#Craft projects

[kaenith]

@batrogers asked:

Also, second prompt, Tundra or Gaoler in recycled materials? (Also hello fellow Flight Rising fan!)

Hello fellow FR fan! :D I have drawn my very colorful boy!

I am super pleased with how this one came out. A recycled pudding jar, with a thin layer of tissue paper glued to it, colored with sharpies, and black details gone over with acrylic paint to be more opaque. It's so pretty when the light goes through it, and the colors reflect on the shiny buttons inside :3

[heimeldat]

I found a horrible falling apart Christmas angel at the thrift store.

So I pulled it apart.

And built it a sturdier core out of cardboard to replace that ridiculous plastic cone.

I shaped out the body with bits of cardboard and fabric.

Then made a better outfit from scraps of cotton.

First coat of grey paint, mixed with a bit of water so it saturated and hardened the fabric.

Second coat of paint filled in any spots I missed, gave it some color variation, and added mossy spots.

[fairymischief]

I just wanted to show my collection of what I consider my "fairy jewelry." My fairy aesthetic is mainly about twinkling gold and silver, pearls, stars, and clear crystals - especially those with an iridescent rainbow sheen.

Lots of these pieces were either made by me or I embellished them.

Here's a cool thing for people with gauge earrings: you can make your own elegant plugs by finding pretty buttons, snapping off the loop on the back, and gluing them to a stack of one or two buttons (depending on how thick your earlobe is) that match your gauge size. Then glue a slightly bigger button to the back to keep it in place when you're wearing it. People won't even be able to tell they're plugs!

I also love making brooches from buttons. Hobby Lobby has lots of very beautiful ones for $1.99, and I got all my buttons there - both for the plugs above and the brooches below on the left. To make brooches, just snap off the metal loop and glue a flat-backed pin to the back; they sell those especially for brooches, although in a pinch you can glue a safety pin to the back or secure it with some wire matching the color of the button.

The brooches on the right were some of my favorites that I either made (like the moon face) or bought.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my collection!

[crochet-and-more]

an old project of mine: vampire candy corn. this year I am making pumpkins that I plan on posting pics of soon, but for now enjoy this.

[celestialmazer]

Soft Toys by Mabs Tyler

Photographs by Gina Harris

Line illustrations by John Kingsford

Humpty Dumpty

Some finger puppet friends and the Red Riding Hood squad 🙌

Soft letters & numbers 💗🔤🔢

A duck and ducklings 🐤

Blue bird 🐦

A colourful caterpillar 🐛

And A baby sea-serpent 🥹

Selection of gorgeous cats 😻

A wise old owl and squirrel friend 💕

A kanga and her roo (!)

And a world where penguins and polar bears can be chilling together 😎

Just donated this book but had to take pics of my fave concepts for posterity and incase I ever wanted to attempt to make anything as adorable as what is within these pages 🥹 Hopefully someone else can enjoy it now and I've got a wee reminder here - seems she did a bunch of books like this, one of which is either the same or similar on https://archive.org/details/bigbookofsofttoy00tyle/mode/1up

More book credits and info inc some stitches below

[mctreeleth]

A small selection of my handmade D20s.

[hauntinghyrule]

I made a sticker out of FSA sprites ^_^

[theinfamousdoctorf]

Anyone else ever try to cut a dildo in half? It's surprisingly difficult.

[bellascarousel]

I am learning to crochet. Because my sister somehow talked me into getting this kit called a Wooble. It's a total beginner's kit. You get this cool, smooth yarn that basically feels like t-shirt material, with the first part already done; a crochet hook; stitch/round markers; all the stuff to finish it; and a QR code and password to a series of stupidly detailed, step-bby-step tutorial videos.

I am making a penguin.

I just finished my first round, and I am stupidly proud of myself. The first stitch is too big, I think. But the rest look reasonably even. And it seemed like it was getting twisted while working on it, but looking at it, I don't think it is. And, I am really confident in my increase stitches, now. (Okay, I admit to losing track of which step I'm on and having to count stitches to remember if I'm halfway through or completely through with a stitch. But hopefully I will learn some tricks for that as I go on.

