Butterfly, Flowers Mosaic

I made this piece when I first starting making mosaic pieces. I had a canvas laying around and since I can't draw I printed out a picture of this butterfly and flowers and traced it onto the canvas.

Just using a glass cutter I made the glass for the butterflies, flowers and leaves pretty small. Then the sky and the sun I cut larger pieces.

I mixed really bright yellow paint into the grout to look like the sun and make the rest of the piece stand out more.

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Mosaic Star of David

Mosaic Star

I made this using 3 or 4 different shades of blue and some shimmery white/clear glass. The best part is that I mixed some blue paint in with the grout. The grout turned out this very pretty baby blue color that matched the glass very nicely.

Circle, crayon art

Circle Crayon Art

I made this project the same way as the heart crayon art. For directions, look at that post. This was another fun project I made for my friend and almost couldn't give away! 

Such a great use for crayons besides coloring

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heart crayon art

Heart Crayon Art

Materials:

Canvas

Crayons

Hot glue

Blow dryer

1. Choose your canvas and lightly draw a heart on it with pencil. 

2. Peel off the paper from a bunch of crayons and break them so you have small piece. 

3. Glue crayons with hot glue. Yes, it must be hot glue just on one side of the heart. 

4. Go outside because it will get messy and start blowdrying the crayon side of the heart. Make sure you angle the canvas and the blow dryer so the drips are outside of the heart. 

5. Repeat the same process with the other side of the heart.

I made this project for a friend but I loved it so much I almost couldn't give it away!! It was fun to make and on the wall makes everything so bright!

Crayon Art

Rainbow Crayon Art

Materials:

canvas

crayons

hot glue gun

blow dryer

This is a very fun project! And it's great because there's no wrong way to make it. 

1. Line up however many crayons you need to fit across the canvas in whatever order you want.

2. Hot glue them to a piece of paper with part of the crayon hanging off the paper. Make sure to only glue the paper part of the crayon and you MUST use hot glue. Hot glue is the only glue that won't melt with the blow dryer.

3. Go outside!! Making this will get very messy! Find an area where you can lean the canvas against something. Then take the piece of paper with the crayons and tape it above the canvas so just the tip of the crayons are touching the canvas. 

4. Get you blowdryer and start blow drying the crayons. It will start off slow but once the crayons start melting they will drip fast. Depending on the angle of how you hold the dryer depends on how the crayons will look melted. I tried to hold the blow dryer straight so they would drip straight. 

5. You are done whenever the canvas looks like how you want it! I told you, there's no wrong way to this! 

Every project will come out pretty and unique! 

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Hair Ties

Perfect Hair Ties

Have you seen those hair ties around at the stores that look like pieces of elastic people just knotted? Well they have been very popular and all over the place lately. Oh, and they are selling for way more than they should be!

They are actually the best hair ties around because they don't leave a line in your hair or pull hairs out or hold the hair too tight. I have a few of them but I was lucky to get mine very cheap. 

I realized though these hair ties are just elastic and I knew I could just make them myself. The elastic you want to buy is called fold over elastic. The picture of the package on the left is some I bought from Michaels. I would say Michaels is the best place to buy it but they do only have a few colors. And you have to find it in the beading section, not the sewing section. If you are looking for certain colors etsy is the next best place to buy this. Most stores sell the elastic by the yard and it's pretty inexpensive, just shop around before you buy. 

Since I already had some hair ties I measured the length I from the old ones to make the new ones. I like to have my hair ties handy around my wrist so you can measure your own wrist too and cut to that length. Really there's no wrong way to do this. Just remember to leave a little extra to make the knot. 

Once your elastic is cut just make a regular knot in it and you are done! Some people may choose to burn the ends but I didn't and they haven't frayed or anything. 

You can also make headbands the same way, just measure your head! 

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Toilet Paper Art

Toilet Paper Flowers

Materials:

Shadow Box

Scrapbook Paper

Toilet Paper/Paper Towel Rolls 

Spray Paint 

Recycle your toilet paper rolls and turn them into something beautiful. 

First, cut the rolls up. However thick or thin you want them is your choice. Then slightly bend them to look like a flower petal. depending on the size of your shadow box will determine how many you want to make. 

I put a piece of silver sparkly scrapbook paper in the frame to look nicer as a background. I also put some swirls inbetween in the flowers. Since the rolls are just paper they can be glued together with Elmers. 

Some people leave their projects brown but if you do that it really just looks like TP rolls still. I decided to spray paint mine black and they looked way better and classier. I also just put a couple dots of glue on the back to attach to the background paper. Then sealed up the frame and that's it. You can't even tell this is a recycled project. It looks really pretty on the wall.