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Showing posts with label kirigami. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kirigami. Show all posts

September 4, 2012

De Todo Un Poco

Determined to make stuff with all the supplies I keep finding in my boxes, I ended up have a 'little bit of everything' day of crafting.  

Decorated a bottle with glass blobbies and some fibre.

This was a small brown bottle that had a black plastic lid.  It wasn't going to be any good for glass painting so I covered it with fibre and put paper and crystals on the lid, then added a turtle charm.

While waiting for glue to dry, I found the kirigami paper and instructions and gave it another shot.


After about a half dozen tries over the past week, I finally made a bead and jumpring bracelet I saw on Pinterest.

The craft that took the longest was a Sharpie tie dye technique I was dying to try.  I found this plain canvas bag with my stuff and I also unearthed all the coloured Sharpies I bought back in WA.

I have way more colours than this...but I was gonna start with these and see how it went.

The direction I followed online said to make a design in about the size of a quarter.  I used a whole bunch of colours.

Next you drip rubbing alcohol on the ink and wait for it to spread.  I didn't have a dropper so I used a straw and it was hard to control the alcohol.  Then one whole side totally refused to spread, not even when I tried to add more ink and alcohol.

Had the best luck with these colours.


The reason I started with this canvas bag instead of a tshirt, is that it was actually a Sharpie brand bag that probably was a free gift in the box with all the coloured markers.  

The finished bag, which I tumbled dry in the dryer to set the ink.