Craft Projects, My attempts to start and complete some crafting projects

AprilT

AprilT

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I typed up this whole spiel and made a mistake and hit a but before saving and like magic it's all gone and I'm too disgusted to type it over. Just know it was beautiful what I had to say, it was like art. Now I have nothing to show for all my hard work, verbal work that is.

Anyway, here's a couple of videos showing what I'm working on, I will show some of my projects once completed. So don't worry you'll have every opportunity to gaze and admire my museum quality work when I'm done. I'll keep my order book handy, I'm sure there will be orders for my work once I display my paper flowers and especially the big one I already completed. That one I will only display if I get sworn promises no one will laugh. It looks much like an elementary, no kindergartener did.

brb, have to go get the vid, don't want this to disappear while i'm searching like my previous message did
 

some from magazines and other paper

This was one of the first ones I worked on, I just have to decide which out of all the many projects I'm going to finish, so many great fun ones, I just couldn't decide which to finish all the way through to get all the pieces together to make one look, I like that one with the cones for how it looks, it has a more modern look, so, I might go back to making the 50 or so of those I need to complete that project, then I'll have one down. :D I've started on each of these, just to see if I could do them, and yes, most were I was able to, very easy.






 

Those look so cool April, nice that you can do things like that. Most crafty thing I ever did was make several macrame plant hangers back in the day. Love the paper flowers! :cool:
 
Thank you ladies. :) I'm really enjoying working on these.

If I can do these, any of you ladies can, it just takes a bit of patience, beleive me, I was never one to be all that crafty till I set my mind to it. Just a matter of following the instructions till one gets it right if not on the first try, then several tries later and lots of patience, but, it really is a matter if one wants to sit in one spot and work on a project for however long it takes.

Well I'm down about 10 cones so far following the first video, but, I had to use magazine paper, so, when I finish the cones, I'm not sure if I'm going to leave them with design that on them or spray paint them some solid color. I'll decide once I have all the cones finished. Oh and I'm not putting those red balls in the center, there are many variations of that creation with and without a center decoration, but, for sure those balls won't be going into my piece.

I'm heading off to bed soon.

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As always Thank you Matrix and Sea, for your help.
 
Ok, rolling those cones for that project listed in the first video, is going to take a while, I never realized. Now I know why the woman said to bribe friends and family to help or at least keep lots of coco beans around. I think I only made 10 of them so far and got sick of it, but I had a lot of other things going on, so will for sure try to get at least double that done tomorrow. :) Geez, I'm getting slower than I thought. LOL.

Just thought of something if I take each of those listed one by one, maybe I'll have the wreths ready just in time for the fall winter holidays. :(:D
 
Gee April you have far more patience than me, The apricot colour one looks, nice ,is a that a colour you would make/ like ?
 
Those look very nice. I certainly don't have the patience for those. But we want to see photos of the ones you complete, April.
 
Another one who has zero patience for this sort of thing..I do envy those who do though...but in all seriousness, when I hear someone say ''believe me if I can do it so can you''..I run in the other direction because believe me...truly believe me there is none so cack handed as me when it comes to anything to do with crafts..

It irritates my O/H very much because he thinks that by dint of being female, I should be able to make things Pretty....I can't I reaaaaaly can't, I don't have an artistic bone in my body ( apart from my photography)..but certainly not around the house.. so when the curtains are not hanging in exactly 2 inch pleats...and the cushions don't match perfectly...he is not happy because I'm expected to know how to do it!!
 
Kadee46 said:
Gee April you have far more patience than me, The apricot colour one looks, nice ,is a that a colour you would make/ like ?
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I like all of them and there are many more I saw that had me looked on youtube just watching videos, I couldn't get anything done these past days, but, as I mentioned, I'm going to tackle them one by one starting with that first one posted, the cone type wreath and not not in the apricot color, I'm more into blues, whites and beiges for decor. But, I was drawn to that video because of the color, I may do one in a bright color for the holiday season or even one that color for a friend, my bestie has some decor in that color, hmmm, that would make a nice gift for her she usually likes my projects and believe me, we don't pull any punches if we don't like something, we are upfront with one another. It would be, I know you don't think that's going in my place. She re gifted me something as if I couldn't tell and I left it right on the bedside table where I visited her, she knows darn well, I don't do certain fragrances, plus, I know she wouldn't have bought that, she knows what products I like, so don't give me some gift basket with some off bath and perfume products with strange scents. We laughed about it. Fine to re-gift me chocolates though. Next holiday, I'm going to re-gift her some of my old flip flops for that stunt and I wear two sizes up on her. :D

