Thursday, August 25, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Even MORE Fun with Frames!
So I finished finding a bunch of great shots from all times in my life to fill up that vintage mirror frame.
I also spray painted some more pieces:
I used a combination of epoxies and staple guns to get the fabric onto the back of these up-cycled frames. I thought it was a great use for those that have gone with missing backs or glass for some time.
I also spray painted some more pieces:
I used a combination of epoxies and staple guns to get the fabric onto the back of these up-cycled frames. I thought it was a great use for those that have gone with missing backs or glass for some time.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Fun with Frames
Inspired by my upcoming Tuesday night "ladies' crafts night" chez moi, where I have asked the invitees to vote on either stencil tee projects or 'fun with frames,' I decided to get going with frame fun ahead of time.
First project? An old plastic picture frame (wish I had snapped a before shot) was transformed in seconds with a thick coat of Chrome-like finish bumper spray paint.
Inspired by the photo below, which you can also see on the CraftGawker all time favorites and my Wanelo "Make This Sh*t" collection.
I have an old mirror frame, a legitimate antique, That I found at a garage sale about five or six years ago. No matter how many times I move, I can't part with it and I don't dare paint it, as it has such wonderful rustic character and dark original wood. The face lift i gave it this evening is easy to undo and finally makes use of the negative space it has been framing on my wall. The pictures of the project are horrible, so maybe I will take some nicer ones in the natural light tomorrow. I used my eyeballs (for measuring and straightening, I just didn't have the usual energy to be anal,) a staple gun, black leather cord, and clothes pins for a new way to showcase favorite photos. Wifey seems to be in a lot of them.
I had awoken the crafty beast within. I couldn't just stop at two projects, after all, they had both been ridiculously quick and easy.
For as far back as i can remember, I always coveted my older sister's large bulletin board that hung in her room in my family home's attic. It had photos, concert tickets, dried flowers, and pins on it. There was also an awesome vintage wood gold frame on it with nothing in it. It was always just the old frame, no glass, no backing, and no hardware. I don't recall when, but i took it. I have also carried it with me for years, treasured, from room to room and home to home.
When I went off to college, I inherited that very bulletin board my sissy used, and it survived many years until a particular move when it was dented and broken on one side while in the back of a pick up truck. I remember crying in the driveway as I watched my dad throw it away after all those years. This board below is from a Staples, and is thankfully decorated enough so that I rarely remember its "inauthenticity."
Anyway, I decided to give the beloved gold frame an update as well, with some vintage fabric, a pair of scissors, a pen, a hammer, and a staple gun, anything is possible!
...and these are just THREE of the 6,000,000,000 crafty creative things you can do with frames. More to come, certainly, after ladies' night.
First project? An old plastic picture frame (wish I had snapped a before shot) was transformed in seconds with a thick coat of Chrome-like finish bumper spray paint.
Inspired by the photo below, which you can also see on the CraftGawker all time favorites and my Wanelo "Make This Sh*t" collection.
I have an old mirror frame, a legitimate antique, That I found at a garage sale about five or six years ago. No matter how many times I move, I can't part with it and I don't dare paint it, as it has such wonderful rustic character and dark original wood. The face lift i gave it this evening is easy to undo and finally makes use of the negative space it has been framing on my wall. The pictures of the project are horrible, so maybe I will take some nicer ones in the natural light tomorrow. I used my eyeballs (for measuring and straightening, I just didn't have the usual energy to be anal,) a staple gun, black leather cord, and clothes pins for a new way to showcase favorite photos. Wifey seems to be in a lot of them.
I had awoken the crafty beast within. I couldn't just stop at two projects, after all, they had both been ridiculously quick and easy.
For as far back as i can remember, I always coveted my older sister's large bulletin board that hung in her room in my family home's attic. It had photos, concert tickets, dried flowers, and pins on it. There was also an awesome vintage wood gold frame on it with nothing in it. It was always just the old frame, no glass, no backing, and no hardware. I don't recall when, but i took it. I have also carried it with me for years, treasured, from room to room and home to home.
When I went off to college, I inherited that very bulletin board my sissy used, and it survived many years until a particular move when it was dented and broken on one side while in the back of a pick up truck. I remember crying in the driveway as I watched my dad throw it away after all those years. This board below is from a Staples, and is thankfully decorated enough so that I rarely remember its "inauthenticity."
Anyway, I decided to give the beloved gold frame an update as well, with some vintage fabric, a pair of scissors, a pen, a hammer, and a staple gun, anything is possible!
...and these are just THREE of the 6,000,000,000 crafty creative things you can do with frames. More to come, certainly, after ladies' night.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Blankie for Henry, almost done!
I still need to weave in the loose ends, then hopefully crochet on a blue border! But here it is, reaching from my toes to my belly lying down in bed while working on it!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
One night's work!
Knitting is BRILLIANT. Look how far the blanket has already come from one night's work:
Monday, January 3, 2011
Another Baby on the Way...
...means another baby blanket on the way. Sticking with green, as I did for Ruby's baby blanket, Henry Ryan Kinlund's blanket will be a simple pattern of alternating green hues in thick stripes with a blue modeled border...pending my neighbor teaching me how to crochet a border on to a knitted blanket!
Monday, December 6, 2010
New Blog Dedicated to petitscadeaux!
Please visit the new blog dedicated solely to petits cadeaux here! This blog, now known as Kikikinns Art, will be dedicated to my personal art. Both my art and the petits cadeaux brand will be sold under the etsy.com shop 'petitscadeaux.'
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
What did you have for lunch? STAMPS
I had a lovely lunch break today, one hour full of stamping joy (yes, there is such a thing.) Mom and I crafted in the kitchen, after hurriedly scarfing salads and pursuing "competition" in the felt food industry online.
Check out some of the new tag ideas! All hand-made, some even hand cut!
Check out some of the new tag ideas! All hand-made, some even hand cut!
Like riding a bike ...
Turns out, a year later, making tutus...exactly the same! A word to the wise, do NOT use wired ribbon for a waist band, which I was forced to do as after hours of searching my mother and I could not find our ribbon stock anywhere in the attic. My fingers are raw! Here's a picture of the first, 2010 season, finished tutu:
Fern Gully-Thanks for the name idea Shannon F.!
Fern Gully-Thanks for the name idea Shannon F.!
Monday, November 15, 2010
Fabulous Felt Food!
Mom and I had an impromptu felt food photo shoot this evening after family dinner. Here are some of my favorite shots.
Various individual pizzas
Breakfast!
Oreos and milk, THE perfect combination.
Cheeseburgers!
French macaroons boxed up and ready to go from the Patisserie!
Various cookies 'fresh from the oven.'
Various individual pizzas
Breakfast!
Oreos and milk, THE perfect combination.
Cheeseburgers!
French macaroons boxed up and ready to go from the Patisserie!
Various cookies 'fresh from the oven.'
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