Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 21- Pink Double Scoop Ice Cream

Hello!

This week I created this polymer clay ice cream cone charm. I used my last length of chain on this necklace and the craft store was out of the chain I like.

It seemed a little dull, so I added a pink rhinestone for some sparkle.

I used a self-made mold for the waffle cone and colored the clay with powdered chalk pastel.

This item is currently for sale here ♥

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 20- Glittery Red Strawberry Ring

I have somewhat of an obsession with berry motifs. I especially love anything featuring strawberries, they're just so cute. I created this strawberry ring to match a strawberry print shirt of mine.

I knocked the tube of glitter over while I was working on this. There was red glitter everywhere! Luckily none of the surrounding items had wet coats of varnish.

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 19- Cookie Jar Necklace

Hello! Hope everyone is well. ♥

Here is my most recent complete project.

A miniature jar filled with super tiny chocolate chip cookies on a dainty chain.
The cookies are handmade from polymer clay.

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 18- Leaf Print Magnet

I decided to try out a glazing method where you use TSL mixed with pigment powder. You paint it over an already baked polymer clay piece, then bake a second time. I used powdered chalk pastel instead of pigment powder.

I pressed a real leaf into the clay to create the impression. I love the result and plan to make some necklace pendants in the same way.

The only magnets I have on my fridge are ugly free advertisement ones. I'm glad to add some color and interest, hopefully I'll soon replace all my magnets with handmade ones.

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 17- Strawberry Creme Heart Cookie Brooch

Here is another brooch, this time a strawberry creme filled heart cookie. I made this using polymer clay and chalk pastel. I like the way it turned out, except that it is a bit heavy. The next time I make one I will use something other than polymer clay for the filling in order to lighten it up a bit.

The pink I used is pretty pale, so if I make anymore pink ones I will try using a deeper pink. I already started mixing my clay colors for a whole batch of them with assorted fillings. So far I've gotten lavender, mint, and lemon colors made.

You can make your own baked cookies by following my polymer clay sugar cookie tutorial ♥

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 16- Deco Pink PSP Case

Awhile back I purchased this PSP accessory set. It was discounted because of a discoloration/flaw on the metallic circle. Since I brought it home I have been planning to deco it in order to cover that area up. I finally got around to doing it.

Here you can see the discoloration in the bottom photo.

I was originally planning to fill in the edges with tiny pink rhinestones, but I couldn't get them to look right so I left it like this. The little bow is made from polymer clay. I am also planning to deco the accessories that came with it. I'm not sure exactly how I want them to look, I'm still giving it some thought.

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 15- Sweet Biscuits With Chocolate Brooch

This was originally going to be a hair accessory, but in the end I decided it would make a cute brooch. I don't have nearly enough brooches, but I have lots of hair accessories and necklaces, so I plan to focus on making more brooches as well as bracelets.

I recently bought some really pretty toggle clasps for making bracelets. I made a pearl one with the clasp, but it broke the first day I wore it. It didn't even get caught on anything, the clasp simply broke in half. I'm very disappointed because the clasps were not cheap. The circle side of the clasp is still intact, it was the bar that broke, so I will probably use that part as a pendant for a necklace.

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 14- Rainbow Ribbon French Memo Board

I've been wanting a bulletin board to keep important bills and other papers organized. Originally I was going to use fabric covered cardboard in a picture frame. I had one made this way before and it worked well.
Instead I decided I would rather have a french memo board so I wouldn't have to use tacks and put holes in the papers.

This was very simple to make and took less than an hour. I used a cheap stretched artist canvas, covered it with fabric, using a staple gun to keep it in place. Then I added the ribbons, using hot glue to hold them in the back and sewing through the canvas at the ribbon intersections.

I'm planning on making some polymer clay buttons to sew onto the board where the ribbons intersect. I'm still deciding on the shapes and colors for the buttons.

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 13- Black Bow

 Hello lovelies! (｡･ω･)ﾉﾞ ｺﾝﾁｬ♫
Last week I made this fabric bow. I originally planned on putting it on a hair band, but my attempt at covering the plastic hairband with fabric was a huge fail. I'll figure it out, eventually. Instead it is a hair clip/brooch.

The sparkly thing the bow is on top of is a plastic case I bought the other day. Its scuffed up so the store had it marked down from $16.99 to $4.57. I'm using it to store my fabric stash, all but one piece fits inside.

Thanks for reading! ♥

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 12- Plastic Pink Bow Bracelet

Hello! I hope everyone has been well.
I've been busy trying to organize my craft supplies, cleaning, tending to my little balcony garden, as well as working hard at my job. I worked overtime this week, I was so surprised! I still managed to do a weekly craft project though.

This week is another reconstruction project.
I had bought this plastic hair tie at the bargain store, but it was poorly put together by hot gluing the metal part of the elastic hair tie (a thick hot pink one with poor stretch) to the back of the plastic bow. And it looked strange when worn. So I decided to turn it into a pearl bracelet. 

I pulled the hair tie off, drilled some holes, and threaded a string of pearls on clear elastic thread through the holes. Super easy and much nicer looking than previously. Sorry, I forgot to take a picture of what it looked like before.
Thanks for reading!

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 11- Lollipop Pendants

Hello, sorry for not posting a project last week! But here is what I created for this week:

To match the lollipop earrings I previously made, I decided to make some lollipop pendants. These will go on chain, one silver and one gold. I am unfortunately out of chain, so that has to wait until I get some more.
I've been having fun making lollipops lately because they're easy and fast to make, which is important since I've been busy with lots of other things recently.

