http://www.patticrafts.co.uk Craft Ideas for All! Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:53:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://www.patticrafts.co.uk/stars-and-stripes-candles http://www.patticrafts.co.uk/stars-and-stripes-candles#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:23:08 +0000 Patti http://www.patticrafts.co.uk/?p=2452

To make the star candles choose two colours of wax sheets from the candle making kit and cut out three different sized stars from each colour with cookie cutters or a blunt knife.

Stack the stars up so that the colours and points alternate and the smallest stars are at the top. (pic a)

Push a darning needle through the stack of stars. Remove this and carefully push a length of wick into the hole. Trim so that 1cm sticks out the top. (pic b)

To make the striped candles cut several colours of wax sheet into 4.5cm squares using a blunt knife. (pic c)

Carefully push the squares into the glass candle holder and press down around all the edges so there are no air bubbles.

Push a darning needle through the wax and insert a wick as before (see instruction 3). (pic d)

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Choose a plate that will fit onto a sheet of red foam and draw around it. Use a bowl to make a smaller circle in the middle. Cut along the lines to make a ring.

Fix a 2cm wide strip of self-adhesive foam across the back of the ring so the sticky side faces the front. (pic a)

Cut some funky shaped presents from self-adhesive foam and carefully glue ribbon across them, tucking the  ends under the presents. (pic b)

Use more ribbon to make pretend bows at the top of the presents and stick them across the strip in the centre of the ring. (pic c)

Cut holly leaf shapes from green self-adhesive foam and make veins on the leaves with a 2mm wide strip of lighter green foam. (pic d)

Add sticky foam letters above and below the presents to spell out your greeting, glue iridescent snowflakes in the spaces and finish with small red circles for holly berries.

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Twist a pipe-cleaner into a loop and bend to make the head, neck and body of the reindeer. Cut a second pipe-cleaner in half and use these pieces to make legs twisted onto the body. (pic a)

Cut some Mod Roc into strips about 2cm wide. Place one strip into a shallow bowl of water until it’s completely wet then drape it over a leg and begin wrapping it round.

Keep wrapping more strips over the pipe-cleaner frame and smooth the fabric as you go along until the whole shape is covered. Leave to dry in a warm place. (pic b)

Use a pale blue acrylic to paint the whole of the reindeer on both sides. Use two coats if necessary and let them dry. (pic c)

Paint purple swirls onto the body and the tops of the reindeer’s legs. Fill in the gaps between with spots of gold glitter glue and leave to dry before varnishing. (pic d)

Use a darning needle to make a small hole on either side of the reindeer’s head. Cut a gold tinsel pipecleaner in half and twist both pieces into antlers. Fix these into the holes with PVA glue.

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Cut out six 10cm squares of white card and fold each one into quarters diagonally to make a small triangle.

Draw a line down one short side of the triangle, 5mm from the edge. Draw four lines parallel to the long edge across the triangle and then cut along these as far as the first line. (pic a)

Unfold the triangle and flatten out. Bend up alternate triangles and colour those that still lay flat with a mauve metallic pen. (pic b)

Turn the square over and bend over the second triangle from the middle on one side. (pic c)

Fold over the opposite triangle, then repeat with the third one from the middle until all are bent over. Do this with the other five squares. (pic d)

Cut a 7cm diameter circle of card and glue the ends of the folded squares to the centre to make a snowflake. Decorate some parts of the squares with silver glitter pen and leave to dry flat.

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Use decorative edged scissors to cut an 11cm square of felt and stick this to the back of a plain coaster with double-sided tape. (pic a)

Draw a 5cm diameter circle in the middle of the tile with a soft pencil and outline this with dots of red paint from a porcelain pen. (pic b)

Add dots of paint around the edges of the tile to match the colour of felt backing.

Use a green porcelain pen to draw small holly leaves all around the outside of the dotty circle and add more red dots to make berries. (pic c)

When the green leaves are dry add small leaves behind the holly with a yellow porcelain pen, making sure the two colours don’t bleed into each other.

Paint a large blue snowflake in each corner and several small ones in the spaces left between the holly and the dotted border and surround with tiny blue spots. (pic d)

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Cut 3 pieces of green A4 card in half and fold five of these pieces down the middle. Draw half a Christmas tree and pot shape on one side of each piece of folded card. With the card folded, cut along outline. (pic a)

Use this tree as a template for four other pieces of card to make five trees. Cut the remaining sixth piece of card into five 4cm wide strips.

