Sheading it Off

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO........

Okay well i'm going to blog anyways.

Today was the first of Part Two day of removing fabric. let me tell you this was time consuming.

First part: Find a chair. i found a chair on the side of the road near my neighborhood that was left after a garage sale. (FREEEEEE) I've had the chair now for 2 months and now that school is out for break i am ready to tackle it!

Part Two: Removing the fabric was a long process. it took me 5 hour the first and 1 hour the second day to remove all the fabric, nails, and stuffing. Then i removed all the nails and cob webs off  of the frame. When removing the fabric keep those pieces for a pattern to cutting out the new pieces. Also write on the back what they are.
       After removing the fabric i deiced that i wanted to replace the stuffing because it kept falling apart. SO besides the fabric which i am waiting for a certain sale to come. The rest of the stuff i will be ordering so i will have it when i do get the fabric.

• Ply Grip: $.38 a foot!
• Foam for cushion: $17.01 
• Bating: TBA
• Black Webbing for under the chair: TBA
• Cord: TBA
• Nail Head Trim: $16.98

diy upholstery supply is where I'm getting my supplies from. You can get the other stuff from there too but I work at a fabric store and I can get the other stuff cheaper. ALSO! On this web site they will custom cut the foam for you..... AMAZING! I was really scared about that part and when i saw it on the site I thought it would be expensive but $17? I think it's a good deal. The nail head trim is the last final touch which hopefully I do this correctly.

not the best picture but its a start

All the fabric is off

Getting Ahead of Myslef!

World Lit.

Beginning Printmaking

US History

Digital Design

YEP! Im excited. And I have been thinking on what I going to do on my wonderful break so here it is!!

NUMBER ONE: Get all of my project from school together. I have portfolio review next semester and i'm SUPER NERVOUS! : /

NUMBER TWO: drum roll please...... I am going to attempt to recover a chair that i found on the side of the road. EKKK! i hardly sew and this makes me nervous. i will DEF be posting about that! I found a tutorial about it and it made it look pretty simple.

Picture by  Three Boys Blog HERE

 NUMBER THREE: CRAFTING! smaller projects between my art and chair projects. These are the ones im thinking of doing

CUTE!

Maybe smaller?

YES!

maybe a another chair too. ( i need one for my desk!)

NUMBER FOUR: GETTING A iPAD! i want one so bad its crazy! AHHH!!!

ALMOST DONE!!!!

Hello! I hope everyone liked my last post. I'm still trying to figure out how to do all this blogging stuff.

ANYWAYS!

I'm almost done with school in 2 weeks!!!! AHHH!!! well just for the semester. lol.

but yeah i have SO MUCH to do this winter break, and thats crafting! :D

ALSO! i wanted to let ya'll know that i have another blog on Tumblr here

WHERE YA AT?!

Everything is bigger in Texas! :D

 If yall love Pinterest then you might have seen this around to the right and below 

The Pin 

I think its super cute and thought it would be easy. Is anything really easy? NAH! But we try :D As I was going through making this had to go back a lot and redo some things. So I will have many many MANY tips for you guys to hopefully make this easier.

The List of things you need are: About $15 (I only bought the Wood, Nails, and String because I had everything else)

• •   Wood (I got two pieces of wood from Joann’s or go the wood craft section in a craft store. Size can be whatever I got 12" x 12")
• •   Nails (which ever size you thing you want, you want something small but still have a head so the string is easier to loop around.)
• •   Paint (any kind)
• •   String (I think the brand was DMC the color is cotton perle and under it saw 10g which I’m also guessing is the size.)
• •   Wood glue
• •   Fin sand paper or razor blade
• •   Scissors

Step One: prepping your board and painting it. And when I mean pepping I mean I glued two pieces of wood to make it thicker. After it dries your wood (mine did) have little burs on top of the block of wood. To take off the burs you can use a fine sand paper or I took a razor blade and scraped lightly across the board until smooth.

Step Two: while waiting for you paint to dry, glue or whatever. Print out a template of your state that you chose or if you’re a fancy drawer then draw it out (I’m not!). Print it, cut it, tape it, BAM your good. Also this might be a good time to put a heart at where you live, love, visited, or maybe your celebrity crush lives there. (Just kidding about the last part)

Step Three: NAIL IT! Okay this was the hardest part for me. As I was nailing threw the black line for some reason some the nails were harder to nail in. also some would just jumps out for no reason, I left them out because I had a plan B (ill tell you later why plan B didn’t work). I finally figured about half way through to use a pushpin to mark where I wanted to nail but to also make it easier to hammer the nail in deeper. It was a little tedious but it was worth it to see that one thing went right. 

