Showing posts with label Tutorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tutorials. Show all posts

Jan 19, 2014

Friendship scrolls


fabric friendship scroll



Although living in the digital era, having smart phones, tablets, notebooks - good, old paper is still very much alive. So, I made those scrolls for myself and my closest friends to keep common photos and memories.  I found the idea in the free ebook from the Cloth Paper Scissors site - it was a scroll to keep souvenirs from the journey. I used it for our friendship journey.


Tutorial how to make friendship scrolls
  



fabric friendship scroll




Use a piece of fabric, aproximately 33 x 11 cm. I prepainted an area for the photo as I had some isues with the transfer technique. Used photo transfer paper for the dark fabric. (Don't make the same mistake I did - read the instructions.)



fabric friendship scroll



After the photo tranfer was succesfully accomplished, I painted the fabric with the acrylic fabric paint and played a little bit with stencils.

fabric friendship scroll tutorial



This is the back side of the scroll. I also write some text - sentence about friendship.


fabric friendship scroll tutorial




For the scroll interior I printed calendar on the parchment paper and added a page of  handmade paper. On the calendar just marked our birthdays. I made four such pairs  and stiched them on the fabric 12 mm one after another.



fabric friendship scroll tutorial





fabric friendship scroll tutorial




Before stiching the paper, flipped the edge of the fabric and stitched it, put inside the wire. You can see it (left edge).



fabric friendship scroll tutorial




Finally, stitched the ribbon. The scroll is over. I printed some of  old photos and input them within the paper pairs. 




fabric friendship scroll tutorial



fabric friendship scroll tutorial



fabric friendship scroll tutorial








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Jan 7, 2014

Origami angels for the new year



Angels again, this time simple, easy to make, but beautiful origami paper angels. It is a great fun folding them and varying the paper you can make them to fit everywhere. 











Tutorial how to make origami angel







Tutorial for this angel I found on this link as pdf file. It was designed at papirfoldning.dk - great origami side. Although it is mostly on dannish, I am sure everyone can manage to understand diagrams.


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Nov 25, 2013

Don't throw away driftwood




Being a Mediterranean country, boats  are part of our tradition and driftwood art is becoming more popular every day. I just love it. It reminds me on the summer and seaside in these rainy November days. And above all, it is good to remember that the world around us  should be seen from different angles.
All art & craft on photos are made by Croatian artists or crafters. Enjoy!




These two boats are work of Tatjana Tekovic.



Driftwood place





Another lovely boat.








For this interesting necklace you can see tutorial.



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Nov 19, 2013

Something new for gift wrapping



OK, it might not be so new, but it is so simple, yet so nice, and there are endless variations. New Year is near and it is time to start thinking about gifts fo our love ones. Ant it is never just about buying and shopping, but how to make these moments solemn. Wrapping gift is as important to me as chosing the gift. I found this very easy yet very clever way of gift wrapping and made small tut to share it.












Tutorial how to make gifts box









Make a pattern: draw half a circle and add 1 cm of lenght. Size of the circle (and the box) depends on the gift.
Put the pattern on the paper and cut the four such pieces. Cut the square with the size of the circle diameter.



Bottom of the box (outer)



Inner side of the box
Glue this half circles on the square bottom.






Fold the 'petals' one under the previous (las one under the first one).




Take paper tape and glue it (not to the box, but two tape ends together).

Now it's the time to add string, other tapes, decorations.

Or, you can personalize yout own paper. Or, my favourite, recycle journals or newspapers.




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Nov 10, 2013

Trolley shopping bag - something old, something new



My weekly ritual is visit to the green market where local farmers sell their product. I am going there for years and built a relationship with some of them. I know where to buy fresh cheese, who has the best carrot or potato, who's products are organic. And always buy over 1o kilograms, it's too heavy for me to carry bags. Trolley shopping bag is marvelous invention, I've been using it  more than 20 years. On the old one bag became worn out, metal construction was still good. And I decided to sew something original, and the bag that will match my requirements. This is the result, I am very pleased with the result (and that is not the case with all my projects). Here is the tutorial how I made it.

Trolley shopping bag DIY tutorial

Material:



- old jeans (I bought two pairs in second hand shop for 3,5 $)
 - leftover fabric
- eco leather (decided to buy it later on)








From back part of the jeans legs made front of the trolley.
Another trousers used for the back side.






This stripped fabric I used for the sides. The upper edge I strengthened with the nonwoven and two layers of the fabric.







I need big inner pocket of the shopping bag (this I couldn't find in any bag I could buy). So, I used jeans as well for the base and sewed original pocket to be used as one pocket and stripped fabric for another one. 









Stripped fabric fastened on the base together with the zipper (see photo).









For the lower end of the pocket I made a pleat, to be able to put in more things.






For the bottom of the bag decided to use eco leather. First pinned it, then hand stitched and finally sewed (twice, to be firm).












The original bag was made of synthetic material. Jeans is rather soft and heavy and the back side was not standing upright. Wire frame from the old bag I used to fasten the  front side. For the back side had several options and decided to make insert from the fabric and sponge and input the cardboard. 



Finally, used   eco leather to make the cap. Added some details in the meantime.

My trolley shopping bag :












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