I like this kit, though. Because it's started for you, you start with learning a single crochet (and how to then turn that into an increase stitch). Little dude is oval, so I'll eventually learn how to decrease. And THEN, it gets to what I consider to be the hard part of how do you START the thing, when it's time to do the belly.

Anyway... here is my first round. The stitch marked in orange was the first one I did, so I just did the very outer part. Everything before that was done for me.

I'll post updates as I go, but taking a break for now to get some writing done.

[kuhulua]

I love doing crafts so I definitely feel this!

[primerjohn]

Green Rock Tortoise was this week’s project. Different from my normal miniatures, but applying many of the same skills. Used a glue gun for the first time as well. Hope my wife appreciates it on the 25th!

[kaenith]

I've been making window clingies of the elemental gems from Minish Cap and Four Swords (plus rainbows because pride month) and I thought I'd put together a tutorial :)

Materials needed:

Permanent markers

Clear cellophane wrap

Scisors

Paper to sketch or print your design on

Not strictly necessary but useful:

Tape (for holding your pattern in place)

Something with a straight edge, like a ruler or bone folder (for smoothing out the plastic)

Step one:

Decide on a design. I drew mine digitally and printed it out. The printer had an issue, but eh, I can still see the lines, it's good enough ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Step two:

Fold a sheet of cellophane wrap in half to make a double-layered sheet that is a little bigger than your intended design. Try your best not to get it too crumply and wrinkled, but in my experience a little bit of crinkling is unavoidable. Best not to get too perfectionist about it, and just embrace it as part of the stained-glass look!

Unfortunately, cellophane being clear, this step is hard to photograph ^^;;

Step three:

Lay the double-sided cellophane sheet over the top of your design. The best way I found to keep everything in place was to tape the pattern to a smooth surface and stick the plastic down around it.

Starting with the lightest colors first to avoid color bleed, start coloring your design, leaving the lineart for last.

Step four:

At this point, the colors might look nice and vibrant against the white paper, but when you pick the plastic up and hold it up to the light, it will likely look washed-out and/or streaky.

To build up the colors more, fold another layer of cellophane and place it on top of the inked side of your current sheet. Then go over the colors and lines again, once again in order from lightest to darkest.

Keep adding layers until you're satisfied with the darkness of the colors. You can even get some interesting effects and shading by combining layers of different colors!

Step five:

When you're done, add one final layer of cellophane to the top to protect the inks. If you have a ruler or bone folder, I recommend using it now to smooth out the plastic and press the layers together as much as possible.

Then just trim around the edges and slap it on your window! :D

[potato-cat-999]

@yuumei-art I purchased your long fin white koi kit for Christmas and just finished today! Let me say it was really fun to decorate and surprisingly easier than I thought to assemble. It brought me a lot of joy to fly Bernard (him) around the house by his string. He is extremely aerodynamic. I will be rotating him in my head (and above my bed) for a while.

[fairymischief]

I'm so happy with how my dreadfalls came out! To me they have sort of a cyberpunk/Matrix/goblincore feel. They're a blend of dreads I painstakingly backcombed, crocheted AND ironed myself, and what brought it all together was adding some ombre black-to-neon green dreads from Temu. They were initially a little fuzzy so I had to iron each of them first, but they tightened up quickly and looked very high quality when I was finished. Next time I'm in town I'm going to get some neon green embroidery floss to embellish them a little more, but other than that, they're done!

I made these to be worn as pigtails, though that's just my preference. I can't wait to wear these out!

[ardinwriter]

Anyone have any thoughts on what I should/could do with knee high socks?

I played softball pretty constantly for about 20 years, often on 3-4 teams throughout a year. But I haven't played in about ten years and I don't plan to go back.

I have dozens of pairs of socks in a range of colors and want them out of my house.

I might trash the couple of pair that are in really bad shape, but I think I only wore some of these for like 6 weeks of intramural during college and so if I can do something else with them that would be great.