Craft Tutorials I like – Sunday fun (V)

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?
Virginia Woolf

My messy bed table – a photo that could be a print of the mess in my head on some days! :-)

And some tutorials, you know you want to make something today. Just pick one and go go go!

List of Crafty Tutorial Links

• Cute Japanese Coin Purse – I have the handles already somewhere in my “stuff box”!
• Sewing Bag Tutorial – love all those pockets and a great fabric too!
• Leftover bead necklace – easy and it has that “hanging dangling” feeling that I adore right now!
• Bookmaking Tutorial – lots of images in this tut at flickr.
• Draw Fantasy Art – beautiful art and tutorial on how to draw (Fairy, Angel, wings, eyes, etc) by Carmen Keys
• Fabric Decoupaged Nightstands – fun furniture play from J Caroline
• Prettier Checkbook Tutorial – we don’t use checks in Sweden but I do like how it looks!
• Creating Stencils – another stencil art tutorial (see previous Sunday for the first one)
• Button flower tutorial – looove buttons, did I tell you? These cute flowers are made by one very artsy crafty babe!
• Inside out security envelopes – recycle with paper and do a twist, jump and create!
• Paper dolls – I love these Workspace Guardians that Diane made

In the tutorial above Diane did paper-dolls with images of real peoples heads. Diane’s card came to mind when I saw a collection of extremely cool cards at the Bildmuseum in Umeå this summer. This was the one I bought:

Virginia Woolf as a paper card! Isn’t it the coolest card ever? Ever? I was going to hang it on my inspiration board, but when I opened the plastic I noticed that it’s a double card so you can actually stand it up on your table! The card came with sticker quotes that are called Quotable Notables! I want to collect all of the cards but I especially want Oscar Wilde, Mona Lisa, Dorothy Parker – and Shakespeare of course! But I should make some myself too, I think paper dolls are way fun!

I want “something” from the journal section of the site where I found information about the cards, such pretty notebooks there! I like the one with a frog, and the quote covered ones. Yummy journals! :-)

I made Valentine Cards (2007) where I used a photo of my own head! My big b/w smiling and kissing head, hehe.

They look like this:

Silly Hanna, right? I know two of them are still hanging on though (one on little brothers wall and one in grandma’s kitchen!).

Smooches ya’all!!