Tabla de contenidos para Spring - Summer 2017 en Make It Yourself

FUN IN THE SUN Take our advice for the warm weather: Spend more time outdoors, relax with the kids, and renew your creativity. This issue of Make It Yourself™ includes more than 50 projects that are perfect for adding seasonal decor to your home, and for kicking back, getting your hands messy, and having fun learning new crafts. Grab a group of friends for adult craft camp (page 55). You’ll love our sophisticated versions of camp projects and even a hot dog bar. It’s the perfect way to relax and recharge. Keep kids busy with fun crafts using bright baking cups (page 26), or share a popular ‘80s craft—Shrinky Dinks—with them (page 20). They’ll love watching their own designs shrink in the oven. Bring the farmers market home with fresh…

1. POMPOMANIA Have a ball making imaginative pom-poms. Use the basics to make fun onecolor creations. Then take it to the next level with patterns and multiple colors to make irresistible sushi, pear, emoji, and other clever pom-pom projects. $16.96; Quadrille Publishing Ltd.; quadrille.com 2. CARE PACKAGES There’s no time like the present to brighten someone’s day with a thoughtful yet inexpensive care package. Find recipes for mailfriendly treats, crafty ideas for personalized gifts, and inspiring ideas for wrapping it all up. $24.99; Hardie Grant Books; hardiegrant.com 3. CREATIVE LEATHER JEWELRY Explore color, fashion, and the beauty of leather to create stylish jewelry you’ll love to wear. Cut, stamp, dye, paint, and sew leather to make over 20 projects including feathered, tasseled, and brightly colored earrings, bracelets, and necklaces. $19.95;…

YOU WILL NEED • Template plastic • Felt: six assorted colors • 5" square of solid white fabric (pincushion top) • 2—5" squares of batting • 5" square of assorted print (pincushion back) • Basting spray (optional) • Fabric glue (such as Aleene’s Fabric Fusion) • Sewing thread: white • Polyester fiberfill • Sewing needle 1 Trace pattern on Pattern Sheet 2 onto template plastic; cut out. Cut four hexagons from each color of felt (Photo A). 2 Place solid white 5" square atop a batting 5" square. Repeat with assorted print 5" square. If needed, use basting spray to hold layers together. 3 Arrange desired hexagons in five rows on top of solid white 5" square, leaving approximately 1/8" space around each hexagon (Photo B). Use a small amount…

SHOP AROUND! Look for value packs of baking cups in stores or online. You’ll get a variety of colors and patterns for mix-and-match options. AGES 8+ Crowning Achievement Usher in spring with a crown of realistic blooms that are easy to create using baking cups. Using two cups for each flower, you just fold, trim, and tape. Create as many flowers as desired, then glue them to a ring. YOU WILL NEED (Photo A) • Mini and regular-size baking cups:assorted pink, yellow, peach, green • Washi tape: green • Twine-covered wire • Hot-glue gun and glue sticks 1 Stack two same-size baking cups. Fold the cups in half, then fold the half in thirds. Cut the edges of the folded paper cup into short waves or rounded scallops. Cut along…

Go Green Watering schedules got you down? Make crepe paper versions of your favorite houseplants instead. Combine different shades of green paper for the philodendron’s heart-shape leaves, and draw highlights on the upright snake plant’s stems to make carefree versions that look like the real thing. Rock On Cleverly painted rocks transform into miniature cacti in these creative displays. The best part? There are no rules when it comes to painting them. Just dab any shade of green acrylic paint onto a river rock, embellish with optional dark or light green stripes, and then add white lines, dots, or stars for spines. Designed by Tara Carroll STUFF WE Lightweight, 130% stretch crepe paper from Lia Griffith comes in soft, natural colors, perfect for creating realistic crepe paper plants. The crepe…

Create your own page-turner using book board, your favorite papers, and Coptic stitching along the spine. Bound for Greatness Whether you use it as a journal, a sketchbook, or a notebook, a handmade book is surprisingly simple to make. Coptic stitching, an ancient bookmaking art, uses waxed thread for stitching the pages together along the spine, without the need for glue. The result is a book that lays flat when open. MATERIALS • Two pieces of 9×13" sheet of standard (.059" thick) book board • Metal ruler • Cutting mat • Sharp utility knife • 3—12" square papers in two patterns (you will need two matching pieces for the outer covers and one piece for the inner covers) • Decoupage medium (such as Mod Podge) • Foam paintbrush • Binder…

