http://www.patticrafts.co.uk Craft Ideas for All! Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:41:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://www.patticrafts.co.uk/wheatsheaf-wall-plaque http://www.patticrafts.co.uk/wheatsheaf-wall-plaque#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:18:47 +0000 Patti http://www.patticrafts.co.uk/?p=2420

Roll out long sausages of Model Magic about 4mm thick and cut into various lengths between 5cm and 8cm long.

Place the lengths in a bunch so the shorter ones are at the front and bend some stems over at the sides. (pic a)

Take three 10cm sausages of Model Magic and plait them together to make a binding for the wheatsheaf that wraps around the middle. (pic b)

Make the wheat by cutting tiny pieces off a sausage of Model Magic and fixing to the tops of the stems one by one. Mould a tiny mouse and stick to the bottom of  the stems. (pic c)

While the sheaf is drying cut a 10cm circle of orange foam and a 7cm circle of green foam and sew the two together with gold cord using a running stitch. (pic d)

Paint the sheaf with yellow acrylic paint then highlight with gold. Paint the mouse brown. When the model is dry stick to  the front of the circles. Use gold cord to hang.

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Wash and dry an empty food can and remove the label. Cut a piece of foam 12cm by 21cm and place inside the can so 2cm sticks out the top.

Stick double-sided tape around the rim of the can and fold the foam over to cover any sharp edges. (pic a)

Wrap the can with several layers of torn kitchen roll, gluing down as you go. Cut the Mod Roc into 5cm wide pieces. Dip one into a shallow bowl of water and lay over the tissue, smoothing down with your fingers. (pic b)

Carry on adding more strips of Mod Roc to make a rounded body shape. Mould a strip of Mod Roc into a beak shape and secure to the top half of the can with more flat strips. Smooth all the edges and leave to dry.

Cut feet from orange foam and fix to the base of the tin with a circle of sticky foam. Cut wings and eye shapes from sticky foam, decorate with sequins and glitter glue and lay to one side to dry. (pic c)

Paint the body of the owl with blue paint and the beak area in orange. When dry, stick on the eyes and wings and add more sequins and glitter if necessary. (pic d)

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Cover the tray of a matchbox with handcrafted paper and the sleeve with a thicker decorative card.

Make a tiny tag from spare card and write the name of the seeds on with gold pen. Make a hole in the tag with a darning needle and thread a length of gold cord through.

Pierce two holes in the front of the tray and thread the ends of the cord through before tying in a secure knot to make a drawer pull.

Shape flowers, leaves and centres from foam putty and leave them to dry on a piece of  kitchen foil or a plastic bag.

Decorate the sleeve of the box with panels and strips of more decorative paper.

Glue the leaves and flowers onto the top of the sleeve with PVA glue.

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Glue two craft sticks together at the ends to make one long stick. Cut a rectangle of green self-adhesive foam 9.5cm by 3.5cm and fix over the join. (pic a)

Cut another piece of green foam the same size and apply directly over the back of the first piece. Stick on foam letters to spell out a favourite vegetable. (pic b)

Draw a 5cm diameter circle onto black sticky foam and add a ladybird’s head shaped bump to the top before cutting the shape out.

Stick on two red wing shapes cut from sticky foam and add a symmetrical pattern of dots to them, using a hole punch to make the tiny circles. Add wiggle-eyes to the head. (pic c)

Before you remove the backing paper from your ladybird, draw around it onto a piece of green sticky foam and cut out a matching shape.

Stick the green shape to the back of the stick and place the ladybird directly over the top to hold in place. (pic d)

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Apply gold paint to the front of a large craft frame using a small piece of sponge to create a mottled effect.

Cut a 10cm square of iridescent film and spread a thin layer of PVA glue all over the surface. Cut a square of coloured tissue, crumple and flatten and place on the glue.

