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Project of the Day & Giveaway: PinWheel Wreath

March 4, 2012 by FaveCrafts

Today’s Project of the Day for National Craft Month comes from the fine folks at Provocraft!  Brighten up your door with this easy to make spring project. Visitors will love being welcomed by the fun design and whimsical feel. And don’t forget to enter our Giveaway by answering the question below in the Comments Section of this post.

Using the Cricut Expression 2 die cutting machine, this fun project is super fast and easy. With the Cricut Craft Room, you can choose your design as well as size and let the Cricut Expression do all the work for you! Since you are choosing the papers and patterns you are using, this could be a nice accompaniment to any home decór. You can add a vintage flair to this project by inking your edges before forming your pinwheels or leave it inkless for a clean look. The choice is yours!

 

Paper Pinwheel Wreath Tutorial

By Sharon Butterfield for Provocraft™

Skill level: Easy
Time: 30 minutes

Materials:
Cricut Expression® 2 Personal Electronic Cutter
Cricut® Craft Room Exclusive 3D Pinwheels cartridge
Styrofoam wreath
Muslin
Patterned paper: 3-4 patterns, double sided
Pins
Brads: green, pink, blue, yellow
Brown ink
Dabber
Scissors
pencil

Cartridge Cuts:
Cricut Craft Room Exclusive 3D Pinwheels cartridge
• 5 ¼”

Instructions:

 

  1. Cut pinwheels from your favorite paper using the Cricut Expression 2.
  2. Ink all edges. Front and back.
  3. When assembling pinwheels, roll each corner of the pinwheel that has the hole. This will help the paper to bend without creasing when you assemble with the brad.
  4. Rip muslin into 3” strips. Wrap around wreath until it is all covered. Use pins to hold into place.
  5. Use pins to attach the pinwheels onto the wreath.

We’re giving away a prize a day every day here on our FaveCrafts blog for National Craft Month. It is so easy to enter, so be sure to check back each day for our Project of the Day post like this one to comment to enter! You have 31 chances to win and a new special prize each day.

Today’s Prize is a Cuttlebug Machine!

    ProvoCraft Cuttlebug Machine

  • Contest open to US and Canada residents 18+
  • One comment/entry per person.
  • Contest closes March 4, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. CST.
  • Please answer the question below in order to be entered.
  • Winners will be posted on this blog and notified by email.

 

Answer the question below in the Comments Section of this post for a chance to be today’s winner:

What do you craft to celebrate Spring? 

Filed Under: Full Project Tutorials Tagged With: Full Project Tutorials, giveaway, home decor, National Craft Month, Paper Craft, Project of The Day, Provocraft, spring, tutorial, wreath

Whatever Happened to Serenity Looms?

October 12, 2011 by TheCrochetCrowd

Serenity Looms sold by Hobby Lobby
Whatever happened to Serenity Looms?

Ranking extremely high on my daily views of video tutorials at about 800 views per day is Serenity Looms. Interestingly enough, a regular email and posting I get weekly, is Where can I  find one of these looms?  They are currently off the market. Even though I have posted on the videos they are not available, people are still inquiring where to find them.

Serenity Looms to me were anything but serene, in fact, I swear the ‘S’ configuration was short of “Satan”. Not surprising, the Serenity Looms couldn’t be found on shelves by spring of 2009. They had all vanished without a trace.

The only reason why I have two of them now, is that a viewer found them on the clearance shelf for nearly half price. So she bought the entire shelf out thinking she was getting a bargain. For me, I hadn’t used one yet but was fascinated by the afghan design. I’m not selling them.

I got my Serenity Loom eventually and I was so disappointed with it. My serenity loom fell from my lap and hit the floor and broke as I was starting my first project. The plastic was too flexible and snapped a peg off at the bottom. With no replacement pegs, my loom was garbage. I was pretty ticked off. I found the loom to be too flexible that I believe that if I did something big on it, the loom could potentially snap in half.

I have a rule, I don’t like to criticize current gadgets on the market. However, knowing it was off the market, I figured I can be honest about my feelings and interactions with Serenity.

I ran a second video on how I felt about the loom and its draw backs. The Truth About Serenity Looms. This video got some attention and executives involved with this loom got a hold of me. Knowing already that it went off the market, there were key issues shared in this video which could lead to the re-creation of a similar loom and address the faulty problems going on with it. I was told that it came off the market because the manufacturer’s plant had caught fire and burned to the ground. Regardless of that unfortunate circumstance, this is actually an opportunity for a re-birth to a product that was not doing the greatest.

I’m about giving the consumers choice,give them the knowledge whether it’s good or bad; allow viewers to make the choice. Though my review about Serenity is still negative, there are people who still want the looms. I think human curiosity compels us to want products though others aren’t too happy with it.

So the answer right now is that Serenity Looms are not currently available.

Filed Under: Product Reviews Tagged With: Crafting Essentials, Hobby Lobby, Knifty Knitter, Loom Knitting, Looming, Looms, Provocraft, Serenity, Serenity Loom, The Truth About Serenity, Where To Find Serenity Looms

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