Crafty Loops

Altered wooden Box....Birthday Box for ma wee Mamma and Crackle technique Tutorial From this.... To this. This is a wee altered box I made for ma wee Mamma's birthday on the 13th there.  Now, I'm not completely happy with it.  Its ok, but it didn't quite turn out quite like I wanted.  I would have liked a better swirly bling which would start in the corner and go out to the middle but unfortunately I didn't have any so had to make do with what I had. This is a bit of show and tell.  I am going to do a tutorial on how to do the crackle technique below. I decorated the box with some lace that I fanned in the top corner and used one of my fluffy vintage handmade flowers as the centre piece flower and the just used some roses from Wild Orchid Crafts that came in a kit I bought.  SHOCK HORROR......there are flowers on a project that I didn't personally make!!  I had plenty of handmade flowers but not the right colour and as time was ticking on....I cheate

Flower Tutorial - Fabric YoYo flowers Fabric YoYo flowers Tutorial As promised in my YoYo flowers on down the page a bit, I said if anyone wanted a tutorial on how to make these little fabric flowers that I would gladly do one for you.  So a few of you have asked for a tutorial, so here it is. These wee flowers are unbelievably easy to make and literally take minutes but they are so pretty and would be beautiful to embellish cards, tags, scrapbook pages, frames, altered projects..........the list is endless.  And of course depending on what centre you put in the flowers, they are very flat and light so they would not be an expensive embellishment to have on your cards.  And you need very little fabric too.  Obviously it depends on the size of flower you want to make.  But you can use any type of fabric, even have a wee rummage through your old clothes and that lonesome bag of clothes that was meant to go to the charity shop but now sits forgotten at the back of your wardrobe!!  O

This tutorial is heavily photograph based.  You need little more than some paper, glue and paper clips but there will be plenty of photographs to back up the instructions.  It is very easy to make, it just has a few steps to get it from a square piece of paper to a petal.  Sorry about the photos with my thumb nail showing!!  Its very long and has awful bumps to it as I caught it in a door when I was a wee one and it never grew right again.  It looks awful......looks like something out of Roald Dahl's The Witches!!  Its been duly cut and filed since!! WHAT YOU NEED All you need is glue, wet glue is great but you can use hot glue too.  I just didn't have any that day.  If you use hot glue don't plaster the flower in the stuff, use sparingly and you also will have no need for the paper clips then. Paper clips, if using a wet glue/pva 5 pieces of 3x3 inch paper.  Single sided or double....its up to you.  I used single sided but it looks lovely with double side