How to make herringbone tunnel – Step By Step

I hope that, in spite of a few non-standard shape, our tunnel take root in their family)) Honestly, it was conceived as one of the demonstration models for the lesson … In the process of work, I crept into the idea that it can be used as a toy on Christmas tree school.

Required Material:

  • paper pastel A4 format (2 sheets);
  • watercolor paper A4 (3 sheets);
  • pencil;
  • metal ruler;
  • knife breadboard (I prefer to cut their paper only);
  • glue…

Dimensions pastel paper does not allow me to make a full scan of the sides of the tunnel … so … so … Drawing In the tunnel height of 16cm, width 15cm and 8cm glubina-

Like most of you, I spend soft easy on the fold lines with a knife … a bit … avoid creases when folded ….

Do … accordion intervals .s 19 (mm) x 10 (mm) x 10 (mm), -20 (mm) x 10 (mm) – 10 (mm), -20 (mm) x 10 (mm) x 10 (mm) -19 (mm) height … accordion must be less than (at least 8 mm) the height of the tunnel … a little again passers-by with a knife. There, where the diagram solid lines- the front side and the back where shtrihovye-.

Folding and gluing an accordion.

Now insert a few … they are drawn spontaneously

Getting to the assembly)) Glue the sides of the accordion.

To glue edges accordion inserts, in accordance with the planned composition.

Hope you like this herringbone tunnel.

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DIY: Valentine’s Day Rainbow Banner

This is a fun little rainbow banner for Valentine’s Day make with felt and string. Keep reading to see how to make it!

Required Material:

  • Squares of craft felt in rainbow colors
  • Bakers twine
  • Sewing machine or needle and thread
  • Scissors
  • Chalk
  • Heart cookie cutter
  • Batting
  • Pins
  • Start by tracing the heart shape onto a piece of felt folded in half

After it has been traced with chalk, pin the middle to keep both sides together.

Cut out your hearts. Keep the pins in. Set pinned hearts aside.

Do the same with the other rainbow colors.

Now sew both pieces together along the edge in a extra wide stitch with contrasting thread. You could also handstitch these. Leave 2 inches open to add the batting.

Stuff the batting into the heart and sew up the last inch.

Do the same with the other colors (I only ended up making one of each color as opposed to the two I had cut out).

Thread some bakers twine into a embroidery needle and poke through the top end of one, threading it through to the other side. Make sure to put the hearts on in rainbow order.

Keep adding to the thread until they’re all on.

Hope you like this Rainbow Banner tutorial.

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How to Make Quilling & Earbud Wall Hanging

Making DIY Wall decoration Ideas must include learning how to make Quilling and Earbud Wall Hanging. This beautiful Home decoration Idea using Quilling Art is something that every crafter must learn. Easy to make Do It Yourself Quilling Wall Decor ideas that can totally change the look and feel of the ambiance of your home, and give it a decorative appeal. This pretty Quilling and Earbud Wall Hanging also makes for a best out waste recycled craft idea that you can make with the most basic of craft supplies at your disposal.

This Quilling & Earbud wall hanging is simple to make if you watch the step by step tutorial.

Step 1: Grab Your Craft Supplies

The basic craft supplies that you need to make the Quilling and Earbud Wall Hanging are :

  • Color paper
  • Adhesive
  • Cotton Bud
  • Pencil
  • Quilling needle
  • Scissors
  • Quilling Strips
  • Cardboard
  • Cutter
  • Decorative mirrors
  • Glitter paper

Step 2: Make the Craft Base

Cut out circular cardboard measuring 15 cm in diameter. Make 3 such cardboard circles.

Place the circular cardboard on the colored paper and measure the paper accordingly, to cover the cardboard with it, using adhesive.

Step 3: Build Your Craft

Take a cardboard and cut out 3 strips measuring 4.5 x 35 cm respectively.

Make Multiple tear drop shaped Coils in orange and blue colors.

Now take a circular cardboard and paste the tear drop shaped coils in a flower like pattern with adhesive.

Place a small tight coil in the center.

Step 4: Color the Earbuds

Take a bunch of earbuds and paint them using different bright colors of your choice.

Use adhesive to paste the earbuds in between the space of the coils, forming a spike pattern.

Prepare the 3 circular cardboard base in the same way, using tear drop shaped coils in bright combinations and colorful earbuds.

Step 5: Make the Frame.

Take the Cardboard strips made earlier and paint them in black color. Let the paint dry.

Join the cardboard strips in a triangle shaped frame using adhesive.

Paste the three decorative Quilling Circular Cardboard on each corner of the Triangular cardboard frame.

Step 6: Decorate!

Now add some sparkly touch using decorative Mirrors and glitter sheet pieces, on the triangular cardboard frame.

Step 7: Your Craft Is Ready!

Watch full video tutorial here:

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How to Make Cardboard Corner Shelf / Rack

This tutorial shows how to make step by step cardboard corner shelf / rack / Organizer.
Cut an right angled isosceles triangle of cardboard of sides 13 inch and hypotenuse 18 inch (take 9 such triangles) Now, cut 18 stripe of cardboard of size (13 inch * 2 inch) Next,cut 9 stripe of cardboard of size (19 inch * 2 inch ) Now, take 3 triangles and glue them one over other to make one tough triangle. Take two pieces of cord of lenght 5 feet and put one end of both the cord in the center holes (hole at the right angled corner) of the 3 trays and the other ends in the other 2 sides hole of the trays

DIY Five Pointed Rainbow Prism Lamp

The Five Pointed Prism lamp is made up of ten geometrical panels, which makes a prism, displaying the same repeated pattern all the way through giving out beautiful rainbow colours around your chosen space

I use only LED lighting in my designs to contribute to keeping the environment friendly.

