Easy Earring Tutorial, Learning the Wrapped Loop

This is an easy step by step tutorial that will teach you how to make this very easy pair of earrings. I just love this pair of earrings, I have made them in about 4 colors. In this tutorial you will learn how to make the wrapped loop. If you want to learn how to make wire wrapped jewelry then the wrapped loop is one of the first wire wrapping techniques you need to learn. 

Ok so we are starting with a very simple pair of earrings with a wrapped loop tutorial.

For this tutorial I used natural shell beads but a lot of other beads will work

The most important thing you will learn in this tutorial is how to make the wrapped loop. It is an important foundation in wire wrapping. In the future I will be teaching you other, more complicated techniques so you can build on what you learn. Then you will be able to make more complicated items. But for today we are starting very simple. 

how to make a simple pair of earrings with natural shell beads

What I used:
2 Beads
2 Sterling Silver Earring  hooks
2 Sterling Silver Headpins
Set of Basic Jewelry Pliers
then string String your bead onto a 

                                                                                   Step one: Place your bead on the headpin, simply slide it on.

Step Two:Create the wrapped loop. It was hard for me to get good photos of how to do this so I am sharing this link art beads( they have some very good tutorials.)

Step three Attach the Ear wire. Gently twist the  ear wire open and slip the wrapped  loop on.(I opened the ear wire more  than you should for photo purposes)  The less you open the ear wire the  stronger it will remaine. That is it! when you are done you should have these amazing  summer earrings. I just love them. Thanks for looking! Let me know what you think this quick and easy earring tutorial. Linked up at some of these link parties Monday Time to Sparkle Link Party @ love grows wild  Craftastic Monday Link Party @ http://www.sewcando.com/  craft-o-maniac Monday rain on a tin roof -Give Me The Goods Link Party  Mop it up Monday  Tuesdayjaqs studio -Made By ME  Wednesday Sew Much crafting- Pinterest Power Party the diy dreamer- From Dream To Reality family home and life- Wow Us Wednesday the life of jennifer dawn-A Little Bird Told Me Link Party White lights on Wednesday- Wednesday-whatsits southern lovely-Show &Share clean and scentsible-The Creative Spark Mommy Club Wednesday – Link Up What I Learned Wednesday- We Like to Learn as We Go Thursday crafty scrappy happy (thursday Nights 5ish) Just us Four- Let’s Connect Thursday (5ish) Blog Stalking Thursday Pin It Thursday live laugh rowe Thursday moms crafty space wait til your father gets home- {The Creative Connection(5pm) Pinterest Power Party- The Happy House Friday The pin junkie- Friday link party(thurs night) Happy Hour Friday craftionary what have you Redouxs a peek into my paradise T.G.I.F. Link Party what-about.-Show Off Friday Saturday Get Schooled Saturday Sunday DIY Show Off weekly recap(sunday 9:00 a.m.) diy show off think pink sunday nifty thrifty sunday Silver Pennies Sundays Link Party

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DIY Splatter Painted TUTORIALS ROUNDUP

I am in love with the splatter painted trend. Well I think it is a trend. I mean if you look at the J. Mendel Pre-Fall 2013 fashion show, you will see a lot of amazing splatter painted pieces. Well J. Mendel calls it exploded Floral but it sure looks like splatter paint to me. I really loved the two below, what do you think, splatter paint or exploded floral? Anyone who splatter paints an evening gown is a genius in my book

2 garments from the j. mendel Exploded-floral-print collection

. I tell you my head is filling up with refashion plans for all my old bridesmaid dresses.(Always a bridesmaid never a bride,but that is a story for another time.)

I still don't know splatter paint is a trend that will really take off. Just because somthing is on the runway does not always mean it will be a huge trend. Just look at this Astrid Anderson Spring 2014 look. Hummmm 

Regardless if splatter painting is going to make a huge comeback or not. The refashion I did published a few days ago was inspired by it.  

