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DIY Miniature Fairy Garden Terrarium – Enchanted Mushroom Lights

Hi, in this tutorial I made a fairy garden terrarium with mushroom lights and a fairy mushroom house. I used some extruded polystyrene (xps styrofoam), battery operated led lights, transparent sanitary silicone sealant, tin foil, copper wire, hot glue, a little bit of polymer clay, moss and acrylic paint. I also used a glass cake cover. Step 1: Preparing the Board I first cut the styrofoam board to fit the glass cake cover. I adjusted the corners with a cutter, then I painted it black. Step 2: Adding the Lights

 

I then glued the lights to some pieces of copper wire. I made the wires in different lengths and also left more wire on the upper side (that will be helpful when making the mushroom caps). I glued the copper wires to the foam board with hot glue. I added some volume to the board using tin foil and hot glue.

Step 3: Making the Mushrooms

I mixed some red acrylic paint with silicone and made a paste. I applied the paste on the wires and leveled it using soap and water. For making the mushroom caps I used the silicone paste and wrapping foil. I applied some paste on the plastic foil and covered it. Then I started shaping it into a mushroom cap. For making the round shapes I used the cones inside of an eggs carton. I also covered the tinfoil base using the same silicone paste in black. Using some tin foil I made a cone and covered it with polymer clay. I sculpted a little house, baked it and painted it with acrylic paint.

Step 4: Moss and Details

I placed the moss over the board, carefully mixing the patches and used toothpicks to fix it in place. I also made some cute white dots on the house using white silicone.

I love the result!

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Recycled Craft: T-shirt to DIY Jumpsuit in 20min

DIY Jumpsuit that you can make in 20min with 2 T-shirts!! T-shirts are a great DIY Tool to work with because there are so many creative ways to transform it

And we all have 1 or more old t-shirts laying around that we’re not using so let’s be creative and make beautiful DIY Clothes with it

Required Material:

  • 2 T-shirts
  • pins
  • fabric scissors
  • paint brushes
  • paint palette
  • Palett Fabric Paint
  • elastic
  • thread
  • sewing machine (I use Brother DS140)

Step 1: You Need 2 T-shirts

Step 2: Cut the Sleeves, Top and Side of Your Shirt

Step 3: Pin & Sew the Legs

Step 4: Cut the Top and Sew the Sides

Step 5: Add an Elastic on Top

Step 6: Pin the Top on the Bottom

Pictorial DIY Jumpsuit in 20min

Watch Full Video Tutorial:

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How to make a burlap sunflower

Beautiful Sunflower pick for fall wreaths. You can make any color you like. I hope you have fun making this flower. Step 1: Required Material 

15″ of 5 1/2 wide burlap – color of your flower

5″ of 5 1/2 wide burlap – green for your leaves

Scrap piece of brown burlap for the center

Cutting mat

Decoupage

wide sponge brush

1 fine gauge wire

Scissors

Flower template mine came from http://www.freekidscrafts.com

I could not find a leaf template so I have included a picture of what I free hand cut

2 paper plates

one plastic rectangular bowl

Straight pins with the heads on them

Step 2: Decoupage

Pour about a half of a cup of your decoupage into the plastic bowl.

then pour enough water into the decoupage to make it thin. You will know it is thin enough when it drips off your brush.

Use your first paper plate and lay your burlap piece down and start brushing until you have covered the whole piece.

Place the piece on the clean paper plate and repeat. I did take another plate for the 6″ of the green burlap.

I let my dry overnight.

Step 3: Pin and Cut Flowers Out

You will need to cut your flower templates out. I downloaded the flowers and then resized them to 5″, 4″, and 3″.

Take your straight pins, I use the ones with the heads on them, and pin from the top of the peddles to the center.

Now a trick I use is to start with a paddle and cut around the top then do the same thing with each peddle until you have gone all the way around. I then turn over the paddle and cut the opposite side of each paddle. Look at the picture of the front and back of the peddles and you will see this gives you a clean cut.

Now take your pins out and you will be ready to assemble.

Step 4: Putting Your Flower Together

In the first picture you will see I am using my fingers to fold the flower in haft, I will do this on both sides of the flower to find the center.

Now stack each of your flowers and turn over to slide the wire through the center. If you do not want to use the flower for a pick skip this step and glue each one in the center.

Turn over and glue your center circle of brown burlap in the center.

Turn back over and lay your leaves, you can use as many or little as you like, to the back of the flower.

Glue the leaves on.

That is it and now you have your burlap flower as a pick or you can make and use on hats, headband, anything you like.

Hope you enjoyed this.

courtesy: toj66

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KIDS CRAFT: Artistic Ways to Recycle Bottle Caps

Recycle bottles caps is a Green way to make cheap decorations for kids rooms. Plastic bottle caps are a perfect material for decorating backyards with handmade designs in bright colors. Simple, easy for kids crafts make wonderful garden decorations. You can create beautiful flowers and funny characters with bottle caps. Colorful wall murals for kids rooms and unique gifts are great ideas to recycle bottle caps.

