Handmade Craft Ideas For China Here are new handmade craft ideas to do with left over china, candle sticks and glassware. These make great gifts and sell well at boutiques and craft fairs. Use this idea to make a tiered cake plate, a fancier candlestick, a small lamp or a night light. Supplies Needed
Instructions For A Tiered Cake Plate Take three china plates or saucers. They can all be the same size or they can be three different sizes. If they are different sizes, then use the largest plate on the bottom and the smallest plate on top. But your glue in the middle of the plate. Next, set a glass on top of the glue. You can put the glass right side up or upside down. Go with the look that you like. Let the glue dry completely before adding the next layer. It will take 4-6 hours for the glue to dry completely. Two and three layers work beautifully for decorative tiered desert plates.  Instructions For A Small Table Lamp Or Night Light Take your towel and fold it up several times and place it on your work surface. The towel will catch the glass dust. Set your block of styrofoam on top of your folded towel. Next, take your china plate/saucer and put it on top of your stryofoam block. When drilling a hole in the china plate, you do not want your drill bit to touch your folded towel. If it does, you will get the fibers of the towel wrapped around your drill bit. The stryofoam keeps the drill bit from going into the towel. It is no big deal for the drill bit to touch the styrofoam.  Keep a small bowel of water near by. When you begin drilling, the drill tip will get hot and smoke. You can cool the drill bit down by dipping the drill bit in the bowel of water. You make choose to just spray the drill bit with water in a spray bottle. Using a pointed glass and drill bit, drill a hole in the middle of of a china plate. Do not drill all the way through the china plate with this drill. Use this drill bit to just get the hole started. If you try to go all the way through the plate, your plate will crack.  Once the hole is started, switch your drill bit out. Put the diamond drill bit that is made to go through glass and china. Make your hole large enough to get a lamp insert through the middle of the hole. A larger hole will require a larger drill bit. If your wanting to hang prisms around the edge of a plate, a small 3/16 inch bit will work just fine. Handmade Craft Ideas These one of a kind handmade craft ideas make beautiful gifts that become keepsakes for those who receive them. They also sell very well at boutiques and craft fairs. A good source for china plates and saucers is antique stores and estate sales. Return From Handmade Craft Ideas To The Home Page
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