So I rounded up 8 other wonderful tutorials here for you to enjoy. They use different painting techniques that I know you are going to love. One of the tutorials shows how to splatter paint by blowing paint through a straw,while another teaches you how to  paint by filling balloons with paint then throwing darts at them.... I can't think of a more exciting paint technique. I will be trying that one for sure

8 plus 1 splatter paint tutorials

* tutorials from amazing blogs and 1 form mine. You can get the full tutorial by clicking on the links below

1 DIY: Anthropologie Style Part 2

2 DIY EVENT | Ombre & Splatter Paint Shorts with GAP

3 DIY Splatter Paint Popsicle Stick Runner

4 SKETCH42 SPLATTER PAINT SUPERGAS

5 The one with Splattered paint

6 How to Get Big Paint Splatters by Missy Whidden

7 DIY Splatter Paint Pearl Necklace

8 DIY Splatter Painted Denim Shorts for Big Girls or Little Girls

9 Painting with Balloons

DIY Splatter Painted Denim Shorts for Big Girls or Little Girls

I fell in love with a pair of white and hot pink dip dyed shorts a few days ago. The dip dyed  hem looked more like 80 style splatter paint, then fabric dye. I knew that I could DIY a pair of  cute splatter painted hem shorts in no time. I hope you enjoy my tutorial for a pair of white denim shorts with neon splatter paint hem. 

DIY girls splatter painted shorts

This is a step by step tutorial that will teach you how to refashion jean shorts into white and pink splatter painted shorts. I used girls size shorts but this tutorial will work for any size shorts. I used pink for my splatter painted hem but I think any color will look perfect. 

Before and After

 I think you could get away with out using the textile medium, but I love it. It is very affordable on Amazon.com. It makes your acrylic paint into fabric paint.(so that one purchase makes your whole paint stash turns into fabric paint!) All you have to do is mix some of the textile medium into your paint and your good to go. Using the textile medium will make the paint softer and more durable when you wash it. 

When you are finished your shorts should look somthing like this! If you do make a pair please let me  show them off! Send me a picture I will publish it for you. 

A while back someone donated a big bag of very used girls clothes to me. I always love a donation! For this project I pulled some jean shorts from that bag. They had good fabric and bad stains. I knew they would be the perfect pair to fix up and donate to someone's little girl.

(Please email me if you need a project donated to your little one)

Lets get started with this tutorial!

Steps 1-4(above)

1. Get Denim shorts

2. Add bleach and water to a sink 

3. Soak and watch until they reach the color you want

4. Wash and Dry 

 *Tip After you remove your shorts out of the bleach and water mix they will continue to become lighter and lighter until they are rinsed clean of all the bleach. Just like cupcakes keep on cooking until cool
Step 5
After your shorts are dry put cardboard between the legs, This will prevent any paint from seeping through. Also use tape and plastic to protect any part of the shorts that you do not want getting splatter painted.

Step 6

Mix your paint. 

• Jar 1, mix the textile medium with the pink. (fallow the directions on the bottle)
• Jar 2, mix the textile medium with the White
• Jar 3, mix some of the pink and white(after the medium is added) together to make a lighter pink color.

*Tip I made a little diagram about mixing the paint for those of you who are more visual learners.

Step 7
Paint your shorts

• 1st paint the dark pink along the hem on the front and back of the shorts. Leave it imperfect.
• 2nd Splatter paint with the light pink over the first(dark) layer of paint.
• 3ed Splatter with the white paint over the first 2 layers of paint. 

*Tip To get the splatter look use your paint brush to flick and drizzle paint.

After the splatters dry you remove the plastic. You can then add some other details if you want. I painted the coin pocket and the button detail in solid pink. Let it dry according to the textile medium directions. Then wash and dry.

Add some paint details

I love how this refashion worked out!  I hope you got some inspiration out of this post. If you did head over to https://www.facebook.com/LifeontheDivide and let me know what youthink

Thank you 

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How to refashion a Baby Gown into Toddler Pants

   This is a fast and easy tutorial on how to make these cute baby pants. 

When my baby was a new born I loved the baby gowns because they are so easy for changing the baby.

Now my baby is 19 months old and has long out grown the baby gowns. 
So I have come up with this ver easy step by step tutorial on how to Refashion a baby gown into a a pair of baby pants. 
This is a VERY easy sewing project and I think an excellent tutorial for those of you who are just starting to sew, or if this is your first refashion.
If you like this baby gown refashion you might enjoy this one as well Make new baby PJ's out of old ones

This is a tutorial on how to make easy baby pants by refashioning a baby gown. This is how they will look when you are finished.

I used a size 0-3 month baby gown and ended with pants that were about 18-24 month.

