CHRISTMAS HAND MADE CARD

One of the first things that herald in the christmas season is greeting card. The shelves are stacked with boxes of varied, assorted and made to order cards, ready to be signed and mailed. Imagine for a moment how wonderful it would be to personalize your cards this year, and make your own card to send to those special friends and family on your list!

make your own card like this

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card making supplies used for handmade card:

• deep christmas red color cardstock 8" x 6"
• cream color cardstock 3.7/8" x 5.7/8"
• cream color cardstock scraps
• clear stamps by Penny Black
• background embossing folder
• label die cut and emboss folder
• color markers or other coloring media
• pine green ink pad
• paper trimmer
• scissors
• sponge
• double-sided foam tape
• glossy accents
• glue

card making instructions

• Score and fold red color cardstock to make a blank 4" x 6" folded card.
• Dry embossed background on cream 3.7/8" x 5.7/8" cardstock.
• Layer on top of folded red card with glue.
• Stamp Penny Black's clear stamp with pine green ink on cream cardstock scrap.
• Color with color markers. You can also use water color or colored pencils.
• Trim around image. Refer to photo above.
• Cut a circle with another piece of cream cardstock and edged with pine green ink with a sponge.
• Attach trimmed stamped image to green edged circle with double-sided foam tape.
• Layer on top of dry embossed background cream card.
• Die cut label on cream cardstock and dry embossed.
• Stamp Christmas greetings with pine green ink on label.
• Sponge pine green ink and dab lightly over embossed area and edges of label.
• Layer on top of dry embossed background cream card just below the circle image. Refer to photo for placement.
• Embellished with glossy accents on cherries and ornaments in stamped image.

ROSES MADE BY COFFEE FILTER PAPER

Tools and Materials:
Box of disposable cone coffee filters (8 filters will make one full bloom rose)
Scissors
16-gauge floral wire
Floral tape
Water color paint
Flat brush
Bamboo skewer
Glue stick

Coffee Filter Roses How to do it: 

1. Trace and cut petal shapes through both layers of filters, as per templates.

2. Form rose. With coffee filter No. 1, take four connected petals and poke an 18-inch length of 16-gauge floral wire down through the center of the bottom of one end petal so 1/2 inch of the wire remains sandwiched between two opposite petals.

3. Wrap adjacent two petals tightly around first two petals; wrap with floral tape around base, then 1/2 inch down wire, to secure.

4. When working with floral tape, pull it as you work to expose the sticky part of the tape.

5. With coffee filter No. 2, take four connected petals and sandwich "flower bud" between two opposite petals. On the adjacent petal pair, gently tear the perforation of the base so that you have a strip of 2 side-by-side petals. Wrap this petal strip around the other two petals and secure with tape.

6. With coffee filter No. 3, take four connected petals and gently tear the perforation at the base to create a strip of four petals. Wrap this petal strip around flower bud and secure with tape.

7. With coffee filter No. 4, gently tear the perforation at the base of petal shapes to create a strip of five petals. Wrap this petal strip around flower bud and secure with tape. (The folded petal gives rose stability and a more rounded form.)

8. With coffee filter No. 5, place three petals, overlapping slightly on rose and wrap just once (to avoid bulk) with floral tape to secure.

9. Wrap remaining three petals opposite the first three. Repeat for shapes cut from filters Nos. 6, 7, and 8. Use finger and thumb to separate petals, creating air pockets and making petals curve outward from the base. Use 3 or 4 extra single petals to fill in holes and give a rounded shape.

10. To paint the roses, use watercolor paints, mixed with a bit of water. Paint the base color, first doing the bottom, then the top, working from the inside out. Accentuate with a darker color on the tips. Use a flat brush to apply a third color of undiluted watercolor to edges. Let dry overnight.

11. Once painted roses are dry, curl left and right sides of outer petals around a bamboo skewer to create a point. Work your way from the outside to the inside of rose. Curl inner petals just slightly by wrapping top straight down around bamboo skewer.

12. Add five paper sepals secured with floral tape to short stem. Wrap floral tape in a spiral down wire stem several times to create a thick roselike stem. Burnish stem with skewer to smooth tape. Cut 6 paper leaves and sandwich a 4-inch wire between. Use a glue stick to stick 6 leaves together with a 4-inch wire stem.

13. Secure leaves to stem with floral tap.

GLASS PAINTING

 

