What you need:

• Old toilet rolls or paper towel rolls cut to a similar size
• Scissors
• Glue gun or tape
• Paper glue/glue stick
• Scalpel/exacto knife/really sharp knife
• Tea light candles
• Pretty paper
• White paint

So the first step is to cover your cardboard roll in pretty paper using the glue stick. Unfortunately this made it really hard to see what I was doing in the photos so I will use a plain roll so you can see things clearly then show the finished paper covered product.

So glue the paper securely all over and wrap it around like this. I used an old envelope ^_^

Ok once your paper is secure and dry it’s time to make the lantern! You can see from where I’ve drawn in pen below where you should cut. The line in the middle is where we will start making the cuts then the two dots are to mark where will eventually put little slits.

Use your scalpel to make a cut along the first line! Please be very very very careful when using a knife like this!

Now continue around the tube making more cuts parallel to the first one around 1cm apart. Keep going until you reach where you started.

Now make small snips around both ends around 1cm long, you should have something like this:

Next it’s time to fan the whole thing out. Gently push around the middle from the inside.

Keep pushing and use the ends to smoosh it together…

Once you push it out you should be able to create a fold and have something like this:

Now at one end fold all of the little tabbed pieces outwards 😀

Taadaa!

On the other end, fold all the little tabs inwards:

Use your glue gun or tape to hold them all in place. This is going to form the base which prevents the tea light candle from just falling out the bottom haha XD

So from the side it looks like this…

And this is what it looks like with the paper. Mine looks pretty dodgy because I was originally planning on painting it so I didn’t think to the the paper on until after it was made >_<

If your roll has brand names printed on the inside you can use the white paint to go over them. In fact you could paint it any colour you like! I didn’t bother doing it completely because this was a test run.

Now pop the tea light candle through the top opening…

And you’ve got a lantern!

Obviously you should be careful when lighting it as it is made of completely flamable materials but they make very pretty decorations and I can imagine hundreds of them strung up to my roof would look AWESOME!

Now starting from the outside, roll it in towards the rest of the ribbon…And stitch it in place:

Now fold the ribbon backwards on a 45degree angle…

Roll that around the stem like this…

And stitch in place. From the top it looks like this:

Fold the ribbon backwards again and keep rolling as you stitch it. This is pretty much how you make the whole thing, keep folding backwards, rolling and stitching.

This is a view of how I stitch the bottom as I go…

After a while you’ll see the rose starting to form. It can take a little bit of practice to be able to get the petals to sit correctly, the key is to make sure that you don’t wrap it too tightly, you want the petals to fan out not stick around the stem.

Once you are happy with the size of the flower then cut off any extra and fold it down toward the stem.

And tie it all off…

It should look something like this from the side, if you wrap it too tightly it won’t fan out this nicely.

All done! Then just attach it to a hair tie and you’ve got a very cute accessory 😀

Once you get the hang of it, you can pretty much make them without paying too much attention. This is a great craft project for watching a movie with 😀
I’m using silver ribbon and black thread so you can easily see where I’m stitching. These flowers work best with ribbon where both sides are nice but if use ribbon with different textures on each side it can be quite an interesting effect.

First thing, fold down one end at a 45 degree angle and stitch it in place. You should leave a couple of cm at the bottom to form a stem.

What you need:

• Seed beads in various colours
• Needle/thread
• Medium bead (for the inside of the head)
• Large bead (for the inside of the body)
• A couple of crystal beads for the ruffle on the dress

First I made the head. I used 2 black beads for the eyes and a pink one for the nose.

I threaded the needle then tied it to the large bead.

Then I threaded 6 clear beads and ran the needle through the large bead again so it was secure:

I continued doing this around the whole head and strategically placed the face beads amongst the clear:

Once the whole thing was covered I pulled my thread to the top. I added around 14 beads and doubled the strand back down and through the middle hole again to for an ear.

Adorable ear:

Add a second one and you’ve got a head!

I added a small ring of 4 more seed beads to the bottom of the head to form a neck. Then I threaded the large bead on to form the body. I only had a red one this size but I would suggest using something of a similar colour to your beads haha!

Using the same technique as the head I put row upon row of purple beads from top to bottom until it was all covered.

Using a string of purple with one clear at the end I added the arms:

The I added a skirt to the bottom by threading a triangle of 3 more beads between each of the strands…

Then I joined those triangles of beads into a frill by adding a crystal bead between each. So running the needle around the edge went: bead bead crystal bead bead crystal bead bead crystal etc

Lastly I added the legs using clear beads and one purple one on the end to be shoes.

After knotting all of the loose threads and hiding them inside the beads I was finished!

Pretty damn cute for a first try if I do say so myself ^_^

I want to try making lots more of these little things but I’m not sure what to make! What do you guys think, any suggestions?

What you need:

• Red yarn
• White yarn
• Green yarn
• Something to make it on, I’m using an eyeshadow palette
• Small sharp scissors

Wrap the green yarn around one end of the palette. This is going to form the leaves at the top of the strawberry so only use a bit of yarn and keep it down one end like this:

Using the white yarn wrap it around the other end of the palette a couple of times:

Then wrap around a layer of the red until it’s all covered…

Then wrap the white around a couple more times…

and more red…

Basically you want to keep alternating and layering the white/red until you have a decent amount.

Pull it off the palette and hold around the middle.

Tie some yarn around the middle and leave a tail if you want to hang it somewhere.

Cut all of the loops and you should have something like this:

Start trimming! Cut the bottom into a point and then cut the rest of the yarn to be uniform.

After trimming mine looked like this!

Cute!

I want to make a whole pompom garden now hahaha!.

My result…

There are various ways to make pompoms, when I was a kid we cut 2 cardboard circles and threaded the yarn through. Now that I’m older the novelty of cutting out cardboard circles has worn off so I take the lazy way:

What you need:

• Yarn
• Scissors/small sharp nail scissors
• Something hard which is roughly the diameter you want the finished pompom to be, I used an eyeshadow palette you could just use your fingers.

Start wrapping the yarn around the eyeshadow.

Keep wrapping until you have a decent amount like this:

Slide the yarn off…

Hold it like this…

Use another piece of yarn to tie around the middle tightly or if you want to take the easier way: a thin rubber band. If you want to hang it off something you can leave the piece of yarn long.

Cut all of the loops…

And it will look like this:

Repeat on the other side and you have a basic pompom!

Now it’s time to trim it into a heart! Use you scissors to cut the bottom into a basic point.

Like this…

Then cut a wedge out of the top to make a heart.

Now you’ve got the basic shape it’s time to trim with some small sharp scissors until it’s perfect.

Her you can see I’ve een working on the right side while the left is still long and messy:

And done!

You might want put down a sheet of paper or something to catch all the fluff that you’re cutting off XD

Very cute craft project and once you get in the swing of things they don’t take very long to make 😀

Now to think of where to hang them all!