Think Crafts Blog – Craft Ideas and Projects – CreateForLess

We can tell it wasn’t easy to only pick 3 craft items to take if you were ever stranded. There was a lot of  thought in your answers! Congratulations to Penny who was randomly selected as the winner of Free Stuff Friday and the MiMi Essentials Scrapbook  Tool Tote!

The Essential Scrapbook Tool Tote in Kiwi with Chocolate accents is a durable water resistant shoulder tote that keeps your tools at your finger tips. It boasts a patented locking wing system and a strap to hang it from a doorknob or your wheeled tote handle. A coordinating Kiwi interior lining complemented by decorative contrast stitching gives this tote a functional and fashionable look. It cleverly unites storage and style for the crafter on the go.

Penny’s winning answer to ”You’re stranded on a deserted island, what 3 craft products do you bring?” …

“Camera for photographic journel of my situation
Pack of Crochet Hooks
Skeins of Yarn

My main hobby is papercrafting and just can’t see doing that much on an island. But crocheting a blanket or something would be useful. Would have to bring a camera though to journel the experience. Make one heck of a scrapbook on my rescue!”

By General Crafts Contributor, Shelly from the blog “Pickwick & Plum”.  

Ever notice how similar Champagne stoppers and vintage cafe chairs look? I’ve been playing with a variety of treatments and here are three that I think might inspire you to ‘look anew’ at that bottle of bubbly you’ve got hid in your pantry. So, pour yourself a glass and plug in the hot glue gun.

Materials for this project might include:

Vintage buttons and millinery
Scraps of trim or rick rack
Odd metal parts or toys
Plastic bird, or sticker
Tinsel
Beads

I recommend letting the seat lead the direction of the rest of the chair. For all three of these, I picked a vintage button for the seat. Only on the Tree Chair, did I flatten one of the sides – but it helped with getting the branches to line up properly. The metal backing of the Blue Chair is half an old drawer plate (the part of a dresser drawer pull that sits against the dresser). It’s nice and thin metal, so it bent well. Although I did help it along with my handy Nibblers (a great tool for metal available at hardware stores).

At the back of the Blue Chair, I stuck a small rod of brass through the button shank. I added some vintage trim and a velvet ribbon to finish it off. It looks a bit art deco in design.

For the tree chair, I simply hot glued some branches together in a row and attached them to the flattened part of the button. I think  I used my heat gun on some old christmas tinsel. Got it nice and scrunched for the nest and sewed three ivory buttons onto it. I then attached a bird sticker to one of the branches. I wrapped the seat with some vintage trim in gold and blue.

This Mod Chair is made using a part of an old lamp. Where the light bulb would be, is the upholstered button. I attached this to the metal with 2 part epoxy. The back seat cushion I made by using another fabric covered button. I dented the middle so it looked more ‘stuffed’ and stuck a metal flower in the center – but you could actually make a small fabric cushion out of some fabric and foam. I wrapped the seat here in red rick-rack to match the red ‘legs’ of the stopper.