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Crochet Vest

This wonderful warm sleeveless vest is made from thick threads. I crocheted it very quickly with N8 crochet for size 46-48. Then I knitted a lot of 3D floral motifs and sewed them to the front of the piece, adding thick thread. It took 5 to knit a sleeveless vest

Painting made of threads and nails “A couple of cats in love”

Of course, the “string art” technique is so captivating that it is simply impossible to stop at just a few works. I want to create more and more miniature masterpieces. Recently on the Internet I came across an interesting picture of a couple

New Year's garland

Today I would like to tell you about a decoration - a handmade garland. Her jewelry is made in the quilling style, a method of twisting and gluing paper. However, in the process of making it, we did not use special paper, but took

Pincushion in the form of a sewing machine

When children grow up and begin to pick up a needle and thread, they must immediately instill the correct attitude towards the needle.It shouldn't be lying around anywhere. And here pincushions in the form of small toys come to the rescue. Children poke there with great eagerness

Original panel from a tennis racket

Quilling is one of the fascinating creative techniques. Round spirals are spun from thin paper strips, used to make other shapes, and glued together with glue into unusual patterns. Flowers look beautiful using this technique,

Congratulatory envelope "Happy Birthday"

Most often, we are used to giving money on birthdays, especially if it is not just a birthday, but a round date, an anniversary. After all, it’s quite difficult to guess a person’s tastes if, for example, it’s some distant relative or a colleague you barely know.

Postcard with ants

To make a DIY postcard “Ants” we need to use: 1. Light green cardboard. 2. Quilling paper - black, red, white. 3. Light green colored paper. 4. Cardboard or base for a 15x15 cm postcard, green or dark green. 5.

House with a sheep

The New Year is already very close, which will bring us a lot of good news and changes for the better. The rather difficult and challenging year of the horse is being replaced by a calmer and fluffier animal, the sheep. This animal is soft and fluffy, so

Merry Christmas tree

Everyone's favorite New Year and Christmas holidays are approaching, and to lift the New Year's mood, I suggest you make a cheerful Christmas tree that can decorate the interior of your home or become a pleasant gift for friends and family. After all

Mimosa

Crafts made from beads are simply fascinating. All kinds of decorations, key rings, animal figurines are made from small multi-colored balls; bead paintings of various subjects look original. An excellent decoration for home interior are

Snowman

To make Santa Claus's New Year's troubles easier, I propose to make him a cheerful snowman as an assistant! After all, it will be much more fun for them together to deliver congratulations and deliver gifts. We will make a snowman using the wool felting technique. For the manufacture of

Folding card “Happy New Year”

It’s nice to receive an interesting surprise for any occasion and for any holiday, especially if it’s the New Year. New Year's gifts are interesting precisely because they are given in a particularly festive atmosphere; we find them under the New Year's tree, which is already

Wedding envelope

We are increasingly faced with the problem when we are invited to a wedding, but we don’t know what to give. You don’t want to give nonsense, and it’s quite difficult to guess what exactly the newlyweds need for the first time. Every person has taste preferences.

Beaded rose

All girls love flowers. Unfortunately, live flowers fade quite quickly. They are being replaced by artificial ones.But even they cannot maintain their perfect appearance for long. And it’s not customary to give artificial flowers - it’s bad form. But

Gift for dad, gift for mom

I suggest making cute gifts from leftover yarn. We won't knit, no. We will do felting, in other words, felting. For filing, you need a needle, but not a simple one, but with notches. The felting needle is capable of compacting fluffy

New Year's candle and decoration for it

We all love New Year and Christmas very much. They are very funny and vividly memorable, despite the fact that they fall during the cold season. The most important thing is that this holiday is celebrated at home, among family and friends and with various beauties and

Christmas tree made of satin ribbon

Not a single New Year is complete without a Christmas tree. New Year's beauties can be tall and small, but it is not always possible to place even the smallest forest spruce in the house. In this description you will learn how to create a miniature spruce tree in bright green color.

Piece of grapefruit cake

We will need: polymer clay (brown and white), a stationery knife, toothpicks or an awl, acrylic paint, a plastic grapefruit sausage, tweezers.

Openwork scarf

When cold weather sets in, you have to dress much warmer and remember things like a scarf and hat. Many fashionistas suffer greatly because of this, since they cannot always choose the warm accessories that would emphasize their style. But we

Postcard “Tree of Love”

Quilling is a creative direction in which using paper and giving it different shapes you can create interesting postcards and voluminous crafts. One of its types is linear quilling, when entire pictures can be created practically

Postcard “Snowflake”

Winter is coming and everyone's favorite holiday, New Year, is approaching. An original postcard made with your own hands will please yourself and your loved ones. All you need is glue and paper of several colors, as well as limitless imagination. In the implementation of the most daring

Bracelet with berries and flowers

Modeling from cold porcelain is a pleasant and exciting activity for children and adults. It is pleasant to the touch, plastic and does not require firing. Products dry in air from 2 hours to 2 days, depending on the thickness of the work. Below is the step by step

Headband with daisies and rose hips

Modeling from cold porcelain is a pleasant and interesting activity for everyone who loves to create beauty with their own hands. The material is very plastic, does not require firing, and the products dry in air. Cold porcelain can be painted beautifully with oil paints,

New Year card

Next year, which is just around the corner, will be our Year of the Sheep. Although the sheep is a rather calm animal, the year 2015 is promised to us with small changes and some troubles, but all these events will be exclusively for the better,

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