I made a candy cane decoration out of empty paper towel tubes. It was harder than I thought it’d be to make the rounded crook of the cane. It took a few tries, but I figured it out and finally got one to came out fairly adequate.
Now on to my next project… whatever will it be…
I hope your week is filled with success
and Happy craftings!
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I was in search of a project to do and went looking through my idea files. I came across this flower pen picture my Bff had sent me some years ago.
The flower pen is made of silk flower/leaves, floral tape, ink pen, clay pot, some filler and what appears to be a grassy filler.
It seemed an easy craft, but I didn’t have any floral tape nor a small clay pot. I thought about it for a second and realized that I could use polymer clay to wrap the pen in and sculpt a clay pot and stone fillers.
It was fun to make. My clay pot isn’t perfect and neither is the clay wrapped pen, but I think it turned out okay for my first ever flower pen.
I was going to put some green raffia over the top of my sculpted stones for fake grass, but I liked the look of the stones and decided not to cover them up.
What do you think?
Should I cover the stones or leave them bare?
Happy Crafting!
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“To change in appearance or form,
especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.”
I’m not sure if this totally qualifies as Transmogrify, but here it is for your perusal.
“A tree was made into paper and then was printed on and made into a catalog.
I folded the pages of the catalog to transform it back into a tree: an ornamental one, but a tree, none-the-less.”
Wishing you all fun with the WP photo challenge!
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In order to do my painting for my mix-medium project, I felt I needed an easel. I shopped around online and found the table top ones to be fairly reasonable in price. However, I’m not sure how much painting I’m going to be doing, so I decided to make one.
It took me no time at all, to decide to make an easel out of empty paper towel tubes. I can make more easels anytime I need to.
I realize there’s probably standard regulation on the manufactured easels, but this one works quite well for me.
My easel is light weight and moves too easily, so I wired it to a cardboard tray that comes with our bottles of water. This worked out better than I planned because I can hold the cardboard steady or move it into better angles to paint the canvas. I can easily change it when it gets too messy.
And there you have it. Another invention from the crafty mind of me. 🙂
Wishing you all much success with your crafty creations.
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I’ve been in the mood to try my hand at painting a picture. Painting pictures isn’t something I ever spent much time on. I planned to make an all-painted 8×10 picture of looking out of a window and seeing a snowman. Simple, right?…
By-the-time I got the snowman and tree painted, my creative instincts took over and got out of hand. This picture became a mixed medium piece of art; canvas, acrylic paints, gold trim, wood and polymer clay charms.
My husband thinks my picture is pretty and cheerful. I’m so happy that it turned out so well.
Happy crafting!
Wishing you a creative week.
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Joys Of Creating 