All My Creative Crafts

Flower Balls and Fantasy Trees

2009-04-21T13:12:00.000-07:00

Using Styrofoam balls usually found and dried plants and flowers wonderful flower balls and fantasy trees can be made. Plant materials could either be grown and dried yourself or can be purchased from florists or decorative herbalists. They will add a beautiful floral decoration to your home that is fast if and can be stored away and used again whenever you feel like it. Dying bull that phone balls or cones and the plant material can add wonderful colors and designs to the material. Colors can also be dyed to match room decorations and other items in the room.

Hanging Flower Balls

These elegant decorative balls are very simple to make and can be decorated with as many types of flowers and colors as you choose or as would suit the room. This type of arrangement often uses masses of tiny flower heads and usually attempts are made to keep the ball as round as possible in shape. A whole is often pushed through the middle of the ball using a sick knitting needle which will allow Accord to pass through making a loop so that the ball can be hung. Materials can either be glued to the Styrofoam ball or can be attached with wire or if the stem is strong enough simply pushed into the ball. Pearls can be attached to the ball I threading a wire through the Perl and making a twisted and which is then pushed into the ball. Hanging flower balls are a only limited by your imagination.

Cone trees

Cone trees are based on a Styrofoam shape of a comb. The star phone can be dyed or painted green to give a proper base color. Then decorations are added to the home to provide a night pleasing design and tree like appearance. The foam cone is usually pushed onto some sort of wooden base to provide stability. When building countries it is best to build from the base up making it easy to finish the cone at the top.

Cone trees and hanging flower balls are especially appropriate for the Christmas season. They can be a wonderful addition to your Christmas decorations, and taken out and put away year after year.

Painting Designs on Glass

2009-04-20T13:11:00.000-07:00

Painting on glass is one way to make ordinary utensils jars and bottles into. It is also a way of recycling jam jars, Pickle jars, wine bottles and other like throwaway containers. These containers can be converted into a variety of containers for holding flowers or as cosmetic containers or just to hold ornaments.

Normal household items like glass ashtrays can look very beautiful and original with the design painted on the bottom or even covered completely with paint. Drinking water glasses can be personalized and inexpensive mixing bowls can be decorated to make original and unique containers to match your kitchen. Designs can also be mixed and matched to create that would be welcome to the most elegant dinner table.

Many simple shapes and designs can be painted freehand directly onto the glass and there are a number of designs which require no ability to draw whatsoever. When buying paint you must specify that it is to be used on the last. Craft stores and art supply stores should stock transparent and open eight in animal paints which are designed especially for painting on glass. So you will need to buy centers to help clean up. The best brushes are inexpensive watercolor brushes and are perfectly suitable for this type of craft work. For the most Intricate designs however you should use a good sable brush.

Children will also enjoy this craft as they are able to make their own unique for their own place setting. They can also learn stenciling techniques and lettering techniques on glass jars that are throwaway.

Making Simple Paper Collages

2009-04-18T13:06:00.000-07:00

The word collage comes from the French verb coller which means to glue. It is an abstract art form done by composing and gluing together different materials to create a picture. Collage is probably the most versatile of all picture making techniques. That is why it has an almost universal appeal to both children and adults alike.

Gluing collages together requires no particular skill. It is completely absorbing and wonderful to see all the various designs and effects that can be made by composing together different materials, textures, colors and patterns.

There is a wide variety in the compositions that can be assembled. They can be a straightforward as you wish or can be incredibly intricate. They can be flat or even three-dimensional and you can use less or more of whatever materials you desire choosing from many materials from macaroni to matchsticks. Collage is only limited by your imagination

Paper collage is by definition of course restricted to using paper materials only. This makes it easier than other types of collage and the costs are very little iffy use papers are found around the house. However it don't be misled into thinking that because you are using just paper it is any less enjoyable or creative. Use your Cricut machine to make different designs and to make the collage more interesting. Buy Cricut cartridges to make hundreds of different designs for your collage.

As a matter of fact, doing paper collage is a particularly fascinating and extremely challenging exercise, because it is only when you get good at paper collage that you become aware of how rich and varied the medium is. Combining papers and materials together provides you with an almost infinite variety of effects that can be achieved.

Collage can be enjoyed by both young and older like and is a wonderful craft that you can share with your children.

Distressing and Coloring Wood

2009-04-17T13:05:00.000-07:00

Painted antiques are often very expensive and beyond the means of the average family. For people who prefer the look and design of furniture and accessories from the distant past, it is quite possible to add a fresh painted finish within antiqued like appearance. If done properly and if the paint is applied with proper skill and discretion, the piece of furniture can be transformed from a tired eyesore into something beautiful which blends in with the color and decor of any particular room.

One of the things that makes antiques so desirable is their ability to blend in with both traditional and modern decor. Color schemes, and room designs can be matched when coloring and painting your own furniture. For many years both in America and Europe, decorators have been using distress and antiquefying processes. Antique furniture is prized for its ability to give a room and interesting and mellow ambience.

Aging and antiquing furniture is a wonderful and fascinating field to discover and explore. A beginner who is willing to experiment and practice the processes involved can achieve excellent results. Antiquing furniture should not just be reserved for professionals. The successful amateur should practice first one bits of test wood to ensure first-class results. The materials necessary to antique and distress would our inexpensive and the beautiful results are worth both the time and money invested.