Anyway, I'm working on making the cones for the first project and it's taking time, I'm using an old phone book and I'm pretty sure, I'm going to have to bum another couple of phone books from someone as I want to make two, one for each side of my wall for a set or I have figure out a place to just set the one when I'm done. Rather presumptuous of me to think it's going to look anything like the one in the video when it might end up as a seat cushion. :D
 
I understand what you mean about the wanting to run different direction Holly, I sometimes feel that way about cooking even though, I spent some time in a cooking school in my early years and was quite good in those days making all kinds of things, but, someone killed my desire to cook, not my reason to quite that school, that was on me, but, my culinary skills died a long time ago, I have very little patience in the kitchen for following recipes, As soon as I see more than four ingredients my eyes roll back in my head.

My learning to make things came out of bordom when I was forced to say home, even though I went back to work part-time, I couldn't stand being idle. It's funny about that other thread posted about the women making items for charity, that's how I got started when I think back, I saw something about making quilts for babies so that was my first attempt and it was a disaster, to this day, I still haven't the slightest ability when it comes to quilting, the other project was to make dolls for the children, I failed there too. That was really why I needed the sewing machine in the first placed of which, I'd had no idea of how to use. I hated home economics in school, did take it the last year in high school, that's how I ended up in the cooking school on a scholarship because of my teacher who was so gushing on me to do it, so I signed up at the school, but to be a dietician, and the classes involved way too much cooking. Man it's a long story and a nun was my cooking instructor. This was in lower Manhattan. Most of the other classes I was fine with, chemistry, phlebotomy, (actually, I purposely missed the blood drawing day,) food quality control and the like, but the cooking cutting turnips into roses, making dough rise to perfection and the like, and this nun was a real meanie. I couldn't stand it and the cooking catering classes were the predominant classes of the days of which were long school days. I hated it, HATED IT!
 
I got really sick of making the cones so I stopped and worked on something else, these I will share, the cones unless the whole project is complete, really isn't anything worth a glance. So here's something I worked on a few minutes ago and a couple of flora I rolled up a Sunday.

Now remember, these are my first attempts at doing this stuff.:D

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Thank you Holly, I couldn't find my blue paint when I first did them, I just wanted to see what some would look like with a little color, I've since found my blues and other colors from when I was painting a comforter that a few years ago. Making those flowers is more fun than making these cones I started on, but, I'll keep at it and just switch up working on some other flowers in between, the cones bore me to tears, but, I like the design, so I want to see it to the end.
 
Your roses are lovely, April. Yes, the cones are boring. Many years ago I did a bunch, with music sheets, for a Victorian Christmas tree. Thought, what did I get myself into...so tedious. But, I am sure your end result will be wonderful. BTW, I am unable to access the reputation comments. Only get the notifications. I asked for assistance and was told what was in there...but, cannot figure out why I cannot access them.
 
ndynt said:
Your roses are lovely, April. Yes, the cones are boring. Many years ago I did a bunch, with music sheets, for a Victorian Christmas tree. Thought, what did I get myself into...so tedious. But, I am sure your end result will be wonderful. BTW, I am unable to access the reputation comments. Only get the notifications. I asked for assistance and was told what was in there...but, cannot figure out why I cannot access them.
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So you've done the cones, glad to have someone understand the monteny of it, if I didn't like the look so much, I'd toss it, what a pain trying to roll all of those, I'm thinking it's going to take me a couple of weeks to make one, you need what like 200 if not for one, I'll at least need that many for two. Time to come up with an alternative. Nah, I'll stick it out, it's just going to take way longer than I expected, to finish rolling them up.

Hmmmm, interesting, sorry you can't access the comment section, I'll send a pm in the future if I need to say something in more depth. :) But, I'll still give blanc reps otherwise
 
OMGosh! ndynt, you must be a mind reader, just hours ago, I was looking at various home decor project. Thank you thank, you thank you. I love it.

Just a few I watched on youtube, I'm going to try the first one in the near future, on larger paper



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April, your flowers are beautiful! Now I'm getting inspired. I've got a closet full of stuff I can use for a creative project. I'd really like to try this marbling technique. I wonder - if I were to apply it to fabric, I probably wouldn't be able to wash the item, huh? I was considering a scarf . . . hmmmm
 
Thanks you. Glinda, all you need to do is use fabric dye and it should be fine, I think the woman in the video might have even mentioned it, either way, that's what I would do. I can't wait to see what some of you come up with when done. So many wonderful projects, so little time. :)
 

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