Making your own whipped cream

I stumbled upon a few recipes to make your own whipped cream!
Perfect to make whipped cream that doesn't smell and dries rather soft.
First one is made with air dry clay or paper clay and white craft glue

Have a look

Next one is made with paper clay, cold porcelain, ... and lotion

 

Deco! Headphones with small tutorial

A while ago I bought a microhpone and a pair of headphones, which meant, new items to deco! The microphones has to wait but the headphone is almost ready. One side done, the other one almost.

I had to do something with music so a simple design of a music note on one side and two little ones on the other side. The big one is finished.

All the supplies used are from Sophie & Toffee (use the VALERIE10 code to get 10% off ;) )

Before we start with the tutorial, a warning. If you want to deco an object which can break like headphones, mouses, mp3's,... make sure you can REMOVE THE DECO!! If it breaks and you want it fixed, your warranty doesn't count anymore! There are different ways to make the deco removable like decoing a case for your mobile phone or use the following plastic.

Firstly, take a piece of clear sticky book wrapping plastic thing (the kind you use to wrap books to protect them but you're still able to see their cover, don't know the English word for this ^^')

Measure your space and trace out on the sticky paper.

Draw your design with a marker.

Get your glue, rhinestones and toothpicks and start applying the rhinestones.

When it's dry, apply a clear coat. (not necessary but I like to do this )

Take the back layer from the paper and apply it onto the surface.

Done!

I really like the result ^^ What do you think?

Recycled newspaper into clay?

Yes please ^^ It may sound as I'm talking about Papier-Maché but Kerous from the blog Tangerine Taiyaki didn't use any glue, instead she used a blender and flour.
If you want to read her whole tutorial,
take a look on her blog here: Recycled Newspaper into clay!

Making jewelery with cabochons: easy and quick!

I haven't done a tutorial in a while and getting those cabochons from Sophie & Toffee, made me wanted to craft. Making these jewelery is very easy and quick, you can pop a thing up in 5 min. and than wait for the glue to dry =D

So last week I took an evening off and made a few things. 

Now for the tutorial,

You'll need:

Findings: ringpads with small or large pads depending on how big the cabochon is, ear-studs, pendant bails, ... I forgot to include hair clips but you can use those too :) You can get these at your local craft store if you want to try it, but from my own experience, you can better buy these online 'cause they are cheaper there, for example on etsy, dawanda, Sophie & Toffee.

 Glue: best is Epoxy glue or 2 component glue. Hot glue (like with a glue gun) isn't going to hold your cabochons on your findings (been there, done that). When using epoxy, you'll have to mix up the 2 components so you'll also need some toothpicks and a scrap of paper, use an old magazine or some cardboard from an cereal box (don't use a white piece of paper, reuse is better!)

And off course your cabochons, you can find these things on etsy, dawanda, in beading shops, Sophie & Toffee, just look around you, if it has a flat back you can use it! In this picture you also see some fabric roses, little diamonds which they use in scrap booking, you can also use buttons, broken earrings, and so on. 

Now onto the 'how to',

prepare your glue, mixing the components and take a toothpick to add your glue to the ringpad or the cabochon. I like adding the glue to the ringpad so you won't use to much glue but it will hold. Hold it in place and than let dry. Finished! Yep, it's that easy!

Here are some backs of rings I did.  

 And the result, the black/orange thing are 2 buttons stacked on each other.

 You can also turn these things into ear-studs. Remember the fruit cabochons I got? I turned them into earrings ^^ 

 The strawberry things you see were shanked buttons, I simply removed the shank with a plier or wire cutter (be sure to cover your eyes if you're doing this 'cause the shank will fly everywhere)

 I love these apples ^^

That's it for today. In the next few days I won't be posting much as I'm very busy for school. I'll post an update from time to time how I'm doing and such.

Have a nice week and thanks for reading! 

This post is crossposted to riechanster.blogspot.com

Tutorial links!

Here's the list with links to our tutorial list on the All About Deco website

Cabochons
Tutorials which show you how to make different cabochons to use in your deco-projects.

Miniatures
Tutorials for little miniature pieces like icecream, macaroons, waffles which you can use for charm bracelets, mobile straps, and lot's more.

Molds
How to make your own molds, so you can recreate your favourite cabochons over and over again.

Others
Random things that didn't fit in the categories above like a polymer clay encyclopaedia, tips & tricks, how to make a whipped cream heart earring hanger
or perhaps some more info about the different types of deco.

Techniques
Tutorials which show you lot's of different techniques for example whipped cream techniques, creating fake sugar or making your own flat pearls.

Youtube
Tutorials found via youtube.

You have a tutorial you'd like to share?
Email me at riechanster[at]gmail[dot]com !