Helmar Creative Team

It's beginning to look like Christmas!

Hello everyone!

Today's creation is one I've been thinking about for awhile and when I got my Helmar Fabric Stiffner and draping liquid I knew exactly how to go about creating my shabby chic Xmas ribbon tree

I started with some calico and sized out a circle big enough to drape over the top of the styrofoam cone tree.

Once I had cut out the calico it was time to totally soak the calico in the Fabric Stiffner Glue.

I then draped this over the tree cone gathering and creating pleats to add dimension to the trees skirt.

This then has to sit a dry for at least 24 hours.

I have then sprayed the calico tree with a shimmery gold paint by Bo Bunny dried this off and then added some Lindys spray paint in a shimmery green.  

Once dried, it was time to break out my huge collection of lace, ribbons and crochet trims in cream colours.

I have then used a dress pin on the top of the tree to secure my trims and began to drape them adjusting thicknesses and styles so none were double up.

Once I was happy with the look I take my ever faithful 450 glue and start to,glue the trims in place.

Oh my! It's starting to look good!

But, it still needs something so out with the can of Helmar Spray Adhesive and some glitter and tiny sparkly confetti!

Leave this to dry overnight.

Finish off with some lace stars and some pearls.

I'm very happy and proud of this project! 

Enjoy!!

 

Recycled Gift Box

Hi Crafters!

I'm back today with a recycled gift box idea, just in time for the holidays. When I saw these "Laughing Cow" cheese boxes, this idea popped right into my head! It's inexpensive to make and a great way to use up leftover craft items in your stash!

 

 

First - gather up your supplies, (see supply list below) choose your papers and embellishments you'd like to decorate your box with. I'm using, Crate Papers "Bundled up" paper collection to cover the top and bottom base of my box. Lightly trace around the base of the box with a pencil, and cut them out. Glue your 2 pieces to the top and bottom of your box with glue. I'm using Helmar's "Craft & Hobby PVA glue" it dries clear and works well with paper and cardboard surfaces.

Next, choose ribbon or lace trim and measure your piece around the rim of your box, both top and bottom edges. I used Helmar's Fabric glue to attach my ribbon to my box. This glue is both flexible and made especially for fabric and trim and holds firmly.

Now for the fun part of decorating the top of your box lid. I cut out a tag from one of the papers, added a foiled bow die-cut from Anna Griffin Minc embellishments, and chose a matching chipboard piece to add dimension. Then I glued it on top of my tag. I added some glitter on the top of my chipboard stocking piece. Glued a " Starburst" green gem from Queen & Co to the center of my bow.

You can then fill the inside of your box with candies, chocolate, cookies, anything else you may like. 

To finish off my box, I added Nuvo Drops around the edge of the top lid of my box.

I hope you have fun and will make some of these gift boxes for all your special friends or family, to share this holiday season!

Supply List

1 empty Laughing Cow cheese box

Leftover craft papers and embellishments of your choice 

Ribbon or trim

Helmar Craft & Hobby PVA Craft Glue 

Helmar Fabric Glue

Scissors, Pencil

Bow of your choice (use any diecut bow or make one out of ribbon)

Gems or Crystals

Nuvo Drops Red Berry and Woodland Green

Merry Christmas to you all! Thank you for checking out the Helmar blog!

Dana

No sew sewing panel

Hello again my crafting friends

Today I have created a very bright and funky butterfly appliqués panel.

I have used a quilt die to cut out the butterfly bodies from some coordinating batik dyed materials.

I used my Big Kicks machine for the die cutting...

...to create the background I sprayed it with some bright Dylusion Sprays and then layer a large stencil over the top and blotted off.

To assemble the butterflies I first glued the wings to the bodies using the Fabric glue, what an awesome glue, works fast and securely adheres the fabrics together.

No Sew Sewing!

After the sprayed background was dry I was ready to add my butterflies to the panel.

I have gone around the edges of the butterflies with a black enamel paint just to help define the butterflies from the background

Finished off with 2 strips of ribbon around the edge and some pretty pink flowers with black centres.

And that is my No Sew Sewing Panel!

Darcelle Altered Wooden Box

Hello Helmar crafty friends!!! This month I'm back with a super adorable project that I created a newly released paper collection from Prima Marketing called Darcelle.  It's stunning and was part of a scrapbook kit I purchased from Tres Jolie Kits! I decided to alter a wooden box.  This post won't have a detailed tutorial as I didn't take down measurements while creating this but I did take photos of my process so I hope you all will enjoy it! 

                               

In this project I was inspired by Frank Garcia a designer for Prima Marketing. He did a similar design for a mini album parcel that I subscribe to. I just added all of the flowers and other small elements.  I took the wooden box that came with this kit, note these weren't the papers for that parcel. I painted the wooden box first, just around the edges because I wanted a little bit of the box to pop out. 

