Rubber stamping can get a bit addictive so I warn you now that the very easy tutorial that I am about to share with you may mean your entire is rubber stamped by the end of the week. Sorry about that.
The Homemade Rubber Stamp How To over at Skip to My Lou combines rubber cement and a bit of craft foam to start you off with a simple idea. The photo tutorial is so straight-forwards it almost looks too easy.
Once you know the basics you can start creating all kinds of stamped shapes.
I like the idea of Godzilla-style footprints stomping all over everything myself.
Fingers really should be more interesting. There they are attached to your hands looking pink and rather dull. What's to be done? Perhaps attaching horribly cute animals to them might help.
A handful of crochet 'Wild Thing' Finger Puppets from Meet Me at Mike's and your fingers can safely start a wild rumpus in their new crocheted garb. Hurrah!
The tutorial reckons it takes 15 minutes to whip up a wild thing for your fingers and there's tips on customising your finger fellows too.
Meet Me at Mike's is rather fabulous for a whole raft of craft tutorials so make sure you have a wander through the rest of the site once your fingers are better dressed. In particular there is some lovely embroidery for you to get your needles into.
It happens to us all. You are in dire need of a tune while squashed next to a sweaty besuited fellow bellowing into his mobile on a packed commuter train. You scrabble through bag or pockets for your headphones and when they appear one of the little earbuds is shamelessly naked. Showing off its smooth underbelly when it should be tucked neatly in a foam coat. Gah!
You can spend part of your morning trawling eBay for a replacement pair or try to find a minute to nip to the shops and buy a whole new set of headphones. Or you could make your own through the soothing powers of knitting.
Let the good folks over at Instructables tote you towards a place of brightly coated earbuds made by your own fair hands and a little light music, instead of listening to Gerald blather on to the team in West Bromich about profit margins.
Tiny knitted musical bliss.
For those of you who get bored with crochet patterns that seem to go without an end here's a nifty little one for you. A scarf made up of teeny tiny squares that you can churn out at your whim.
The Little Squares Scarf from Do You Mind If I Knit deals with that common complaint of startitis that many of us stitchers feel.
- If you fancy crocheting a little square or seven then go ahead.
- Then forget about it for a while and move on to something else.
- Once your antsiness has worn off you can return to your pile of squares and chain a few more.
It can take you a week. It can take you a year.
I like the idea of making a square or two in yarn leftover from other projects so your scarf becomes a record of all your other stitching triumphs. You can add to it as you move through your other stitching projects.
Just don't ask me to help you sew the tiny squares together.
I'm meeeeeeeeeeeeeelting! Meeeeeeelting I tell you! London is a sticky and steamy place this summer. It is all most of us can do to make it from one cold drink to the next. Rather than cover yourself in glue and glitter when the going gets hot how about turning your craft to a chilled beverage?
Those fine folks at Craft have been busy in the kitchen again. This time they're tempting you in with a cool cup of iced tastiness: A Simple Syrup for Iced Drinks. Sugar, water and a little time is all it takes.
Combine your syrup with your unsweetened drink of choice to add a little sweetness to your cool-down coffee or iced tea or kick a little sugar into your super-sour homemade lemonade.
Sweet air-conditioning for your innards.
Fancy adding a bit of flower power to your run-of-the-mill clothes? A little bit of colour can go a long way to changing the shelflife of a comfy but dowdy wearable.
I came across the easy four-step Petal Tee tutorial on Ruffles and Stuff recently and thought it was the perfect way to inject a bit of summer into your clothes.
The petals can be cut from the smallest remnants of some of your favourite fabrics or bits of clothing you love but are falling apart.
Then all you do is lay them along the neckline of the garment, zigzag stitch them in place and voila! Fabric flower power.
Bored at work? Pile of paperclips lounging around on your desk looking disorderly? Access to the stationery cupboard? Then it's about time you got in there, procured yourself some Post-it notes and folded yourself a row of origami boxes to get your desk organised in stationery-stealing style.
Of course we're not encouraging you to steal stationery at work! But if you do happen to have a Post-it or seven lying about the place this little origami Post-it Box how to, from those good folks at Instructables, will start you on the slippery slope to boxing every single tiny thing you can find on your desk just to have an excuse to make one.
And if that isn't enough paperfolding fun for you then check out this self-folding paper on Craftzine. So very cool.
Please note: Crafty Crafty are not responsible for stationery theft incidents or you being fired because your desk is covered in tiny boxes and you haven't worked for a whole week.
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