What you need:

• Weird round things. Or something you can substitute!
• Glue Gun
• Paint in white and yellow
• Cardboard
• Magnets or bluetac
• PVA glue
• Pliers

So let’s make some daisies! Place the petals like this:

Hot glue them together…

Make a whole heap of the flowers 😀

Paint them whatever colour you like. I decided to go with traditional white/yellow daisies. I needed a couple of coats of acrylic paint to get a decent finish.

Keep coating them until they are the colour you want.

This is what you should have:

Now cut out a cardboard circle big enough to cover all of the middle gap and paint it yellow.

Make one for every flower…

Should be around this size:

Now with some of the other circle thingies use the pliers to remove the little round part on the end so it’s a complete circle.

Paint them with a base coat too:

Then yellow over the top ^_^ I used  sponge to apply the paint so it gave them more texture.

Now after everything is dry hot glue the cardboard to one side and the yellow ring to the other side.

Now to make them nice and shiny 😀 PVA glue to the rescue!

Give the whole thing a going over the the glue and let it dry.

After they are dry you should glue the magnets to the back. I decided to use mine for fridge magnets but you could easily just blue tac them to walls or windows 😀 Reminds me of a teenage girl’s room in the 90’s, just add “Girl Power” poster XD

And there you have it! Pretty decorations made with something I thought I would have no freaking use for XD

What’s the oddest thing you guys have made into a craft project?

What I used:

• UV nail polish
• Embroidery thread
• Scissors
• Beads

First thing I did was pull apart the bottom with scissors so it came apart like this…

Then using pink UV nail polish I painted every second one of the wooden pole thingies. I did two coats and let it dry ^_^

Then using the embroidery thread I slotted it all back together…

I put a bead on the thread too:

Then pulled the thread back the other way again and aded another bead:

Pull it all very tightly and tie it off.

On the ends of the thread I added a couple of other little beads.

Done! Very quick and easy to do and adds an extra point of interest. Also because I used UV polish it changes colour when I’m in out the sun! Very cool 😀

You could easily go further by adding jewels to the outside part or a small row of lace along the top but I thought I would go the slightly more subtle route this time XD What do you think?

Find where you want to put you design, I decided to put it right in the middle. Then hold it in place with a finger and start painting.

Keep going gently around the edge.

When you’re finished, remove the doily and you’ve got a pretty pattern!

Then you can re-use the painted doily on as many cards as you want and lastly stick it down onto it’s own card so nothing is wasted.

You can change colours, placement or anything to make them personal. You can also used pretty much anything you want to make the stamp like pieces of lace or pretty stamped tulle. It’s a very fun way to spend a couple of hours and at the end you should have a whole lot of pretty custom cards ^_^

Do you guys like getting cards? Do you keep cards that you’re given?

Glue your decoration in the middle. I used a bow from a headband that was broken and useless.

Put it all in the frame. Because my bow was thick I couldn’t fit the glass in anymore but it doesn’t really matter. The glass is not needed.

Lastly! To continue the black theme from inside the frame glue some matching lace around the outside. Done!

Super super super quick and very effective!

The best part is it’s completely customizable depending on the kind of colour scheme you’re going with in your home. This frame also had a stand on the back so no nails in the walls either XD

Cute packaging as per usual though it doesn’t really look like any cupcake I’ve ever eaten XD

What you need:

• Small brown circle of felt
• Strip of brown felt
• Needle and thread
• Stuffing
• Large white circle of felt
• 4 rounded triangles of yellow felt for icing
• Seed beads
• 2 small circles of cardboard
• 1 large circle of cardboard

I started with the brown pieces and blanket stitched them together to form a tube…

Like this:

Next I took both small cardboard circles and 1/2 of the stuffing and sandwiched together. I shoved it into the tube and left it for later.

I took the yellow triangles and stacked them. I then sewed down the center from top to bottom.

… and flared them out. The instructions said I should leave like this but the felt kept springing back into place so I needed to stitch the sides together.

Last for this part I added a pearl on top.

I deviated from the instructions because this seemed easier. To make the top of the cupcake I took the icing and stitched to the middle of the white circle.

Then I randomly stitched beads around like sprinkles.

Flipping it over I used a running stitch around the outside.

I filled it with stuffing and the large cardboard piece…

And pulled the thread tight so it would form a kind of ball.

Taadaa…

Last thing to be done was stitching the top of the cupcake to the base. Tie everything off and you’re done 😀

I am getting quite the collection of these little guys! I am thinking that I should make some kind of gigantic monster cake hair band with them 😀