InstaCraft: Fun & Simple Projects for Adorable Gifts, Decor, and More

By Alison Caporimo and Meera Lee Patel

Both crafting pros and newbies can learn how to turn five minutes, a few simple items, and their own creativity into stylish, personalized keepsakes.

Each of these fifty crafts comes together in a snap with the simplest materials—paint swatches, twine, tag-sale ceramics—to create elegant and practical home decor that transcends its humble components. Whether it’s re-creating designer jewelry with nail polish on an old necklace or fashioning sophisticated modern coasters out of bobby pins, these zippy projects are completed in no time. From Mason jars made into snow globes to an old suitcase turned into a side table, the inspiring ideas in InstaCrafts teach readers to “upcycle” junk-drawer clutter into stylish treasures.

The super cute and surprisingly easy projects include:

• Brick Bookends
• Berry Personalized Stationery
• Faux French Lockets
• Sweetheart Sugar Jars
• Traveling Globes
• Takeout Container Lanterns
• Paint-Swatch Key Hooks
• Pantone Placemats
• Time Capsule Terrariums
• Fond Memories Wrapping Paper
• And more!

“Using simple items from around your house, craft store supplies, skills possessed by anyone who’s passed 3rd grade, and—surprise!—no fancy tools, author Alison Caporimo has put together a project guide full of 5-minute DIYs with her new book.” —Boston.com

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Oct 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781612432533

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INSTACRAFT

Fun & Simple Projects for Adorable Gifts, Décor, & More

By Alison Caporimo

Photography by Meera Lee Patel

Ulysses Press

Text copyright © 2013 Alison Caporimo. Photographs copyright © 2013 Meera Lee Patel. Design and concept © 2013 Ulysses Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Published in the U.S. by

Ulysses Press

P.O. Box 3440

Berkeley, CA 94703

www.ulyssespress.com

ISBN: 978-1-61243-253-3

Library of Congress Control Number 2013938283

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Acquisitions Editor: Katherine Furman

Managing Editor: Claire Chun

Editor: Melanie Gold

Proofreader: Elyce Berrigan-Dunlop

Design and layout: Elliot Stokes

Indexer: Jay Kreider

IMPORTANT NOTE TO READERS: This book is independently authored and published and no sponsorship or endorsement of this book by, and no affiliation with, any trademarked brands or other products mentioned or pictured within is claimed or suggested. All trademarks that appear in Directions, photographs, and elsewhere in this book belong to their respective owners and are used here for informational purposes only. The author and publishers encourage readers to patronize the quality brands and products mentioned and pictured in this book.

FOR MY FAMILY

CONTENTS

SPRAY

Checkmate Chess Jars

Farm-to-Table Butter Dish

Gold Pencil Holder

Striped Kitchen Utensils

Boo Bottles

Easy ID Serving Board

Sweetheart Sugar Jar

Easy Ombre Scarf

CUT & HANG

Framed Scarves

Sneaky Holiday Storage

Clip-On Photo Collage

Stocking Flowerpot

Wooden Phone Case

Cookie Cutter Frames

Memory Wrapping Paper

Pencil Vase

WRITE & PAINT

Personalized Teapot

Message Stones

Spell-Out Spice Jars

No-Tie Tie-Dye Makeup Bag

Takeout Lanterns

Splashed Paint Votives

Brick Bookends

Fade-Away Rolling Pin

Faux French Lockets

Color-Me Thumbtacks

Color Block Lock

Painted Pillows

Map Makeover

PIN & FOLD

Paperclip Skewers

Celebration Napkin Banner

Bobby Pin Burst Coasters

Trinket Tea Tags

Paint-Swatch Key Hooks

Inspiration Clothesline

TAPE & GLUE

Little Lined Frames

Tic Tac Spice Rack to Go

Pantone Placemat

Wrapped Notebooks

Traveling Globe

Retro Recycled Trivet

Candy Hair Ties

Bright Light Ornaments

String Napkin Rings

Time Capsule Terrarium

DIP & STAMP

Berry Stationery

Dip-Dyed Gloves

Chocolate Jewelry Box

Color Clothespin Mirror

Patterned Envelopes

Polka Dot Napkin

Spaghetti-Stamped Tote Bag

INSTACRAFT EXTRAS

Spray Day

One-Second Stamps

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

HELLO THERE!

Not long ago we used to chop and chisel instead of swipe and tap. We carved and constructed. Why, we even whittled. While our

Reviews for InstaCraft

[Charlotte Lyons · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Pretty much all of the projects in this book barely qualify as crafts...I can't believe a publisher approved including straightening out a paper clip to use as a fruit pick as one of the "craft" projects. And I can't see any good coming from painting a piece of candy to use as a hair elastic...