 


I trimmed and cut the papers that I wanted to use for the outside of the box and adhered them using Helmar Premium Craft Glue  . After adhering all of the papers to the box. I used some faux leather strips to make the "luggage" straps on the box,  I adhered them using Helmar Fabric Glue.  After this I began embellishing my box adding a variety of things for example, the wooden pieces on both sides of the box,  I used some packaging from the Prima Marketing flowers that I was gonna use on top of the box, I used some metal hardware from Prima as my focal point. 

   

           

 I really enjoyed altering this box. I made some 3x3 cards with envelopes , tags that I had in my stash, I added some papers from the collection to them, they came with some twine so I added that to the box, I also altered a small hardcover notepad. I couldn't find a smaller notepad at the time and of course after I altered this one I came across smaller ones that I had in my hoard. No worries this one came out nice. This can be used as an address book or just a journal. 

 

 

    

   

 For some of the embellishing in front of the box, the kit that I received from Tres Jolie came with some chipboard pieces from Creative Embellishments, I decided to alter them using some Lindys Stamp gang Magical's on the flower as well as some of their Glimmer Mist Spray for the leaves.  I then arranged my  Prima Marketing flowers on it, finished it of adding some glass beads from Frank Garcia's collection.  Lastly added the " This Beautiful Life" sentiment on the metal hardware . I forgot to add that I had inked all of the paper edges on the box, cards, & some embellishments with the Prima Chalk ink that came in the kit as well. 

 I do hope that you were inspired to create something like this!! These sorts of projects make great gifts for the holidays, birthdays, keepsakes, etc. I do hope that you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family as I will do with mine, although my daughter and her family will be spending it with her other family but my sons will be here and I'm not too upset cuz I get to have her for Christmas . Talk to you all soon ~Hugs~ Jeanne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                

Quick and easy My Hero Academia Cosplay repairs and make.

Hi Helmar fans, Raelene with you today.

November is one of our biggest Birthday months in this family, so I try to get ahead on Christmas stuff but the Birthday stuff takes over.

Among the birthdays in November is Mr E and this year he is turning the big 13. I wanted to do something fun as a suprise for him and I thought why not wake him up in a simple cosplay of his favourite female teacher from My Hero Academia. It had to be simple as my plan was to create this without his knowledge so I could wake him on his Birthday as Ms Joke so I decided to just make a basic version of the shorts, team them with a black tank and a wig and I would be good to go. I just wouldn't be able to make the gloves and belt with the time I had and in hiding as all the cosplay making supplies are in the room he uses daily for Distance Education. My plan had a spanner thrown in the works when Mr C read out loud with E sitting within earshot a Facebook status I had made about it just before his Birthday, E isn't on Facebook, so I thought I was safe to post, how silly of me.

Now onto my Ms Joke Shorts

I bought these green men's swimming shorts from Big W after having no luck finding any shorts at any of my local op-shop.

I set myself up on a folding table in the lounge with these, scissors, wide orange ribbon (2 rolls), Helmar Fabric Glue and Helmar Fray Stoppa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I cut the ribbon into lengths a little longer than the shorts adhered them down to the shorts with Helmar Fabric Glue, trimmed and then sealed the ends of the ribbon with Helmar Fray Stoppa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Super simple and quick to make and they look great for what I need them for.

I ordered E a My Hero Academia Sports Uniform online so he could cosplay his favourite student, unfortunately the white fabric was fraying and some stitching was super close to the edge so while I had my supplies out I decided to use the Helmar Fray Stoppa to ensure it wouldn't get worse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First, I trimmed off the threads.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I ran Helmar Fray Stoppa along the edges, I was a bit wobbly with my application but it isn't noticeable once dry and he is wearing it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think we look pretty great for a couple of quick throw together budget cosplays.  :)

Gratitude Junk Journal

Hello Helmar Fans today I am sharing with you a Gratitude Junk Journal that I have created.

I have used a Tim Holtz Folio Compendium to create my journal and used my favourite Helmar glue Helmar Super Tac and Helmar Crystal Cote Matte Vanish.

As you see the journal is painted stamped and stenciled I have used Helmar Crystal Cote Matte Vanish to coat the painted surfaces to protect it from wear and tear.

Within my journal I have used Helmar Super Tac to adhere all papers and fabrics within the journal.

All the material and papers have the Super Tac used it holds so well.

I hope you have enjoyed my junk journal share.

Happy creating Kim Kendell 




     

"Kindness" Mixed Media Canvas

Hi Everyone! I'm back to share my  mixed media canvas. This month's theme for my project is "kindness" even just a little kindness, can brighten up someone's day!

