Happy St. Paddy’s Day! I just wanted to pop in with a quick craft that you can make with your kids today: Polymer clay shamrock pins!
I taught this to the children in my library craft class last week and they all turned out great. Here are the supplies you need:
Here’s how to make these. Condition 1-2 oz of clay (depending how big you want your shamrock.) Divide the clay into 8 equal sized balls. Take 2 balls and gently press them together then pinch them together on the bottom to make heart and pinch the bumps at the top of the heat flat to make a leaf. Make 3 more leaves. Stick the leaves together by the points. You may want to make a small disk of clay to attach them to. Try to keep the pin about 1/4″ thick throughout. Dust the shamrock with gold eye-shadow or pearl ex. Add details to the brooch with a toothpick if desired Bake per clay package instructions, cool, and glue a pin finding on the back.
Note: I recommend Tacky Glue for gluing the pin on but it takes hours to fully cure (it will turn clear as in the photo when cured) but if you want to wear it today just use hot glue for now and re glue with tacky glue later if needed 😛
Happy St. Patrick’s Day and as always Happy crafting!
Howdy folks! It is really starting to feel like Spring! I can see the grass on the lawn now and I have to mop the floors every night…well, er… I SHOULD mop the floors every night due to the mud. Yay, before we know it it will be Spring!
I was in the mood to play with color. I had a box of clear crystal acrylic hearts from Papermart and I decided to color them with alcohol ink. It worked great! Here is a quick video to show you how:
Now, that method is est if you want to color a bunch of things at once but you can also color one of those crystals with a permanent marker after you adhere it to a card. That is quick and easy too. You can use this technique on any non-porous supply (metal, plastic, glass etc.) so buy bulk supplies in white and clear and alter them! It’s fun! Thanks for stopping by and til next time happy crafting!
I realized that the kids had nothing green in their wardrobes so we did a bit of tie-dying this week then I though, hmmm, why not add some iron-on decals to our shirts as well? You will need Iron on Transfer paper, clip art (I used an image from the Organic Living kit from Lindsay’s stamp Stuff ), an iron set to dry and hot, scissors and a natural fiber t-shirt. The first thing you need to do is open your graphics software (I am using Paint Shop Pro) and arrange your artwork. Get as much as you can on a sheet because you will cut around the images after you print them. Use the PNG files so you can really pack them in 🙂
If you are using iron-on transfer paper for dark fabrics you can leave the image as is and print BUT if you are using standard iron-on transfers you need to flip the image:
Then I printed it using the everyday setting. If you are using MS word or another program that will not let you mirror your image then when you go to print click Preferences – Advanced – Mirror Image (switch to “on”) or check “Iron-on Transfer” under paper choice.
I will use the Vegetarian logo on this shirt and save the rainbows for other shirts.
Do not use your ironing board when doing transfers. You need a hard surface that can take a lot of pressure like a table or counter. Lay a cotton pillowcase on the table and iron it, then iron your fabric, make sure the steam is turned off. Cut apart your images and place them on your shirt exactly where you want them.
*Light color shirt transfers go face down. Dark color shirt transfers go face up and you use a special tissue paper over it to press, that is why you don’t need to flip dark color fabric transfers. If you have any questions check the instructions that come with your transfers
Honestly you need to press down really hard, use both hands, I only used one here because the other hand was holding the camera 😛
Set your iron to the hottest setting. You need to exert a lot or pressure while you iron. If you are ironing an entire sheet set your timer for 3 minutes. You can use an oven timer or an egg timer for this. I used a quarter of a sheet and only needed to iron it one minute. Press the transfer firmly moving it so you do not scorch you fabric. when the timer goes off let it cool completely before trying to remove the backing sheet.
Enjoy your stylin’ new shirt…yeah, I look like such a dork 🙂
Here are the other shirts I made, the Rainbow is also from the Organic Living kit and the shamrocks are today’s freebie!
Since it is st.Pattie’s day how about a shamrock freebie, you can whip up some custom shirts for the kids before they come home from school (or just save it til next year LOL!)
click on the pic, then right click on the bigger picture and choose "Save as" This file is a PNG.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! It is a lucky day indeed because everything at MyGrafico is 30% off today and tomorrow including everything in the Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff Shop!
Stamps/paper: Lindsay's stamp stuff, Markers: Prismacolor, Die cuts: Penny Duncan, Ribbom and Trim: Dollar Tree
The Leprechaun digital stamp is a freebie in the LSS shop and the background paper is from the Shabby Houndstooth paper pack that is on sale for $2.09 today and tomorrow! I simply printed the paper on white cardstock and cut the shaped card with my Cricut using SCAL software, easy peasy! Best of all with digital paper you never run out! The little dew drops on the side of the card are made with hot glue, you can see how in the video from yesterday’s post.
Thanks for stopping by and till tomorrow happy crafting!
