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♥ Crystal Sun Catchers DIY

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Hey Lovelies! Whenever I see those stained glass sun catchers I am in love. Do you know what I mean? I hope you do. Forever ago, I saw sun catchers in the shape of crystals, and I always wanted to own them. I still haven’t been able to get them tho. But, why not make a DIY of it, with just simple materials, like cardboard and iridescent foil?! Why haven’t I thought of that sooner. Oh well, better late than never xD. Let’s explain to you how I made them.

Crystal Sun Catchers

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ Black Cardstock. (or a color you prefer)
♥ Iridescent Wrapping Foil or other see-through stuff.
♥ Pencil.
♥ Scissors.
♥ X-Acto Knife.
♥ Cutting Mat.
♥ Ruler.
♥ Glue.

♥ Crystal Sun Catchers DIY

Take your cardstock and double it, you need 2 of the same shape to make 1 sun catcher.

First you need to draw yourself some crystal shapes. This is not too hard, since crystals come in all shapes and sizes. So, make them however you like. If you find it difficult to make something up, google some crystal line art. I used a white pencil to make it easier to see on black paper.

I made my lines about 3mm thick. So I got a nice border.

You might wanna think of making a little extra bump where you wanna hang it from. So you can make a hole in there. Or you can skip this and poke a hole through the foil/border.

Cutting

Now cut the shape out, make sure the two layers of cardstock stay together in the same spot. You might wanna use some tape. I first did all the shapes on the inside. Use a x-acto knife and a ruler for nice clean lines. Last I did the outer lines to release the shape from the cardstock.

Foil

Take out your foil and place your shape on it to be able to cut the shape out roughly. Make sure to leave some border.

You needed two of the same shape to sandwich the foil in between. Now, glue the cardstock to the foil, make sure to line both sides up. Be careful with the glue, it’s not pretty when the glue is all over the foil. If the glue still get’s on the foil, if you used water based glue, you can remove it with a bit of water when it’s still wet. Let it dry thoroughly.

Last you can trim off the excess foil with scissors or an x-acto knife. If you wanna hang your crystal, poke a hole through the foil/border or if you made that little bump, make a hole in there.

And there you have it, your Crystal Sun Catchers with just simple materials. I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial! If you made them, don’t forget to share with me on Twitter or Instagram with the #DelinleaDIY.

Crystal Sun Catchers

Have a wonderful day and I’ll see you next week.

Love
Danielle

♥ Quilled Easter Baby Chick

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Hey Lovelies! Are you ready for Easter? I know these are weird times, but if you don’t make it fun for yourself, no one else would do it for you. And a way to make you feel better if to decorate your place with fun stuff and lovely (homemade) food! So I have a fun project for you to do! Most of us have paper around, just find the right colors and cut it to size. Then you are ready to make those adorable Easter baby chick!

Easter Baby Chicks

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ 3 Strokes of Yellow, 3mm by 21cm each.
♥ 4 Strokes of Purple, 3mm by 21cm each. (Of course you can use another color!)
♥ 2 Strokes of Yellow, 1,5mm by 10,5cm each.
♥ Bit of extra Orange and Yellow Paper.
♥ X-Acto Knife.
♥ Glue.
♥ Acrylic Paint, Black and White.
♥ Brush.

Tutorial

Roll up the 3 yellow strokes (3mm by 21cm), use glue if you need to add a new stroke to make it easier (you don’t have to). Glue the end of the last stroke so it keeps the tight, round shape.

Making shapes

If you have this quilling board to make 3d shapes, please us it, it makes life a lot easier. If you don’t try to shape it without or try to find similar shapes to what I show in the pictures.
The board is easy to use, just push the circle, with your fingers, over the shape, carefully. Do it for both colors, for yellow I used a slightly cone shape one, for purple a half ball shape.

When you have your shapes ready, make sure to put a layer of glue on the inside. This will prevent it to lose its shape. Let this dry before you continue.

Egg Shell

The purple one, on the edge, you wanna cut out little triangles. You don’t want them to exactly the same, if you break an egg, they aren’t either. Be careful that you don’t cut them to deep. This will be the egg shell.