 

Supplies you need:

A blank canvas, any size you like. ( I used a 9x12 inch canvas for my project)

Finnibair Art Basics -Gesso

Brush 

Santoro "Gorjuss" 12x12 paper pack

Spectrum Noir Metallic Wax- Inca Gold

Prima Marketing Resin frame

Finnibair Art Ingredients -Melange Art Pebbles

Finnibair Art Alcemy Paints- Metallique Vintage Rose and Light Patina

Craft Factory "Stillwater" paper collection

Metal Corner Die or any Die you have on hand

Prima  Marketing Flowers ( #634643)

Glitteriffic in Gold

Stickles glitter -Diamond

Spread one light coat of Gesso over your canvas. Let dry throughly or you can dry it using your heat tool for faster dry time.

Choose your background paper and cut it down to size, leaving about 1/4 inch of canvas around the edge . For the 9x12 inch canvas, I cut my paper to 8x11 inches. Then used Helmar Acid Free glue to glue my paper to my canvas. 

Next I choose a few papers from the 6x6 Stillwater paper pad, and fuzzy cut out some flowers and tore a few other pieces of paper to decorate the corners of my canvas. I diecut one of the corner pieces. Glue your pieces onto the corners of your canvas.

To add dimension to my diecut corner piece I used Helmar Scrap Dots 3D glue.

Next take your resin frame and rub a small amount of the metallic wax over the raised edge of the frame.

Take 5 different sized Melange Art Pebbles, and paint the backs using both colors of acrylic paints. Let dry throughly.

Next take your chipboard letters and arrange them diagonally across your canvas. I used Helmar Tacky glue to attach them to my canvas. 

For the pebbles, I glued them down using Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive.  I scattered them in different areas on my canvas.

Next choose whatever diecuts and embellishments you like and arrange them onto your canvas. I didn't glue them down until I was sure of my placement. I love using Helmar 3D scrapdots to add lift and dimension to my diecuts and embellishments.

The last step I did was add a little Glitteriffic to my flower petals. 

I hope you liked this project and will try to make one for yourself or as a gift.

Happy Crafting! I look forward to creating another project for you very soon. Thank you!

Dana

Puzzles

Wow November is here an Thanksgivings on its way.  I am really puzzled about dinner, decorations and more!

I am Sharon Estes, aka Art Grandma, I am a Helmar designer for the next six months, and I have a theme for my blog puzzle.    I love to use Helmar Glue products in my grunge style designs.  This Canvas is a good example for using the Helmar Foam Glue, in my project I used the glue for many textures plies gluing together fun foam puzzle pieces. 

Instructions and items used.

• Canvas panel
• Foam Glue from Helmar
• Cardstock an fun foam
• Paint,and distressed ink pads
• Small trinkets

Cut puzzle pieces out of cardstock and fun foam glue cardstock to foam shape.

Paint puzzle pieces. Glue must dry overnight. If you have excess glue, use it in design for texture as you glue to your puzzle pieces an the small piece and gears.

Jeweled Christmas Tree and Ornament

Hello Helmar Fans! Debbie here today sharing some fun and fast Christmas decorations.  These are easy to make and turn out beautifully!

 The first project is a con shaped Christmas Tree covered in clear gems.  When the lights shine on this it sparkles like mad!

 

 

My second project is an ornament to hang on the tree!!  Super fun and easy to make!

Here is what you will need to get these projects created.  I purchased the first 5 products at my local craft store.  

A paper mache cone

A paper mache ornament

flat back gems in various sizes

Gold Acrylic paint

a paint brush

Helmar Premium Craft Glue

 

 

To start your projects, paint both with acrylic paint.  I chose gold for contrast but you can choose any color you like, same for the gems.

 

Once the paint is dry layout your gems on the ornament in the pattern you like the best.  When you like your pattern, adhere them with Helmar Premium Craft Glue.  It dries fast and your project will be very easy to work on.  While the first side of your ornament dries, start adhering the gems to your cone.

Start with the largest gems and start on the bottom. Go all the way around the cone and then come back and do the second row.  Keep doing this and as you get to the top use the smaller gems.  When the whole tree was covered I came back and adhered some of the smaller gems in the bigger spaces.

This tree was super fun and easy to make!  Hope you will give it a try!

Thanks for stopping by the Helmar Worldwide Blog today!

Jewelled junk

Hi guys

Another Creation using an up cycled twin frame with a middle hinge.

I used so many gems and jewels on this frame it just sparkles.

I will be using this on my Christmas side board display this Christmas.

First thing was to remove the glass inserts and paint the entire frame front and back with a shiny black paint/ stain.

Once dry it was time to add the gems and jewels so many pretties!

I have used Helmar Gemstone Glue!

I started sticking them on. 

Once completely dried, I used Inka Gold to buff over the sparkle which matched really well with the stickers I attached to the glass inserts

And this is how it finished...

 very happy!

How do you use your Helmar Gemstone Glue? 

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