Crafting for Christmas 2010, lets begin again......

Helsieboo

Morning ladies. Well, afternoon. Another weekend of not being crafty, very lazy of me. However, am going to Hobbycraft tomorrow for the first time and I am so excited! I really want to decorate some plain wooden picture frames with mosaics and then put photos in them, for some people, as I think these would make lovely thoughtful presents.

Got three days off work this week so on the agenda tomorrow is going to Hobbycraft and also buying a desk for my room! Wednesday will be rearranging my room then on Thursday I plan to have a lovely crafty day.

smileyt_2

qwiksave wrote: »

Thanks for showing us those smileyt, I particularly like the first one. Are there more than 2? If so some aren't showing correctly.

I also like the idea of tracing the black & white image onto shrink plastic, that is a useful tip.

I made a shrink plastic object yesterday too:



This one has UTEE (Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel) on it

Hi qwiksave - no, only two so far. I have to put all my craft stuff away at the end of a session so it's a bit of a faff sometimes to get it all out again. Still, there's another 8 months to go yet ......

I like your UTEE leaf. This thread is great for picking up new ideas!

monkeysallsayboo

castri09 wrote: »

hi can anybody give me any ideas of what i can put in a cookery hamper for my girls age 6 and 8 for christmas i would love to make as much as i can.i have so far brought some t towels to make 2 apron when i get round to making them.thats all ive got so far.
thanks

Not sure what others have said, but you could put all the bits in a mixing bowl, and wrap with cellophane, some ingredients or decorations would be good like choc chips, jelly diamonds, etc, cookie cutters, wooden spoon (maybe you could paint the handle), spatula, whisk, rolling pin, recipe books, scrap book for recipes, maybe mini muffin trays, measuring cups/spoons, cake cases, sieve, food colouring,

cant think of anything else!

mary-op

pepop - did wonder about popper fasterners........have to see what I can find in our little sewing shop:j

qwiksave - love the leaf image..:T..........how on earth did you do that ?

hart - they look brilliant:T

smiley - what a super idea with the canvases :T

I've done nothing in the 'craft' line today............:( All day seems to have been taken up with sorting through paperwork, filing stuff away, paying a few bills and getting BT to reduce my dd payment by half -yippee !!!!

Maybe tomorrow I'll get something done.........;)

hart44

Thank you Mary-op, Im trying to do as much as poss as when DS goes back to school my time will be taken up with school runs, helping out and then working in the evenings.

Its supprising how much I can do when DS is on hol's :rotfl:even with him under my feet but then he's great, he keeps himself occupied with his film making with his camcorder amd PC (my budding Hollywood film maker :rotfl:)

This site will help with some gift making

I posted this on the jewellry thread
http://www.craftideas.info/index.html

mary-op

hart - I saw it, there's some brilliant ideas on there.......thanks for that:j

mary-op

qwiksave -just had a look.........ummm.........think that just might be a bit too complex for me but its brilliant :T
Your scrapbook distressing is great............wish I'd thought of that.....but it wouldn't really have looked right with the scrapbook I've got.........I don't think.
Mine's a sort of family tree one with little bits of info that my kids may or may not know about their dad, me, their grandparents and so on. I've tried to pick out the best photos (often they can tell a story all by themselves) and my kids can add to it if they want to...........might even add a few extra bits myself before christmas.
I've done my family tree for a few years now and found our one or two interesting little things about various folk that I've added along with the wages my grandad got at the time............peanuts by todays standards.
Lot of fun if time consuming.

Claire_Bear

Done a little bit today, bought 3 wooden frames from Wilkinsons for £1 and a tester pot of paint for 87p so I've painted them all white. Two of them are staying plain (unless I find something nice to do with them) but I've stuck buttons around one of them which I raided from my mam's sewing box last night My mam said that some of the stuff in the sewing box has probably been there for over 30 years, I imagine some of the buttons have been, there was some lovely mother of pearl ones and lots of plastic ones with a pearly sheen on. I've taken a photo but my cable is acting up and I can only upload photos through OHs laptop so need to wait for him to finish playing WoW before I ask him nicely to do them for me.

I also cracked on with my vintagey scarf and it's nowhere near as nice as the one on the blog I've done 5 'rows' of lace but it looks a bit bare, might need to do another 5 rows, want to make it a bit ruffled as well but have no idea how to! I think the fabric I chose was a bit too stiff as well so it doesn't seem to sit right around my neck.

PepPop

hart44 Your black and white canvas pics are great - I would have panicked when they bubbled :eek:

ClaireBear what about using some silver / gold leaf on your frames?

hart44

PepPop wrote: »

hart44 Your black and white canvas pics are great - I would have panicked when they bubbled :eek:

ClaireBear what about using some silver / gold leaf on your frames?

Than you Pep I did panic when I did the 1st one but when I looked the next day it was fine so I did the other 3. I might put something around the edge of the one's with the fablon in the middle as they look a bit rough around the edge :undecided

I love the idea of doing frames too ClaireBear