Now, glue the yellow part inside the purple part. So the little chick inside the egg shell.

Wings

Roll up the other yellow strokes, those will be for the wings. Let them expand to around 8mm and secure with a bit of glue. Pinch one side so you will get the shape as shown in the picture.
Glue the wings to body sides of the body of the baby chick.

Finishing Off

Last but not least, create a beak, hairs and eyes. I used paper for the beak and hairs and paint for the eyes. Since it’s so tiny, it’s hard to make everything from paper. Just do what works for you!

Easter Baby Chicks

You could also decorate the eggs if you like to! And maybe add some thread to be able to hang them up. ^-^

I hope you had fun with this tutorial. I love exploring things with paper, you can do so much with it. I did quilling in the past, but never anything 3D. Although I obviously know how to make it. It was fun!

Have a wonderful day!

Love
Danielle

♥ Paper Quilled Egg

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Hey Lovelies! I hope you are doing well with all the virus stuff going on! It’s getting pretty critical here in the Netherlands, but it doesn’t bother me much. Since I can craft all day, every day, I have no time to be bored! xD. For today’s blog I found my quilling stuff back, it’s been ages since I used it, but it’s paper, and anything paper, I love. Not sure why xD just a little obsession I guess. I will explain to you how to make a 3D quilled egg, which works awesome for easter! I hope you will enjoy this tutorial!

Paper Quilled Egg

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ 5 Purple Strokes of 3mm by 7cm.
♥ 25 Pink Strokes of 3mm by 10,5cm.
♥ Green Strokes of 3mm by 10,5cm, as many as you want.
♥ Quilling Tools, but you can use alternatives, in the past I never used quilling tools.
♥ Glue.
♥ Styrofoam Egg, about 4cm in height. (You can use larger, but then you’ll need more of the other supplies as well).
♥ Tweezers. (optional)
♥  (Sewing) Pins.

Tutorial Paper Quilled Egg

If you don’t know what Quilling or paper Quilled things are, I suggest you to look some up! It’s really fun!

Rolling the Papers

Start with rolling up all the paper strokes. The Purple ones you just keep them as is and use some glue at the end of the stroke to keep it from unwinding.

The Greens and Pinks you’ll let them expand to a width of 8mm. I had a quilling board with different size circles, which made it really easy to get the right size every time. As for those as well, glue the end of the stroke so it won’t unwind any further.

Shaping

The pink ones you pinch at one side. The Green at two sides.  See the image below to see the shapes they need to have. Continue this for all the pinks and greens.

Making the Egg

Now you need the Styrofoam egg, you need to decide now if you wanna leave the egg in or that you wanna be able to remove it. If you wanna remove it, like I did, make sure you won’t glue the pieces to the egg.

Start off with drawing a line on the egg, as you can see in the picture, my egg already had a line from the making process. Divide this line in 3 even parts. Take the 5 purple parts and add those with a pin. so 3 on the line, 1 on top and 1 on the bottom.

Around the Purple parts, glue 5 Pink parts, so you will create some kind of flowers. Use pins to keep all parts in place until it’s dry.

Lastly, in between the flowers you just made, add the green parts. They will be the leaves. Those you can glue however you want, but you want to connect all flowers together. If you won’t connect everthing, it will fall apart, and that’s not what you want. (If you decided to keep the egg in the inside, it doesn’t matter if it’s connected or not).
However, in order to be able to remove the egg, don’t use glue around the line from earlier. This way you’ll have a upper and lower half which you will glue together after removing the egg. Make sure to make some marks to which part goes where, or the shape will be lost.

Before you remove the egg though, make sure everything has dried well and is hard enough to hold its shape. So glue’s take 24hours to be completely hardened.

You could add a piece of thread to the top of the egg to be able to hang it as decoration!

