Crafty people: Care to share your craft ideas? What crafts have you tried or done, and how did they turn out?

I have taken pillar candles and put gold thumb tacks into them, in a design pattern – that was a good thing to do with my younger sister when she was about 10 years old. Easy enough for a kid, yet a really nice gift for anybody.

Another thing I did with my younger sis was make reindeer out of clothes pins – the kind that don’t have a spring in them. I got that idea from ornaments I bought at a church sale. That’s a simple craft that can be done with a child.

When I was young, my mom and I made salt dough ornaments – it was a lot of work but came out really nice – made nice gifts and also made nice Christmas ornaments.

I do decoupage – I took a faux finishing class where we learned decoupage and other faux finishes. Decoupage is what I do best, I have perfected it and I enjoy doing it. I do it for myself and also make gifts for people.

I wish I knew how to sew (or sew better than I can).

I saw on a crafts show once where they took velvet, ironed it over rubber stamps so the impression of the rubber stamp came out onto the velvet. The rubber stamps have to be clean, and the fuzz on the velvet burns off in the image of the rubber stamp. I guess you could take that velvet and do pillows or clothes with it.

What crafts have you tried and what results did you get? Please share your craft ideas. Please talk about crafts you’ve tried that did not turn out successfully, also.