This is a very fast project it should only take you 10-30 minutes. OK enough talk lets get to the baby pants refashion project! 

               What I used for this project

For this project you need 

1) A baby gown with elastic around the bottom.

2) Pants that fit

3) Sewing supplies. I did this by hand(faster than threading the bobbin) With a machine this will only take about 60 seconds!

Step 1

Cut a straight line across the bottom of the arms(we will not be using the arms for this project).Then remove the arms and save them for another project. *Tip Cut as close to the arms as you can saving the most fabric for your new baby pants.

Chop,Chop,Chop

Step 2

Place the pants on top of the fabric, matching the waistband of the pants with the elastic from the gown. This elastic will be the new waist band. Then Make a mark with your chalk at the crotch of the pants. I used pants that had a low crotch so my pants would come out very loose and good for around the house. 

Easy as can be!

Step 3

Cut up to the chalk mark in the fabric with your sewing scissors. 

Cut,up till you get to your chalk mark

Step 4

Turn inside out so the right sides are facing in. Then stitch up the leg, with your machine or use a good old thread and needle. Turn back right side out and press with your iron on low. *Tip try them on you baby to get the correct length. If you want you can then cuff the legs up and put in some small stitches to hold up the cuffs. You will be able to undo the stitches as your baby grows you these pants should last a long time.

In my rush to take photos before it was too dark I did not stitch my cuffs. You will she this in the photos.

And I have to tell you these Pants look so freaking cute on, I way over did it with the pictures of my little man in them.

Look at my little man! He Loves his new pants! He got mad when I kept trying to fold them hem for the photos, so I guess you need to sew them up if you prefer a little cuff.

Giveaway Set Of Monthly Onesie Stickers

 

This weeks giveaway, handmade monthly onesie stickers from SkyPie's Bows

Sorry you can't win the baby! What you do win is your pick of a set of stickers from her shop. The stickers come in all types of colors and styles to fit your little ones personalty. Then each month you peal a sticker off the sheet and stick it on a onsie, then its photo session time!

This is a set that of stickers and how it looks on

If you are not at the point in your life that you need onsie stickers Ali(the amazing owner) is willing to let you pick out a set of stickers that will suite your life style at this time,( either bottle or sippy cup name labels or weekly Pregnancy stickers.) She has a lot of cute stuff in her shop that would be perfect for you or as a gift. 

 This is an idea of what the other types of stickers look like.

80 Stickers will cover a lot of sippy cups

The Rules

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. DIY Kate Spade Terry Flats tutorial part 1

I love to refashion, anything... but my favorite thing to refashion is shoes. If you know me, and you do, then you should know that my first word was shoes! So maybe that is why When I saw the Kate Spade Summer Soiree. challenge I knew that I would have to refashion a pair of shoes. I found the Kate Spade "Terry Flat" for my inspiration.

This refashion is NOT hard but it will take a while so I made this a two part tutorial. This is part one.

Step 1

If your shoe has a texture that you do not want to keep, like mine did, you can fix it with a  little hot glue. Just fill in the parts that you want to be smooth. A side note you can also use hot glue to add textures.

Step 2

Cut out a piece of fabric that will cover the shoe. Then cut a slit down the middle and cut little slits all around. Hopefully the photo below will help my description make some since.

Step 3
Add fabric Mod Podge to the shoe. Anyplace that you want to have the new fabric needs to have a layer of Mod Podge. (I was going to cover the whole shoe but at the last minute I decided it would be fun to leave the heal as is)

Step 4
Smooth your fabric over the Mod Podge on the shoe. Just use your fingers to place the fabric on the shoe, smoothing out any wrinkles that my occur.  Then Cut the extra fabric away, very close to the edge of the shoe.

Step 5
Use a knife or other utensil to push the fabric into all the nooks and crannies. You want to push the fabric under any seams that you can. Also Push the fabric along the bottom with the knife. After you have pushed the fabric into all the seams, let the glue dry.

Step 6
Now it is time to add a a layer of the fabric Mod Podge to the top of the fabric. Just paint the glue on and let it dry. You can speed this up by putting your shoe in the sun on in the oven on 100 degrees (but not higher) 

OK we still need to make the toe pink! And the heal blue AND add some gloss...next time :)

I will see you for Part two in a few days.

