Felt Flower Tutorials

I love felt flowers, there is something so happy about them, especially this bouquet I saw on Etsy the other day, so here are some felt flower tutorials!

New Washi Tape Designs!

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DIY Mushroom Garden Art

This is such a great idea! re-purposing glass bowls in to beautiful pieces of garden art.

thanks to recreations in glass on etsy

Quick Easy and Awesome Art - Washi Tape Art!

A washi forest! this would be so great in a kids room.

From Apartment Therapy

Giant cross stitch pattern on the wall! Wall paper perhaps..

From SewnStudio

Marshmallow Fondant - the best home make icing ever!

I found this recipe on Pinterest recently and had to try it - fondant made from marshmallows! And it is the easiest recipe ever!

Step 1: put marshmallows in a microwave proof bowl, add a teaspoon of water, or enough to coat them
Step 2: microwave them for 10 sec at a time stirring until they are gooey
Step 3: adding food colouring, mix in, turn out on to the icing sugar and knead in with the icing sugar (it will be very sticky so use lots of icing sugar!) Done!

For a really comprehensive tutorial go here
 

Wedding Cake Banner Toppers

Foot stool make over and how I did it

Before / After

I found this awesome foot stool a couple of weeks ago and have been trying to decide what to do with it. I liked the wood, but as our house has so much wood in it already, so I went for colourful!

I also thought that this time I would do a bit on a how to guide on how I did it.

Cost:
Stool was $7 for a second hand shop
paint - at our local hardware store you can get 250ml test pots for $5 each, so you can go down and pick from the colour charts and get exactly what you want! I got 2 colours so $10 total
Fabric I picked from my fabric stash

Tools:
Gun stapler (or hammer and tacs)
pliers
Flat head screw driver
paint brushes
sandpaper - fine and ruff

You also might need: hammer and nails

so the total cost was $17 (yay!)

Confetti Tumblers

I love these confetti tumblers DIY, one day I'm going to do a set.. Click here for the full tutorial

Making your own stamps!

Making your own stamps is really fun and over at Craft tuts they have a great tutorial on making them!

Stamps I've made..

Easter DIY + Washi tape

Colour combos

I LOVE colour! But sometimes I struggle with picking colour combos. Until I found this website - Design Seed. So helpful! 

I want my house to be filled with these!

 

my favorite thing to do with Washi Tape

Washi Tape is one the of best crafty items I can think of! Here are some of my favorite thing to do with them.. 

Wrapping presents

Digital Clip Art!

StickyBird also have digital Clip art for sale on Etsy..

Paper Cut outs templates!

Paper cut outs by Minieco. These are great tutorials with printable templates, they're not to hard to make, they just take a bit of time - I covered mine with washi tape! The washi tape also kept them together, as the only glue I had wasn't sticking to well :)

Paper diamonds

My washi covered diamonds

Gem stones

Stellated dodecahedron (this one is a bit harder)

Side Table DIY Makeover

We got this side table a few years ago from my husbands grandparents and I have been planning on doing it up for ages! So this weekend I decided to finally do it...

Before..

After!

The blog begins!

Welcome to the StickyBird Blog! We sell a range of crafting, making packaging and scrapbooking supplies, sold through Etsy and Trade me --->
But also I love to DIY! So there will be that, ideas, printable's and more!