Plastic bottle caps are interactive kids toys that inspire and stimulate the imagination. Use a chance to incorporate this artistic way of recycling bottle caps into your home decorating. Colorful designs bring fun and joy into kids life. Recycled crafts and art projects teach children to act eco-friendly, be resourceful and creative.

Hope you like this recycle bottle bottle caps.

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How to Make Beautiful Earrings of Glass Flower

Required Materials:
Glass Bottle
Resin Glue
Dry Flower
Pearl Earrings Clip etc. Step 1: Balance

Put the 4 glass-shells on the silicone mold to keep it balanced during the producing process.

Step 2: Choose the Beautiful Flowers You Want

The selecting of flowers: Pick up the flowers you that are fond of and be careful about the matching of the colors. This action will help you make the color more astonishing.

Step 3: Trim

Trim the flowers you pick. You shall decide the size and length of the flowers according to the size of the glass cover. Step 4: Fill

Use tweezers to fill up the glass cover with the colorful flowers you just picked and be careful about the matching of the colors. Step 5: To Prepare the Resin Glue

Prepare the resin glue as follow. The proportion of the A glue and B glue is 3:1. Usually, we will prepare 2 different cups and these 2 cups will be used for loading A glue and B glue. Mix up the 2 types of glue and make sure you stir it evenly. Wait till the bubbles are disappeared. Step 6: Fill the Resin Glue Into the Glass Bottle

Now we will use a dropper to take some mixed resin glue and slowly fill it with the glass cover till the glass cover is completely filled up. Step 7: Put on the Top Cover

Put the metal cap onto the glass cover. Lay it away for 12 hours for the glue inside it to dry up. Step 8: Combination Resin Glass Bottle and Pearl Earrings Stud

Match up the coagulated glass cover with the pearl ear studs. Step 9: Packaging

Attach the finished products onto the card tags. Step 10: Complete!!

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How to Decorate Candle Holder/Stand from Plastic Spoons

Candle holders are heat-proof containers used to hold and display candles safely. They are almost always made of glass, metal or cast iron. Some are plain and purely functional, while others are decorative and used to improve the look of a home. Candle holders are also used as part of religious rituals.
Candle holders come in different shapes and sizes to hold differently sized candles. Some are shaped like tall glasses and are used to fully enclose a tall, wide candle such as a pillar candle. Others are simply plates, which are placed underneath the candle to protect the surface underneath, such as a wooden table. A votive holder is a small jar used to hold votive candles. Required Material:

  • Plastic Fork
  • Plastic Spoon
  • Waste CD
  • Waste bottle or cap
  • Glue
  • Paint and Brush
  • Decorating Mirror
  • Drawing Paper
  • Pen
  • Golden Pearl Step.1
  • First Paste Spoon to CD. Step.2
  • Now make the base of candle stand. Step.3
  • Time to Paint.

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How to Make Lampshade Using Plastic Bottle

Lampshade made using plastic bottle

use your waste plastic bottles and make with them a beautifully recycled lampshade.

Required Material:

  • Brushes
  • Decorative light
  • Plastic Bottle
  • Aluminium Wire
  • Green craft tape
  • Scissors
  • Glitter
  • Lighter
  • Cutter
  • Pencil
  • Scale
  • Craft Wire
  • Crepe Paper
  • Decorative stones
  • Glue Gun
  • Acrylic Colors
  • Color Palette
  • Decorative Tape

Step 1: Cut the Plastic Bottle

Take an empty plastic bottle and hold it horizontal. Cut the upper part of it carefully with a knife. This is to make the head of our lampshade.

Step 2: Paint the Plastic Bottle

Now paint the plastic bottle with green and yellow color. You can use acrylic colors for this.

Step 3: Draw Characters

In order to decorate further draw some tribal characters on the plastic head using black color. This type of drawing is called “Warli” art which is an ancient drawing art form in one of the tribes living in the forests in India.

Step 4: Final Look of Lamphead

This is how your lampshade head will look like after drawing is done.

Step 5: Make Plastic Leaves

Now we will make some leaves. For this, cut a small plastic piece from rest of the bottle and cut it further in leaves shape. Paint and decorate these plastic leaves in green colors and add detailing.

Step 6: Make Crepe Paper Leaves

Next, take a crepe paper and create some leaves out of it. Also, collect some ready made flowers from the market.

Step 7: Create a Wired Stand

Now take the wire and form a triangular shape with it. This will form the base of the lampshade.

Step 8: Complete the Stand

Erect the stand and it will look like this.

Step 9: Decorate the Stand

Now cover the stand with color tape and attach the plastic leaves and crepe paper leaves on it. It will start looking more beautiful!

Step 10: Fix the Lamphead to It

Now attach the lamp head to the stand at the top. Use glue gun to make it tight. Make a hole at the top of the lampshade and insert the stand shaft in it to fix it tight.

Step 11: Our Lampshade Is READY!

Finally, fix small torch light inside the lamp head with he help of glue gun. Now your lampshade craft is ready!

courtesy:  Ananvita