Amazing sculptures 

made out of paper 

 

sources and references : http://www.despiertaymira.com/

DIY heart friendship bracelet

As the month of love approaches, we thought we’d combine friendship and hearts into one Valentine’s Day themed tutorial: a heart patterned friendship bracelet! Using some candy-colored embroidery floss and your familiarity with the chevron friendship bracelet, you’ll be able to whip up one of these tokens of love in a heartbeat.

You’ll need:

• 2 colors of embroidery floss
• scissors
• tape or clipboard

Creating a heart pattern involves just a simple modification to the chevron patterned friendship bracelet. Start by cutting 4 strands of each color, at about 24 inches each, for a total of 8 strands. Alternate the thread colors before tying them together in a knot. Remember to leave at least 3 inches of slack. Tape the knot to a flat working surface or clip onto a clipboard.

Separate the threads into 2 sets, 2 of each color on each side. Arrange the strands in an alternating, mirror-image pattern with the outside threads matching and so on moving inwards.

Start on the left side with the outermost strand (shown here in red) and make a forward knot by creating a 4-shape over the 2nd strand (shown here in blue), loop it under and back through the opening.

Pull up and to the right to tighten. Make the same knot twice everytime.

Continue knotting over each color, towards the right, until the outermost color has carried over to the middle. This is one half of the chevron pattern.

Repeat on the other side: take the 2nd to last strand (shown here in blue) and make a forward knot over the outermost strand (showing here in red). Knot twice.

Complete the row by taking the 2nd outermost strand (shown here in red) and make forward knots over each strand until it reaches the middle.

Mirror the steps on the other side and connect the middle strands. The heart cleavage has been created and the third row is finished.

Now repeat this special row again for the 4th row, taking the 2nd outermost strand and reversing the knot over the outermost strand.

Mirror the step on the other side. This forms the outer edge of the heart. Now fill in the heart by finishing the row with 2nd outermost strand (shown here in blue) and making forward knots over each strand until it reaches the middle.

Mirror the steps on the other side and connect the middle strands. Now, it’s back to a normal row again to close the heart. Make forward knots with the outermost strands, moving inwards towards the middle. Connect the middle strands.

Knot another normal row and then 2 special rows to form another heart. Do you see the pattern? 2 normal, 2 special, 2 normal, 2 special . . . keep going until the bracelet is long enough to fit around the wrist.

Finish the bracelet with a big knot and trim the ends.

Voila! Heart patterned friendship bracelets done.

sources and references : http://honestlywtf.com/

DIY : flowers on a canvas

You'll need :

Fake flowers

A hot glue gun

Any colors of spray paint that you prefer 

Directions :

Glue the flowers on a canvas . Wait for the glue to completely dry . spray the flowers with spray paint of your choice ( try to do this step outside or put the canvas on some newspapers ) . Lastly , wait for the paint to dry . 

Sources and references : www.indulgy.com

String art

String art is very popular and fun. It is a great way to express your creativity. You can make many different shapes with many different colors. You can make your child's name with strings for the kids room. It will look lovely on the wall. Also you can make string art as a gift for your love one. As a wall décor it can be very stylish and cool for your living room.We know that it will be fun and inspiring…

Cork board rolls // Linoleum Nails // 3M Hanging Strips  // embroidery thread (this is a great pack with all the colors you’ll need) // glue gun // white duct tape  // mini styrofoam roller

Before you start this project, unroll the cork boards and place a bunch of heavy books on them to straighten them out a bit.  

Each piece of cork board is only about 1/32″ thick – definitely not enough to hold a nail stable.  So stack three together.  Use your glue gun to glue them together.  Put them back under some heavy books for an hour or so so allow to dry completely.

You can download the template for the word “dream”( https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-BzPe25r715NzI5ZTI3ZDMtNjY1MC00MmZiLWJhYTUtMDRkYWZiMGFkNGRh/edit) . The “d” and the “m” will print in two parts on two different sheets.  Cut them all out and assemble into a single word using some Scotch tape.  It should look like this when you’re done.

Reinforce the spaces between the “e” and “a” and “m” with some additional tape.  That will make the entire template more stable to work with.   Don’t worry about cutting out the inside of the “d”, “e” and “a”.  Not necessary!

Center your template out on your cork board.So if there was too much cork at this point trim away a few inches from the top and bottom.

IMPORTANT! DO NOT TRIM THE CORK BOARD WITH A BOX CUTTER!  IT WILL TOTALLY SHRED AND FALL APART ON YOU.USE SCISSORS AND IT WILL CUT NICELY WITH MINIMAL SHREDDING . 

Paint the cork.  If you’re fine with the cork color/texture background, then feel free to skip this step. use some leftover latex paint I had (BM Sea Pearl if you care) and a Styrofoam mini roller. Nothing special.

When the paint dried, there was a little bit of buckling of the top layer of cork board and you could see missed spots .Don’t worry if this happens to you, it’s completely not noticeable after you’re done.

At this point you’ll want to flip the entire canvas over and apply your hanging strips.Do this now so that you don’t have to deal with it once all your nails are in.

Center your template and tape it down.

Insert your nails into the cork, following the outline of your template.  They should push in fairly easily with a little pressure (except when you hit a glob of hot glue below…then you’ll need to push a bit!)  Trace the inside of the “d”, “e” and “a” by pushing the nails right threw paper.

When you’ve traced the entire template, carefully remove the paper.  Work slowly and you’re nails will stay in place.

Here’s the canvas ready for stringing! it already looks pretty cool at this stage.

Now the fun part – stringing!  I decided to do this in a rainbow spectrum effect but you could easily do it in all one color as well.  This package has a nice assortment of colors.  More than enough for this project.

Starting with my dark purple, tie a nail at the top of the “d”.

Now you’re on your way! Just start weaving in a back and forth. The less you think about this the better.

keep moving through the color spectrum as you work your way through the word. Overlapping the colors a bit helped to blend each color into the next.

The last thing is frame out the whole piece with some white duct tape. The edges are looking a little raggedly trim them for a cleaner look.

Here’s the final result

Other examples: 

sources and references : http://honeyandfitz.com/