Don't freak out over crocked nails. Your state isn't even and neither should this be.

Step Four: After you get all the nails in about the state and the heart you want the CARFULLY rip the paper off the board. If some of the nails come out just nail it back in. My plan B when I took off the paper was to glue the nails in with super glue and just set the in the nail hole. Well it didn’t work because when I went to loop the string around the nails that were glued the nail would tip over. So just nail the back in and make sure that all the nails are secure. 

Looks pretty cool without the string too.

Step Five: Make sure that all nails are secure. I had to go back at least two times to fixes the nails that were coming out. When using the string at first to me it looked like the person made individual loops or string to the heart nail to the state nails. But when I started to study the photo I saw it was continues zigzag pattern.  When I first started to stratigize how many state nails will go to the heart pin. Well I figures about 8 to 11 for each one would be fine. THE PATTERN: Start with a loop and tie a knot so it stays secure. Then the pattern is state nail, heart nail, next state nail, and the same state nail from before.

There will be section that you have to leave black because the string would go outside the nail line. Leave that blank and go back alter with a smaller zigzag. After all the zigzagging is done then cut off all strings and....

WHOOP! YOU DID IT!

WAITING.....and waiting

SOOO.... i've been a little busy. i prob shouldn't be doing this right now but my excuse is i have writers block and i'm hoping this will help flow whatever needs to flow for world Lit paper. sound good? awesome!

my two art classes Printmaking and Digital Design have been taking up must of my time to be crafty *sigh* they seem to going pretty well except printing is testing my patience alittle. OH WELL!

i do have a few crafts planned coming up hopefully during Thanksgiving break, i cant promise anything but i hope to have a few so that i wont leave anyone hanging....if theirs anyone out there reading this... *eco eco eco......eco!* haha. Sorry.

OMG! how can anyone not love this face! <3

Lyrics to my Heart

This past weekend was prob my last free weekend to do anything fun with school and all :D. I deiced I was going to make the most of it and CRAFT! The first one I wanted to do was this one.  
 I’ve had several ideas on what I was going to put above my bed but each time I would complete something it would either be too big or too small. I must say I thought this was going to be easy. Just writing words with a paintbrush...WRONG! Well maybe its just me because my hand writing looks like a mans writing but really it was getting just what I wanted the typography to look and wondering if I’m going to be able to get all the words in. I played on some smaller canvases just to play on and realized my handwriting looks worse with a paintbrush.

So I went to look for words of wisdom on the blog of Alisa Burke to see what she did (her blog). Which I guess this would be a good idea for a tip.... TIP #1:  I know this sounds silly but read before you do something. You might think they know how they did it but you don’t. (Unless you do! lol) ANYWAYS! I read that she used shoeshine to write on the canvas. SMART!!!! So I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to do this my mother (the reason I’m so crafty!) suggested q-tips. At first I thought it would be silly but she brought some out to me and I started to play with them and let me tell you it was a lot easier to work with. I tapped three of them together to make the lines thicker.  

What I used: 

•               24"x30" canvas

•               Acrylic paint

•               q-tips

•               ruler

•               straight edge

•               pencil

1.  I started off with painting the whole canvas with white acrylic paint.
2. Measured on the sides every 2" (or whatever the size you want) used the straight edge (or ruler) to make very light lines so I didn’t get too crooked. 
3. I figured that I could get 23 characters on each line. Some of the lines I didn’t finish the words, which is fine.  
4.  I wrote out the alphabet on a piece of paper so I would know how each one to look. I used a mixture of both upper and lower case.Then I started to write on the canvas. :D Also if there is a certain work that means the most or you just happen to have green paint you can make a focal point with one of the words.

