Valentines day: green is the new pink...newspaper crane

Today I am going to teach you how to make a newspaper crane. I also found a movie on YouTube that shows you a much easier way to make the same crane.

1. To start out cut a square piece of newspaper and draw pink hearts on it 
2. Then you fold the paper in half and unfold
3. Next you fold it in half the other direction and unfold so it makes a plus sign 
4. Then you fold diagonally and unfold
5. Then you fold it the other way diagonally and unfold it will make a multiplication sign
6.   Next you push  two of the corners in so you form a mini square
7. Then you fold the edges on top layer in to form a kite
8. Next pull push  the top flap down  and unfold
9. Then pull the flap up
10. and repeat steps 8 and 9 on the other side 
11. fold the edges in on both sides
12. repeat on the other side
13. open the two layers on the right side and lift flap up and close the side up
14. repeat on other side
15. fold a head and open wings

This is a diagram that shows how the paper should look.

Valentines day: green is the new pink...heart bracelet

My next posts are going to be about "green" being the new pink for Valentines Day.  I will be using recycled materials as much as I can to make cute Valentines day crafts and party favors.

This is a bracelet that I am making for my friends for Valentines day.  The little sparkly purple and blue hearts are made from the cards that earrings come on.  These are from Claire's, but any should work.

 1.  I made the hearts by cutting the cards around the hole the earrings were in, in a heart shape.

2.  Then I put the little heart on jewelry wire so the purple side was facing me.

3.  Then I put a seed bead on (the seed bead must be bigger than the earring hole), but held it in the middle of the wire.

4.  Next, I strung the jewelry wire back through the earring hole so the seed bead was holding it in place.

5.  Then I added three more seed beads with no hearts.

6.  Next, I repeated steps 2 through 5 to make a bracelet the size of a wrist.

7.  I added jewelry findings on each end of the bracelet.