Recycled Christmas Card Ornament!

You will need:

A stick of old christmas cards

A 2 inch hole punch (10 dollars Micheals) 

A glue stick 

ribbon 

glitter glue (optional) 

Cardboard Triangle cut out to use as a folding guide. 

Here I have a stack of some of the images I punched out of old Christmas cards.  They are already folded appropriately which I do using a small cardboard triangle as my guide to make sure all three corners are folded equally.  Then I glue five pieces together.  This is the bottom. Or top really. 

The same goes for the top, but you should leave some room to pull through the ribbon

Gluing piece by piece like a puzzle for the body and connecting the top and bottoms, you will need twenty punched out circles in total.  Once finished, you can use the glitter glue to paint the edges of the cards for a bit more flare.

Origami Unicorn Necklace charm ( or bracelet)

 OK you need some origami skillz for this one but really making this one dimentional unicorn is very easy.  Practice making bigger ones until you are comfortable enough to do a tiny enough design for a necklace charm.  The Origami paper I used, I bought in Japan, and is soft and thin paper so it is very easy to fold into tiny designs

Its best to make quite a few charms and origami designs that you want to plasticize.  This is because you don't want to waste any crystal resin.  I use very little of the crystal resin mixture I have and just painted in on with a paint brush.  I painted on about three layers.  The charms I made took a good two days to completely harden.  

Besides the Origami paper and resin you will need some pliers, a hook for the necklace and something for that hook to attach to that in turn is attached to the unicorn.  The above picture is what I use and can be bought at Micheals or any crafting store that offers supplies for jewelry making.  I choose silver but they are available in god as well. 

Once the charm has hardened half way (after a day) you can slip in the metal circle part and even add another layer of resin.  This method is very tedious, but if you wait for the charm to completely harden, you will have to hot glue the metal piece to the back of the charm instead of neatly tucking it into the folds.  It just looks nicer.  Once the charm is completely hardened you can attach the hook to string on a necklace or bracelet.

Origami crane Earrings

Very simple once you perfect you origami crane making skills, which you can find step by step instructions for in any google search or a video tutorial on youtube.

What do you need? 

earring hooks and pins

mini pliers and cutters

little squares of origami paper ( 4.5 by 4.5 cm)

beads
needle
clear dry glue

nimble fingers

How to do- After honing the craft of crane making on bigger paper, its not so hard to do with little squares. Once you have your beautiful little cranes, carefully push the needle through the bottom side out the top in between the wings to make a easy hole. Then push the pin through the hole started with the needle.  The pin is blunt and may warp the paper if you don't first make the small hole with the needle.  After pushing through the pin, you'll need the pliers to open the hoop on the earring hook, hook onto the pin hook, and close.  To secure the crane I add a bead just the right size to snug onto the pin.  If in doubt, add a dab of clear super glue to the bottom hole of the bead to ensure that the bead will not slip off. 

double face pillow/poofs!!!

Homemade body scrub

Ingredients;

a cup of sea salt

a half cup white sugar

one bag of vanilla tea

lavender oil (unless the salt is already scented lavender)

3 tablespoons honey

olive oil till desired consistency

beer cap Resin image rings (and magnets)

Materials:
ring bases or magnets

beer caps

crystal resin

small images

Time:5 minutes prep, overnight drying time for resin

Level of difficulty: eazzzzzyy

How to: cut out image to size fitting in beer cap....

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mix the resin according to the directions, wear gloves!

pour a bit of the mix into the beer cap till the top. Leave to dry overnight. Once hard, simply hot glue the beer cap to the ring post! If you are making magnets then glue the magnets.

Novelty Toy Necklaces!

Materials:
necklace chain

pliers

hoops

things to hoop on necklace:

• barbie shoes, purses and accesories
• perler bead designs
• toy soldiers

Time:5 minutes,

Cost: varies depending on the quality of chain, mine was one euro a meter. I already had the toys on hand and I bought 5 meters. with that I made 7 necklaces.

Level of difficulty: eazzzzzyy cheazzzy


How to: OK first measurer your necklace lengths. I measured mine a bit long so that the wearer can slip on and off the necklace with out clasps of any sort. I like the long necklace look, and it saves money and time not having to add clasps. If you want the necklace to fall on your upper cheats then you will need to cut shorter lengths and therefore need to add the clasps.

I added the two poem eds of the necklace together with a hoop. Then I used another smaller hoop to attach the toy.