Tag: craft
How To: Make A Cute Clever Candle From A Tangerine
I love candles. They are all over my house all year long, but especially during the holidays. My favorite one, which is burning right now, smells like a Christmas tree. For some reason, when I smell certain candles, I think of certain people, if that makes sense. The scent of some candles even r ...
The Geeks Way To Fly A Paper Airplane
Making paper airplanes is always fun. We've all done it, right? Mine don't usually fly far, but it's a good time to fold the paper in different ways and try a variety of techniques. The question here is, what do you do with your paper airplane after you've made it?
Most people fly it in their ...
How To: Recycle Old Jeans Into A Cell Phone Case
For a woman, finding the perfect pair of blue jeans is like finding the Holy Grail. We try on dozens of pairs, and once we find the right ones, we love them, nurture them and keep them safe like they were our best friend.
I own two pairs of blue jeans that I treasure. I've had them both for sev ...
How To: Collect Your Farts to Fuel a Cannon
Manley has a dream, a big dream. Now that he's learned how to collect his own farts and store them, he hopes to use them to fuel a homemade cannon. After all, farts are combustible gas.
Let's back up a moment. First of all, I realize that writing about farts is not very lady-like; however, far ...
Gummy Bear Lego: Have Your Lego & Eat It Too!
Is it just me or does it seem like gummy bears are making a comeback? I remember back in the early 90s when gummy bears became super popular. All the cool kids at school ate gummy bears. The red ones were always my favorite.
For many years I didn't see much written about gummy bears, but now i ...
A Fashion Diva’s Dream Car
Why is my mouth watering? It really is! Ok, I might not drive this car in real life. Lord knows my driving is bad enough, I don't need to draw any attention to it. However, dannnnnnnng this is a cool car! It's hard to believe underneath all this artsy goodness is a Honda Odyssey.
Kelly Lyles, an ...
The Ultimate Papercraft Project: Life Made Out Of Paper
We've featured a lot of papercraft on Bit Rebels in the past, but this project by Don Lucho is pretty much the mother of them all. He created an entire apartment, complete with a crashed car outside, out of paper and cardboard. This could be someone's entire life, made out of paper.
As you can ...
How To: Build A Jet Pack From Garbage
Haven't you always wanted to know how to build one of these? I have. Well, maybe not exactly; however, jet packs or rocket packs are geeky and cool, and always will be.
It's fun to think about what it would be like to put on a jet pack, hit the buttons on the handles and fly up in the sky, Buzz ...
How To: Grow A Rainbow Colored Rose
I have never seen one of these rainbow colored roses in person; however, I've always thought they were fake, which is not appealing to me.
However, today I discovered that a rainbow rose can actually be grown. Now... that, on the other hand, is very cool! The process, discovered by Peter Van de ...
How To: Make an Emergency Beer Cup
I have always loved paper art. Origami is my favorite! Imagine that with just a simple piece of paper you can do so much and really fill your time creating awesome paper art. We, here at Bit Rebels, love paper art, and that's obvious by the number of articles about it that we have churned out thr ...
Piperoid Paper Pipe Robots: Fun with Paper Tubes!
I love paper art. Its a great way to recycle! There are so many things now that we can do with paper as art. For example, we have the famous origami from Japan, and also the pop up paper books that are so much fun to read. It has been a dream for me to make my own pop up book. I wish I had the ...
Not Sure About A Tattoo? Try A Temporary Henna Tattoo!
We've written so many articles about tattoos on Bit Rebels. For over a year, I've been saying in my articles that I'm going to get a tattoo, but as of yet, I haven't taken the plunge. There is just something so permanent about it all. I'm not sure I'm ready for that kind of commitment on my skin ...
The Magical Art of Papercutting
You've probably seen by now that we looooooove paper art on Bit Rebels. We write about it a lot. Some of my favorite that I've seen so far is the paper cut out art that Richard wrote about on our sister site, Raster Rebels.
This paper cut out art below also caught my eye. It's so detailed and ...
Dissected Frogs Never Looked So Cute!
When I was in high school, biology was my least favorite subject. I always thought dissecting animals was completely gross, and I felt so bad for them. Somehow their lives ended just so they could lay helpless in that cold metal tray awaiting to be disrespectfully cut up and studied.
Maybe that ...
The Electric Love Ring – A Design That Combines Love & Memories
Oh my gosh, how precious is this? My father passed away in 2005, but this little ring reminds me of the times I spent piddling with him in our basement.
He would work on his woodworking projects, like hand crafting bird houses, while I had fun listening to music and twisting the wire I found on ...