Hi, this post is about gift, how you can create an attractive gift using any provided accents, like artificial or dry flower, ribbon and paper. The last gift picture shows topless with cakes content as gift and how to wrap it. Maybe you know some of these ideas, but it is a good chance to look at them this time.
The above title doesn’t need answer. Instead you can see these painting results on paper and fabric. Maybe you want to make the same. The painting fabric really doesn’t become bad choice. It is light and can be personalized and easy too. Below some nice pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
Batik is a kind of fabric that use hand painted technique as its motive. Some of batiks use cap as motive. In its making process, it use wax as media. Natural materials such as cotton or silk are used for the cloth, so that it can absorb the wax that is applied in the dye resisting process. In Wikipedia is written that: contemporary batik, while owing much to the past, is markedly different from the more traditional and formal styles. For example, the artist may use etching, discharge dyeing, stencils, different tools for waxing and dyeing, wax recipes with different resist values and work with silk, cotton, wool, leather, paper or even wood and ceramics.
This artistic fabric product can be found in Indonesia as this country ancestry art work. Many people like batik, it can be used for various dress models, home accessories, doll and many more. Read the rest of this entry »
The other inspiration on recycled goods are shown here. They are include fruit crock from used bamboo, candle handle from wood and egg shell then the third are the mirror frames from used plaited floormat and rattan. Want to know? Here are the pictures.
Fruit crock
These fruit crocks that made from bamboo are simple enough but really nice. Are you agree with me? The used bamboos are arranged together in a quite bent formation use rattan rope. With so strong tie, the bamboos won’t collapse. Read the rest of this entry »
These pictures show 2 kind of refrigerator magnet kids crafts. The material used here are flat pine wood cut, motive ribbon, cockle shells, dry seeds and flowers, glue, a sheet of thin cork, small magnet and glue.
How to arrange these refrigerator magnets is easy. Just simply arrange the above accessories like cockle shells, dry seeds and others according to your creativity. Arrange those small goods above the pine wood. Then you can add a small magnet at the back of this pine wood uses glue. Read the rest of this entry »
Have ever think of using straw as accent for your goods? Let us try to learn this craft project. This craft project may also be explained to your children or your students as kids crafts. Straw or dried rice stalks are natural object that can be used to make artistic accent to your goods. It can be the used can, the frame or other goods.
The method of this kind of kids crafts is enough simple but has the good and artistic result.
First, take some straws that have the good shape. Choose the intact and dry straw, don’t take the break or wet one. So your straw natural accent will has good result. Open the straw stalks become sheets. You can use the cutter or small scissor for it. Now your straws have more wide surface than before. Then prepare a sheet of HVS paper and smear that paper with glue. Then take your straw sheets one by one to be sticked at that HVS paper. This way will make your job easier before finally sticking that HVS paper to the frame or used can surface.
Add some other ornaments like dry flowers to the tin.
We need the round wood (for head), color jute sack (here with red color), jute rope, small batik cloth or other ethnic motive cloth, eye bead, varnish, dried flower, color thread (here use the purple color), a small triangle stem for the nose and of course, glue.
In this craft project, we use the contrast color for combination and create the quite dark skin beside the ethnic motive cloth to produce the ethnic trace. Read the rest of this entry »
Came from South African, Eichornia crassipes is introduced to the tropical area as decorated plant. Lately this kind of plant becomes pollutant for the river because its fast and spread growth. But finally people use this plant for potential craft material that can be used to make many craft goods. Here is a short view of this plant processing.
We need to dry up this plant before used. After dried up this plant’s color becomes quite white. Hydrogen peroxide is used as preservation ingredient for the ready to use plaited Eichornia crassipes. Also it’ll be used for whitening so the plait looks more interesting. Read the rest of this entry »
The stem of banana tree can be nice craft material. This post is to give the short summary about the banana stem processing that start from the raw material become ready to use material for craft project.
After preparing the banana stem, the first step is put it in the sun for 1-3 days so the banana stem is really dry. Then soak the banana stems into water that added with a little citroenzuur for 2 hours. Keep turning the banana stem so the color will be mixed (this is the bleaching process). The next process is releasing the inside and outside part of banana stem. Then put the inside and outside layer of banana stem into the container to washing it. Then put again the banana stem under the sun. Before using it, leave the banana stems for a night. In order to prevent the banana stem breaks when be used, so we need to give the thin cotton fabric layer to the banana stem with ironing it after giving the glue. Read the rest of this entry »
In this craft project we need some ingredients like resin and catalyst to make the lamp cap. This article will show about both ingredients. The natural ornament in this craft project can be processed with some methods. Those method can be found here, here and here about dried flower processing.
Resin
Resin is base ingredient of lamp cap. Resin is a solution that will tight or become hard if mixed with catalyst. We can make various shapes using resin depend on the mold we use. Read the rest of this entry »
