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Link Love: Crafting With Empty Wine Bottles

January 3, 2013 by FaveCrafts

Go ahead – crack open a bottle of wine tonight. Enjoy in our favorite vino and when you’re done, save the bottle and create wine bottles, vases and other decor crafts.

For these crafts, you can not only recycle old glass bottles but also make use of leftover yarn, paint or tissue paper. You can paint the bottles, decoupage them or even wrap them up. You can display them indoors on a table or outside on your porch. Wine bottle crafts are some over the most versatile projects on Earth. Don’t believe me? Check out our roundup of 10 Things to Do With Old Wine Bottles and discover creative new ideas. Make a Faux Dichroic Glass Recycled Bottle that will help you stay organized and neat in the new year. If you’re planning an outdoor party, consider creating your own Wine Bottle Candle Shelter to light up the night.

Whether you’re planning an evening in with the girls or want your nightly dose of anti-oxidants, a bottle of delicious wine can really set the mood. In 2013, make it a point to recycle your empty bottles and make cool decor crafts for all seasons. Say goodbye to guilt and “cheers” to fun wine bottle craft ideas in 2013.

 

  1. Wine Bottle Vases Decoupaged With Tissue Paper from Creative Jewish Mom
  2. Ombre Frosted Wine Bottle from Saved By Love Creations
  3. DIY Upcycled Wine Bottles for Entertaining from Lipstick and a White Tee
  4. Upcyled Wine Bottles from Totally Green Crafts
  5. DIY Yarn-Wrapped Bottle Vase from Inside My Hideaway
  6. Repurposed Wine Bottle Tutorial from Julie Ann Art
  7. Chalkboard Wine Bottle Table Numbers from Bayside Bride
  8. Bottle Lamp from Lana Red
  9. Wrapped Wine Bottles from Crave or Create

Filed Under: Link Love Tagged With: glass, recycle, upcycle craft, vase, water bottle craft, wine bottle cover

Geek Crafts: Test Tube Craft Roundup

October 3, 2012 by FaveCrafts

I’m Haley Pierson-Cox from The Zen of Making, and this is your weekly dose of geeky goodness.

It might sound a bit strange to the uninitiated, but there’s something about lab glass that always sparks my creativity and gets my crafty brain cranking. Do test tubes and beakers have you seeing projects and tutorials too? Here are a few of my favorite ideas:

1. DIY: Test Tube Spice Rack from Jenny Linquist

2. diy | hanging test tube flowers from A Daily Something

3. Easy Halloween Crafts—Homemade Slime from The Idea Room

4. How to Make a Book Vase from Fresh Home Ideas

5. Give the Gift of Green With a Terrarium Necklace (DIY Tutorial) from ecouterre

6. Test Tube Spice Rack from Dream Book Design

Looking for more projects from the lab? Head on over to my Robot Craft Roundup right here on FaveCrafts!

Filed Under: Guest Post Tagged With: flowers, geek craft column, geek crafts, glass, halloween, terrariums, vase

Make Your Nest—17 Ideas for DIY Home Decor

March 28, 2012 by FaveCrafts

Sometimes all you need to make a room feel like yours is to add a new piece or two. Ideas for DIY home décor will help you add unique style to any room in the house. With some craft materials, you can create your own accessories rather than resorting to manufactured, store-bought items. Make your nest a place you enjoy spending time in and showing off with these fun DIY home decor projects!

Pretty Pillow

Pillows can be quick and easy to make and they usually don’t use much material. For some cute ideas, check out 15 Patterns for Easy Homemade Pillows and 32 Pillow Making Crafts. I absolutely love this Anthropologie inspired Orimono Pillow. It’s perfect for a multicolored room. However, if the idea of sewing a scares you away, DIY No Sew Pillows are just for you! The trick is to use fusion tape to make the seams.

Decoupage Crafts

With decoupage, your furniture woes can be solved. There’s no need to scour stores for the perfect shelf or table. Buy something simple or old and revamp it with your crafty skills. Decoupage is an amazing solution for creating your own designs. Have fun with this inspiring table and storage projects!

End Table Upcycle
String of Circles Bookshelf for Plaid
Decoupage Dresser
Decoupage Storage Bin

Homemade Vases

You don’t need to flowers to put out vases. Use any vase as a table accessory to spruce up a room quickly and give it some character. Inspiration jars are easily made by using glass paint and stencils to brighten up old jars. And for even more color, check out the Circles of Color Vase. Use masking tape to mark off the design you want and paint with glossy colors.  Turn another vase into a work of by making this Decoupage Bud vase. Scrap book paper, ribbons, flowers, and some Mod Podge is all it takes! And for a project that’s more labor intensive (but very rewarding!) check out the Cottage Shore Pair project.

Creative Wall Art

There are so many options for your walls! DIY home décor projects will help you deck them out in your favorite styles. Paint those walls and add some interesting pieces for decoration. The best part is that you’re going to create that art!  Check out a great collection of projects in 19 Cool Wall Art and Décor Ideas. It will provide you with the inspiration you need to make your home look amazing! And view some of these other projects for more fun ideas:

Colorful Stencil Wall Art
Embroidery Hoop Bulletin Board
Stenciled Embroidery Hoop-Art
Mosaic Wall

What DIY home decor projects do you like to make to add some style to your nest?

