Hey Crafters!  I'm very sorry that I haven't been posting anything new lately, but I have been busy working on a new website.  I have finally opened this website, and you can go check it out using the link below.  It isn't perfect yet, and it still has a lot of tweeking to do, but I really wanted to open it for you guys to see.  

http://misformoustache.weebly.com

Qtip styluses

Materials That You Will Need:

2 Qtips

Scissors

Tin foil

Tape 

Nail polish

1.  Tape the two Qtips together.

2.  Wrap the Qtips in tin foil.  Make sure  that you leave one "fuzzy" end sticking out while still having the tin foil touching it (see picture for details).

3.  Cut off the excess tin foil.  Wrap the top half of the stylus in tape.

4.  Paint the tape with nail polish.  Let dry.

5.  Dip the end of the stylus in water and use it on your touch screen device.

Are you a Harry Potter fanatic? Do you love to craft?  If so, please check out my other blog at http://hpcraftersunited.blogspot.ca!  Thanks!

Board Game Jewelry Box

Materials That You Will Need:

1 board game playing board

Black electrical tape

Hot glue + Glue gun

Scissors

Pencil

1.  Cut out a template like this.  You can trace any other box template if you would like, and use that instead.  Put electrical tape on all of the edges, and where the board will be folded.

2.  Glue the 2 sides onto the base like so.

3.  Glue on the front onto the 2 sides.










Are you a Harry Potter fanatic? Do you love to craft?  If so, please check out my other blog at http://hpcraftersunited.blogspot.ca!  Thanks!

Hedgehog Decor

Materials That You Will Need:

Brown modelling clay

Hot glue + Glue gun

Small screws

Quick Tips:

Go to IKEA in their "AS IS" section.  There should be a box of spare screws.  Next to the box you can find some small plastic bags with a 1$ sticker on it.  If you fill that bag with screws, you only have to pay 1 dollar!!

1.  With the brown modelling clay, sculpt a shape like the one to the left.

2.  Cover the body section of your hedge hog in hot glue.  This will make it stronger.

3.  Hot glue on rows of small screws on top of the previously hot glued coat until it covers the  top section of the previously put on hot glue.

4.  Glue on 4 small screws onto the bottom to create the legs.












Are you a Harry Potter fanatic? Do you love to craft?  If so, please check out my other blog at http://hpcraftersunited.blogspot.ca!  Thanks!

Hair Bows

Materials That You Will Need:

Fleece (in the colour of your choice

Hot glue + Glue gun

Scissors

Hair clips

Quick Tips:

Don't just follow the design shown below, experiment with the lengths, sizes, and designs like I have done in the picture above.

1.  Cut your fleece into 3 different sizes.  Make 1 larger , 1 a tiny bit smaller, and 1 small piece.

2.  With the 2 larger pieces, fold the edges to the middle, and glue them down as it is done in the picture.

3.  Glue the 2 larger pieces on top of each other, and glue the smaller piece down the middle.  Glue the bow to a hair clip.










Are you a Harry Potter fanatic? Do you love to craft?  If so, please check out my other blog at http://hpcraftersunited.blogspot.ca!  Thanks!

Explosive CD Art

Materials That You Will Need:

Old CD

Glue
Canvas

Spray paint (in the colour that you would like the background to be)

Acrylic paint (in the colour that you would like the CD to be)

Hammer

Plastic bag

1.  Put your CD into a plastic bag.  Smash it with a hammer.

2.  Take out the crushed CD pieces, and try to recreate the CD, leaving spaces in between the pieces.  Don't worry, you don't have to use all of the pieces, just enough to make the average shape of it.  

3. Spray paint the canvas.  Let dry.

4.  Paint the CD pieces.

5.  Glue the CD pieces on the canvas.  On one side, make it look like the CD is exploding.


Are you a Harry Potter fanatic? Do you love to craft?  If so, please check out my other blog at http://hpcraftersunited.blogspot.ca!  Thanks!

Gift Wrap Bows

Materials That You Will Need:

Paper (ex: wrapping paper, newspaper, pages out of books, etc.)

Card stock paper

Scissors

Tape

1.  Cut your paper into strips.

2.  Hold one strip of paper,

bring the ends together,

hold the ends together and place a piece of tape on top of the ends so that they stay together.

3.  With that same piece of tape, attach the piece to the corner of a piece of card stock.

4.  Keep making the paper curls, and tape them in a circle of approximately 7 pieces.

5.  Cut the excess card stock off of the edges.

  

6.  Make approximately 7 more curls, and tape them in between the outer circle. 

7.  Make approximately 7 more curls, and tape them in between the middle circle.

8.  Tape a thicker strip of paper, into a circular form.  Tape that in the middle of the bow.

Are you a Harry Potter fanatic? Do you love to craft?  If so, please check out my other blog at http://hpcraftersunited.blogspot.ca!  Thanks!