Fold each strip in half along its length and glue half to the fold of each tree. Decorate each side of the tree shapes with red, green and gold glitter glues. (pic b)

When the glue is completely dry fold each tree in half and each strip back on itself. Glue the trees together using the strips so they open out into a fan. (pic c)

Join the first and last tree in the fan to create a freestanding shape with ten lines of branches. Wind gold tinsel garland around the tree and glue in place.

Cut a 4cm wide strip of red card, wrap around the ‘pot’ of the tree and glue in place. (pic d)

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Cut two wide dress shapes from brightly coloured card. On the back of one place a strip of double-sided tape and fix a 3cm by 21cm strip of cellophane onto this, making gathers as you go along.

Place another length of double-sided tape over this and stick a wider, different colour of cellophane strip on top in the same way. Repeat this for two more, wider strips. (pic a)

Cut a 10cm by 30cm piece of iridescent foil and gather this onto double-sided tape stuck across the front of the dress at the waistband. Cover the gathers with iridescent stars.

Stick the two dress pieces together on one side. Place the wooden spoon inside the dress before sticking together at the other side. Add card hands to each sleeve. (pic b)

Cut fairy wings from silver card and decorate with more stars. Fix these to the back of the dress with double-sided tape. (pic c)

Make a tiara by twisting metallic beads onto a silver tinsel pipe-cleaner. Paint the fairy’s face and hair and add a little glitter. Leave to dry and twist the tiara around her head. (pic d)

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Cut a 4cm diameter circle from pink self-adhesive felt and stick a pair of wiggle-eyes in the middle. Use white sticky felt to make the beard and eyebrows and fix these in place on the face. (pic a)

Stick the face to the front of the walking character. Cut two small rectangles of red felt and add a thin strip of white to one short side of each piece to form the cuff. Fix these over the arms of the figure using double-sided tape, cutting a slit in one sleeve to fit over the winder. (pic b)

Cut two jacket fronts and one back piece from red felt. Make sure they are short enough not to interfere with the walking feet of the figure, and cut away curves to fit snugly around the arms.

Fix the jacket pieces in place with double-sided tape and add an edging of white sticky felt all around the jacket. Stick rectangles of black sticky felt over the feet to make shoes. (pic c)

Cut a scalloped edge in a 3cm by 11cm rectangle of white self-adhesive felt. Wrap this around the head to make hair and cut a smaller scalloped rectangle to form the fringe.

Cut a semi-circle of red felt and edge with white, leaving some of the sticky background overlapping the edge. Use double-sided tape to fix this into a cone shape and put on the head, holding the hat in place with the sticky overlap. (pic d)

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Make a paper template of an elongated oval shape for the penguin’s body.

Pin this to a double layer of black felt and cut out. (pic a)

Cut a piece of white felt to be the face and bib of the penguin and stitch a small orange triangle to this as a beak.

Sew the bib to the centre of one piece of black felt with a small running stitch. (pic b)

Add wiggle-eyes to the face and cut out two small orange felt feet. Pin the two body pieces together, sandwiching the feet between them and sew up. (pic c)

Stop sewing when you have a 3cm gap left. Stuff the penguin with fibre filling and close up the hole. (pic d)

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Draw a large quarter circle on the corner of a piece of blue card with a compass and cut  out. Fold over 1cm on one straight edge and fix double-sided tape to this.

Cut a smaller quarter circle from white card and put double- sided tape all along the curve. Cut lots of 5-6cm lengths of iridescent thread and stick these to the tape to make a fringe. (pic a)

Decorate the other side of the white card with a pattern of iridescent shapes and metallic pens then glue to the larger blue semicircle. Bend the quarter circles into a cone shape and hold in place with the double sided tape. Cut across the tip of the cone to make a 1cm wide hole. (pic b)

Fold a piece of A5 blue card in half and cut out an angel wing shape. Open out the wings and glue onto a piece of white card. Cut around the wings leaving a 2mm border of white card. (pic c)

Cut an arm and hand shape from another piece of folded white card. Colour the hands pink and add a pattern to the sleeves. Cut a head and long neck shape, colour and glue snowflakes around the shape to make a halo. (pic d)

Fix the arms to the back of the cone with double-sided tape. Place the wings behind these and slot the neck of the head piece into the hole at the top of the cone.

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