RedThreadDIY » new http://redthreaddiy.com/blog Craft ideas and musing from RedThreadDIY Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:34:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 DIY Ring Bearer Pillow Tutorials http://redthreaddiy.com/blog/2009/11/diy-ring-bearer-pillow-tutorials/ http://redthreaddiy.com/blog/2009/11/diy-ring-bearer-pillow-tutorials/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:00:15 +0000 Katar http://redthreaddiy.com/blog/?p=1601 By now, everyone should know how I feel about overpriced stuff that can be easily made on your own.

Making your own ring bearer pillows will be so much more personalized than buying a mass-produced one. It will be a lot cheaper too! You want your wedding to be original, right?

Lucky for me, I have two ring bearers, so I get to make two! Yay!

Here are some great tutorials that I’ve come across in my search for making my own. When I get around to making my own, I will be sure to post my tutorial and plenty of photos! :) For now, just click on the photos below to go to a tutorial that interests you.

Tutorials:

My DIY Ring Pillow: Wedding Bee

My DIY Ring Pillow: Wedding Bee

Ring Bearer Pillow How To: Sewing.Today

Ring Bearer Pillow How To: Sewing.Today

Wedding Ring Pillow: LilBlueBoo

Wedding Ring Pillow: LilBlueBoo

Ring Bearer Pillow: Apple Bride

Ring Bearer Pillow: Apple Bride

Ribbon Ring Pillow: Martha Stewart Weddings

Ribbon Ring Pillow: Martha Stewart Weddings

DIY Project Ring Pillows: Wedding Bee

DIY Project Ring Pillows: Wedding Bee

Ring Bearer Pillow - a DIY Tutorial: 12K Wedding

Ring Bearer Pillow - a DIY Tutorial: 12K Wedding

How to Make a Something Old Something New Ring Pillow: CraftStylish

How to Make a Something Old Something New Ring Pillow: CraftStylish

How to Make a Ruffled Pillow: Kelly and Olive

How to Make a Ruffled Pillow: Kelly and Olive

How to Make a Ring Pillow with Vintage Lace: CraftStylish

How to Make a Ring Pillow with Vintage Lace: CraftStylish

Monogrammed Felt Pillow: JCarolineCreative

Monogrammed Felt Pillow: JCarolineCreative

Inspiration, Ideas, and Photos:

Wedding Ring Pillow: Eleen

Wedding Ring Pillow: Eleen

My DIY Ring Bearer Pillow: Bridgettes Detroit Wedding

My DIY Ring Bearer Pillow: Bridgettes Detroit Wedding

My DIY Ring Bearer Pillow: Bridgettes Detroit Wedding

My DIY Ring Bearer Pillow: Bridgette's Detroit Wedding

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

]]> http://redthreaddiy.com/blog/2009/11/diy-ring-bearer-pillow-tutorials/feed/ 0 Paper Bags: What Can I Do With Them? http://redthreaddiy.com/blog/2009/10/paper-bags-what-can-i-do-with-them/ http://redthreaddiy.com/blog/2009/10/paper-bags-what-can-i-do-with-them/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:00:25 +0000 Katar http://redthreaddiy.com/blog/?p=48 For some reason, I still have hundreds of paper lunch bags from when I used to take my lunch to school. Since I don’t go to school anymore and they’ve just been sitting in my kitchen drawers, why not DO something with them?! YES!!

Not gonna lie – the MAJORITY of these tutorials are for kids.

However, there are a lot of other awesome ones mixed in! I tried to separate the tutorials in a better way so that you could search freely through the post. Enjoi!

Tutorials:

Animal/Figure/Decoration Tutorials:

Puppet Tutorials:

Accessory Tutorials:

Home Decor Tutorials:

Pet Tutorials:

Valentine’s Day Tutorials:

St. Patrick’s Day Tutorials:

Easter Tutorials:

Independence Day Tutorials:

Halloween Tutorials:

Thanksgiving Tutorials:

Christmas Tutorials:

Inspiration, Ideas, and Photos:

Yep. I’m excited. I was SUPER excited to find the inspiration sites – they are just so interesting.

