Hi!
Today something easy yet stylish for your home, Christmas tree or as a decorative gift for a friend.
Cheap materials and little effort ;)
Lets have a look at materials:
Some I already had at home, like those polystyrene eggs from last Easter ;)
Step 1.
Paint an egg black on the bigger half and leave it to dry.
While the egg is drying I paint twigs black too.
Step 2.
Start pinning.
There should be a line in a middle of an egg, follow that line around with your pins.
Remember to overlap them.
Another line....
And one more...
Almost there.
If you planning to hang it later then use glue gun for the last pins, they need to be stronger.
Step 3.
Wrap the string around the little twig and stick it to the top of a acorn using hot glue gun.
That's it :)
I painted a large twig too so I can use my acorns on shelves too.
One of the pictures is upside down, just noticed upps :D
Gold version is looking very glam to :)
They can be use on a festive table.
I made some balls too.
They will add some sparkle ;)
Created the same way as acorns only easier.
Acorns make a nice handmade gift.
Keep it FESTIVE!
For the past year I've been strongly inspired by the Scandinavian interior design.
We are refurbishing our new home, clean natural and minimalistic Scandi design become the perfect choice.
With what we already own I'm trying my best to get that feel.
This Christmas I choose warm, soft decoration element I could easily do myself in a short time.
Pompoms!
I absolutely fallen in love with them, they're very versatile, easy to make and they looks so cosy :)
I will not deliver another pompom making tutorial as there is million of them around internet.
The easiest technique I found is to use two/three fingers for the small size and whole hand for the big one.
Here's my way...
or see the picture tutorial here, but there is also many more on YouTube too if you prefer videos.
Just giving you an idea how to use them to bring instant cosyness.
You can do pompom garland
to hold Christmas cards
or children artwork :)
You can use them as a simple Christmas tree ornaments
Door decoration is another idea
Or just add them to your Christmas wrapping as a pretty centrepiece :)
I think the're totally cute, I will be producing some more for sure :)
Every year I am making Christmas cards for my friends and family.
Yes, I'm one of those crazy crafters who prefer to spend few days gluing and cutting just to get the one and only piece of art to be send or given to people...instead of buying a nice pack of cards for £2 and have some time for myself. Hmm :)
This year I'm going further and doing 29 more cards for Ela's classmates too, with a one hack...They are very easy to make :)
Ela was involved too this time!
Easy, minimalist, quick but still cute.
She managed to make about 10 in row, which believe me is still a lot :)
So, if you feel like making cards with your child this time then that's for you :)
Just do few, there is no need to be me :D
Have a look how is done!
Materials:
I would keep it very simple but wanted to make my child happy so decided she can add some shiny sequins too ;)
That's how easy it is!
For the stamps we use gel pen, marker pen seems to dry out to quickly.Obviously stamps works best with the ink pad but colours we have is red, green, orange and blue,it did not satisfied me.Wanted only black.
here you can purchase a stamps we use at home.
For Ela's classmates we made a smaller version by cutting regular size card in half.
This way we could produce 46 handmade cards :)
Uff, now we only need to write some greetings too :D
If you desire to create something more fancy with the use of snow then maybe try some easy snow globe cards?
I stick on little cellophane bags on one side of the cards, filled with confetti snow and sequins.
The graphic is on the second side of the card.
I fall in love with the animal stamps, this gets me back to my passion for graphic design in the past...
Those ones I might keep it for myself ;P