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We are giving away a prize a day every day here on our FaveCrafts blog for National Craft Month. It is so easy to enter. Just go to our Project of the Day post and comment to enter! You have 31 chances to win and a new special prize each day.

Filed Under: Home Decor and Design Tagged With: decoupage crafts, DIY projects, National Craft Month, pillows, vase, wall art

Cute Ideas for Flower Arrangements

March 25, 2012 by FaveCrafts

This guest post was written by Patty Hall of Serenata Flowers.

Flowers add a decorative eye-catching pop of color and texture to any room in the home. By swapping out blooms and changing various elements of the arrangement to fit the seasonal tone, you can keep the look refreshing and new. Which flowers are chosen, how they are arranged and in what sort of vessel they are contained is only as limited as your creative imagination.

When browsing through websites and catalogs, you will see that the options far exceed the classic roses in a traditional vase. When you order flowers online or fresh flowers by post, you are presented with dozens of choice blooms from the seasonal to the exotic, arranged in everything from baskets and galvanized buckets to tea pots and watering cans. By seeking some inspiration on such pages and applying some of your own creative talents, you can achieve some attractive and whimsical flower arrangements yourself.

Creative Containers

Craft stores have a variety of floral containers to choose from. Delve into the storage recesses of your home and you are equally likely to find some containers waiting to be filled. Think outside of the box, absolutely any structure that has an opening to a hollow inside will work. Try welcoming the first days of springtime with bright yellow daffodils arranged in a ceramic pitcher or a small, galvanized watering can. An arrangement of red and yellow tulips sprouting from a basket weave wine bottle holder makes a natural centerpiece for a spring dinner table. An old-fashioned milk jug looks much perkier when filled with bright colored dahlias. For the holiday season, designate some poinsettias or other red blossoms to become the passengers of a sleigh-shaped basket or statue. If you appreciate the appearance of seaside decorating, a large conch shell provides yet another container possibility. The cooking enthusiast can enliven the look of the kitchen by arranging flowers into various culinary items such as a honey pot, teapot, wine bottle or decorative canister. For an autumnal floral arrangement, try hollowing out two to three pumpkins of varying size, shape and color, then fill the empty gourds with clusters of fall mums in the bold seasonal shades of maroon, golden yellow, orange and purple. You still have the option to draw or paint some jack-o-lantern faces on each one.

Adorning Additions

If the horticulturist in you prefers live flowering plants that you nurture for years, take note that they need not live out their lives dwelling in the ubiquitous terra cotta clay pot. A popular craft allows you to ‘dress’ you flower pots. Knitting covers for flowerpots allows you to change the look of your décor without compromising your plants. These covers are usually knitted but they can also be crocheted, and they slip right over the pot. Now your artistic ideas are only limited by the palette of yarn colors that your craft store has on their shelves. Enjoy a red and green, red and white or burgundy and gold pattern for the holidays, and then switch to an ice blue and silver for winter, pretty pastels for the welcoming of spring, brilliant tropical lime and turquoise for summer months, followed by oranges and yellows as fall approaches. Getting back to that seaside decorator’s paradise, consider some knitted pot covers in nautical blue and white stripes.

When arranging flowers, think about other embellishments to accent the arrangement. Craft stores offer a host of accents and baubles to enhance floral decoration, from picks that display butterflies, birds and even fruit to long sprays of colorful grass spikes or glittered curlicues. For flowerpots, once you have outfitted the pot with a new cover for the season, set a couple of adornments atop of the soil near the most visible edge of the pot. Pinecones would look nice in the fall or winter, a couple of bright ball ornaments for the holidays and some pastel-colored eggs for springtime.

Setting out floral arrangements throughout your home is an inexpensive and creative way to decorate and add some beauty and whimsy that can easily be changed as often as you desire. Let your floral arrangements give your family a warm welcome home all year long.

About the Author

Patricia Hall works part-time for an online florist in uk and loves to surround herself with flowers at any given point of time. Even in her free time she loves to involve herself with everything flora and fauna.
‘To me there is nothing more beautiful and global as the language of flowers – it is the easiest to understand all around the world in the same way. That is one reason why I truly admire flowers for what they represent in some ways – unity of all mankind!’

Filed Under: Garden Crafts Tagged With: flower, flower vase, spring crafts, vase

Bling Bouquet: A Guest Project

July 7, 2009 by FaveCrafts

We have a very nice guest contributor who was very happy to send us her project. They call her the Rowdy Grandma. She is a grandma of many kids and she loves being with her grandkids. With this project she went through all her old jewelry and earrings with her grandkids. In doing so they came up with a great craft called the bling bouquet. It’s a fun and different kind of floral vase. The flowers aren’t real because they’re made out of old earrings. I thought it was a pretty neat project.

bling-bouquet

If you like this craft project you should check out the other vases we have to offer.

Bud Vase

Etched Floral Vase

Plastic Cup Vase

Filed Under: Guest Post, Kids Crafts Projects Tagged With: crafting with kids, decorating ideas, floral arrangement, flower vase, Kids Crafts, vase

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