Archive for November, 2007

Tissue Box Craft Project from Paper

For tissue box craft from paper, we will choose washi paper, so the tissue box has Japanese style. For making the tissue box, use wood glue that mixed with water (50:50).

This tissue box is made from cartoon that contain of 2 parts: the container to place tissue and the cover.
The tissue container is wrapped with [...]

[Rose Craft] Silk Flower

Do you want to make rose craft from silk fabric? This method is used when you want to make simple silk flower.
Flower
Cut the material ( you can choose pink silk) with half circle shape for inner crown (6 pieces) and outer crown with more big diameter (24 pieces).

Then we will make the flower crown. Join [...]

Egg Shell as Beauty Craft Projects

Egg shell can be changed become high value eggshell art work. How can you do it?

First, choose the egg that really white with smooth surface. It needs quite long time to changes the ordinary egg shell become decorated shell, especially when we have to empty its content with special equipment. The shell skin must [...]

Clown Doll Craft Project

Do you like doll or maybe you want to make it for your kids? I get this picture of clown doll. It looks funny and easy to made, even just with your hand.
If you want to make some dolls, you may make other dolls with different model of hair like curly, straight and add it [...]

[Flower Preservation] Get the Dried Flower using Preservative Solution

Preservative solution will produce dried flower that has color and softness like fresh flower. You also can give the other color as you want. This preservative solution usually is safe for environment. Try this flower preservation method.
Drying technique
The plant that will be dried must be processed at the latest 4 hours after picked. In this [...]

Dried Flowers Using Drying Media (Desiccant)

Drying process with desiccant can produce better dried flower and dry leaf for craft material than simple drying process. These ingredients can be used as drying media:

Sand
Before used, wash the sand and dry up. The sand can be reused after dried up.
Silica gel
Only need 48-72 hours to produce dry flowers. After absorb the water, silica [...]

[Pressed Flowers] Easy Pressing

In this process, the pressed flowers will be flat so it is suitable for decorative craft material in the card or painting. The plant will has more fade color like brown, gray, beige and light yellow. In pressing method, we need some pressing tool like:

Two pieces of plywood 30×30 cm. Make a hole at all [...]