YOU WILL NEED • Contact paper: white • Cutting mat • Masking tape • Sharp crafts knife • 12×14" screen-printing frame • Canvas tote bag, T-shirt,or bandanna • Water-base screen-printing ink for fabric: brown • 9" screen-printing squeegee for fabric • Small scrub brush • Dish soap 1 Download the pattern from MakeItYourselfMagazine.com/ HappyCamper; print onto white paper. Cut a piece of contact paper the same size as the screen fabric; place facedown on cutting mat. Center and tape pattern onto contact paper. 2 Use a crafts knife to cut out brown areas of the pattern through both layers; remove pattern, tree ring shapes, and letters from contact paper to reveal the stencil. 3 Transfer stencil to flat side of screen. Peel off contact paper backing from stencil; press pieces…

YOU WILL NEED • 1"-wide painters tape • Blank canvas tote bag (ours measures 12×131⁄2" without handles) • Copyright-free swimsuit clip art from the Internet • Lumi Inkodye UV fabric printing kit: Inkofilm ink-jet-printable film, Inkodye Snap Pack sunreactive printing dye in blue, Inkowash detergent • Ruler • Gold paint pen 1 Using painters tape, mask off four 31⁄2×33⁄4" rectangles in the center of one side of the canvas tote bag (Photo A). 2 Download copyright-free swimsuit clip art to your computer. Resize the images to about 2×3" and convert the images to black-andwhite or grayscale. Following manufacturer’s instructions, print the images onto ink-jet-printable film. Cut out the shapes. 3 Following manufacturer’s directions and working indoors, spread a thin layer of sunreactive printing dye inside each taped off rectangle on…

Your Name Here: Place Card (page 88) YOU WILL NEED • Chalkboard tag • Crafts glue • Cardstock: white • Chalk marker: white, silver, blue • Vintage doorknob • 18" length of 18-gauge wire 1 Glue the chalkboard tag onto white cardstock; cut around the tag, leaving a 1?8" white border. 2 Using chalk markers, write a name and dot a border around the edges of the tag. 3 Clean surface of doorknob. If desired, use chalk markers to draw designs such as scallops or stars on the underside of the knob. 4 With doorknob facedown, insert wire into hole in doorknob post. Bend wire around the post, and wrap it around the post three or four times. Bend wire up 2" and fashion the rest of the wire into…

Treat Yourself (or a Friend) Create DIY scrubs, fizzes, and salts for a spa kit that makes a perfect gift for a birthday or Mother’s Day! Grab free printables and instructions: MakeItYourselfMagazine.com/SpaDay FIT TO A TEE Think T-shirts are just weekend wear? Transform old tees (or new ones in your fave colors) into trendy items to wear and use. Go to MakeItYourselfMagazine.com/TShirtCrafts for patterns. IT’S A FIESTA! Invite friends over for a Cinco de Mayo party with a taco-shape invite and bright tissue paper accents! Visit MakeItYourselfMagazine.com/Fiesta for free printables and instructions. WATCH AND LEARN Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see fast crafts, party-worthy projects, and easy spring decor like the basket wreath, above. Find us here: Bit.ly/MIYvideos STAY IN TOUCH ! MakeItYourselfMagazine.com facebook.com/MakeItYourselfMag pinterest.com/miymag instagram.com/miymag Bit.ly/MIYvideos…

1. MARTHA STEWART CRAFTS CHALKBOARD PAINT Just two or three coats (with drying time in between) creates a chalkboard surface on your project. Condition the painted area by rubbing the side of a piece of chalk over it and erasing it before using it as a chalkboard. 2. FOLKART ENAMEL PAINT Brush this paint directly on ceramic, glass, metal, or tile for an opaque, scratch-resistant color. Bonus: Once dried, it’s safe in the top rack of the dishwasher. 3. AMERICANA ACRYLIC PAINT Water-base and nontoxic, this paint covers most surfaces quickly and cleans up easily with soap and water. Acrylic paints can also come in a variety of specialty finishes, including glitter and metallic. 4. CHALK PAINT DECORATIVE PAINT BY ANNIE SLOAN This decorative paint covers most surfaces in one…

