Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Rocket ship from recycled Materials


Make something new with old and discarded house hold materials. There are a lot of things you could make with your old stuff.  Instead of throwing away your house hold junk, why not reinvent them and turn them into something fun and exciting, like a rocket ship.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Create Your Own Party Banner


Tired of using custom made party banners? Why not design your own party banners and customize it to your chosen party theme. 

Materials Needed:

Straw Rope
Staple wires
Scrap Booking shapes

Procedure:

1. Choose your theme...
2. Decide on the shape of your banner. You can either use traditional shapes, such as circles, squares or triangles. Better yet be creative and use other non-traditional shapes, such as animals and vehicles...
3. Decorate your banners by glueing on the foam or scrap booking shapes. You can also download more
   shapes from the internet and print it on a plain sheet of paper.
4. Add Some glitter glue for effect...
5. Hang your party banners by stappling them on your straw rope.
6. Congratulations your done...

Friday, April 1, 2011

Transferring Sandpaper Art into your shirt or cloth bags

A different way of making use of your sandpaper art. Wish you could wear or carry around your sand paper art? You could actually transfer your favorite sandpaper drawings into a plain shirt or cloth bag using a process called heat transfer...

Materials Needed:

Sandpaper (different textures produces different effects)
A Box of Crayons (Try Glow in the dark Crayons for effect)
Plain sheet of paper
A plain shirt or cloth bag
A Flat Iron

Procedure:

1. Decide on the pattern or illustration you are going to create.
2. Using your box of crayons draw like crazy and produce the art work you desire (experiment with different textures of sandpaper).

3. Since you would be transferring your artwork into a different medium, the image that will be transferred into your shirt or cloth bag will become inverted. Just imagine that you are looking at the image from a mirror, so you could produce the correct orientation.

4. Select the medium you would want to transfer your artwork into (Plain shirt or Cloth bag).
5. Position the sand paper on top of the area you are going to transfer the image to.
6. Place a clean sheet of paper underneath the shirt or cloth bag to prevent the crayon from passing to the back.
7. Iron the sandpaper until the crayon has completely melted and the image has transferred to the shirt or cloth bag.

8. Congratulations your done...

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Sandpaper Art Using Crayons

A fun and simple way to create artworks using sandpaper and crayons as medium. Experiment with different sand paper textures and create a masterpiece.

Materials Needed:

Sandpaper (different textures produces different effects)
A Box of Crayons (Try Glow in the dark Crayons for effect)

Procedure:

1. Decide on the pattern or illustration you are going to create.
2. Using yourbox of crayons draw like crazy and produce the art work you desire.
                     3. Congratulations your done...

Friday, February 4, 2011

Spray Bottle Art

A messy, fun and creative way of making an Abstract piece of art using spray bottles.

Materials Needed:

Spray Bottles
Poster Paints
A piece of Oslo paper

Procedure:

1. Dilute your poster paints with water a 1:1 ratio should be enough, and place them inside the spray bottles. The more colors you have the merrier.

2. Spray the diluted Poster Paint into your Oslo Paper. Be adventurous and experiment with different color combinations.

3. Sprinkle with a dash of glitters for effect and allow to dry.
4. Congratulations your done...

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