Crackle paint and decoupage on waste bottle

I love to recycle!!!So here's another one..on an olive oil bottle .
I used Hobby Ideas crackling medium.Here's how:
1)Apply a coat of blue acrylic color
2)Let it dry completely.
3)Apply a coat of crackling medium on top of the blue and let it dry too.
4)Apply white fevicryl acrylic color  when the medium is toroughly dry.
Then I cut decoupage  images from the vintage moth (freebies) and pasted with modge-podge.If you like decoupage you can visit these lovely  blogs Sandra's blog and Maria's blog .Cheers!

Decoupage on waste bottle

Made this gift jar using a waste bottle (shown above right).Painted using pink and white acrylic colors and tiny decoupage flowers from a decoupage image set bought from Hobby Ideas. Also stamped some flower images on white tissue paper using purple ink and  some of those for decoupage too.

CP Sketch 59

I made this card for CP sketch 59..I made the black n white patterned paper by stamping corner design stamp from Hobby Ideas in black ink onto white paper. The center stamp is from Hobby Ideas too. I did a bit of recycling , by means of this card by pasting the sentiment on the reverse side of a tag that was attached to a new pair of jeans I bought recently, and also using a piece of black tatting lace that was lying around for ages.Hope you like my card.

Waste tin can converted to spoon holder using m-seal

converted this waste tin can into a spoon holder .Pasted figures made with m-seal and painted with acrylic colors

M-seal flowers / how to make m-seal flowers

This is how the m-seal flower looks after it was painted with acrylic colours. Please see the next post for tutorial of how to make m-seal flowers.

m seal flowers/ m-seal work/ mseal flower making tutorial part 1

Materials Required : m-seal , fevicol, talcum powder, any cylindrical bottle or rolling pin, craft knife, paper, Item on which flowers are to be pasted.

Method:

1)Mix the two halves of m-seal properly till it is a uniform whitish gray.

2)Place a piece of paper on your table and dust it with talcum powder.

3)Put the m-seal dough on your paper and roll it out like a roti. It should be 2 mm thick

4) Draw a template of petals of the flower you wish to make on a piece of paper.

5)Place that template on your rolled out mseal. Dab it with your fingers so that it sticks a little to the surface of the mseal.

6)With a knife cut out the petal, sliding the knife along the edges of the template, while holding the template steady with the fingers of your other hand.

7)Cut out all your petals. See the video on how to cut flower petals. I am using one hand because I had to hold the camera with the other one.

8)With the back end of your knife make veins on your petal if required.(Some flower petals have veins). It depends on your flower. I am making an Azalea which has veined petals.

9)Paste petals one by one on the item you with the flower to be .

10)M-seal typically takes 20 min to dry thoroughly . Shape your petals after 7/8 minutes of cutting or else they will lose their shape.

11)To shape the flower properly, keep shaping the petals a few times while drying because again they may lose shape while drying.

Hand crafted fridge magent/Hand-made fridge magnet

Real dimensions - 1 inch diameter
This fridge magnet was made from a bottle cap. The edges were lined with epoxy resin material (m-seal) used mostly for closing leakages in pipes etc. Then rhinestones / kundans were simple stuck onto the m-seal while it was little soft (it dries in 10 mins). a patterned paper was stuck inside the cap after the m-seal had dried . The white m-seal can be colored after it dries with any acrylic color. A ganesha picture was cut out , dome sticker (bought from hobby ideas store) pasted on it and the image was pasted inside the bottle cap with thick double sided tape .

Paper punch card

made this super easy paper punch card with waste magazine papers. This could be a good project for kids.

Simple glass bottle vase made using 'Hobby Ideas' crackle paint

Made this vase from a waste glass bottle using crackling medium.

Paint a thick layer of blue acrylic paint on the bottle. Let it dry. Apply another coat.

Apply a thick coat of crackle medium with another dry brush and let it dry for 20 to 25 min.

Apply a relatively thin layer of another contrasting acrylic paint and again let it dry for an hour. while the second colour layer dries, cracks start to appear showing the first colour layer.

Happy New Year- beautiful balloon lights / Paper lanterns

Happy New Year!!!!!
May this coming year fill everyone's days with large doses of happiness and fun!

Here is an excellent tutorial from foldingtrees.com on how to make beautiful paper balloon lights. I used three different kinds of papers- crepe paper, wrapping paper, and torn pages from old magazines. Follow this wonderful tutorial and make your own balloon lights.

http://foldingtrees.com/2008/07/balloon-lights-tutorial/

Recycled glass -tea light candle holder

Materials:

1)Any old/waste glass

2)Fevicryl 3D colours /Glass outliner in gold or metallic colours

3)Glass colour/ceramic/acrylic colour of choice

4)OHP marker/permanent marker

Method:

1)Paint your glass with choice of glass/ceramic/acrylic colour

2)Make any free-hand design with help of OHP marker pen after color dries

3)Apply 3D outliner on your design.

4)See recycled glass bottle vase for pictures

How to make recycled glass bottle vase

Materials:

1)Any glass bottle

2)Fevicryl 3D colour tubes in metallic and glitter

3)OHP marker pen

4)sequins (If you want to make it more ornate)

Method:

1)Draw any simple motif on the glass bottle and repeat the design all over with an OHP marker pen(permanent marker).

2)Apply your choice of 3D colours on these motifs.
3)Add sequins etc in between the design if needed.

Lovely magazine/newspaper coasters

I love to recycle.. made these from old newspapers and magazine pages. These were inspired from some recycling- craft sites

Papier mache pumpkin

Made this paper mache pumpkin by pasting layers of newspaper on a small real pumpkin and painted with acrylic colors later