Sparks Fly by Taylor Swift

BTW! God Bless America 

Tricks of the Trade

A couple years ago my parents and i started to figure out smart and cleaver ways to give money to some of the older kids in the family. we would make it a Christmas event to watch my cousin Brad run around figuring out each clue just to find more money. and now that all of my cousins are at the age of just asking for money now. i never thought to take pictures of what i did until now. My youngest cousin just had her birthday a couple weeks ago and thought that this was my best work yet! here's some pictures of the process i went through to make this!

this cost about 20 bucks, its a bit much but she can play with the pieces i didn't use.

i put a base layer and then the first layer of the house

Here is the second layer finished and you can see the money through the door!

here's a better look on how i put the money away. i would stagger the money from side to side
from different levels just to keep it changing.

TA-DA! Finished product!

So i hope everything is going well and had a safe labor day weekend. i spent mine crafting! i started doing three projects. i finished one of them and the others just need finishing touches. i will post them up later!

Scrapbook Coasters

Okay! I don't know about yall but I have TONS of scrap booking paper all over the craft room! With just my mother and I alone we could prob open a small store,lol. So when I saw this idea I knew it was going to be easy. Plus use some of the paper ive hoarded for so many years.

The Pinterest Page

Supplies:

• 1 Sheet of Scrapbook Paper. (unless you want to make them each differently)
• 4 to 6 4"x4" tiles. 
• One sheet of felt (any color you want)
• Mod Podge 
• High Gloss Finish (or pick any finish you want)
• Fabric Glue
• 2 brushes or sponges ( ill explain why you need two later)

Step One: Cut the paper into 3.75"squares. In my first attempt I did 3.5" and I think the original way better. 

Step Two: Pour a small amount of Mod Podge onto the tile and place the paper in the middle. With a little left over Mod Podge on your brush/sponge cover the entire title again. If you didn't have extra just add a little more. (don't worry it drys clear)

Step Three: Let it dry for 15 to 20 minutes and put on a second coat of the Mod Podge and let it dry again.

I don't know if you can see the bubbles or not but they're there!

Step Four: Here's why I said get two brushes/sponges. While waiting for the Mod Podge to dry it takes 15-20 minutes to dry and the brush will still be wet (unless you super duper dry it) and when you use the wet brush with the finish bubbles will start to show up. 

Step Five: Let it dry and put on a second coat
Step Six: while you are waiting for this to dry (or at any point and you cannot wait) you are going to want to cut the felt into 3.5" squares.
Step Seven: clue the felt to the back with the Fabric glue.

TADA!

This project was pretty easy so theirs not much on the tips except have a fully dry brush when applying the finish.

Finished Product! 

This is something i found on Pinterest but i cant seem to find the pin.
My next craft i will randomly draw out something and do it.
but if it takes up a lot of time (with school and or don't have the space to do it)
ill just put it back in! Ill prob decorate it later but its one of the crafts in the jar!

Melt My World

My first craft that I found on Pinterest (my DIY list) was melting crayons onto a canvas, which looked pretty awesome. I knew this was going to be the first one I did, and as I was going along I discovered a few things that might help a few of yall out. 

Here's what inspired me :)

 As I was getting my supplies for the project I got pretty lucky because school was starting and I got the crayons for 20 cents a box! And a package of 6 canvases for 8 dollars? I didn't this project awhile back and my memory sucks (hooray!) I already had a glue gun and I had a box that wasn't important so that if it got messed up it would be fine. 

When I got ready to start melting I realized that this was going to take a lot of work because the crayons were fitting a little snug inside the glue gun. TIP# 1: If you are very fond of your glue gun you might want to get a cheap one because as you see in the picture next to this it will look just like that. 

My first canvas just had little droplets on it to get used of how this was going to work. When I got to the second canvas I propped it up against a box and taped it to it and the desk. This helped with getting the angle right the wax would drip down, and so you have two hands to help the crayons go threw the gun. This goes with my next tip. TIP# 2: do NOT push too hard or the crayon wax will squirt OUT of the sides of the gun. It takes a few tries to figure out what the right pressure is for it.  TIP# 3: Wear something you can get dirty in. because sometimes it will reach out and get on your cute shirt......*sigh*

So as I "gracefully" and "cautiously" start getting the hang of this I did the Probiest thing ever!... I burned myself. At one point I thought I wasn’t getting the angle right so as I was repositioning I burned myself with the hot liquid wax. TIP# 4: DO NOT lift the nose or point of the glue gun up or the wax will start to pour out the side and back and burn you! After I did that I took a small break and then went back to it and everything went smoothly!

HOORAY!

 TADA! There it is! I’m very happy with this and I hope these small tips help yall out.