DID YOU KNOW? Two Wisconsin stay-at-home moms invented Shrinky Dinks in 1973 as a Cub Scout project with their sons. The kits were in highest demand in the 1980s. Potted Personality Give your plants the voice you’ve always imagined they might have with quirky shrinkable plastic signs declaring “I Will Survive,” “Hang in There,” or “Free Hugs,” or poke shrunken gnomes, mushrooms, and insects into the soil. White shrinkable plastic makes the designs stand out. Print either colored designs or black-andwhite outlines that you can color, bake to shrink the designs, then mount the pieces on short bamboo skewer or wire pieces. How to use shrinkable plastic YOU WILL NEED • Oven and baking sheet • Parchment paper • Downloaded artwork printed on shrinkable plastic (go to MakeItYourselfMagazine.com/SpringSummer2017) • Color…

1 Pattern Play Go graphic using a pattern that mimics the look of a woven kilim rug. Trace the shape onto the rug to create a repeating pattern. Then paint the shapes, and add a contrasting narrow painted border around each one. 2 On the Plus Side Think positive with graphic plus signs stamped across the surface of a natural woven rug. Create your own stamps by cutting ordinary kitchen sponges into simple shapes, then simply stamp rows of alternating colors onto the rug. 3 Fringe Benefits Bound by a boring rug? Yarn is the perfect inexpensive pick-me-up. Pick any color of yarn you wish, fashion tassels using a piece of cardboard as a form, then stitch the tassels to the rug’s short sides. Fringe Benefits Designed by Liz Lidgett • 2×3' natural…

YOU WILL NEED • Wool felt: seafoam green • Water- or air-soluble marking pen • Sewing needle • Sewing thread: white • White chalk pencil • Ruler • 1 cup of rice or crushed walnut shells (available at pet supply stores) • Plastic bag • 2" clay flowerpot • Scrap of cork sheet • Hot-glue gun and glue sticks • White gravel (available at pet supply stores) • 1" pom-pom: peach or orange 1 Trace the pattern on Pattern Sheet 4 onto white paper; cut out. Trace the pattern six times onto seafoam green wool felt; cut out the pieces. 2 Stack two wool felt pieces. Blanket-stitch the pieces together along the curved edges with a doubled length of sewing thread (Photo A). For stitch diagrams, see Stitch Basics on…

MAKE THE COVERS AND FOLD THE PAGES 1 Using a metal ruler, a cutting mat, and a sharp utility knife, cut the book board into two 61?4×91?2" front and back cover pieces. 2 Cut two pieces of patterned paper into two 81?4×111?2" pieces, and lay each piece right side down. Brush decoupage medium onto one side of one cover; then press the board, glue side down, onto the back of patterned paper. Smooth out air bubbles. Repeat with remaining pieces. Trim the paper corners at an angle (Diagram 1). 3 Brush decoupage medium onto edges of paper, and fold the paper around the cover; hold in place with binder clips (Diagram 1). 4 Cut two 51?4×81?2" pieces from remaining patterned paper for the inside covers. Adhere one piece to the…

1. PENNANTS Old-school-style, wool felt pennants printed with fun graphics and sayings encourage you to get out and explore. $25 each; oxfordpennant.com 2. PATCHES Outdoor-theme patches make great take-home mementos for your crafty campers. $6 each or $30 for a collection of six; kimberlin.co 3. LANTERN Classic style meets today’s technology. This lantern runs on rechargeable batteries and has a built-in USB port. $50; barebonesliving .com 4. FLASHLIGHT Just because it’s past sunset doesn’t mean the activities need to end. Light the way with a retro-style, chrome flashlight. $4.95; vintageautogarage .com 5. CAMP MUG Perfect for hot cocoa around a campfire, this enamel mug features quirky camp-inspired illustrations. $25; illustratusstore .com 6. LETTER BOARD Spell out messages or the day’s schedule on a felt letter board, available in a variety…

Petal Power Free-form flowers crafted from heavyweight crepe paper look lovely clustered around a centerpiece or spread around each place setting. Cut the petals from heavyweight crepe paper, then assemble by gluing layers of petals to a cardstock base. Room to Bloom A bevy of flowers—both fresh and crepe paper versions—takes center stage as a centerpiece on this springtime tabletop. Combined with coiled-rope place mats, ombré napkins, and chalkboard place cards for each guest, the table is ready for a party. Rope Place Mat YOU WILL NEED • Cardboard • 25 feet of 1∕2"-diameter rope: natural, multicolor, or red • Cotton cord: color to coordinate with rope color • Hot-glue gun and glue sticks 1 Cut a 13" circle from cardboard. 2 Wrap ends of rope with cotton cord to…

