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The best crochet creation
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8•1/2•24 || making journals and memories
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I made some little fairies out of pressed flowers 🌷
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After months of work (and mostly procrastination) i finally finished Ed's *kraken era* earring. It was a challenge as I had to base myself on a bunch of moving pixels but I think it turned out nicely. It's made in gold plated bronze, with mother-of-pearl.
It's available on my Etsy shop, you can get yours! (It's made to order btw)
1•30•24 || This is the coolest journal I’ve ever made and I want to sell it but I put so much work and energy into it that I don’t want to let it go for cheap. Another part of me wants to use it myself but I have so many journals already. Double sided tape is my saving grace. I only have about 50 pages left in the back to do and then I can attach the closing ribbon. I’m surprised the binding has held on. The book is pretty old but the spine is strong af.
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*TINY SCREAM OF FRUSTRATION ABOUT BEING MADE OF YARN*
Lil Izzy Hands will come to terms with it eventually (unless he insists on being an absolute twat) 🖤☠️
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This is the only tiktok you'll ever need, I've made about 13 of these and I'm not stopping anytime soon
These are how mine are looking so far😌😌
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Okay, this one is not good enough. But I spent so much time with this one, that I just show it to you. There is nice mechanisms and nice pages, but it not work as smoothly as I want. There is a reason for that, I do more and more pop up -book elements and lesser basic paper mechanisms. Because of that the binding of this book is not good. I know how to do it on future, but it was too late with this one - I need to build the pages in another way.
So, next one will be better. Maybe someone like to see this one too - so here we go.
And happy season two for everyone!
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Pero buatefack
{8•18•22}
Crafting and making terrariums with moss I found outside. The journal didn’t go well since I overstuffed the book and the spine split, but it’s still usable and a worn look is pretty ✨aesthetic✨ for what I’m using it for.
8•17•22 || making an all black journal and took a selfie as the sun was setting
Going to use definitions from my gutted dictionary (from 1989) for scrapbooking and journaling
The pages are in for my junk journal but not sure what I’d like to do yet
A sketch book I got that I’m excited to paint and make all the pages look pretty once I get some sleep
My thick journal that I finally fixed so I can start using it too. I have too many istg.
Painting a gutted dictionary and will be adding my own pages to make a journal that will hopefully last a long time. I have a thick leather journal I’ve had for 7 years and I think it’ll be next year when it’s completed. It’ll be awesome to do a flip through for that. I’m thinking I’ll sell the pages from this on Etsy for scrapbookers.
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Easy pressed flower method!
You will need:
- Flowers (duh!)
- Two sheets of kitchen paper
- Two sheets of newspaper
- At least one book
- Potentially, also some additional heavy objects (could be anything: tins of beans, water bottles… get creative!)
Method: (pictures below)
- Choose your flowers! Ideally you want thin and vibrantly coloured flowers. Avoid juicy things like bluebells because they tend to go mouldy before they dry out, and you don’t want that! Make sure that you have permission to pick the flowers, and don’t take too many from one plant/area - be considerate to the environment!
- Don’t wash your plants, but make sure they’re clean and free of bugs and dirt etc. If they were damp or dewy when you picked them, just dab some kitchen paper over them to make sure you’re not putting them into the book wet.
- Open your chosen pressing book somewhere in the middle, and on the bottom page, place a piece of kitchen paper. This is just to make sure that the pages of the book are protected in case any of the moisture from the flowers seeps that far through the newspaper. It didn’t for me, but protec those books!
- Open out the newspaper and place the sheets on top of the kitchen roll. It helps to close the book once at this point so that you have a nice crisp seam in the newspaper before you put the flowers on, so that they don’t jump out when you close the book.
- Lay your flowers onto the sheet. It helps to place them with the flowers facing towards the spine and the stems towards the edge so that when you close it, they stay flat-ish. Some might get squished, but that’s just part of pressing flowers.
- Once all your flowers are safely on the newspaper, gently close the top sheet of newspaper over the top of the flowers, and place another piece of kitchen paper on top of the newspaper, before closing the book completely. Make sure nothing gets too squished or dog-eared in a way you don’t want. It’s tricky, so don’t be too fussy about it.
- Place the book somewhere out of the way, and either put a load of other books on top of it, or stack (carefully!) your other heavy objects on top of it to create the pressure needed.
- Leave the book without opening it for about a week.
- Check to make sure nothing’s gone mouldy or whatever after one week. If all is fine, close it up again and leave for another 7 days or so to make sure everything is completely dry.
- After 2 weeks in total, you should have dried, pressed flowers. You can attach them to journals with a liquid PVA glue or use them in resin or whatever you want to do with them now! Have fun!
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Stack up the books to add weight
Here’s some I did earlier…
Feel free to add any tips or tricks if you have more experience with pressing flowers than I do! I used to do it a lot as a child, and recently had a go at doing it as an adult, but without the little flowerpress I built back then (they’re super cheap and easy to make, if you want to get into pressing flowers in a bigger way than just the odd occasion!).
I made candles and pie...I’ve never been so productive lol
Made a letter in a bottle and now I’m frustrated and my back hurts