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How To Make Bling Starfish From Hot Glue

This DIY Bling Starfish Ornament From Hot Glue is perfect for summer kids craft. It’s a fun project and the results can be used for anything, key chains, decoration elements, magnets, even accessories. It’s easy to make and you can have fun with blings and paints you use to decorate the starfish.

Things I used to make this hot glue blingy starfishes :

Hot glue gun
Hot glue (clear)
Bling stickers (gold, pink and blue)
Acrylic paint (yellow, pink and blue)
Lotion

Below are the steps on how to make the hot glue bling bing starfishes:

Have your hot glue gun ready with the hot glue.
Apply some lotion to your work surface, just thin layer for easy peeling job.
Apply hot glue to the applied lotion surface with your starfish shape.
Lay over the bling sticker on the hot glue starfish while it’s still hot, so that the starfish would hold the blings better than just stick on the blings onto the dry hot glue starfish. Let it dry. I made three with each different colors bling, gold, pink and blue.
Now this is the peeling job I have mentioned before, peel off the dry hot glue shape from the surface. The lotion layer should make it easier for you to do the peeling.
Now apply the acrylic paint according to bling’s color, gold with yellow, pink with pink and blue with blue. Let it dry.
Your DIY bling starfishes are ready!

Your kids would love this craft, it’s easy and fun diy to do together! Creativity to decorate the starfishes into blingy ornaments would be a fun challenge. Go crazy with the different kinds of blings and colors to make the starfishes. Have fun!

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How To Make Framed Lace Web With Starfishes

A framed lace web with starfishes? you must be wondering what is i? Is it a diy coastal? Is it a coastal decoration? How to make the framed lace web? There is a beauty in a lace web made of yarn. I’ve made a lace web Christmas wreath from yarn. The basic principle is just same as the framed lace web, which is using yarn and glue to make a lace web into shapes or things you want to develop. People use to make it in the shapes of ball and cone. I have made it in donut (torus) shape and now in one dimension, a framed sheet of lace web.

Actually there aren’t many things to prepared to make the lace web from yarn, but to upgrade the look into an interesting decorations, we need to be creative and add some other ornaments and material. And to make this Framed Lace Web With Starfishes, you need to have:

White yarn
Wooden sticks to used a s a frame. ( I used balsa sticks)
White glue
Starfihes
White acrylic paint
Hot Glue
Lotion

The steps are easy, just need a little patience to wind the yarn :

Apply some lotion to a smooth surface (a glass, ceramics, plastic, etc) that will be used as a base for making the lace web
Spread the yarn all evenly to the surface within a square area you desired ( mine was around 1 x 1 foot (30×30 cm).
Apply glue all over the yarn sheet. Let lace web sheet dry.
Cut 2 sets of the wooden sticks into four sticks in desired dimension to form the frame ( mine was 28x 28 cm)
Glue the four sticks onto the white yarn sheet. Let the frame dry and secured.
Cut the excess yarn from the edges of the frame.
Glue the other side of the web sheet with another four wooden sticks to make the frame. So it has frame at the back and front. Let it completely dry and give some weigh on top of the framed lace wed to get it pressed at the same time.
Paint the frame with white paint. Leave it dry.
Finished it with gluing the starfishes by using hot glue.

Sounds difficult? No, it doesn’t, making the lace web is very easy and by framing it, you got a steady lace web sheet. It’s like a blank canvas waiting for you to be creative with it. I made it into a coastal diy with starfishes ornament. Interested to make? I hope you do and be more creative!

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Mel

How To Make Red White Blue DIY Bottles With Coastal Touch

I have this idea of combining patriotic decoration with coastal touch. If you come to see, it has same colors theme, which are red, white and blue. When I think of the red white blue, I think of the flag with the stars; and when I think of seaside, I think of starfish. Isn’t that a great coincidence, points of connections between patriotic theme with coastal theme. Two themes come together and easy to make, interested? Let me share you the tutorial.

What to prepare to make this nautical project for 4th July decoration?

Used three glass bottles (small, medium or big is up to you, but remember to have the right proportion with the starfish), I used small sizes bottles
Small dried starfishes
Red, white and blue paint
Organic hemp rope
Glue

How to make Red White Blue DIY Bottles With Coastal Touch:

Clean and dry the bottles. Paint each with red, white and blue paint. Spray paint or acrylic paint will do. But it’s going to be a lot easier with spray paint and more equally in term of shade and covering the surface. Let it dry.
Glue the hemp rope to each bottle on the bottle’s mouth. Let it dry.
Glue the starfish each one to each bottle. Let it set. Finished!

Super fast, super easy, less money, great upcycling and you can use this nautical decorated painted bottles along summer, because not just it fits the 4th of July celebration, but also it’s easily goes with coastal theme. I hope my Red White Blue DIY Bottles With Coastal Touch inspiring and find the tutorial easy on how to make it.

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