Crafting for Christmas 2009, let's begin again.......

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princesswoo wrote: »

Does any one has any ideas as to what i could do with white tiles. I have about 100 left over from re-doing our kitchen.

Also what pen do you use on the signs to do the wording, do you use a special pen or an everyday pen. I'd love to make a few.

get some tile paint and paint the tiles d'oh! then smash them all up and glue them to photoframes, mosaic style. file/sand off the rough edges and pop a pic of the kids in the frames. easy, cheap present for family/friends and quite fun to do too.
you can even grout between the tiles if you want to.
or you can paint them after you stick them down if you wish.

i have a couple in my bedroom that i have done, slate grey, white and duck egg blue (altho my tiles were already coloured) and they look really nice

pretzelnut

clareyPINKfairy wrote: »

I use a Sakura gelly roll glaze pen, usually in black, but you can get other colours, i'm sure the ebay seller who has the wooden signs sells the pens too. the glaze pen, gives it a lovely glazed finish, but you would probably be able to use a rollerball pen too.


hope this helps you. Thank you for all the compliments. everybodys projects look great. i cant wait for christmas. i hope appreciate the handcrafted stuff. I'm trying to save for my wedding, so this is helping a lot.

I thought that was the pens you used, but thank you so much dor the tips and links. I think were gonna have fun making these.

ETA: I've just spent a small fortune - DF knows it's dangerous when i enter this thread.

irishgirl62

one of my best sellers when I sold plaques on ebay was "Not now darling Mummy is on Ebay":eek: although i had requests for Daddy or Grandpa, I used emulision paint on them, gel pens and sealed it with home made mod podge

clareyPINKfairy

irishgirl62 wrote: »

one of my best sellers when I sold plaques on ebay was "Not now darling Mummy is on Ebay":eek: although i had requests for Daddy or Grandpa, I used emulision paint on them, gel pens and sealed it with home made mod podge

He he thats a good one. Yeh, i needed some inspiration when i started them, so i had a wee peak round ebay and drew the inspiration from some of the stuff i saw there. The ebay one is a good idea.
Everyone is welcome to borrow my ideas.
hope you all have fun. I think i might give the chocolate ones to my sister in laws. I made the chocolate bars out of fimo, wrapped them in some tinfoil, and varnished them with some clear varnish

irishgirl62

thanks... here is the link to the tutorial to make the cd card.. scoll down to the bottom of the page and you will see a link to a tutorial document to make one from the talented scrapdolly it is so simple to make!

http://dollysdreamings.typepad.com/dollys_dreamings/2007/02/index.html

Sian_the_Green

I was on a plane to America the other day looking in one of those crazy catalogues they have and saw a potentially copyable idea for a gift, it was a casserole dish which you could have personalised to say eg "Sian's kickasserole" and I thought it would be fun to do that on a plain casserole and make up a little kit in it with herbs and spices etc in it

sethsgran

http://www.marthastewart.com/article/baby-sock-advent-calendar? cute easy idea, check out Mamas and Papas site just after christmas as last year they had pack of 7 pr baby socks for £3 you could buy in the sale for the following year, or simply go to Primark now!

http://www.marthastewart.com/christmas-crafts?

whoopidoo

I love that sock garland

rainmac

irishgirl62 wrote: »

I had a productive afternoon, I made a wedding towel cake and a Journal book and Journal jar for my Mother, I was pleased as that is one of the bigger projects out of the way!

more pictures of it on my blog here http://sharonfranklin.blogspot.com/2009/10/mums-journal-jar.html

Your notebook and jar are beautiful x

chaosweddings

does anyone know where i can buy pre cut wooden letters for wall plaques and door hangers ?

thankyou