Brush more PVA glue over the tissue and lay a different colour of crumpled paper over the top and smooth flat. Leave to dry. (pic a)

Cut some leaf shapes from card and use as templates to draw around onto the dried tissue layers. Cut out the shapes with small scissors. (pic b)

Fold the cut out leaves to create a veined pattern so they become three dimensional. Long narrow leaves need only one crease down the centre. (pic c)

Glue the leaves to the frame with more PVA glue by spreading glue on the edges of the creases and overlapping the leaves. (pic d)

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Cut an oversize A4 piece of orange tissue paper and gather it up along the long edge. Uncrease the paper and brush with PVA glue.

Gather up two or three pieces of yellow tissue in the same way and stick to the orange piece to create a thick sheet that looks a bit like papyrus. Glue the last piece in place only at the centre of the sheet. (pic a)

Make paper string by folding a narrow rectangle of white tissue several times lengthwise and then twisting into a rope. Use this to gather the moist tissue paper in the centre and tie.

Screw up another piece of tissue into a ball and place under the knot. Spread the moist sheet out either side of  the ball and tie underneath to make a head and neck. (pic b)

Plait together three long, folded pieces of yellow tissue and tie the ends with paper string. Place the arms under the neck and bind the body with more string before flaring the ends of  the damp sheet into a skirt. (pic c)

Fold an orange sheet of tissue in half, concertina up and bind the middle with paper string. Fan the sides out to make wings and glue to the back of the corn angel. Leave to dry. (pic d)

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Cut four strips of green and yellow paper, 30cm by 2cm. Stick a green piece to the top of a yellow piece at 90 degrees to make an ‘L’ shape.

Fold one piece over the other in turn to make a concertina stack in alternating colours. Glue two other strips to the ends as you run out of paper making an extra long leg. Repeat to make a pair. (pic a)

Cut a body shape and two feet from green card. Place a wiggle-eye on one side of  the body and add dots of  yellow paint with a cotton bud. (pic b)

Use a blue metallic pen to fill in the spaces between the paint with lots of smaller dots on both the body and the feet.

Gently stretch out the legs and glue the feet into the pockets at the end of the concertina. (pic c)

Fix the legs to the back end of the body in the same way so the frog looks like it’s leaping away. (pic d)

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Paint a polystyrene oval blank with two coats of black acrylic paint and leave to dry. (pic a)

Fold an A5 piece of black card in half and sketch out a curvy bat wing shape so the centre of  the wings fall on the fold.

Cut around the guidelines with scissors, unfold the wings and rub out any pencil lines. (pic b)

Use a fine gold pen to draw curved lines from each wing tip to the centre. Add a line of  dots around the edges and draw the same pattern on the other side of the card. (pic c)

Pierce two small holes either side of the fold and thread a 50cm length of gold cord through both, knotting at the ends to form a hanging loop.

Add wiggle-eyes, card ears and a mouth to the painted polystyrene blank. Place a piece of double-sided tape over the cord and fix the body onto the wings. (pic d)

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Use a blunt table knife to score a piece of A4 black card 2.5cm in from each long edge and 13cm in from each short edge. Fold along each score line.

Cut into the two short lines on each side of the card so the sheet can be folded into a bag. (pic a)

Draw a cat shape onto spare card and cut out to make a stencil. Place the stencil onto one side of the flattened bag and sponge a little gold paint over the surface. (pic b)

Cut some long 1cm wide strips of orange card and fix them up the long sides and across the short edges of the sheet to make decorative borders. (pic c)

Take two more strips of orange card and fix to the short edges of the underside of the black card to make handles for the bag. (pic d)

Fold the bag up and stick the two sides together with more double sided tape using a ruler to push down on the adhesive from the inside if necessary.

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Cut a sheet of blue sticky foam in half and place in the centre of a sheet of A4 card.

Cut wide strips of green sticky foam to make a frame around the rectangle. (pic a)

Cut a 7cm circle of pale blue sticky foam and fix to a card circle. Make two small card washers and punch a hole through all three pieces.

Put a paper fastener through the holes and fix the disc to the bottom half of the board. Cut out a large red arrow and stick this over the top of the paper fastener. (pic b)

Use more coloured self-adhesive foam to make weather symbols like the sun, clouds, a rainbow and thunderstorms by cutting and layering shapes. (pic c)

Use sticky foam letters to make a title and weather conditions for the board and fix your weather symbols all around the spinning disc. (pic d)

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