Crafting

♥ Recycling: Easter Wreath

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Hey Lovelies!!

Almost easter and one last easter craft. Well I made it for easter this time around, but the base you can use all year round. I always loved this technic, Paper Wicker. If you don’t know what that means, it’s a recycle craft, using old newspapers. Let’s make a wreath of old newspapers!

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ A bunch of old newspapers.
♥ (Acryllic) Paint.
♥ School Glue.
♥ Hot Glue Gun.
♥ Brush.
♥ Something slim and round, like a skewer.
♥ Anything to decorate, think of ribbon, easter bunny, eggs, etc.

DIY

Start with the newspapers, Cut them in strokes with a width of about 10cm. It’s totally fine if they are wider of smaller. The length doesn’t matter, just take the length of the newspaper you have.

Now take your skewer and start at one of the points of you newspaper strokes. Roll them as tightly as you can and glue the point close with school glue. Let it dry for a bit and go on to the next one. You need a lot of these rolls, I ended up using about 100.

The next step is optional, it really depends on which look you want your wreath to have. But paint all the newspaper rolls in the color you like. I used white acryllic paint and gave it about 2 coats of paint. let everything dry very well now before you move to the next step. (What I figured is that you maybe should skip painting at this point, and spray paint the finished wreath at the end. but I am not sure if that will work out).

Wreath making

Now it’s time to actually make the wreath, take 4 rolls of newspaper and stick a roll of tape (so it’s double sided) on your floor or desk, wherever you have enough space. Make a cross like the picture below. Set something, a tube, in the middle of the cross, where the tape is, something round, I used my make up remover xD. Add a 5th newspaper roll, glue the point under one of the rolls, and put the rest of the length over the next roll, along your tube in the middle, as shown in the picture. Let this one dry well before you continue.

The roll you added last, the 5th you glued on, lays over one of the 4 you started with, fold the one under the 5th one, over the 5th along the tube. The next roll that lays under because you just folded one, fold that one over along the tube. So everytime you fold one over the other, it lays on another roll, the one that’s under you always fold over that one. keep on doing this until you have enough length to make the wreath.
When a roll is finished, add a new one, you can slide them into each other with some glue and simple continue going.

When you finished the lenghth you like, and you are able to make it round as a wreath, glue the ends on both sides, to the inside with some hot glue. Now you can also glue both ends together with hot glue and hold for a bit. When the glue is set and you like the shape, you can go on to the fun part! Decorating time!

Decorating

You can decorate your wreath the way you like. I used some yarn and wrapped it around. Had a crochet bunny I made a long time ago, added that to the middle, and some eggshells and feathers to make the easter look complete. I kept it fairly simple, but you can make it as complicated as you like!

I hope you enjoyed this DIY! I would love to see what you created! #DelinleaDIY. And if anything isn’t clear, comment below or send me an email, I’m happy to help you out!

Love Danielle

 

♥ Ufufy Easter Eggs

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Hey Lovelies!

Time for a new DIY, are you ready?! You know my love for Tsum Tsum’s by now, I believe, but I also love the Ufufy’s they are a bit different but have the same concept. I love them since they used pastel colors for all the Disney characters. Which makes them appear even cuter.
I had those fake eggs around for a while, and needed to use them badly! So why not making something fun with them. Let’s make Ufufy Easter Eggs!

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ Fake Eggs or cleaned out Eggshells if you prefer.
♥ Light Air Dry Clay.
♥ Pencil.
♥ Acrylic Paint.
♥ Brush.
♥ Glue.
♥ Ribbon. (optional)
♥ Sculpting tools. (optional)

Sketching.

To start, sketch out the design of the Disney character you like with a pencil, I made a few different ones, like Pooh Bear, Mickey, Stitch, Dumbo, etc. I started with sketching the line to ‘devide’ the head and the body, that way it makes it easier to know where all the other lines need to go. I sometimes used a flexible ruler to measure them out, so all head’s and body’s where about the same.

Clay.

When you are done with all the sketching, continue to claying! This gives you the opportunity to bring them a bit more alive! I used clay to make the limbs, ears and eventually tails or other features. I used air dry clay because the eggs I used are of plastic, don’t ever bake plastic things, it’s not healthy (and they won’t survive anyway). So, don’t use baking clay.
The easiest way to get even features is, for example, make 4 small even balls for the limbs. Shape them how you like and attach them to the body with some glue. You can use a needle tool or pin to make them seemless, but that’s optional.
If you made all the features out of clay and attached them to the eggs, Let them dry comepletly. I let them dry over night, but it depends on what brand clay you used.

Painting.

Now it’s time to give these some color! I used basic acryllic paints. And since I don’t own pastel colors I mixed all the colors myself, it’s not that hard. Use references of the Ufufy characters you created to make the right color and paint the areas with a brush. I had to do about 2/3 layers of paint, depending on the color. And ofcourse don’t forget to paint their eyes and noses! I used brown paint for these. Try to avoid the use of black paint, this will make them look appear a bit harsh against the soft pastel tones.
You can choose at this point, after finishing painting, to give them a coat of varnish. I haven’t done that yet, since I ran out of time xD. Just like I haven’t finished all of the Ufufy’s I planned to make. I will update my blog post when I did finish them all.