Preview of My Kate Spade Knock Off

On May 14th, the day before my birthday( I am not sure how old I am with out doing a little math; but its over 30 for sure) one of my new most favoritest blogs Rain On a Tin Roof is having a Kate Spade Summer Soiree. Sounds so amazing right? This is a preview of what I will be contributing to the Summer Soiree. A little shoe refash I whipped up this week.

So what is a Kate Spade Summer Soiree, you ask? Well its more like a blog link up party with a Kate Spade theme.  
Shown below is my inspiration for the project that I will be linking up on May 14th, if I am not to busy calculating my age. I plan on giving you a full tutorial as always in on that day, but I thought you might love a quick look.
I bet right now you are thinking, OMG! I have to enter this Kate Spade inspired link up party. Then just head on over to Rain on a Tin Roof, one of the five blogs that is hosting this multi blog link up party.(yes you saw that right 5!)There you can find out all of the who, what, where, when and why of this link up party. I hope to see you there!

Thanks for looking at this preview of my Kate Spade inspired shoe refashion, The whole step by step shoe refashion tutorial will be up on my blog May 14th. The day before I turn older than 30. I hope you will come back to see that tutorial and maybe even give it a try.

Let me know what you think. I LOVE your comments! They make me feel like an important person :)

How to Make an Easy Button Ring

I really wanted to make a ring last night, but I don't own a mandrel. So I went on line to order one one, and it was going to take two days for shipping! TWO! When I have a craft-spiration I can not wait two days... I mean really? Art waits for no one. So with a ring in one hand I started on a mission around my home, slipping the ring on random mandrel shaped items. Like the prince with Cinderella's glass slipper, I eventually found the candle stick to slip the ring on. Then it was no longer just a candle stick but a beautiful  mandrel.It was a perfect fit. Now I know just how Cinderella felt.

This is what I used to make this easy wire wrapped button ring. I used is 22 gauge, you can use any size you are comfortable working with.

Step 1
Slide your ring on to the tapered candle and make a mark. Later this mark will work as a guide for sizing your new ring. When sliding the ring on to the candle it is best to choose a ring that is one size larger than you want to make you new ring. In this wire wrapping process you will loose about 1/2 to 1 whole ring size. However if you don't have a ring that is one size larger, I will show you a trick so your ring will still work out. 

Step 2
With your wire cutters, cut a length of wire. I used about 30 inches of 22 gauge wire. I am making a size 5 ring. This length of the wire you cut will depend on how large of a ring you make and the gauge of wire you are working with.

Step 3 
Place the center of your cut wire against the back of the candle then wrap the wire twice around the candle(more times if you want a thicker ring) Leaving two even lengths of wire on both sides of the candle. 

Note: If you made your mark on the candle with a ring that fits the way you want the new ring to fit then you will do this step slightly above the mark. If you used a ring the next size up then you will work right on the mark.

Step 4

Bring the two ends of the wire together on top of the ring. Pinch them together. 

 Note: Note photographed (This is also a good time to use your pliers to tighten the wires on the candle so they are close and tight to each other._

Step 5
Slide the two wire tails through the shank of the button. Then slide the button all the way down to the base of the candle. Hold the button firmly down.

Step 6
Wrap the two tails around the back of the candle one more time. 
 I would again use your pliers to gather the all the wires and keep them as tight as I can.(not photographed)

Step 7

Pull one end of the wire out of your way so you can work with latter. Next start working the available end of wire( it should be on "top") wrap this wire around the buttons shank to cover it. Keep wrapping until you have the whole shank covered. 

Note: You can work this on or of the candle. 

Step 8 

Use the end of wire that was pulled to the side. Also know as the only wire that is left to work with..Start wire wrapping it around the ring. Wrap the wire all the way around until you get back to the top of the ring. Then wrap over the little end that remains of the other piece of wire that you used to cover the shank. When you are done if any ends of your wire are in a position that it will snag on things then you can file it down.

down a little.

That is it! You are all done and your ring should look amazing! This is how mine looks and I love it!

See how cute it is on my hand? Now you know why I love it and I am making 10 more.

RING RING RING

Sorry for all the ring pictures, I hope you liked this tutorial. please ask me any questions you have, I will get back to you.  I love comments so even if you just want to say hi, that is ok too.

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