Create beautiful frames for Mother's Day

With leftover foamy / rubber eva you can give a unique and original touch to any frame and create a perfect gift for mothers day. You can choose to completely cover the surface of the frame or just add details to certain parts. Match colors and play with designs. Here are some examples:

Some useful ideas:

*** As a base you can use a wooden or plastic frame. You can also create a cardboard one
*** For gluing use hot silicone
*** For mothers day the most ideal is to use flowers, stars, butterflies or any other design you like. Simply cut the figures in foamy and glue onto the frame
*** You can also use felt instead of foamy

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Decorate bottles with wool or yarn

Decorate bottles with wool or yarn
Use wool or yarn to decorate glass bottles. It is a fun, easy and cheap craft to do, while recycling all the bottles, jars or glass containers you have.

Materials: Bottles or jars of glass, wool or yarn in your favorite color, hot silicone gun, buttons, ribbons for decorations.

Procedure: 1.- Wash the glass bottles, removing the labels if necessary. Let dry thoroughly.
2.- Start by gluing the wool in the bottom of the bottle. Add a few drops of silicone to the beginning of the thread and roll it up carefully.
3. Apply drops of silicone on certain lengths of wool (it is not necessary to cover the whole surface with silicone)
4.- If you are going to use two or more colors of wool, cut the first section of wool and glue it so that it does not come loose. Just where the thread ends, stick to it the start of the next thread and begin to roll up again.
5.- Continue rolling until completely covers the bottle
6.- Decorate to your taste with buttons, ribbons, etc.

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Create beautiful projects with cement

Using cement or concrete you can make beautiful decorative projects for your home or garden. This time we will show you how to make candles and pots using common and easy to get molds.

Materials: Cement, water, a spatula or spoon for mixing, petroleum jelly or oil, a small brush, Molds like used plastic containers either disposable or from your kitchen, cans or containers smaller than the molds (to create holes).

Procedure: 1.- Start by making the paste by mixing cement with the water slowly until creating a thick mixture (use the spatula)
2.- Prepare the molds (You can use the bottom of the plastic bottles) and with the aid of the brush varnish the inside with Vaseline or oil
3.- Empty the cement mixture in the mold
4.- Prepare the small container with which you create the gap by varnishing it with oil or Vaseline but all over the exterior.
5.- Bury the small container in the mold with cement. You should add weight like stones, sand or coins to prevent it from floating or getting out.
6.- Let dry a full day in dry climates or several days in humid climates
7.- Unmold carefully. If you used a bottle as a mold, you can break it to remove the piece more easily.

Variants: You can use plaster instead of cement to do any of these projects

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Create beautiful decorations with spheres of thread

With yarn or wool you can create beautiful spheres or figures to decorate a party or to use as simple gifts.

Some useful tips:

--- Learn step by step technique to make a sphere of thread by clicking  HERE
--- Synthetic threads are not suitable for this project. Be sure to do a little test by varnishing a piece of thread with white glue. Once dry the thread should be stiff or hard. If it is not, then it will not work for the project.
--- To create a basket, cut the sphere of thread already dry in half. Then add a handle like a strip of cardboard or foamy (eva gum)
--- To cut a hole in the sphere , simply let it dry and cut the desired part with a sharp scissors carefully.
--- Decorate to your taste with paper or fabric flowers, slats, ribbons, lace, etc.

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Beautiful bird ornaments in jars

Place ornamental birds inside a glass jar to create a beautiful decoration for your home or to give away. They are very easy to do, as well as economical and creative.

Materials: Plastic or cloth birds (if you do not count on these, you can make them using pompoms), a large glass jar with lid, 1 small tree sprig, thin thread, artificial moss or any other element that simulates grass, a Piece of cloth, ribbon to decorate the bottle (optional)

Procedure:
1. Cut the twig so that it can enter the jar
2.- At the ends of the twig tie two pieces of thread to be able to hang it from the jar
3.-Attach a pair of little birds on the twig
4. Make a couple of holes in the lid of the jar and insert the pieces of the threads to make a swing. Tie the ends very well giving the height you want.
5.- Decorate the base of the jar with the moss or something similar
6.- Insert the birds, and close the jar with the lid so they are hanging
7.- Decorate the top of the jar with a piece of cloth and ribbon

Variants: Instead of making a swing with the sprig, you can put it to the right size so that it is fixed on the sides of the jar.

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