I hope you like this idea of Ufufy easter eggs. Let’s make a whole army of them, right?! Don’t forget to show them with #DelinleaDIY or tag me on Twitter or Instagram.

Love
Danielle

♥ Easter Bunny Lucky Charms

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Hey Lovelies!

Easter is approaching faster as we think! So I thought why not make some decoration already?! We all know the easter branches we bring in our homes and decorate them with the cutest things. Today, I wanna make some Easter bunnies of wooden beads. I love how they turned out so why not show you how to make them too.

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ 14mm Wooden Bead.
♥ 10mm Wooden Bead.
♥ Air Dry Clay or a small Bead for the tail.
♥ Cardstock in any color.
♥ PVA glue.
♥ Acryllic Paint in the colors you like.
♥ Varnish (optional).
♥ Embroidery Floss or Yarn.
♥ Brush.
♥ Scissors.

How To

Glue the large bead to the small bead, make sure the holes line up and let that dry. This will be the body. While that’s drying, draw on the cardstock some ear and foot shapes and cut those out. Glue the ears and foot to the body and let those dry as well. Out of clay, make a small ball, this will be the tail, you can also use a small bead if you have those. Glue the tail to the back of the body.

Painting

When everything is dry. You can start painting! I used pastel tones, I think that fits the whole spring/easter feel best. But ofcourse you can do whatever color you would like. Just paint the whole body in one color first, and later on you’ll paint on the details. It depends on the quality of you paint if the base color of the body need several layers or just one. Keep going until you are happy with the outcome.

Now it is time to paint the details. With white acryl, paint on a round belly shape in between the feet. And don’t forget to make the tail white as well. Mix some light pink paint and use this to color the inside of the ears and a paw print on the foot. Oh! and don’t forget his adorable tiny nose. Now use some brown or black acryl to paint on the face with a tiny brush. If you want add a small dot of white paint in the eye, to give it that little sparkle.

You can use varnish (matt or gloss) to give it that finishing touch and protect the paint, but that’s optional.

Final Step

Make sure everything is completly dry when you go to the next and final step. Cut 2 pieces of yarn with a length of 30cm. Fold those in half and make a knot about 5 cm from the loose ends. With help of a Needle, put the folded side of the yarn through the bottom to the top of the bunny and you are done!

I hope you enjoyed this DIY and make a lot! haha, the more the better. Don’t forget to show me with the #DelinleaDIY

Love
Danielle

 

♥ Amigurumi Gnome Face

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Hey Lovelies!!

So, somewhere at the end of last year, my grandpa asked me if I could make something for him and handed me a scribble at a small piece of paper. I was like, ‘what’s this’. I was a bit confused but stated how I should make it.. sorta xD. It’s supposed to be a Gnome head/face.

Here is his scribble:

Well, okay, I will try to make something out of it. I only need to know what colors he wanted. He said Yellow and Green. Not sure why he wanted those colors. Not something I would choose, but hé, it’s his party!

So after having the scribble for a while, I should finally make it, and give it to him. (I had a bunch of other stuff that had priority, so my grandpa had to wait). And when I finished them I loved them more as I thought I would. So, I thought why not share the pattern with you all! Are you ready?!

For this DIY you’ll need.
♥  Yarn in 2 colors of green and beige. (I used cotton thread.)
♥  Crochet hook.
♥  Stitch marker.
♥  Yarn needle.
♥  Scissors.
♥  Fiber Fill
♥  2 Safety eyes. (about 7mm)

Stitches used:
CH = Chain.
SC = Single Crochet.
HDC = Half Double Crochet.
DC = Double Crochet.
Foundation SC.
ST = Stitch.
Inc = Increase.
Dec = Decrease.
Slst = Slip Stitch.
(…) = Repeat the space in brackets the given number of times.
[…] = Total number of stitches.

♥ Pattern

So I made the versions of the hat. By accident. I just didn’t count right. To be honest I like my mistake more as the ‘good’ one haha. So I thought why not give both.

Hat version1 (straight point, ‘good’one)

1: 4SC in magic ring. [4]
2: (1SC, inc), 2 times. [6]
3: (2SC, inc), 2 times. [8]
4: (3SC, inc), 2 times. [10]
5: (4SC, inc), 2 times. [12]
6: (5SC, inc), 2 times. [14]
7: (6SC, inc), 2 times. [16]
8: (7SC, inc), 2 times. [18]
9: (5SC, inc), 3 times. [21]
10: SC in each st around. [21]
11: SC in each st around. [21]
12: 2SC, 1HDC, 7DC, 1HDC, 10 SC. [21]
Fasten off and leave long tail for sewing.

