So, This Christmas I decided I wasn't going to buy ANY gifts (ok, not true, I did buy about $10 of stuff for my daughter... but that was months ago already). Making them was much more fun (and cost effective).
For my husband... a T-shirt. I already had the paper for it, so I was happy to find the shirts on sale at Micheal's!
And I couldn't forget the Star Wars Ornament Tradition. This is one of the Rebel ships... from the newer movies... cannot remember it's name right now. A cruiser of some kind (bah! Bad memory). Again, made it using sculpey clay, and it's only about an inch and a half long... maybe two.
My sis got a book.
This one was fun... a candle with a wax paper 'sleeve'. I tried to get the wax to melt onto the candle, but it wouldn't work. Turns out, I had the cheap stuff and needed something with a substantial amount of wax on it. Ah well. It still looks sharp. This was for my sis-in-law. (All you do to make this is draw your image on tracing paper, flip the paper backwards, trace that onto your wax paper, and then flip your wax paper after cutting to size so that the ink is towards the candle. If you have better wax paper than I do, just use your stove or an embossing tool to heat the wax off of the wax paper and onto the candle... you can use stamps too).
Both the parents got frames... with their grand-daughter's photo in them. I love these! Now I wanna buy myself a bunch of frames and print a load of pics to put into them!
There are a bunch more... I described how to make them in separate posts (on the 17th... so they are considered 'old' already, haha). Oh, and the first pic includes two organizing projects. Both for me! Hee hee, even found time to make my own things for myself for Christmas. :)
Hope you all had a Merry Christmas! :)
3 comments:
You're so genius! You really need to come down here and get me in gear. I need some of your motivation! If I start now, I will be ready for next year. Great job! Love it!
Sabrina, you have SO MUCH talent! And such excellent time-management skills, because there is NO WAY I could EVER do all of this! Everything looks amazing!
How I make my candles is I stamp the images (and color some in with chalk) on white tissue paper. Then cut the images out as close to the edges of the image as possible...tissue paper does not cut that easily, so be careful. Then take a piece of wax paper, big enough to cover the tissue paper image. Place the tissue paper image on the (white) candle where you want it, then hold the wax paper tightly across it. It works best to have a piece of wax paper long enough to be able to grab both edges behind the candle so it holds taut. Use your heat gun over the image until the wax paper wax melts over it and blends in with the candle. Don't overheat or the candle starts melting too. Carefully peel back the wax paper and voila! You can't even tell there is tissue paper on the candle! Your cousin Tanya taught this to me. It's how I did your daughter's candle. If you want more images on your candle, stamp & cut more pieces of tissue paper; just use a different part of the wax paper.
Post a Comment