I’m going to definitely try the first half of the general tutorial list. And, as usual, I will post the results in this post when I do so!

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

Photo Credit: St0rmz on flickr

]]> http://redthreaddiy.com/blog/2009/10/paper-bags-what-can-i-do-with-them/feed/ 1 Books No One Wants: What Can I Do With Them? http://redthreaddiy.com/blog/2009/10/books-no-one-wants-what-can-i-do-with-them/ http://redthreaddiy.com/blog/2009/10/books-no-one-wants-what-can-i-do-with-them/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:00:59 +0000 Katar http://redthreaddiy.com/blog/?p=35 So. I have these books. Worthless books. I can’t even sell them for $0.75 on eBay, Amazon, or Half.com. And I sure as heck don’t want them – they are old schoolbooks that have already been way outdated!  Absolutely no one can use them. I realllllllly wanted to do SOMETHING with them, as I have so freaking many! So, as usual, I spent a good amount of time researching different projects with books. I also asked my Twitter and DIYscene peeps (of course!) I was ultra happy to find so many tutorials and ideas!

Contents:

  • Tutorials
  • Accessory Tutorials
  • Home Decor Tutorials
  • Wedding Tutorials
  • Halloween Tutorials:
  • Inspiration, Ideas, and Photos

Tutorials:

Accessory Tutorials:

Home Decor Tutorials:

Wedding Tutorials:

Halloween Tutorials:

Inspiration, Ideas, and Photos:

  • Absolutely Nobody Wants This Book: BookShopBlog – This is a MUST READ! There are a ton of shops, ideas, and photos listed that should inspire you to do something awesome with your books!
  • entre lineas + kat macleod’s north carlton: Design Sponge
  • Bittersweet Art of Cutting Up Books: DarkRoastedBlend
  • The Altered Book – A MUST READ website as well! Tons of ideas, photos, techniques, and tutorials mixed into one!
  • Artful Journey – Altered Book Ideas!
  • Altered Books Gallery: Karen’s Whimsy
  • Etsy Seller CaramBatack uses pages of books and turns them into art!
  • What about taking the pages and decoupaging things? Little wooden boxes, frames, etc?? – FabulouslyFierce
  • I have also seen people stack them and somehow fasten them together so they look slightly spiraled and using them as a base for end tables – WickedBadNaughty
  • You could make new paper! Shred a bunch of pages, put it in an old blender with some water, and WHIRRRR!! Get a screen or some cheesecloth and poor the goopy mess over, and when it dries, fancy paper! I’ve also always had a hard on for those hollowed out books they have in mystery movies. – Smarmy
  • How ’bout…glue the pages together and to the back cover, then hollow out the center and make boxes?? – Lily_Lazer
  • You could make secret boxes out of them…or make purses with the covers (if they are hardcover)…use the pages for origami – RuJuBags
  • Book Sculptures – Spooons
  • Hmm… why don’t you take a page, use paints, paper etc etc, make collages and frame them and sell them? :] – NeonFaze
  • I ordered something from Etsy a long time ago, and one of the extras she sent me was a bookmark she had made, and she had on it the definition of apple cider that she’d cut from a dictionary. I thought that was really neat. There are sooooooooooooo many things you can do. It would take forever to use up just one book! – MeanLook
  • You could take parts of the book, dress patterns, newspaper etc and binding to make journals – DingoGirl66

Whatever you decide to do, you BETTER recycle them! I HATE people who just throw stuff out. It’s just going to go into a landfill and that just sucks. So recycle them somehow – donate them to a library (via Indiscretion), go to your recycling center, and if they are sellable, list them online! Or ELSE!

Once I get the courage and energy to attempt to conquer one of these altered book projects, I will post the result here.

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

Photo Credit: AustinEvan on flickr

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