Hat version2 (Curved hat, Mistake one)

1: 4SC in magic ring. [4]
2: (1SC, inc), 2 times. [6]
3: (2SC, inc), 2 times. [8]
4: 7SC, inc. [9]
5: 4SC, inc, 4SC. [10]
6: inc, 5SC, inc, 4SC. [13]
7: 1SC, inc, 6SC, inc, 3SC. [14]
8: 3SC, inc, 7SC, inc, 2SC. [16]
9: (5SC, inc) 2 times, 4SC. [18]
10: (5SC, inc), 3 times. [21]
11: SC in each st around. [21]
12: SC in each st around. [21]
13: 2SC, 1HDC, 7DC, 1HDC, 10 SC. [21]
Fasten off and leave long tail for sewing.

Head:

1: 6SC in magic ring. [6]
2: Inc in each st around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc), 6 times. [18]
4: (5SC, inc), 3 times. [21]
5: SC in each st around. [21]
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8: SC in each st around. [21]
9: (5SC, dec), 3 times. [18]
10: (1SC, dec), 6 times. [12] Stuff the head lightly.
11: Dec in each st around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.
Note: in between row 5 and 6 you wanna add the safety eyes.

Scarf:

1: Make 40 foundation SC. [40]
2: CH1, turn, 40SC. [40]
Fasten off and weave in tails.

Ears:

Chain2, insert in 2nd chain from hook, 1SC. Fasten off and leave long tail for sewing.

Assembling

Put the head inside the hat, and sew them together. Form the scarf the way you like and sew it to the head as well. Add the ears to both sides of the face and you are done! isn’t it cute?!

I hope you enjoyed making this one! Have a lovely day all!

Love
Danielle

 

♥ Crochet Plant Pots, Ivy Part 4

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Hey Lovelies!

The last on of our plant pot series! today we will crochet some Ivy! I actually wanted to do a 2 colored one, but wasn’t sure how to do that, so I just made it in one color! Cute as well.

Plant pot can be found here.
Sanseviera Plant can be found here.
Senecio rowleyanus Plant can be found here.

Are you ready to crochet some Ivy?!

For this DIY you’ll need.
♥  Wool, in Green and Brown
♥  Crochet hook.
♥  Stitch marker.
♥  Yarn needle.
♥  Scissors.
♥  Fiber Fill
♥  Toilet roll tube. (optional)

Stitches used:
CH = Chain.
SC = Single Crochet.
HDC = Half Double Crochet.
DC = Double Crochet.
TR = Treble Crochet.
Picot
ST = Stitch.
Inc = Increase.
Dec = Decrease.
Slst = Slip Stitch.
(…) = Repeat the space in brackets the given number of times.
[…] = Total number of stitches.

Pattern:

Soil/ground:
in Brown.

1: 1: 6SC in magic ring. [6]
2: SC in each ST around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc), 6 times. [18]
4: (2SC, inc), 6 times. [24]
5: SC in each st around. [24]
Fasten off and leave long tail for sewing.

Ivy leave small: (15)
In Green.

1: 6SC in magic ring. [6]
2: Crochet in the first st, 1SC, 1HDC, picot. In the second st you make 1SC, 1DC, picot, 1HDC. In the third st you make, 1DC, 1TR, picot. In the fourth st, 1TR, 1DC. In the fifth st 1HDC, Picot, 1DC, 1SC, picot. In the sixths st make 1HDC, 1SC and finish off with a slst. [14]
Now weave in the tail and set aside..

Ivy leave Big: (5)
In Green

1: 6SC in magic ring. [6]
2: SC in each st around. [12]
3: Crochet in the first st, 2SC. In the second st you make 1HDC, 1DC, Picot. In the third st you make, 1SC, 1HDC. In the fourth st, 1DC, Picot, 1DC, 1HDC. In the fifth st, 1SC, 1HDC. In the sixths st make, 1DC, 1TR, Picot. In the seventh st, 1TR, 1DC. In the eighth st, 1HDC, 1SC. In the Ninth st, 1HDC, 1DC, Picot, 1DC. In the Tenth st, 1HDC, 1SC Picot. In the 11th, 1DC, 1HDC. And in the last st, 2SC and finish off with a slst. [26]
Now weave in the tail and set aside.

Assembling

To make the strings with leaves you have to crochet some chains and connect the leaves with an SC. I did about 5-6 CH in between each leave.
So, for example, CH5, add a big leave with an SC, CH6, add a small leave with a SC, CH6, add a small leave with an SC and fasten off and weave in tail. I made 3 of these.
I also made one with 2 small leaves. One with 1 big leave and 3 small leaves. One with 1 big leave and 4 small leaves.
Sew all of the Leave strings one by one to the soil/ground. I spaced them kinda evenly in the middle, but you can do it however you like them best.
Cut down your toilet roll tube to about 4 cm long, and place this inside you plant pot. I did this, so the pot will keep it’s shape. This is optional, you don’t have to do it.
Now sew in your soil/ground just above the toilet roll tube, or if you didn’t use it, just a bit under the edge of the pot. Make Sure to stuff the pot lightly before you entirly closed it with the soil/ground.

And you are done with your adorable plant pot with ivy! And this was the last one of these tiny series. Next week something different! You will see~.

Have a lovely day everyone

Love
Danielle