Things you will need:   1.   A   circle of double strenght glass of 7  inches.                                               2. a white cloth or paper.   3.glass paints of black,green ,red, yellow &   blue colours. 4.round tip paint brush. 5.a wire hook. Technique:- 1. Take a 7" circle from double strength  glass.   2.Place it on a white paper or cloth. 3. Place the glass circle over the outline pattern. Trace the outline of the pattern with the outline black paint using the squeeze bottle and decorator tip. When dry, fill in the different elements of the pattern with color and the outline black will not bleed or smear. This will save a firing.  4. Start to paint the design. The paint should be the consistency of milk. Colors will tend to settle in the jar and will have to be stirred before and during use. These colors dry slowly to allow brush marks to level out. Puddle on the paint using a soft, round brush. One coat is all that is necessary. If the color is accidentally applied over the outline, immediately use the tip of your finger to push it back across the line. 5. Using the light and dark green paint will add depth and realism to the leaves. On the flower petals, apply the main color, leaving the area to be shaded empty. While the first color is still wet, apply the second color and blend together with a fine brush. On the petals, the black is pulled back into the main color, leaving an irregular line, which gives a natural look to the flower. 6. Place the painted piece in the kiln. Fire this project on a prepared kiln shelf to 1500°-1525°. When the glass if fired this hot, the surface will devitrify, which means that the glass surface will look frosty when finished. To eliminate devitrification, flash-vent the kiln lid after the firing process until the glass starts to lose its red appearance. Do not disturb and do not remove the glass until the kiln has reached room temperature. 7. Lead, zinc, or brass came can be used for the edge of the finished piece. U-shaped brass filigree is used as the finished edge on this project. Wrap the brass around the outer edge and cut to length.  8. Flux and solder where the two edges meet. A small wire hook can be added to the back of the brass joint for hanging. Clean the project thoroughly with flux remover and warm soapy water.  Hang in a sunny place and give yourself a hand!

TISSUE PAPER CARNATION FLOWER

You will need:

• Tissue paper
• Scissors
• 2 large paper clips
• Pipe cleaners (chenille stems) or floral wire
• Coloured marker pen
• Optional: floral wire, floral tape, wire cutters

How to do it:

1. You can make your carnations any size, but I found that a 3″ (7.5cm) circle gives a realistic-sized flower. Fold your tissue paper in half again and again until it is just larger than your circle size. I used a 20×24″ sheet of tissue paper, which let me cut 48 circles at once – enough for 4-5 carnations!
2. Find a suitably-sized circular container and draw around it with a pencil onto your folded tissue paper. 

 
3. Start to cut out the circle, holding all the layers of tissue paper together. If you can’t cut through the whole thickness, try cutting half the layers at a time, then draw another circle to cut out the other half. I found that I could cut through 48 layers with no problem, as the tissue paper is so thin. You don’t have to cut too exactly, so don’t worry if some of the layers don’t come out as perfect circles. Use a large paper clip to help keep the layers together.

4. As you continue to cut, add a second paper clip on the opposite side of the circles to keep all the circles together.

5. This next step is the key to making the flowers look more realistic than standard tissue paper flowers.

6. Take a marker pen with a complementary colour (a cheap kids’ pen is fine). A bold colour will give a more effective result. Use your non-writing hand to hold the edges of all the tissue-paper layers together, and use the side of the pen nib to begin to gently colour the edge of the circles.

7. Take this slowly – if you press too hard, the tissue paper layers will separate. Colour a small section of the edge at a time, and go over each section a few times to ensure the colour is intense and the ink has saturated all the edges.

8. Continue to colour around the edge. When you are about halfway through, move the paper clips to areas you have already coloured, and fill in the gaps.9. You may well end up with a coloured finger by the time you have finished , as you have to hold the papers close to the edge to keep them together while you colour them! Don’t worry – it’ll wash off .

10. Remove the paper clips and select enough circles from the pile to make one flower. I used approx 12 circles per flower, but 8-10 circles would be fine.

11. Keep these circles together and poke two holes near the centre of the circles. I used the end of a pipe cleaner to do this, but if your pipe cleaners aren’t sharp enough you could use a large needle or similar.

12. Fold down about 1 inch of the pipe cleaner, and push the long end through one hole and the short end through the other hole.

13. Pull the ends all the way through, then twist the ends of the pipe cleaner together underneath the flower to keep all the circles together:

14. Now to make the petals. Separate the topmost circle and crumple it upwards from the centre. Scrunch up the paper randomly, but try to concentrate on the base of the petal (the centre of the circle) and leave the coloured edges alone.

15. Now repeat with each circle in turn. Crinkle each circle up individually, and try not to have the folds in the same place each time.

16. Keep scrunching… When all the circles have been crumpled up, you will end up with a lovely carnation like this:

17. Make a double-headed stem by cutting down one pipe cleaner to half its length (use wire cutters for this) then twisting it together with another completed stem: 

18. Cut the floral wire to the same length as your stem.

19. Holding the wire and pipe cleaner stem together, start to wrap the floral tape tightly around them. Start about 1″ down from the flower head (below, left) and wrap up the stem to the head. Then wrap all the way down the stem to the bottom. To wrap without the tape getting tangled up, hold the tape steady and at an angle to the stem with one hand (below, right), and use your other hand to twirl the stem around, winding the tape around itself as it goes.

20. The floral tape will stick to itself, so there is no need to use glue to fasten it down. Remember to stretch the end of the tape as you wrap the end of the stem, to help it to stick securely.

21. Make just one as a paper buttonhole. Make about a dozen, and you have a beautiful bouquet!

22. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you make any tissue paper flowers.

