Applique

Textile arts are a wonderful, magical kind of art that combines many different ways of working with cloth: embroidery, applique, painting, felting, crocheting, and patchwork. Here you can use yarn, lace, beads, sequins. Textile arts are crazy creativity that has no limits. All you need is your ...

In the beginning of 2018 the creative duo of artists from India Nayan Shrimali and Vaishali Chudasama started a project "365 Days of Miniatures". Every day they cut a new tiny bird from watercolour paper and paint it. In the authors' collection there are bright tropical creations and ...

A young Korean artist Choi So Young creates urban landscapes out of old jeans found in second-hand shops. Every button, seam, pocket, and belt loop find its place to depict a specific detail of a picture — they become a street, a window or a building. Choi So Young often 'draws' his ...

How much I want spring, warmth and singing birds! Making a brooch with a flowers applique has a little made my day :)   Materials and tools: 3 mm felt  5 mm felt thread, needle scissors pin brooches flax Cut out a pattern. Cut out the parts out of felt. Sew them together: Cut out with the ...

I want to show a simple and effective tip how to decorate felted items at the example of Russian valenki boots. You need acrilyc paint brushes pencil embroidered blanks Mark the surface on the boots you want to decorated. Use pencil. Prime this surface with PVA glue. Use a flat brush:   2. When ...

This DIY will help you to create something unique for your friends, nearest and dearest. 1. The size of the pillow is 40*40 cm, draw a sketch like on the photo, or your own. 2. Transfer half of the sketch on paper for freezing and fold the sheet. 3. Cut out the details as pictured. 4. Paper for ...

When the summer comes and it's the time for vacations, we all want to refresh our wardrobe and complement it with bright colours! Our little fashionistas are no exception! I suggest you to sew a summer set for girls, which is good for walks and going to the beach. You need the following ...

An idea for collaborative work with a child Night City The idea is perfect for a rainy day, to gather a whole family together and make a picture. Take a large sheetof paper (larger than A4). Any size you want. The upper part is painted blue (it will be the sky). Then cut out squares and ...

An idea for collaborative work with a child  Paper bowl Take coloured paper (or white, beautiful, too), cut out 20 circles, fold in half and in half again to make the folds in the shape of a cross. Expand. Now alternately fold three sides of the circle to the center (see the photos):   You ...

This envelope with a Declaration of Love is easy done yourself. Materials you need:1. Paper for scrapbooking (or coloured cardboard). 2. Ruler. 3. Simple pencil and soft eraser.4. Tape, width 3 cm (colour at your discretion, I have violet transparent), lighter or matches. 5. Glue stick or PVA, ...

Hello, dear visitors of Livemaster!!!!! I want to share a mini-mini-mini (maybe you also lack time) and very budget DIY with you. Or rather it's just a simple idea how to make a Christmas box ))))) You need: 1. Box 2. Beautiful wrapping paper 3. Double sided tape 4. Scissors 5. Pen or ...

There is usually a special cover paper in chocolate boxes that you just feel pity to throw away. So an idea came to my mind: to use this material for children's craft of contrast appliques. The idea is that the basic piece and the details are cut out of different colours. The simplest one ...