My Shropshire Garden: Crafts

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Thursday, 6 June 2013

Shabby Chic Embellishments... With a Great Idea to use Them.

Shabby Chic Vintage Mobile

Well it's taken a couple of days but I finally got around to finishing my vintage mobile.

I had thought of this while in a lot of pain, waiting at the hospital for a doctor to have a look at my toe, turns out that dropping an iron on your toe will indeed break it.

I made a video of the process of making this mobile (not breaking my toe...) so please watch & enjoy!

Thursday, 30 May 2013

Super cheap Washi Tape! :: Video

So I'm really getting into crafts and so forth, there isn't much to do in the garden at the moment, just weeding and I don't think you really want to see photographs of someone weeding...

I thought I would introduce some craftiness into the blog, as I know quite a few of you like crafts and such like, so here we go!

This a quick tutorial I did on Washi Tape, there are links below if you would like to know more about washi tape. In short, it's a paper tape with designs and colours printed on it; used to enhance and add interest to scrapbook pages and handmade cards, it can also be used for wrapping gifts and so on.

Washi tape is expensive in craft shops so make your own!

So that's the video! You don't need to buy the inks to do this, watercolour paints, felt-tip pens or even pencil crayons would work!

Give it a go and let me know what you did and what you used it for!

Leave a comment below.

Saturday, 25 May 2013

Craft: Upcycle Tin Cans. Shabby Chic on the Cheap.

Time: 25mins
Skill: Easy
Cost: 20p - £2.00 (depending on if you buy the tin)
Awesome: Pretty Cool

So I got a bit bored and decided to play around. I had an old long hot dog tin from the other day's barbecue which I thought would make a good holder for my incense sticks. Problem was, it looked naff, so I took the label off and gave it a good wash.

Once dried, I spray painted inside a bit with white gloss paint just to give it a nice finish and then using superglue and jute garden twine, I went to town. The actual wrapping took about half an hour to do, mainly because I'm a bit of a perfectionist, it wouldn't take as long with a smaller can.

My main tips from this are to use wet (not gel) superglue, that way you can simply squirt a bit onto the wrapping you have already done and it will seep through and attach the twine to the tin. I did this every inch or so of the wrapping and it's very solid.

The flower embellishment was from an old crochet doily which I gather up, tied with a short thread and cut off the excess. I used fabric glue to attach it to the twine.