Four Dots Designs

I’ve started working on a chair for the Show Your heART:  Furniture, Arts and Decor Expo, benefiting the Houston Furniture Bank.  I’ll be posting pictures as I make some progress.

A while back I found this tutorial on craftster and based on that I’ve made a few wallets before. For the first one, I followed the instructions to the tee but after that I’ve made some changes here and there. These are just wallets made using paper and packaging tape and they are very durable. My first one lived for a few years before it finally fell apart.

My nephew, Dario, is 5 years old he’s been obsessed with the Post Office lately and wanted to receive something with “his name on it” so my sister asked if I could mail him a letter. I wanted to send him something a little more fun than a simple letter but light enough to mail to Ecuador and that it wouldn’t cost me a small fortune.

That’s where the wallet came in: fun, small, you can still mail it flat…perfect! And I even threw in some cash and a few fake credit cards for him! Can you say, “Best Aunt Ever”??

From a previous post you can see the massive amount of magazines I’ve accumulated so I’m always trying to find projects that can give them a second life.

This is a fairly simple one. Start out by gathering your supplies.

- Cutting mat
- Scissors, X-acto or utility knife (they all work just fine)
- Pencil
- Envelope template
- Adhesive (not pictured)
- Assorted papers (I’m using magazines for the larger envelopes and some scrap paper for mini envelopes but almost anything can be used)

Go through your magazines and find pages with interesting images, fun text or anything else you like and cut them all out. I prefer to find all my pages first and then make my envelopes all at once.

Once you’ve made your selection, use your pencil to carefully outline the template onto one of the papers.

Although this image is not very clear this is what you should have so far. Repeat as many times as you want to save paper.

Use one of you cutting tools to cut your envelope. Remember to use your cutting mat when using the X-acto or utility knife, it runs a lot smoother and you won’t ruin your table!!

Finally, fold all four sides and use some glue or double sided tape to finish up your envelope leaving the top flap open.

A few more envelopes cut with the larger template, ready to be finished.

All done.

I’m still not finished with everything in the Dining Room but it’s slowly coming together.
I bought this frames at the dollar store and gave them a few coats of paint. They’re not up on the wall yet but wanted to show the progress.

Before, even though I only remebered to take pictures after I started painting.

Before

One of the drawers

Both drawers together

Almost ready but no handles yet!

This is how the top looks, and now with handles!

TADA!!! The finished product!

I found this hand outside my apartment one day (weird, right? i think it belonged to some sort of toy) and I had to have it, I just knew it could turn into something fun.
All it took was a wooden plaque, a few coats of paint and scrapbooking paper and voilá…a super cool hook!

These is a very simple but cute project.
All you need is a glass votive (mine came with an uscented candle but you can get the candles separately)and some nice paper.
Cut the paper to size and glue it onto the votive and do the same for the matchbook.

Kanzashi Flower – First attempt