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an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: 27 materials

  • thoughts on the 27 materials project.

    You might have noticed I am no where near finishing a project using all 27 materials. My intention was to create 27 projects using 27 different things before my 28th birthday … which has now passed. (You can see what I did complete here.) You might be bummed that I didn't finish. Or, you might…

  • material 18 of 27 / clay into ornaments.

    This project took much too long. Mostly because I didn't have the right tools but was too stubborn to go buy them and make it happen. I have wanted to make clay tree ornaments for the past two months but was really inspired when I saw these on A Beautiful mess a few weeks ago.…

  • material 17 of 27 / wax into candles.

    Pretty sure "wax into candles" is as obvious as it gets, but I'm not concerned. This was a totally fun and simple (and useful!) project. I saw a beeswax candle tutorial on Oh Happy Day last week and immediately ordered a beeswax kit from Amazon. I made up a bunch of eight inch tapers and…

  • material 16 of 27 / rubber into a hand-carved stamp.

    Stamps have sort of been the theme around here the last few months, but I thought it would be fun to cross "rubber" off the materials list and carve my own. I have done this before and really loved the results. I use that intial stamped stationery all the time. This time I went with…

  • material 15 of 27 / felt into an autumn wreath.

    I have a feeling these materials are going to start crossing themselves off without too much help from me. Autumn and the holidays are made for projects and I am so excited for more craft time this season. Felt was something that I was waiting for fall to work with because the plan was always…

  • material 14 of 27 / ink into reunion t-shirts.

    I never would have guessed when I added "ink" to the materials list that I'd be having t-shirts printed. But now that I have, nothing else seems to make sense for this material. As mentioned 100 times, the wedding weekend in DC was a reunion for my college girlfriends. In one email over the summer,…

  • material 13 of 27 / fabric into a triangle quilt.

    Hands down, this is my favorite project so far. Quilts are awesome. There are so many steps, but if you break it down each one is easy enough. And the errors somehow make them more charming. I am totally hooked on smaller size quilts (this is my third quilt, but first that's smaller than a…

  • material 12 of 27 / thread into wall art.

    Technically, I guess this is an "embroidery floss" project and not thread. But the good news is I'm the judge and I call fair ball. This adventure is about pushing my own boundaries and trying different craft projects, NOT about getting docked for technical merit. 😉 So far, this project has taken me the longest…

  • material 11 of 27 / “leather” into a folded clutch.

    Oh, leather. Since day one, I knew you'd turn into a clutch, but I didn't know you'd look like this. To be fair, I didn't use actual leather, I used "fake lamb leather" in "leather brown" color and purchased it from this etsy shop. My first attempt to use this fabric was a massive fail.…

  • material 10 of 27 / ribbon into a dreamcatcher.

    Every since I found this gorgeous photo (and tutorial!) via Pinterest, I knew I'd be using "ribbon" to make a dreamcatcher. The other day, I found a gold hoop at Jo-anns and decided to make it happen. I took three differnent types of ribbon (all from Paper Source) and just wrapped them around the hoop…