Pretty Shabby Uk

This project is ideal if you have any leftover ceramic tiles from a recent home decorating project, you can use them to create an interesting set of trivets or coasters. All you need is scrap pieces of tile, a plastic lid, a piece of felt, and some tile grout.  Jessica Ackerman describes the process below :) Time   30mins to 1 hour Materials Scrap pieces of ceramic tile  Plastic lid (a coffee can lid works well for a trivet, while potato crisp can lids or peanut container lids work well for coasters)  Tile grout  Mat or towel to cover the work surface Heavy paper or cloth bag  Hammer  Piece of felt  Scissors  Craft glue Step 1: Start by breaking the tiles up into small irregularly shaped pieces. To do this, place the tiles in a strong bag, tie securely, and hit with a hammer. Be sure to wear plastic goggles or other eye protection, and only hammer the tiles on ...

Today is my first Wedding Anniversary, the traditional gift for giving on the first anniversary is paper. Although as a hoarder I have tons of paper floating around my craft room I wanted to make something special for my Husband. I saw a fantastic gift whilst searching through pinterest and decided to have a go at re-creating it, so I cannot take full credit for this masterpiece, I found this on a site called  Full of great ideas . I love this picture of us signing the register, It was taken in colour and after a little manipulation I managed to change it to Black and White with just Johns tie and Buttonhole in colour. I designed the layout on Microsoft Publisher and found the numbers on a fantastic site by Leo Reynolds and find the letters and numbers you like. This took me the longest, I could not decide between all the fantastic images and changed my mind several times. Once I found numbers that I thought went together I altered the images to black an...