HOW TO – Make Polymer Clay Hearts
Again with the candy heart cuteness–Crafty Goat has blogged her photo-illustrated tutorial for making these sweet-looking polymer clay versions of the Valentine’s Day standby. Link.
Holiday Projects
Touch activated LED valentine
From the MAKE Flickr pool So cool. Member Nlian etched and soldered this unique Valentine’s greeting using SMD components. Copper always adds a bit of class. –Link Make a touch-activated, pulsating LED heart Valentine’s card on DiyLife –Link Related: HOW TO – Make a pulsating hubby detector –Link
Peeps Diorama Contest
Kevin writes in to alert us of the upcoming Peep competition. From the Chicago Tribune: The idea is to build a diorama with Peeps as the leading characters. (We’re not being original here; we stole the idea from The Washington Post, which did it last year after stealing the idea from the St. Paul Pioneer […]
HOW TO – Arduino charliplexed heart
Jay writes – Here is an Arduino controlled Charliplexed LED heart just in time for Valentine’s Day. It uses a total of 6 wires to control the 27 LEDs. A PIC or AVR could easily be used for this, but I have Arduinos lying around and they are easy to program. Plus I want to […]
Valentine’s Day Threadbanger
Valentine’s Day is almost here. Threadbanger writes: Valentine’s Day is just around the corner….. have you thought of something special to do for your loved ones? No worries if you’re still slackin’….. On today’s episode of Threadbanger, we’re mentioning the unmentionables. We’ll show you how to make a lace up corset! (ooooooh!) and a pair […]
Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards
Mark on BoingBoing points to this great flickr set of 1950’s Valentine’s Day cards scanned in by James D. Kimberlin, an avid garage saler who found 4 large scrap books of cards. Perfect to use for your Valentine’s craft projects! [ via ] Link.
Chinese New Year Crafts
Today is Chinese New Year! Welcome the Year of the Rat (which happens to be my sign). Jess at How About Orange points to the these cool downloads at HP for Chinese New Year crafts where you can print out and make paper lanterns like the lotus flower above, iron on Chinese zodiac animals, fortune […]