Easy:clay Take polymer clay to a whole new level by creating durable fauxmarble accessories. Roll pieces into beads for a necklace (1), cut blended clay into coasters (2), or press clay into a thin sheet to make a bookmark (3). Follow the manufacturer’s instructions to bake and harden each piece. Strung Together Small colorful bits of clay stand out against neutral gray and white to make the stunning marbled beads on this necklace. After forming the beads, use a bamboo skewer to poke a hole through each one, and add shimmering touches by rubbing small pieces of gold leaf onto the surfaces. Making the Rounds Real marble is pricey, but you can get the look with these stylish coasters made from polymer clay. After lightly kneading a few colors together,…

Tag your work on Instagram with #MIYMagLife. HOW TO FINISH AN EMBROIDERY HOOP 1 When all stitching is complete, turn the hoop over. Make a running stitch in the fabric approximately 11?2" outside the hoop edges. Pull the thread to gather the fabric on the back of the hoop; knot the thread. Trim away excess fabric 1" beyond the gathered line. 2 If desired, cut a felt circle that is slightly smaller than the back of the embroidery hoop. Stitch the felt circle to the fabric gathered on the back of the hoop.…

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson…

1. CORK & MESH Give your embroidery a distinctive look by stitching on a sheet of cork or metallic mesh. Each surface is wellsuited for stitching with embroidery floss or perle cotton. $6.99 for a 10×10" sheet; commonthread.us 2. SCALLOPED HOOPS Finally—embroidery hoops with flair! Each of these 3-D-printed, plastic scalloped hoops is available in a variety of colors and sizes, including 11?2" pendant, 41?2", or 6". Prices start at $10; etsy.com/shop/ starsandsunshine 3. BUTTERFLY PATTERN Capture a fluttering butterfly in stitches with this downloadable embroidery pattern. Includes a supply list, instructions to transfer the pattern to fabric, a detailed stitch guide, and stitching tips. $9.50; etsy.com/shop/ cinderandhoney 4. ERASABLE STAMP PAD Turn any rubber stamp into a temporary embroidery pattern using this erasable ink pad. Similar to a watersoluble…

NICOLE DAKSIEWICZ @modernhandcraft Nicole Daksiewicz wasn’t always a quilter. But with a few basic sewing skills and a little one on the way, she faced the happy challenge of outfitting the baby’s nursery exactly the way she wanted. Unable to find readily available options to fit her colorful, modern style, Nicole took a hands-on approach, turning to blogs and free online tutorials to teach herself to make her first baby quilt for her son’s room. Fast-forward a few years, and Nicole has firmly fallen in love with the process of choosing fabrics and creating original, heirloom-quality quilts and patterns. Check out her designs at modernhandcraft.com and etsy.com/ shop/modernhandcraft. You can also follow her on Instagram at @modernhandcraft. How would you describe your style to someone who has never seen your…

Potted Personality (pages 20–21) YOU WILL NEED • Three 81∕2×11" sheets of shrinkable plastic for ink-jet printers: white • Ink-jet printer • Fine-tip markers (optional) • Baking sheet • Parchment paper • Bamboo skewers • 30-gauge wire: black • Hot-glue gun and gluesticks 1 Download the “Potted Personality” designs found at MakeItYourselfMagazine.com/ SpringSummer2017. Using an inkjet printer and referring to shrinkable plastic manufacturer’s instructions, print the designs or the outlines. 2 Referring to “How To Use Shrinkable Plastic,” page 21, color, cut, and bake the pieces. 3 Cut 3–4" lengths from bamboo skewers or 8" lengths from wire. Hot-glue shapes to bamboo or wire lengths. Poke bamboo or wire ends, into plants. Charmed, I’m Sure (page 22) YOU WILL NEED • Two 81∕2×11" sheets of shrinkable plastic for ink-jet printers:…

Pattern Play (page 34) Designed by Liz Lidgett • 2×3' natural fiber rug with 13∕4"-wide bound edge • Foam-core board • Crafts knife • Metal straightedge • Painters tape • Medium-tip permanent marking pen: navy blue • Acrylic paints: navy blue, light blue • Paintbrush • Protective clear acrylic spray finish (such as Krylon UV-Resistant Clear Coating) 1 Fold a piece of paper in half. Trace pattern on Pattern Sheet 2 onto paper, placing the fold on the dotted line; cut out and unfold. Trace shape onto foam-core board; cut out using crafts knife and metal straightedge. 2 Measure and mark the center of the rug with painters tape. Trace the foam-core board shape onto the center of the rug with a navy blue permanent marking pen; remove tape. Referring…

