ETSY CRAFT PARTY : DIY place card holders!

From June 17 to 19, it's time to celebrate the creativity around the world, in occasion of Etsy birthday!

Share all your craft creations around the world by tagging them with #etsycraftparty.

I want to share a lovely tutorial to make beautiful place card holders, perfect for a wedding, a spring party, a birthday, a baby shower... a cute idea you can realize if you are planning to participate to a craft event or if you will make a creative project at your home.

Spring place card holders

MATERIALS:

- Scraps of felt in different colors

- Hot glue gun

- Scissors

- Small straw hats

- Needle and thread

- Cardboard

1- Cut 2 stripes of felt, one to fix around the small hat with hot gun and another to make a bow

2- Fix the bow on the back of the hat with the hot glue (be careful not to burn yourself!)

HOW TO MAKE THE FLOWERS:

3- ROSE

Cut a stripe of felt, 1.2" wide and 4" long

Bend it

Start rolling it to make the centre of the rose

Fix it with hot glue

Cut the petals, you will need 8 petals to make two roses, you don't have to be precise while you're cutting the petals, they will look good anyway

Fix all the 4 petals around the rose with hot glue

A very cute rose is ready!

4- SUNFLOWER

Cut a stripe of felt 1.2" wide and 9.5" long, cut some triangle shapes as in the following picture

It's the time to use needle and thread to curl up the stripe, to create the sunflower

Cut a round shape from the brown felt and fix it in the centre of the sunflowers with hot glue

5- MAKE THE LEAVES

This is the shape to cut from the green felt to make the roses leaves

Fix it under the rose with the hot glue

For the sunflower

Fix all the flowers and leaves on the small hat as you prefer and add the cardboard with the name

What creative projects are you doing?

Let's craft!

A craft idea for October, a soft and colorful pumpkin!

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"recipe" to make a cute pumpkin, made using polystyrene as main ingredient, really simple and fun!
I used my pumpkins to create an autumn wreath, but they can be used also for centerpieces, garlands, as placeholders for an Halloween party...

Ok, here is my adorable, soft, colorful, fluffy, cozy pumpkin!! 

Here is all you need to create it:
-polystyrene ball
-orange felt (enough to cover all the ball)
-a little piece of green wire
-a fabric leaf (I cut it from a fake flower)
-a little piece of branch
-glue
-scissors
-one cutter blade

Cut the segments all around the ball with the blade, must be deep enough to insert the felt

Insert a clove cut from the felt into the segments on the ball, using the other side of the blade:

(pay attention to the cutting edge!)

You have to cover the entire ball and this is the result:

Now you can add some details to decorate your pumpkin, I glued the leaf and the petiole:

Then a cute curl made coiling the green wire around a pencil:

With a "creepy face" it would be ready for Halloween...

Christmas tree card tutorial with ornaments and gifts!

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 oday I wrapped the last gifts, now everything is ready under my Christmas tree, there is a really good atmosphere and Christmas is very close.
I am very proud and honored for all the pet portraits I painted, they are gifts that will be opened this Christmas all over the world, I've done my best to paint everything in time, it was a really crazy period for me (I painted also at night!) but it's my favourite period of the year, I love my work so much!! Thanks from the bottom of my heart to all my wonderful customers!!

I'd like to share with you another Christmas card I created for one of my best friend, it's quite simple to make but is really cute and can be personalized in the way you prefer. 

FOR THIS PROJECT YOU NEED:
-light purple cardboard
-green cardboard
-brown paper ( I recycled a piece of brown wrapping)
-colored cardboards and ribbon as you prefer for the tree ornaments and the gifts (you can also use pieces of wrapping paper of your gifts)
-pencil
-scissors
-glue

1-Cut a rectangle 8,3"x11,6" from the purple cardboard and fold it in the middle

2-Fold the card in horizontal as in the image, 5,2" from the border

3-Draw the shape of an half Christmas tree as in the image:

4-Cut the tree shape:

5-Fold following the dotted line:

6-Fold downwards following the dotted line:

7- Open the card and bend the shape of the tree towards the inside:

 

8-Cut a tree shape from the green cardboard:

 and stick it on the purple tree shape of the card:

9-Add the vase made with the brown paper:

Now the funniest part!! You can add all the decorations you prefer, free your imagination!