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Go further and add a new dimension to the food you prepare. Enjoy as I did while preparing this post.

Parking for Toy Cars from Cigarette Boxes

PinkOnHead — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:29:46 +0000

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to make a paper parking for toy cars from cigarette boxes.

Final result, Parking which I made for Maks (2 years old soon of my friends Basia and Maciek)

What you will need:
1. 14 cigarette boxes (or more if you want to make bigger one)
2. Cardboard the thicker the better.
3. Stapler
4. Glue
5. Spray paint (I used gray metallic)
6. Paper and printer
5. Craft knife or

First you have to cut out shape of parrking of cardboard. Next you have to cut out shape of parking place from every cigarette box.
Than you have to join boxes in my case it was 2×3 boxes and 2 times 4 boxes. For joining I use stapler

Then glue parking places on cardboard and spray it all in the color you want to have your parking.
You can also put parking places numbers, direct arrows… (I’ve printed them on sticker paper).

Handmade Twitter Birds

PinkOnHead — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:52:59 +0000

Ashley Anna Brown, USA
website: Ashley’s site

Basia Hetman-Sajdak (our mom), Poland
website: Basia’s Flickr

Brian Kopp, USA
website: Brian’s Flickr

Amy Gurumi, USA
website: Amy Gurumi’s Blog

Pandora, Australia
website: Philosophi – Pandora’s Etsy

Jackie Kaufman, USA
website: rockmyworldinc – Jackie Kaufman’s Etsy

Amy D
website: Always Amy Blog

Zephyr Woods, USA
website: Zephyr Woods – Etsy

Karenika
website: Karenika’s Flickr

Kats Mendoza – postcool, USA
website: Kats Mendoza’s Flickr

Bakerella, USA
website: Bakerella Blog

The Bleeding Heart Bakery, USA
website: The Bleeding Heart Bakery’s Site

Raven Motoui
website: Ranen’s Flickr

Lisa Jordan, USA
website: Lisa Jordan’s Blog

Andrea – TicklyMoo, New Zealand
website: Andrea’s Blog

Sarah Miles
website: Sarah Miles’s Flickr

Charlie Carter, USA
website: Charlie Carter’s Etsy

Patty – L&B Accessories , Italy
website: Patty’s Blog

Sparkle Thots, Singapore
website: Sparkle Thots Blog

Judith – Artsyclay, USA
website: Judith’s Blog

Shadesof Whimsy
website: Shadesof Whimsy’s Etsy

Evelyn Fields, USA
website: Evelyn’s Blog

Natasha Wescoat, USA
website: Natasha’s Blog

Paper Flowers – Anyone Can Do That

PinkOnHead — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:50:25 +0000

Japanese Kusudama

Anyone can do that, I assure you. The proof: I can, just take a quick look at my result below. And, believe me, I am neither meticulous nor particularly patient. You could even say I’m the opposite.

Below you can see my very first attempt to create paper flowers.

What you will need to make your own Kusudama paper ball?

1. Paper – 60 square pieces of paper, all of the same size. I use advertising catalogues (for your convenience in the first part of this tutorial I use plain blue paper so that the folds are more visible). My squares are 3,5 cm x 3,5 cm but you can make them bigger, smaller squares would be rather hard to fold. For every flower you will need 5 pieces.
2. Ruler
3. Pencil
4. Glue – the glue I use have two nice properties: (1) it does not dry very quickly which allows small corrections when necessary (2) being initially white it turns translucent while drying
5* Scissors (optionally) I prefer torn paper instead of cut. I fold it several times before tearing slowly.
6* Beads (optionally) Use them to add some extra glamour.
7. Toothpick – to apply the glue.

You have to start with a single petal. Don’t give up, it may seem that it will take ages before you make all 60 petals but you will progress faster with every next piece :)

Now you have to glue your 5 petals into a flower.

Apply the glue to only one side of each petal, except for the last one, in this case cover both sides with glue.

Your first flower is done.

Don’t glue every petal right after you make it. Make the whole 60 and then glue them into 12 flowers, it’s really faster this way, believe me.

When all 12 flowers are finished you have to glue them together. You start with gluing the first half – six flowers together. With your first flower you have to apply the glue on two adjacent petals, with five next flowers you apply glue on three adjacent petals. Put the glue not exactly on the middle line of the petal but a little to the right.

When two halves of Kusudama Flower Ball are ready you have to glue them together. You can put a cord between the halves so that your ball can hang down. I make my Kusudama Flower Balls for a table decorations so I don’t put a cord.