DIY Chandelier Made Out Of Paper

You’ll need a whole bunch of paint swatches in your desired colours (seriously, emphasis on the whole bunch part). I picked a variety of blush, pink and red hues so I could get a fancy ombre look to my chandelier but I can only imagine how many different looks you could go for with your own chandelier. Using a scalloped paper punch you’ll need to punch about 40 -60 swatches into little medallions. Keep the medallions divided by colours in little saucers or cups like below. I bought my lamp shade (my chandelier base) from Lowes for about 5 bucks. Using an Exacto knife and super sharp metal scissors I carefully cut apart the fabric lamp shade, peeling away the pieces until the metal parts were as exposed as possible. When picking out a lamp shade I tried to pick out one where the bottom diameter is much smaller than the top. This will make your layers of paint swatch medallions hang better and thus look much better when the final product is done. Lay out your paint medallions, coloured side down, in the desired order. Tape down a long piece of coloured thread along the middle of the backs of each medallion. Then using a piece of tape, cut down the center width wise, tape together the edges where one medallion meets the next. Without this final piece of tape, the medallions with rotate on their piece of thread, thus showing the bar codes, text and colour names usually located on the backs of the paint swatches. If that doesn’t bother you then this step isn’t necessary! Repeat this step until all of your chandelier strands are strung and taped together. Flip your lamp shade upside down and fasten it somewhere where it can hang freely (I tied mine to the latch that opens and closes our air vent in our ceiling). Start stringing on your strands along the perimeter of the bottom of the chandelier until the entire metal base is covered. Then start stringing strands along the widest ‘top’ of your chandelier so that the lowest part of your strand hits the mid point of the bottom layer. Continue this all the way around until the entire chandelier is covered. Add a ribbon to the metal pieces (where the light bulb would pop in) and voila! You’re ready to hang this beauty!

Plastic bottle butterfly wall art

Required Material:
-PET bottle (without convex patterns)
-a picture with a butterfly
-nail clippers
-permanent marker medium thickness
-3-5 shades of nail polish
-nail polish with glitter
– super glue Take 1.5-2 liter plastic bottle (I use the middle part of the usual bottles of water). Cut off her smooth middle part of the neck and the bottom. We get a sort of a sheet of transparent plastic. There is a picture butterfly shape that you would like to translate. For a start is better to take pictures with clear lines and no small parts, for the first time use patterns – they are easier to translate than the photos, though and can immediately begin with the complex images. They can be found in magazines, I printed out from the Internet and gently draw out the contours of the drawing. To do this, I usually use a thin black permanent marker. Today decided to try out the new – he was stout and blue, but that’s okay because these contours disappear under layers of varnish. The plastic should stay your whole future butterfly with all the lines, streaks on the wings.

Now you can cut off the plastic part of the butterfly from the rest of the web, as it prevents and twists.
Then proceed to the coloring. We select varnishes (3-4-5 different) that blend harmoniously to the color scheme, in which you want to see your butterfly.

Gently colorable place between veins on the wings, do not forget about symmetry.
Impose 2-3 coats depending on the consistency of the nail, giving each layer to dry thoroughly.

Impose 2-3 coats depending on the consistency of the nail, giving each layer to dry thoroughly. Finally, you can do embellishment. All black lines plot the silver or gold glitter (brush should be very thin – in such nail brush drawing on nails). That’s all – our butterfly is ready. Another work

Handmade lantern making tutorial

A symbol of the festive and children together to produce a fine and simple lanterns! A very beautiful handmade paper lantern Oh! Ready to the required materials, to produce this Pupils handmade lanterns!

Step 1

Prepare two colors of colored paper, and cut them into a square, large sheets of small square should have, as shown, and a large rectangular white paper

Step 2

Cut all the edges of the square into a jagged shape, as shown in the figure, note that the lace should be consistent,

Step 3

Wrap the large square and the back of the small square with each other and then roll them up as shown

Step 4

Will each roll up the roller paste fixed in a row, and then fixed in the white rectangle, up and down to leave a side

Step 5

Cut out some flowers with embossing machine or scissors, the best size of the flowers do not differ too much

Step 6

Will cut the small flowers attached to the reel in the contact point, and then paste the gold color on the edge of the upper and lower

Step 7

The crepe paper or colored paper to expand the folds, and then cut into a tassel-like, pay attention to the top of a margin

Step 8

Will cut the tassel paste in the bottom of the inside, the other cut a long strip, and then paste in the top of the inside, make lanyard

Step 9

Will be rolled up the whole step into a lantern-like, fixed, you can hang in the favorite place!

Another lantern with different color:Source

DIY Butterfly Clock Wall Art Tutorial

This crafts project shows how to make a butterfly clock wall art. Creative DIY idea to make unique piece of home decor with your own hands! It will look fantastic on your home wall. You can make colorful butterflies to decorate kids’s room. Let’s try it.

Required Material:

  • A piece of black cardboard;
  • Card stock paper of various colors;
  • Utility knife, scissors, ruler, pencil, compass;
  • Glue;
  • Clock movement mechanism.

