craft fail star 3 September 2013 at 5:17PM in Crafting 11 replies 2.3K views

pukkamum

Has anyone come across the craft fail site, it is a must for crafters.
I was 'lucky'enough to be featured for my painted mason jar
http://craftfail.com/2013/06/messed-up-painted-mason-jars/

Whats been your 'best' fail?

Scrapmate

Oh great site!

The_Cre8tor

I could spend way too much time on that site! (lol).


My own craft fail was something I found on pinterest and just 'had' to try.

The Instructions said:
Directions:
1. Cut a glow stick and shake the contents into a jar. Add diamond glitter
2. Seal the top with a lid.
3. Shake.

I searched the shops for glow in the dark bracelets; found a pack of ten. Took two of them and cut off the ends then emptied the contents of the bracelets into an empty glass jar. Added glitter. Closed the lid and shook the living daylights out of the darn thing.

The instructions promised me a wonderful jar of something magical which looked like fairies and fire-fly's all dancing around and twinkling merrily.

What I got was the biggest mess of all time.

I ended up with a large jam jar with streaks and blobs of disgusting looking mess which wouldn't enchant even the youngest of fairy believers. Oh ... and those instructions didn't tell me that the liquid inside is toxic, nor did they mention that there is a length of glass tube inside the bracelets - which is what you 'crack' when you make the bracelets glow in the dark, but this glass pops out of the bracelet when you empty the contents ... and you've then got to get it out of the glass jar and dispose of it carefully.

Don't be fooled by the pretty jar of lights in that photograph above. That's not what you're going to get for all your trouble.

carlamarie_2

The_Cre8tor wrote: »

I could spend way too much time on that site! (lol).


My own craft fail was something I found on pinterest and just 'had' to try.

The Instructions said:
Directions:
1. Cut a glow stick and shake the contents into a jar. Add diamond glitter
2. Seal the top with a lid.
3. Shake.

I searched the shops for glow in the dark bracelets; found a pack of ten. Took two of them and cut off the ends then emptied the contents of the bracelets into an empty glass jar. Added glitter. Closed the lid and shook the living daylights out of the darn thing.

The instructions promised me a wonderful jar of something magical which looked like fairies and fire-fly's all dancing around and twinkling merrily.

What I got was the biggest mess of all time.

I ended up with a large jam jar with streaks and blobs of disgusting looking mess which wouldn't enchant even the youngest of fairy believers. Oh ... and those instructions didn't tell me that the liquid inside is toxic, nor did they mention that there is a length of glass tube inside the bracelets - which is what you 'crack' when you make the bracelets glow in the dark, but this glass pops out of the bracelet when you empty the contents ... and you've then got to get it out of the glass jar and dispose of it carefully.

Don't be fooled by the pretty jar of lights in that photograph above. That's not what you're going to get for all your trouble.

*pops onto Pinterest to remove this from my pins*

Haha seriously, I have Been waiting for shops to get their Halloween things in so i can buy the glow sticks!
I won't bother now lol!

I love craft fail. So many things i look at and think 'that would happen to me'

teamshepherd

Ahahah oh days that site makes me laugh.
The pin wheels there are horrible! It looks like half and half cookies?
Although when i tried my hand at them it was bad too!




Ah lol you live and you learn, at least they were tasty!

dizzytina

Oh Cre8tor I am seriously laughing at your anecdote. That is hilarious - I am also off to pinterest to remove it from my board too!!!

Off to checkout craft fail now :-)

MERFE

I tried the fairies in a jar at easter here is the result
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151588816086499&set=pb.716831498.-2207520000.1378992637.&type=3&src=https%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net%2Fhphotos-ak-prn1%2F887191_10151588816086499_932178440_o.jpg&smallsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fsphotos-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-prn1%2F17300_10151588816086499_932178440_n.jpg&size=2048%2C1536
not quite the same as the picture

The other fail was the giant coloured ice marbles last winter - it was not cold enough

Jenna_Appleseed

Craft fail version of the fairy jar (they reckon the original photo was faked with a photoshop filter). Even worse than your descriptions.

http://craftfail.com/2013/03/fairy-jar-fake-out/

carlamarie_2

Lol!
I love how so many of us have attempted/was planning to attempt the fairies in a jar!
We are obviously craft magpies, forever chasing the glitter!

The_Cre8tor

Loving this thread. (It's fast becoming my guilty pleasure).

The reason I don't have any photo's of my craft fails is because I live by my saying of many years experience ...

.... If at first you don't succeed ...

DESTROY ALL EVIDENCE THAT YOU EVER TRIED!

'sworked well so far for me.

jap200

pukkamum wrote: »

Has anyone come across the craft fail site, it is a must for crafters.
I was 'lucky'enough to be featured for my painted mason jar
http://craftfail.com/2013/06/messed-up-painted-mason-jars/

Whats been your 'best' fail?

I love the idea of that site, but how do I navigate around to see other 'fails' on it?