ITALIAN DOUGH RECIPE & ARRANGEMENT

You only need the things like:

1. Cornflour         1/2 cup
2. German glue or white glue      1/2 cup
3. Water             2 tabs
4. lemon juice1/2 tabs
5. glycerine  1/2 tabs                                                                                                                                      
6. non stick cooking pan
7. Cooking oil       few drops
8. Oil  paint colours (any colour you like.)

 

Method:

1. Take a non-stick pan and mix water and glue very well.
2. Now add the cornflour into the pan and mix it faster don't leave the spoon until the dough soft.
3. Add lemon juice and glycerine pure in the material and and now cook it on the very little heat.
4. Make sure, dont leave the spoon until end because its necessary.
5. pan, yIt take maximum 3 to 4 minutes. When the dough is become thick and leave to stuck the our dough is ready.
6. Take out the dough into a plastic bag, but grease the plastic bag with Cooking oil, Vaseline or cold cream.
7. Now to knead ( gundhana ) the dough in the plastic bag very well until the dough getting more smooth.
8. Let it cold in fridge for 1 day.
9. Mix the oil paint colour in the Italian dough very well by your hands.Now your dough is ready to make flowers.
10. Take a little piece of dough and make a plan round bread of it.Make sure that your bread should be very thin and fine.
11. Now twist and turn round the dough bread with your fingertips and gave it a shape of rose bud.
12. For a rose, you make 1 bud,3 small petals and 5 big petals.
13. Attached the small 3 dough petals one by one around the rose bud by glue.
14. Now attached 5 big petals round the small petals.now you attached all the petals to the rose, but before you dry it, attached stem into the centre of rose flower with glue. Set and twist the petals like a rose. Now let it dry.
    
15. Covered the stem with wrapping floral tape around it.
16. Now make leaves from dough with the help of cutter.The colour you add the dough should be green for leaves.you also make dark and light green leaves for a natural look. You can also use artificial leaves to decorate your flowers.
17. Then you take the rose stem and attached the leaves on it with glue and floral tape.

Now your dough flower rose stem is ready.
Other Pictures are following (Arum lily)

TIPS:
1. You can also used the food colours in the dough instead of oil paint colours and mix the colour in the dough very well by your hands. But its always good to use oil paint colour.
2. Always keep the dough in plastic bag and then REFRIGERATE it.
3. Once you made the dough,protect the dough from Air, because air will dry your dough and waste it.
4. Always take small pieces of dough for use.
5. If you follow these instructions, your Dough will soft.

PATCH WORK TABLE RUNNER.

Required items:-

1).Printed fabric for corners,9 patch block of 5 inch square 

2).busy printed fabric for center,9 patch block of 5 inches

3).scissor

4).basic sewing supplies

5).pencil

6).matching threads.

Instruction:

This is such an easy runner to make. I'll do a tutorial here to show you just how easy lemon squeezy it is! I made this one with 27 charm squares, these ones are 5 inch squares. So lay them out into 3 groups to form a 9 patch block. Keep in mind that the squares in the corner of a 9 patch block will not be cut, so make sure that is a print you really like. The square in the middle of each 9 patch will be sliced twice, so keep that in mind too, busy prints or a neutral work best for the center square.So once you are happy with the placement, sew them into 9 patch blocks. Hopefully they will stay in order! I always seem to get one row mixed up along the way.And this is the fun part! After ironing your 9 patch block, slice it in half, rotate it and slice it again. So your block now becomes 4 blocks.After you have cut all 3 of the original 9 patch blocks together, you now need to arrange the 12 new blocks in a pleasing manner. For this one I regrouped 4 little blocks to make one big block again, so I had 3 large blocks to make the runner. I tried to have 2 little squares in the center of each block facing the same way for each of the 3 larger blocks. Does that make sense? But you could really arrange the blocks anyway you wished. That's the joy of a Disappearing 9 Patch block, it doesn't really matter!So once you have sewn all those blocks together you are on the home stretch! To make this runner just a little bit bigger and to frame it, I added a border of 1.5 inches as above.Quilt as desired. I just did a meandering stipple all over the D9P blocks and an echo stitch just inside the border. Binding is on and pinned in place ready to hand sew down for this one.

See? Easy! Let me know if you make one, love to see.

DECORATIVE ICE CREAM MADE BY FOAM

you will need:
- brown, dark pink, light pink, yellow and
  orange fun foam
- pink, white, yellow and brown
  dimensional paints and glitter
- glue for fun foam .

Instructions for the glittery cone:1. Print out the Ice Cream Cone Template and trace around each marking with a pencil. Turn the paper around and you should be able to see the markings through the paper. Now place the paper over the appropriately colored sheets of fun foam and retrace the markings you see onto the foam. Cut out the pieces.
2. To make the sparkly cones you will then use the dimensional paint to decorate the ice cream in the appropriate color. On the cone you can create a waffle look by first drawing stripes parallel in one way and then drawing stripes perpendicular to these.
3. Sprinkle same color sparkle over the dimensional paint outlines and tap off the excess glitter. Let the paint thoroughly dry.
4. Once dry, you can glue the top of the ice cream to the bottom cone piece.