Get Your Bearings Point campers to a day of crafting with a sign detailing the planned activities. Use our printable download to invite your friends, then once they arrive, encourage everyone to place their phone in the lock box for a tech-free day. Go toMakeItYourselfMagazine.com/HappyCamperto download the invitation. Hunger Busters A day of creativity is bound to work up an appetite. Provide tasty options that are easy to pull together such as donut-holeand- fruit kabobs for breakfast (above left), trail mixes for a snack (above right), a gourmet hot dog buffet for lunch (below left), and camp cones (below right) around the campfire for a sweet dessert. The secret to pulling it all off is to allow guests to customize their food with condiments and fillings to satisfy differing tastes.…

Full Exposure Sun printing works by exposing a developing agent to sunlight. Pretreated papers and fabrics come ready to use, but special dyes can also be used to turn regular fabrics, such as pillow covers and artist canvases, into light-sensitive surfaces. The curtain tieback and acrylic tray feature sun-reactive paper to reveal flower and leaf images. In the Pink Forget kitschy flamingos, this bird gets a sophisticated update as a sun-printed pillow. To make it, create a negative using an ink-jet printer and flamingo clip art; then lay it on top of an area painted with light-sensitive dye, and expose it to the sun. See Clearly Give a tropical twist to a clear acrylic tray with sunprinted papers decoupaged to the bottom. Clip a few large fronds or leaves from…

Bountiful Bag This reusable vegetable-theme tote will come in handy for carrying your farmers market bounty or for stashing essentials when you’re on the go. It boasts a roomy interior, flat bottom, and contrasting long handles, and it can be personalized with printed fabric panels on each exterior pocket. Canning Resemblance Who knew felt could look so fresh? These faux tomatoes, peaches, and cucumbers will fool almost anyone with their realistic embroidered details, and they look adorable on display inside a trio of canning jars. Hanging Around Don’t wait for a party to hang a cheery banner. Make pennantstyle banners in no time using an assortment of fresh printed fabrics, or add painted touches to canvas triangles using stencils. Hanging Around Designed by Alison Gamm YOU WILL NEED • 2—71⁄2"…

YOU WILL NEED • Heavyweight crepe paper (180 gram): assorted colors • Cardstock: assorted colors to match flowers • Hot-glue gun and glue sticks 1 Cut three 1–11?2"-wide strips from crepe paper. 2 Fold one strip in half lengthwise. Cut 10 large half-petal shapes that are approximately 3" long through the crepe paper layers along the folded edge (Photo A). Note: You can cut your petals with rounded or pointed ends, depending on the look you desire. 3 Repeat Step 2 with remaining crepe paper strips, cutting seven or eight medium petals from one strip and five or six small petals from the third strip. Maintain the petal shape for each petal size. The more petals you cut, the more layers your flower can have. 4 Grasp the base of…

YOU WILL NEED • Polymer clay: white and two contrasting colors • Clay roller or rolling pin for clay use only (do not use with food) • Circle cookie cutter at least 4" in diameter • Baking sheet • Parchment paper • Acrylic paint: gold • Artists paintbrush 1 Roll a 1" diameter rod using white clay and a 1⁄2" diameter rod with each contrasting color of clay (Photo A). 2 Twist the small rods around the large white rod; roll into a rod until colors begin to blend (Photo B). 3 Fold the rod in half, and twist the halves together (Photo C). Roll into a rod. Repeat process until satisfied with marbling. 4 Roll the clay into a 2" ball (Photo D). 5 Using a clay roller, roll…

Running Stitch To make a running stitch, pull your needle up at A and insert it back into the fabric at B. Pull it up at C, and continue in the same manner, loading several stitches on your needle at a time. Leave about a stitch’s width between stitches. Backstitch To backstitch, pull your needle up at A, insert it back into the fabric at B, and bring it up at C. Continue in the same manner. Satin Stitch To satin-stitch, fill in the design area with sideby- side straight stitches, stitching from edge to edge. Blanket Stitch To blanket-stitch, pull the needle up at A, form a reverse L-shape with the floss, and hold the angle of the L-shape in place with your thumb. Insert the needle back into…