Crafting The Day Away

Thursday, January 21, 2021

So I’m sitting here thinking what could I make today I could use a new Inspiration board but I need it to also help me keep track of the current projects I am working on or may want to make in the future. So here is what I have come up with. An Inspiration /Project Board and because of covid I am just using supplies I already have in my current art supplies.

Supplies

Foam board 1 sheet

Tissue paper 2 sheets

Ribbon a yard or some scraps

Yarn 1 yard or scraps

Glue

Ruler

Hot glue

Popsicle stick

Scissors or exacto

Start with a 20X30 piece of foam board that you can get at the dollar store

You will need 5 pieces from this board

1 20 inches X 19 inches

4 20 inches by 1 inch

Cover the 20 X 19 piece with your choice of tissue paper in my example I first glued 1 light green sheet of tissue paper to cover the board. I then had 1 piece that looked like birch wood and glued tat on top of it to give the green color underneath this is also something I had picked up at the dollar store.

For the 20 X 1 inch pieces I painted them black trimming 2 of them down to 17 inches long then wrapping them with the green tissue paper to get a darker green for my frame.

Now just hoy glue the 1 inch strips around board so it looks something like this

Use a scrap piece of yarn to create a hanger for your board and attach it to back you can reinforce the hanger with pieces of a Popsicle stick.

you can just leave it plane like this to use as an inspiration board or add pockets like I did to create little pockets to hold information on the projects that I will be working on.

I used pieces of scrap ribbons to create pockets on the board.

4) 6 inch long pieces

4) 5 inch long pieces

To attach I folded a ½ inch of ribbon on the sides and hot glued to the board once sides were attached added glue on the bottom to create the closed pocket.

Dressing it up a bit more, I added another scrap piece of yarn that i would be able to hang a banner that said create from it. This banner was made from scraps of different papers I had, this is what it ended up looking like. As you can see it is very light weight so light that it could hang on a light switch without moving it. Would love to see your versions of this quick and easy project. Happy crafting to you all.

Friday, December 4, 2020

Double sided Dungeon Tile Designs

Now that you have your Tile Blanks what do you do with them?

Well it is time to get busy designing how your sets will look!

I got out my box of foam board scraps and started playing. Usually when creating a new set I have a certain purpose in mind like a cobblestone floor or a cave floor, that would be needed in an upcoming game, but this time it is different I am just creating them to add to my stash of game resources.

Here are the 4 double sided tiles I will be making over the next couple of months

Side 1

Side 2

Here is the 1st tile set sides to give you an example of how the others were created .

Have fun playing with patterns to see what you can come up with :)

For Side 1

This pattern will take (32) ½ x ¼ of an inch pieces of foam board 16 of which will need to be cut in half, and then place them in a similar pattern using white glue to cover the top of the tile blank.

For side 2

This Pattern will take 13-14 pieces of ½ X ¾ of inch pieces of foam board using white glue place them in a similar fashion.

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

D&D Double sided dungeon tiles

Since Covid is going on and we cannot get together to play D&D right now I figured it was a good time to create some new game tiles to be used in the game. The way I see it you can never have enough different tile sets and other area scatter for your game. There is no better way to help immerse your players into the world you have created.

I have showed you some single sided tiles I have created this is a more detailed explanation of the process of making these tile sets.

So I have designed 8 new tile sets, but this time I am making them double sided, to help save on space in storage.

Warring: These tiles take a lot of tiny pieces and constant repetitive steps so if you get frustrated quickly this might not be a project for you to take on. They are not something you can whip up in an hour or two.

The Base of the Tiles

If you will be making a lot of different sets or you want blank bases on hand just go to town and create them in bulk so when you’re ready to create a new set the bases they are already done. Then all you have to do is embellish them to your liking.

When you get to the point where your painting your sets, try to paint the whole set at the same time so that you will not have to try and color match them later.

Materials I Used

Dollar tree foam board

To help you estimate how much foam board you will need for your set. You will get 96 (2.5 X 2.5 inch squares) out of 1 piece of foam board which will create 48 full size base tile blanks )

Cereal box

How to Make the base

I will be using 1 piece of foam board to create 40 full size tiles and 16 half size tiles for each of my sets.

I found the best way to cut the foam board into the tiles is to

1. Cut foam board into 3 sections each 10inchs wide.

2. Using my cutting board to slice each section into 2 ½ inch slices

3. Cutting the 2 ½ inch slices into 2 ½ X 2 ½ inch squares

4. Finished 2 ½ X 2 ½ squares

Now you will need to cut up pieces of cardboard into ¾ X ¾ inch squares you will need 20 of these for each tile.

Putting it together

For each whole tile you will need

(2) 2 ½ X 2 ½ inch squares of foam board pieces

(20) ¾ X ¾ inch squares of cardboard

Glue the cardboard squares together in groups of 4

For 2 half square tiles you will need

(2) 2 ½ X 2 ½ inch squares of foam board pieces cut in half

(20) ¾ X ¾ inch squares of cardboard 12 of them cut in half

Glue the cardboard squares together. (8 )solid squares in two groups of 4 (24) half squares glued together in six groups of 4.

Parts once cardboard parts glued together

Remove paper from one side and place glued cardboard parts onto foam board like this

Glue the blank tiles on top of pieces with cardboard pieces.

Just like a sandwich :)

You now have finished blank pieces for future use

You will also want to make tabs to hold them all together to make one of these tabs

Cut 3 pieces of cardboard into 1 ¾ inch long buy ¾ inch wide pieces

Glue them together

Cut corners on angle to get the following shape

Tile set 1

Art room flashback

This was my art room 8 years ago when I had lots of space to create but since we have downsized to an apartment all this is now in a closet so funny as this room is close to being the size of the apartment we now live in lol.

3/24/12 art room

We moved into a new place back in march and to my pleasant surprise there was a large L shaped finished room in the basement. It was dirty and trashed but I see a great art room here.

Here are some B4 photos of the room with all my crafting supplies piled up in the middle of it lol

Top right looking into the room from main door

Top left looking into room from back storage area

Bottom shots of the left side of the room

Let the painting begin :)

Top photos added an off white border to top right wall and painted the entrance wall off white.

Bottom photos painted under boarder and back wall light blue.

Top photos painted left wall light blue . Placed painters tape in the pattern I wanted.

Bottom photos Painted center section off white. Painted the side sections in chocolate brown.

Top photos Removed the painters tape. Painted Chocolate circles on back wall

Bottom photos Added off white circles to back wall.

The people the moved out left these 2 things in the back storage area they were broken and covered in cob webs so I cleaned them off, put them back together and painted them chocolate brown. Now they are my new storage units :)

I still have tons supplies to unpack but I am in the process of creating the different work stations and getting it all set up to my liking. I still need to set up a sections for drawing /painting/ fiber textile arts/and crafting machines but I have some other main sections placed.

Top photos Looking into the room on the back wall is my clay and candle making stations. In the center of the back is a main crafting table. on the right wall is my main crafting storage section. Lots of places to keep things. Love it Love it Love it :) I will also be adding the phrase " Creativity Makes Visible what might not have been seen" to the off white border on the right side wall.

Bottom photos on the left side of the room which is my jewelry making section Going to create an inspiration board to go on the off white wall. I will also be creating a photo box section to take pictures of finished projects by the main entrance.