Puzzle Jewelry

Materials That You Will Need:

Puzzle pieces

Acrylic paint (in the colour that you would like your puzzle pieces to be)

String (in the colour that your puzzle pieces will be)

Scissors

Small buttons

1.  Paint your puzzle piece(s) the colour of your choice.  Let dry.

2.  Wrap the string around your wrist.  Add approx. 2 inches to that, and cut.

3.  Tie a loop in the end of the string.  This will go around the button to keep the bracelet on.

4.  Tie the Puzzle piece onto the string.

5.  Wrap the string with the loop and puzzle piece around your wrist again.  Determine whether you should cut some extra string off it so that it will fit properly.  Remember that you still have to tie the button on.

6.  Tie the button on.  You've now got a unique bracelet!



Are you a Harry Potter fanatic? Do you love to craft?  If so, please check out my other blog at http://hpcraftersunited.blogspot.ca!  Thanks!

Ear Bud Holders

Materials That You Will Need:

1 old card (gift card, credit card)

Drill and Bits

Scissors

1.  Cut out the side design out of the card (look at pictures for details).

2.  With a drill and drill bit that will be big enough to have the speaker part of the ear buds fit through, drill two holes on the top, and one on the bottom (see pictures).

3.  Put your ear buds in!

Are you a Harry Potter fanatic? Do you love to craft?  If so, please check out my other blog at http://hpcraftersunited.blogspot.ca!  Thanks!

Tic Tac Ribbon Holders

Materials That You Will Need:

Tic Tac containers

Ribbon

1.  Eat Your Tic Tacs!

2.  Peel of the Tic Tac labels.

3.  Roll your ribbon around one of your fingers.  Once you have done that, take the ribbon off your finger, and stick the ribbon inside the container.  Make sure that you put the end/beginning of the ribbon out of the top flap.



Are you a Harry Potter fanatic? Do you love to craft?  If so, please check out my other blog at http://hpcraftersunited.blogspot.ca!  Thanks!

Eraser Stamps

Materials That You Will Need:

Erasers

X-Acto knife

Pencil

Black paint or ink

Paper

Quick Tips:

Make sure that the background (the part that doesn't need to have ink on it) is far away from the stamp itself.  Or else the stamped image does not turn out very good.

1.  With a pencil, draw the image that you would like the stamp to be on the eraser.  

2.  Trace your image with the X-Acto knife, making sure that it goes quite deep.  Then, complete a horizontal cut to take of the excess eraser.

3.  Dip the stamp into some black ink or paint, and stamp on!

Are you a Harry Potter fanatic? Do you love to craft?  If so, please check out my other blog at http://hpcraftersunited.blogspot.ca!  Thanks!

Mind Boggling Ornaments

Materials That You Will Need:

100 piece puzzle pieces

Green acrylic paint

Brown acrylic paint

Small glass beads

Krazy Glue

String or Rope

1.  With approximately 6 puzzle pieces and some Krazy Glue, make the triangular part of the tree.

2.  Using an edge piece, glue on the trunk of the tree.

3.  Paint the trunk brown, and the rest of the tree green.  

4.  Glue on some glass bead ornaments with some Krazy Glue, and then glue on a strand of string/rope onto the back of the tree so that you can hang it on your Christmas Tree, or on a hook.


Are you a Harry Potter fanatic? Do you love to craft?  If so, please check out my other blog at http://hpcraftersunited.blogspot.ca!  Thanks!

Crafty Cork Board

Materials That You Will Need:

1 square piece of cork board  or  2 rectangular pieces of cork board 

Dark brown spray paint (I used Krylon's Equestrian Indoor/Outdoor Gloss Spray Paint)

Beige spray paint (I used Krylon's Khaki Indoor/Outdoor Gloss Spray Paint)

Scissors

Green acrylic paint ( I used DecoArt Leaf Green)

White acrylic paint (I used DecoArt Light Antique White)

Orange acrylic paint ( I used DecoArt Pure Pumpkin)

Neon pink acrylic paint (I used Color-Factory Neon Pink)

Red acrylic paint (I used DecoArt Deep Red)

Yellow acrylic paint (I used DecoArt Daffodil Yellow)

Quick Tips:

Go to the Dollar Store!  That's where I got most of the materials for this craft!

If you have one square of cork board, cut it into two halves. Place them next to each other in a clean area outside, or on some newspaper indoors.  Spray paint the top halves beige.  Now, With the dark brown spray paint, create a gradient starting at the bottom.  Start by applying a thick layer until the half way point, then start to gradually move farther and farther away, so that the paint applies thinner.

With green acrylic paint, paint blades of grass along the bottom.  Feel free to add your own style to the grass' shape and length.

Decide where you want your sun to be.  Paint the outline in yellow acrylic paint. 

With some orange acrylic paint, create another gradient, but this time, on the sun.  Make the colour more vibrant on one side, and gradually get lighter, until you reach the other side, where it should stay yellow. 

With the red, neon pink, yellow, white, and orange acrylic paints, create a design to create the sunset-like rays of the sun.   

Re-paint the blades of grass that you have covered while painting the sun.  Then, add some white to the grass.  To do this, I simply put some white paint on the tip of my brush, and, starting at the bottom, went over the blade of grass.  Now you're done!










Are you a Harry Potter fanatic? Do you love to craft?  If so, please check out my other blog at http://hpcraftersunited.blogspot.ca!  Thanks!