LOW COST homemade christmas gifts

quinechinoise

maria_and_the_imps wrote: »

i love them is there any instructions anywhere?

I just followed the tips from midnightraven3's posts, earlier in this thread.

cord123 wrote: »

Also, where do I find the wooden plaques? What do I search in ebay? I can only find ready decorated ones... I owuld like the heart shaped ones and the rectangle ones... xx

Search for "wooden blanks" in the craft category. There are loads!

cord123

thank you!
xx

maria_and_the_imps

Looking forward to piccies cord
Avstar lovley am I guessing you got the instructions from interest
Thanks quinechinoise

avstar

maria_and_the_imps wrote: »

Looking forward to piccies cord
Avstar lovley am I guessing you got the instructions from interest
Thanks quinechinoise

Thanks, there's lots of similar on the internet with instructions, I just amended them to suit me (no woodworking!). My instructions on my blog under my avatar x

Loubell83

Thanks for all the wonderful tips on here - I am definitely going to make the Rudolph candy canes for my team at work!

midnightraven3

wow quinechinoise, those are fab!:D

you should be proud
its great when you finish and can smile at what you have achieved!

pukkamum

quinechinoise wrote: »

I am sooo going to copy your fab wooden plaque idea! Probably not as nice as your ones, as my handwriting will be nowhere near as charming, but am determined to give it a go. I've been ferreting out supplies on ebay and have found some wood blanks and buttons (to embellish - maybe glue on with E6000?). Reckon I could get away with leftover wall paint and a black sharpie pen? Any hints gratefully appreciated!!

An easy way to write neatly onto a plaque etc is to use this easy transfer method.
Print out your words using a nice font, using a pencil scribble over the words on the reverse side of the paper, place the paper over the thing you want to write on, scribble side down, and trace over the words with a pencil pressing quite hard, when you take it off you will have a print of the words which you can trace over with a sharpie

quinechinoise

midnightraven3 wrote: »

wow quinechinoise, those are fab!:D

you should be proud
its great when you finish and can smile at what you have achieved!

Thanks, hun. Couldn't have done it without you!

midnightraven3

soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo whats next???:D

rachmc

Hello All! This is my first post on this particular part of the forum so I'm new to this

Basically, I came up with the idea of making friendship-dreamcatcher keyrings for my friends for Christmas. The top part is a friendship bracelet style of 'braiding'.
I made my loop around the keyring and knotted it and made the friendship braid and knotted this off. I then wrapped one strand of the extra string around a brass ring I got from my local haberdashery and tied this off at the top.
I then got another leftover strand and wrapped this around until I got to the bottom half of the ring, threaded on the 3 charms individually, continued wrapping the thread round and tied at the top.
I then did the dreamcatcher bit in the middle, added a bead and tied this off. Below is a picture of the finished products.

All in all, these costed me around 55p each to make (7p per keyring from ebay, 7p for the brass ring from the local haberdashery, around 10p for the thread from the haberdashery, 30p for the charms from my local bead shop and the beads were free from recycled bracelets). I hope you like these =]