The week prior to this I worked on a couple different crochet projects, but only finished a dishcloth and a cat toy, neither of which I felt were interesting or cute enough to blog about. The other projects I started on are a choker, brooch, and I worked on an ongoing blanket. I'll post up the choker and brooch when I'm finished.

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 10- Lollipop Earrings

This week I chose to make pink and white polymer clay lollipop earring studs. 

The white and pink are not as blended as they look in the photograph.

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 9- Eco-friendly Mail Holder

Hello!
This week I decided to solve an organizational problem while helping out the environment. We have too much mail but no where to keep it. I could go buy an organizer, but why bother when I have materials around the house to make one myself. For free. I got to work making a mail holder using a cereal box and scrap paper left over from previous projects.

I try to reuse or upcycle items before throwing them into the recycling or trash, since reusing, up-cycling, and re-purposing is much better for the environment.

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 7- Classic Lolita Headband

I had some computer issues last week, which prevented me from blogging my weekly project.
Last week I converted the bow brooch from my Bodyline skirt into a hair bow. You can see the skirt and original bow in this entry.
 I had planned to use a clip on the back, but after some thought decided a headband would be more suitable. The project was simple and quick.

I used a beadable wire headband bought from Hobby Lobby. I took the pin back off the bow and I removed the strand of pearls that hung down from the bow. I used the pearls for the headband along with some smaller glass pearls.

Originally I was planning to use some gold/tan pearls (not really sure how to describe the color) that matched the yellow of the bow, but the holes were too small for the headband. When I tried to use a pearl reamer I just ended up breaking them in half so I gave up.

Thanks for reading!~ ♥
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Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 6- Mini Button Hair Bow

Last week I didn't do a weekly craft project due to sickness, so I'm making up for it now.

Here is a bow that I made and then sewed on these adorable miniature buttons. 

As soon as I saw these buttons at the store I knew I had to have them! I felt they'd be a cute detail on bows as well as using them in various other crafts.

There's a hair clip sewn on the back.

It has been awhile since I've sewn anything, I was worried it wouldn't turn out, but I'm pretty happy with the result. I have a  lavender blouse I will probably pair this with.

Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells No. 5- Ice Cream Cone Charms

Hello Lovelies! ♥
Today is the first post of 52 crafty projects under the new name, chosen through a recent reader contest.
This week I created polymer clay ice cream cone charms. I made three pieces, two mint and one strawberry.

My favorite is the strawberry mint ice cream scoop. The other mint scoop is drizzled with hot fudge. I used brown puff paint as the deco sauce. The pink double scoop is suppose to be strawberry ice cream.
I haven't decided if I will attach these to cellphone straps or make necklaces out of them. I might do both.

Thanks for reading!

52 Crafty Projects Contest Results

Hello everyone
Its time to announce the winner of the contest, but first I would like to thank everyone who entered. All the entries were great and I loved them all!

The entries were judged by myself and three others. I typed up the entries without names and gave them to the judges, who then chose their favorite title.

Here are the results

Two votes went to "Magic to Craft: 52 Sweet Spells"
One vote for "52 Weeks of Cuteness Overload"
One vote for "52 Innovative Ways Of Kawaiiness Ingenuity"

The winner is NanaChan. Congratulations!

On another note, this week there will be no project post due to sickness. Next week I will be completing an extra project to make up for this week.

Thank you for reading!~ ♥

52 Crafty Project No. 4 - Chocolate Filled Heart Cookies

Hello sweet readers! This is my 4th weekly project. For my project this week I made heart cookies with chocolate filling. 

These fake sweets pendants are made from polymer clay and colored using chalk pastel. I mixed a small jar of powdered pastels together so I won't have to mix colors again for awhile. I didn't photograph them with the chain, but one is gold and the other is silver. The gold chain has pearls and belongs to the one with the heart.

The one with the star is my favorite.

I might make a hair bow that matches the one with the star, but I'm still brainstorming. I haven't used my sewing machine since I moved. It has been sitting in the closet because we moved into a smaller place and I just don't know where to put it.

Reminder- the 52 crafty project naming contest ends on Monday, February 7, 2011 enter here

Thanks for reading! ♥

Contest: The Naming of 52 Crafty Projects

 Hello! As you may know I have started a weekly craft project read here. Unfortunately my project's blog posts are still missing a great title. In order to solve this issue I need the help of my lovely readers to come up with a title for my weekly posts. Think cute and simple. The prize is a set of mixed pink cabochons for decoden or other kawaii craft projects. I feel that craft supplies work well with the theme of the contest.

To enter please comment here with the following information
1. Your name and email address
2. Your creative and original title idea

The contest will be open until Monday, February 07, 2011 at midnight US central time.
All entries will be judged based on creativity, originality, and relevancy.
You must be a follower to enter. Open internationally.
The winner will be announced February 09, 2011.

I look forward to hearing everyone's ideas. Good luck! ♥

52 Crafty Projects No. 3 - Lollipop Trade

Hello everyone! ♥
This weekly project was very exciting! I made a bow necklace and lollipop bracelet for a girl on egl. She is trading me a bodyline skirt for the necklace and bracelet. I'm very satisfied with the way everything turned out. When I get the skirt I will be sure to post some photos of it.