DIY: Lanterns with autumn leaves create

Lanterns with autumn leaves create a magic atmosphere not only in the evening. Call your children or grandchildren to get along with them made you. Made lanterns with your own hands you will later recall the time spent together whenever light a candle.

To work you will need:

– Color paper
– Green cardboard
– Transparent yellow paper
– pencil
– scissors
– glue
– Jars
– Leaves of different trees, which will meet for a walk

1. For the manufacture of simple ordinary flashlights need glass jars of different shapes and sizes, which should be well washed and dried. On coloured paper pattern or with the help of this tree leaf draw sheet form in two sizes.

Cut out them. Cut the leaves pasted on the bank. Another flashlight is made from a sheet of solid cardboard the size of 12h41 cm. Pencil-lane divided into four rectangles the size of 12×10 cm, one will see at the end of a seam for bonding the candlestick. On one rectangle draw sheet (sheet a pattern of living). We cut it so as you can see in the photo – a sheet skeleton consisting of veins. When the sheet is cut, smear “skeleton” of glue … and seal the entire rectangle yellow transparent paper on the inside. On the sheet of paper, draw coloured transparent outlines various contact collected leaves and draw them gold or silver paint. On the upper and lower edge of the solid stick the strips of coloured cardboard. When the paint is dry, glue the sheet into a cylinder. It will turn the flashlight, which can be inserted with a candle jar. Very nice these lanterns look at the window from the street, set between the panes.Source

DIY: Beautiful Snowflakes-Socket

Beautiful snowflakes-sockets of paper.

Of them can make mobile, garland. Or use as a single decoration. The sheets of A4 color copy paper glue glue stick two. For sockets diameter 10 cm (little snowflake) plates should be glued on the long side.For larger diameter outlet for short. The paper was cut into strips the width of about 5 cm for small snowflakes. And the band 7 cm large. Do not forget that for socket strips of different diameters have to be of different lengths. Put a strip on the cutting mat with centimeter markings and selling fold line folds over every centimeter. The best tool for this operation is a pen without ink. Tip: Burst folds as possible and before the paper is cut into strips. Fold accordion band at the planned folds. Then Let us openwork notch. The patterns can be very different. First issue the edge. To trim fold about five folds, accordion entire crop will not work immediately. Then, cut the patterns inside the accordion.Also small, four or five folds in portions. Prepared glue the accordion in the ring glue stick. Collect the resulting ring in the socket. In the middle of a drip a little hot glue. Hold the socket until the glue hardens. You can also use quick-drying contact adhesive. But then razetku need to commit time to glue dries. For example, some pin object (hot glue but convenient). For large snowflakes head diameter of 5 cm, for small 4 cm. The head was cut out from a dense white paper. I use “shell” with embossed watercolor. Hairstyle make a circle of colored paper. Face paint silver gel pen with glitter. Eyes pencil mark the stenciled “circle”, and then circle the pen. Garnish with the same handle hair. Big snowflakes need an extra layer between the socket and the head. Circle of paper 9 cm in diameter radial fold and cut a simple snowflake. Or use as a middle layer of openwork napkin pastry shop. Merge all layers. Ready snowflakes decorate with glitter. Apply glue PVA place you want to decorate and sprinkle with glitter. Behind glue a circle of cardboard the color “Silver.” All snowflakes different from each other. Therefore, it seems to me, is a good option for co-creation. Each will make his snowflake, and then you can collect a large garland or mobile. This tiny snowflakes.Diameter 10 cm. Photograph mobility very difficult. All revolve 🙂 Yes, still dark in the kitchen. In nature it looks much better.

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DIY: Safety pin feather jacket

DIY Safety pin feather jacket

You’ll need:
  • Safety Pins (about 100 per feather)
  • E-6000 glue
  • 12″ of rhinestone chain per feather
  • Pencil

1.  Position the rhinestone chain on the back of your jacket.  This will be the spine of the feather.
2.  Draw a line where you want it to be.
3.  Add a thin layer of E-6000 glue to the line
4.  Place your chain on the glue and let it dry for about 1/2 hour.

5.  Starting 5″ from the bottom of the chain, start adding safety pins  evenly up each side.  6.  Continue at an angle so that it looks like a feather. 7.  Create a point at the top. 8. Add smaller safety pins at the base to create “fluff”.I added 3 feathers to this jacket Source

Toilet Roll Mini Album Tutorial

No need to  buy any fancy supplies to make this toilet roll mini album apart from pretty papers. This is one of the thriftiest and coolest upcycled mini albums that you can make. As an added bonus, this is a project for anyone including seasoned scrapbookers, beginners and children.

Required Materials:

  • 3 or more toilet rolls
  • folder binder rings
  • Scrapbook patterned papers to decorate
  • Ribbon or fibers
  • A Bone folder – a ruler or dull dinner knife works just as good
  • A hole punching tool – crop-a-dile or a regular hole punch will do
  • Adhesive – I used regular PVA glue (white glue) and an old credit card or piece of firm card to spread the glue evenly
  • Paper trimmer or scissors

Directions

Step 1

Take your cleaned up toilet rolls and flatten them. Use the bone folder to firmly crease the folds so that they are as flat as you can make them.

