DIY Embroidered Jean Jacket
Beautiful embroidery designs are everywhere on clothing right now, bringing fresh spring vibes and the promise of warmer days. My sister has an amazing embroidery machine, so we made this diy embroidered jean jacket the other day. This was such a fun sister craft! She’s quite the sewing wizard and has been making custom pieces for years. You can find her and some of her beautiful fiber crafts on instagram @plurabellaties. I couldn’t have done it without her guidance, so check out the pro tips below from her 🙂 DIY Embroidered Jean Jacket Materials Levi’s Jean Jacket – The more classic, the better. Wrangler is cool too. Awesome Moby Dick…
DIY Succulent Terrarium
The weather is almost warm enough outside to start gardening. In the meantime, if your green thumb feels itchy make a fun diy succulent terrarium for your desk or kitchen windowsill. Since the beach is my favorite place to spend the day, this succulent terrarium diy has a beachy vibe to it. If you can’t bring yourself to the beach every day, bring the beach to you. The gardening market has so many unique glass containers perfect for terrariums these days – diamond shapes, buoyantly hanging bulbs, concrete-floored fishbowls. The whatever-hedrons are my favorite, those weirdly multi-sided pointy glass boxes with metal frames. My terrarium is in a ball jar,…
How to Paint Needlepoint Canvas
Did you know it’s pretty easy to make your own needlepoint canvas, or to transfer your own drawing or photo onto a needlepoint canvas? I used to pick up odd creative and craft jobs when I first graduated from art school, and painting needlepoint canvases was one of them. You can take pretty much any image and convert it by hand onto a woven white grid for cross stitch. The key to how to paint needlepoint canvas is patience. Needlepoint Canvas Painting Materials Blank Needlepoint Canvas * Acrylic Paint (I use Basic and Grumbacher, but any paint works) Very Tiny Paintbrushes Water Paint Palette (Plastic or Metal Tin, or a…
DIY Beaded Tassel Earrings
Long beaded tassel earrings make a statement with a little elegance. These diy beaded tassel earrings feature a rose gold ombre to transition well to spring, and pair with practically any other basic metal. Anything with this many seed beads can be a bit of a time commitment, but it’s worth it when they’re done because they look awesome. Wear them anywhere – a little fringe will do it. DIY Beaded Tassel Earrings Materials 11/0 Rose Gold Seed Beads 11/0 Silver Seed Beads 11/0 Iridescent Seed Beads White Waxed Quilting Thread or other strong beading thread 2 Silver Cone Caps 2 Silver Earring Hooks 2 Silver Hoops or Silver Wire…
DIY Shaped Bokeh
Before you put away those Christmas lights, try out this fun diy shaped bokeh. Sharp pinpoints of light work best to capture the fun shapes in these bokeh filters. I’ve been wanting to do this diy for a while, and finally finished the templates! Yep! That’s a surfer. These bokeh filters are the most fun. Choose from hearts, horses, stars, snowflakes, leaves, batman, butterflies, musical notes, fish, birds, surfers and surfettes. DIY Shaped Bokeh Materials 2 Sheets Black Cardstock 8.5 x 11 2 Sheets Printer Paper 8.5 x 11 Painter’s Tape Xacto Knife Scissors Rubber Band or Hair Tie DIY Shaped Bokeh Instructions Save the following two DIY Shaped Bokeh…