I hope you liked this Quilled Paper Egg tutorial! It’s fun to do something else a crocheting all the time xD. It’s funny, that before I figured out how to crochet, I only used paper to create things. Now I barely use paper, while I have a huge stack  *Hides

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Love
Danielle

♥ DIY Envelope Booklet

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Hey Lovelies! Did you also survive the storm Ciara, if you lived in Europe? It really went nuts here, but nothing got damaged and I could walk most of the days without been blown away haha. I kinda like to walk outside when it storms, not completely sure why, just love it. For today I wanted to make a small booklet that looks like an envelope. I first wanted to create something else, but what I imaged, didn’t worked out in reality. So sad, but sometimes it’s like that. I hope you’ll like this tutorial. The booklet would also be very cute to use as a valentines gift with little notes or drawings, how cute would that be?!

Envelope Booklet

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ 1mm Board.
♥ Pretty Cardstock or Paper.
♥ Paper for the sheets inside, I used dark and light pink.
♥ Scissors.
♥ Ruler.
♥ X-acto Knive.
♥ Glue.
♥ Needle that’s strong enough to poke through board.
♥ Piece of Yarn, about 30cm.
♥ Beads. (optional)

DIY

Cut the board to size, according to the picture below. All heights are the same, 4,5cm.

Then also cut the cardstock that you wanna use for the cover. The best way to do this is to start measuring out 0,75cm, then line up all the pieces including the space in between the spine pieces of the book, and add another 0,75cm. Add 0,75 on the top and bottom as well. Try to make it look like the picture below. (The good side of the paper is facing down).

Glue all pieces of board to the cardstock.

Now cut all the corners of the cardstock, like I did in the picture. Make sure to leave a little space close to the board (about 1mm) so the corners will get covered nicely.

Now glue all edges around the board.

For the inside of the cover, choose some paper/cardstock you like and cut it to size. It’s the same size but 1,5mm less from all edges.
Glue this to the inside.

Pages for the Booklet

Cut 7 sheets of paper for the pages of the booklet, 6 by 4cm. Fold them in half on the short side, so you get folded sheets of 3 by 4cm.

Stack all sheets together. As you will notice, when you stack them together, you can an outward facing V-shape on the side where you would open the book. You can leave them as it is. Or trim it down smooth. Just what you prefer.

It’s time to make the binding holes. Measure 1,25cm inwards on the spine at the left side. Both from top and bottom so you’ll end up with 2 holes. Poke those through with a needle, make sure to be careful. Copy those holes to the pages and poke those through as well.

Using the yarn, put it on your needle and go from the outside of the book to the inside, through the stack of pages. Then go through the other hole to the outside again. Tie a knot on the outside, on the spine. Try to have even ends of the yarn.

The ends of the yarn you can decorate if you prefer, for example with beads and use those ends to be able to close the book. You can also use a sticker for example to close it or anything else you can think of.

Envelope Booklet

And you just reached the end of the DIY. I hope you enjoyed making this little booklet! It would be a fun gift for your valentine with a cute little message or drawings.

I hope you had fun, and I’ll see you next week!

Love
Danielle

♥ Cosy Bookmark

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Hey Lovelies! Since these days are getting colder, I love to burry myself into a pile of blankets, put on some candles and just read a good book. Most people probably wanna do so, just relaxing. So that’s why I came up with this cute bookmark, we can never have enough, right?!

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ This Template.
♥ Scrapbooking paper in color/patterns of choise.
♥ Pencil.
♥ Eraser.
♥ Scissors or X-Acto Knive & Cutting Board.
♥ Glue.
♥ Fineliner.
♥ Printer (optional, you can trace the pattern from your screen as well).

DIY

Print out (or trace) the template from here and cut all parts those out.

Trace all these parts to the paper of choise. All parts are suppose to be cut out only once, except for the heart, you can make as many as you desire. I’ve done 5 hearts. When you are done tracing, cut them all out.

When you’ve done all that, you can glue everything together, I always make an arrangement first to see what I like, and then glue it together.

This step is optional, but a cute addition, write a word of choise on the cup. I chose for ‘Relax’, but it can be anyhting or nothing at all.

And it’s finished already, although you could laminate it for extra protection. I didn’t since, if this one is ugly, I can make a new one xD.

Have a wonderful day~.

Love
Danielle