not complaining :-)) but without snow winter can’t be fun.
In this DIY I have converted an old photo frame by adding snow flakes around it. This is a very quick and simple technique and you can add anything not just snow flakes.
All we need is a fabric with snow flake print, glue, any old photo frame (of any size) Â and of course scissors.
All you need to do is use the fabric to cut out snow flakes shapes from it.
Now you just have to glue the snow flakes around you frame neatly.
That’s it .. you Snow Flake decorated & hand crafted frame with a picture of your loved one is ready within 5 mins.
As always I’m eager to hear from you, about your projects and craft work. It would be great if you leave comments using the form below. Wish you all a happy winter with some snow not a whole lot!!
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.
Hello,
Happy New Year to all my friends! Let’s welcome New Year 2012 with enthusiasm and joy. Let’s welcome new colors of 2012 and make plans to add them to the painting of our life.
Happy New Year 2012 Banner (on Etsy)
Happy New Year !!
Tahira
Here I’m as promised in my last post posting few more fun, easy DIY for you to get some more last minute Christmas ornaments on the tree.
Step 1: First choose your Christmas ornament design.
Step1: Material List
Step 3: Take white color Vinyl and draw your ornament design on it with fabric marker as show below in  2 or 3. Cut your design shape with scissor as in 4.
Step 3: How to draw and cut the design on Vinyl
Step 4: Â The ornament is cut in the share of Christmas tree and is almost ready now, see 1 below).
Punch a whole at the top of the Christmas tree with punch cutter (2).
Use any fabric color to paint the ornament. Obviously since this is a Christmas tree I have painted it with green color (3, 4).
Step 4: Cut and Paint your Christmas ornament
Step 5:  Decorating the Christmas ornament is the most fun step of the DIY. Look in your craft box for any  sticker, beads,or scrap book stuff (1).
Stick these stickers/beads 0n your ornament with the help of super glue (2).
Finish all decorations (3).
Take 6′ of satin ribbon and tie it on top of the ornament through the whole which we made in Step 4.2.
Step 5: Decorating the Christmas Tree
Voila.. you Christmas ornament is ready to be hung on the tree. Go ahead and do that and share some pictures.
Step 6: Finished Christmas Ornament
Merry Christmas!
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!
Most of the Banners and Buntings I have created so far have been mostly for festivals, gifs, home decor and other occasions. This time around I’ve tried to create a unique, designer, floral banner that is made with high quality fabric and has rich autumn leave patterns. Each banner pennant itself is shaped like a flower. This banner is to celebrate, welcome and cherish the time of the year that I love the most i.e. Autumn. I enjoyed creating this banner a lot and hope you do to0!
Step1: So the first step as always is to make sure you have all the material you need for to create this banner. Prepare all the material so that you don’t have to worry about anything when you are in the middle of doing things –
Image1: Classic Autumn Leaves Floral Banner
I have been struggling since last ten days – first I haven’t found any models for the handicraft items I created earlier last week. I had created brooches and hair-pins for young girls and couldn’t find anybody to model for that. The other issue is with the shiny and sparkly material that I used on the brooches and hairpins that I created. This material is very hard to photograph. It doesn’t come out well in the pictures. What is even more frustrating is that when I use images of kids and then add these brooches/hairpins on them the final image doesn’t come out well either. No matter how much of photoshopping I do on these images, they don’t seem right. The images of brooches/hairpins look good only when they are worn by a real person. Earlier I have used dolls to display the brooches/hairpins but the doll head is too small in comparison to the the hairpins and it makes the image look fake and odd.
Well what can I do? So today I decided to continue my work and blog without the baby model. However I did find a beautiful pet model “Snoop”. He looks really handsome in this snazzy Merry Christmas bandanna. Thanks to Linda and Sarah for letting Snoop model. Â In Snoop’s scarf I used plain fabric color instead of sparkly stuff and as you can see it has come out much better. I am going to continue to make the same stuff (scarves/brooches/hairpins) in other materials that is not so shiny and sparkly and see if I can avoid this problem.
I have few more things cooking related to the fun jewelry concept. I will put them on the blog as soon as I have some ready.
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
After working on this project for last one week, now I have some better understanding of what I want and how to create these headbands and brooches for babies. Here are 3 more pictures but they are not yet done completely. If you think you would like to see some other designs please let me know by commenting on this blog post or connect with me on my Facebook page here.
So I finally designed two craft items today based on the idea that I had yesterday. I have to work on them a little more and refine the designs. I will create few more of these in the next couple of days. These can be designed as holiday headbands for little babies.
Last week I had a great time creating fun jewelry/accessories like holiday forehead bands, jingle bells bracelet and Christmas stockings with custom names on them.
toolsofthetrade
I have been thinking that may be I can take this idea a step further and can make something similar for babies and pets so that they can also say and share the spirit of Christmas. With that in mind I have started to work on hair clips for babies and scarves for pets. How does that sound? Here is the picture of all my tools of the trade that I am using. Pretty simple, right? Well tomorrow I will post a  picture of the first finished item. I hope it comes out good!