Step 2

Now measure your flattened roll to get the ‘roll length’ and the ‘roll width’

Cut a piece of Patterned cardstock to be:
roll length + 1″   by   2 x rollwidth  then add on an extra 1″

Step 3

align one side of the roll with the edge of the paper and fold it over. Fold over again the remaining small piece.  You will now have three panels – the top flap, the middle and bottom panels.

Step 4

Now spread some glue evenly over one side of the flattened toilet roll. stick the roll to the middle panel. Be sure to center it.

Now take a pair of scissors and cut four small wedges in the card as shown below. This will enable us to tuck in the overhanging edges easily.

Step 5

spread a small amount of glue onto the overhanging edges and tuck them inside the roll and press firmly for a good 20 seconds to ensure they stick.

Step 6

Glue down the shorter top flap and tuck in the edges.

Step 7

Then glue down the last panel and overhanging edges.

Step 8

Repeat for the remaining toilet rolls. Cover them in the same or coordinating patterned papers.

Step 9

Take your hole punch tool and punch two holes a quarter inch in from the side of the flattened rolls for binding. My holes are also 3/4″ from the top and bottom of the rolls.
You don’t have to use rings for binding – you can thread through some ribbon and fibers if you wish.

Step 10

Measure and cut three cardstock tags that will fit into the pockets that will be created by the bound pages. I measured my tags to be a little longer so that they will protrude from the pockets.
Punch a hole approx 1/2″ in from the top of each tag in the center.  Use a corner rounder punch to round of the corners if you wish.

Thread the pages onto binder rings and tie on some pretty, coordination lengths of ribbon to embellish the album. Embellish the tags with ribbon as well.  And you’re done! Decorate each of the pages and tags with embellishments and photos and you have completed your toilet tissue holder mini book!Finished Toilet Roll Mini Album.

DIY Pull up Window Shade Made of Paper

If playing with paper has been a habit of yours since you were a child, then this next DIY project will surely make you happy. And will also bring a brand new touch to the interior design of your living or kitchen. The pull-up paper window shade we suggest you make is a nice piece of decoration which will prove very useful in those sunny days. When you’ve managed to complete this project, you could protect your movie-watching time or your baking session with a simple yet handy window shade made out of paper. Choose the color which matches the rest of the decor and put your old paper skills to good use. You will need some simple materials, such as wallpaper, double-sided tape, or a thick rope. Be sure to read the entire list of necessary items, as well as the proper instructions on how to make your very own pull up window shade made of paper. Good luck!
Required Material:

  • Wallpaper or other hard paper
  • Knife
  • Ruler
  • Double-sided tape
  • Nylon rope
  • Plastic Cord Lock
  • Hole puncher

Fridge magnets from CD’s

We first of all need the discs and cards. Find suitable also proved to be not so simple))) Most made on the basis of photos and drawn not found immediately. Getting Started)

Required Materials For Magnets:

  • CD-disk (better to take those in which one side is very smooth, without grooves)
  • Postcards (napkins, print)
  • Paint white acrylic
  • PVA glue
  • Acrylic paint
  • cardboard
  • acrylic paints
  • sandpaper
  • scissors
  • magnets

2. Drive the skins on both sides and gruntuem one layer of white paint with a sponge. 3. Cut the cardboard circles to cover up the hole in the disk. 4. On the other side, where irregularities greater glue the circle bigger. Since this is the wrong side of the magnet, it is advisable to not get rid of irregularities. A circle and then we’ll cover paint the magnet.

5. From the front of the glue smaller circles. How many depends on the thickness of the paperboard.

If there are slits and has a groove around the hole, it is possible to cover all the filler.

6.Snova paint with white paint, dry them, the hard way. 7. Now do postcard. Soak it in water does not last long, just a few seconds to wet the whole. If you overdo, paint nichinaet burst and slazit. Anyway, it happened on one of those, which I bought.

8. Then, very carefully foliate postcard. Again, if it is too wet, it will break, if not some dry completely, the top layer will come off smoothly, will remain scraps of paper from the lower layer.

9. Since the image was printed on both sides, I got two pictures.

10. We cover the image layer akrilovago nail to save the image. Dry them. 11. Glue the image to disk with white glue, carefully smoothing and expelling bubbles. Sushim.Soshkurivaem excess from the edges. 12. Make podrisovki.

13. We cover both sides lakom.Sushim.

14. To make the edges, you can use that will tell you fancy) I turned a thin white cord at hand. Glue on its edge with a transparent adhesive.

15. On the reverse side glue a magnet. You can use the magnetic plate, and it is possible small plastic magnets. 16. You can leave a white underside and can thus: 17. We hang on the refrigerator, admire and enjoy the familiar copyright-present)))

Thank you for attention!