Step 1: Begin Drawing/Designing Geometric Shapes

I begin by drawing my design on paper with rough sketches. I really enjoy geometrical shapes so I wanted to design one. I have had many failures on this design as I was not getting the mathematical measurements correct but I got there in the end. This is then drawn in illustrator to make this mathematically correct. I then send this file to a local laser cutter company to get these cut out of birch wood.

Step 2: Staining, Attaching Acrylic Film to Templates

When the 10 templates have been cut (5 large and 5 small) to make a prism shape, I then stain the wood in a rich dark chocolate colour and leave to dry.

To get the wonderful colours, I use an acrylic iridescent fil.

Adding the acrylic film:

I then cut out the correct size shapes out of iridescent acrylic film by hand, This acrylic film is super colourful, covering the whole rainbow spectrum, purples, pinks, oranges, greens, blues and from metallic and copper colours, depending where you view the material from as this changes in an instance from one angle to the next

This is then stuck to one side of the wooden templates.

I have to spray the wooden template to set the film as it has an adhesive so this stops any dust attaching while its sticking to the wood.

As seen in the images, you can see the film gives out a real colourful coppers & metallic colours as well as blues/purples, this is the great thing about the material. While this is setting for 24 hours, I get to work with making the wooden base.

Step 3: Base Making

The wood varies from oak, ash, birch, rose, walnut, basically any thing I can get my hands on, from local saw mills, suppliers and wood merchants. Up cycled wood comes into my projects a lot as I like to use wood which people don’t require any more from tables, chairs, doors any thing really. I also find wood in forests.

You have to make sure the wood is air-dried for at least a good 18months other wise the wood splits.

I then cut this to size on my a table saw. I then clamp 5 sides together and leave to set for 24 hours. When set, I then sand this down with 3 different grits to get a clean finish, leaving the wood smooth and soft.

I then stain the wood in the rich dark chocolate colour to match the wooden templates.

Next stage is wiring up the lamps. I use a vintage spiral cord and only use LED bulbs for my lamp.

Step 4: Back to Lampshade Making

Now the acrylic film is set, I use my craft knife to cut out shapes with in the template. This takes time as I have to be vary careful to not cut where is not need as this will show through when light is projecting. Cutting the shapes out lets the natural light beam through.

I then copper foil each template and the solder each template individually around both side with soldering iron. I found this to be the best way in constructing the lamp.

Step 5: Assembling the Lamp

To assemble my lamp:

This part is tricky, as I need two pairs of hands to do this so I ask fellow artists and my family to help me with this part. It’s very fiddly and getting the angles correct is challenging but well worth the finished out come. I do the soldering while I have an extra pair of hands to hold the templates to gather so I can pin them together with the solder. When the structure is complete, I then can go round the whole lamp and tidy up and fill all the gaps in with solder to make it neat and tidy with clean edges

The lamp sits at a height of 37cm and width 23 x 23 cm

I hope you have enjoyed my processes. If you have questions, then do ask.

courtesy: Amberlightsuk

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!

How to make PVC Bathroom Shelf for indoor plants

Here’s a cute little thing, and indispensable for the house – bookcase for the bathroom, kitchen or balcony for indoor plants can make their own hands. To work needed PVC plastic water pipes, which can be purchased at any store building materials. Inspiring craft handmade for the home.

Working with PVC is a cinch. It’s like affordable structural tinker toys. The pipe is cheap, and you can get some really cool fittings.

Required Materials and tools:

  • PVC plastic water pipes,
  • jigsaws for cutting PVC pipe,
  • sandpaper or sandpaper P220,
  • measuring tape or meter tape,
  • primer for PVC or plastic,
  • glue,
  • PVC tees,
  • PVC caps,
  • wood, particle board or plywood – for shelves,
  • drill and drill,
  • screwdriver and screws,
  • paint in the form of a spray.

Hope you like this Painted Plastic Bottle Caps craft tutorial.

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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.

DIY Pumpkin Seed Ornaments Tutorial

It’s been a busy fall for us so I’m just now getting this post out after working on these pumpkin seed ornaments for over a month. Better late than never! We hoarded pumpkin seeds from Halloween, washed and toasted them, then they sat dry in a bowl on our kitchen counter for almost two months waiting to be turned into Christmas ornaments. Finally we finished them this week and they were worth the wait. For this project you’ll need pumpkin seeds, cardboard, colored felt, a hot glue gun, ribbons, scissors and decorations for the flowers and trees, if you decide to make those too.

Use a pen to trace circles around the bottom of a cup (on top of cardboard) for the base of the flowers, then cut them out.

Use the same cup to trace circles on felt and cut them out as well.

Use a hot glue gun to glue the seeds around the edges of the cardboard as seen below.

You can alter the orientation of the seeds as you place them – some pointing out, others pointing in. Don’t worry about the glue gun strings hanging off. You can remove them later after it all dries.

Here you can see the different variations of pumpkin seed placement.

We did a tree too just for giggles.

Then we started painting the flowers.

And painting the tree.

The natural seed color is beautiful as is, so we painted some and not others.

Next we added sequin decorations to the center of the flowers and all over the tree.

Then hot glued the ribbons on the back of the ornaments.

And glued the felt on top of that to keep the ribbon in place and cover the back.

Here they all are in their glory!

We put some of the ornaments on our tree.

And saved others for future occasions.

Like gift bag decorations!

Hope you like this desk organizer craft tutorial.

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