Who knew how popular nail art would become? Before Pinterest, we didn’t even know people were doing cool nail art. Now we can’t get enough of it! Nails that look like hamburger buns (or just burgers and nails together), Super Mario, or even nail art tutorials like the very popular marbled nails technique.

inspiration image: victoriac7.tumblr.com

Sadly, not all nail art is a win.

Twitter and Instagrammer XDanielleX shared her “nailed it” moment with us…

Looks like the marbled nails technique takes a little bit of practice! Do we dare say… Nailed it?

Tell ya friends on Pinterest:

T-shirt Ruffle Scarf Fail

by Every Day Pretty,

Here’s what it was supposed to look like:

inspiration: ruffle scarf from The Pink Peony of Le Jardin

Some friends and I thought it would be fun to try making this t-shirt ruffle scarf at a Pinterest party recently. (We also all brought food we made based on our Pinterest pins – yum!).

The scarf seemed easy enough – cut up an XL t-shirt, do a little fabric stretching and voila.

Alas, it did not worked out as planned.

Mummy, anyone? Through a combination of strips cut too thin and overstretched fabric, I ended up with this sad heap of shredded t-shirt. Not exactly something you want to show off.

I’m blaming the good conversation – distraction certainly played a role.

From the post: Drink Coffee Before Crafting

Hula Hoop Rug

A fail story by Anonyvox,

I had seen the hula hoop rug idea in the Disney Family Fun magazine (which is a GREAT magazine if you have kids under 10 in the house–lots of rainy day activities in there).

inspiration: hula hoop rug from Family Fun Magazine

I have half a dozen hula hoops of varying sizes (because I am a badass hula hooper, believe it or not) and Mr. Vox has plenty of t-shirts to cut up for scrap, so I have made this project twice.

Item #1: Rice Paddy Rug

The first time, I wove the shirts WAY too tightly, so I have a sort of Asian-inspired rice paddy hat made out of t-shirts. It’s not too useful.

Item #2: The Rug Bowl

I made another one last week, and while it is better, it is still kind of bowl-shaped. I don’t know what you could do to fix it, frankly.

Nailed it.

Or should I call it: The Fail So Nice, I Nailed It Twice.

project inspiration: paint chip art by The Crafty Scientist

This is supposedly the easiest, no brainer diy art ever, right — colorful paint chip art. Glue down pieces of paper. Kindergartners do this on a regular basis.

I, however, could not pull it off.

Surely some substitutions wouldn’t ruin the whole thing.

My critical error was using a restickable glue stick instead of the regular kind. I was impatient, didn’t want to go buy the right kind of glue, and, it’s just going in a frame behind glass, how much durability did it need anyway?

Things started shifting and falling off soon after I finished gluing.

I had put a design on top that I decided I didn’t like (you can see where the glue smudges are) and I thought I could easily rip off. Not. Several pieces came off with it. And at that point I knew it was all over.

Well I was so mad I just threw the whole thing away, lol. I probably will try again, this time with the right kind of glue, and planning my design a little better!

From: Alyssa @ MyCleverNest

Inspiration: Martha's Lovely Linen Closet

Fail.  Sometimes, the only thing Pinterest inspires me to do is take a nap.

Valentine’s Day crafting should be easy and fun. I mean, it’s just hearts. Heart projects aren’t hard, right?

Wrong.

I started a Valentine’s Day series this year, but with a new twist – all the projects have to include aqua, my favorite shade of blue. “I’ll show all you pink and red Valentine’s Day people! You will bow to my aqua heart crafts!” I absolutely love Mod Podge Dimensional Magic and Martha Stewart microbeads, so I decided to merge the two into some fun heart pendants. The picture in my mind was definitely different than what resulted.

Exhibit A – Pendant on the right with a white background. The white showed through the beads, which I didn’t like – and apparently I didn’t use enough Mod Podge, because the beads started crumbling off. I decided to try again.

Exhibit B – Pendant on the left got a basecoat of aqua before the beads. “Victorious!” I thought. Then the Dimensional Magic was applied to the top. The result? A surface very similar to the Martian river beds. The texture isn’t good, and it certainly doesn’t look good.

Amy = 0
Ugly heart pendants = 1

Inspiration: Bakerella's Sesame Street Cake Pops

Everyone and their mom’s dog knows Bakerella, and “cake pops” have become a household phrase. These Sesame Street cake pops are just about the cutest version of cake pops. Ever.

Let me show you how to fail. How to fail at Sesame Streeeeeeet!

I tried to make these as party favors for my son’s second birthday. And apparently instead of refrigerating for 15 minutes, like the instructions said to do before coating them, I should have frozen them for two hours.

Today’s fail was brought to you by the letters OMG.

From: Colleen

Thanks to Bakerella for the inspiration photo: Sesame Street Cake Pops

I saw this heart-shaped cupcake hack on Pinterest. It seemed easy enough. Make cupcakes just like normal, but add a marble between the liner and the side and voila! Heart-shaped cupcakes that would make me the envy of all the mommies at Preschool.

Unless round is the new heart, I missed something here. These choking-hazard cupcakes are probably not welcome at a Preschool that won’t even allow lollypops.

Although there may be an upside. If I frost these babies up, and bring them in for the Valentine’s party, I’m pretty confident that I’ll never have to spend late nights preparing upscale crafts for preschool toddlers ever again.

Heart-cupcake fail… or choking-hazard win?

Inspiration photo: Muses of Megret

To be honest, this magazine rack didn’t have good bones when I picked it up at my local thrift store. I still thought a coat of apple green paint would make it cute enough to use as a book rack in my two sons’ room. Of course, that’s assuming they would leave it somewhere filled with books, which any parents of 3 and 5 year-old boys know, is a pipe dream.

I sanded the magazine rack like a good little DIYer. Well, I sanded it for a few minutes. I didn’t sand it well, if that’s what you think I meant.

Then I set out on my painting adventure, with a quart of OOPS paint in a pretty appletini green.

First mistake: not stirring well enough.

I couldn’t find a standard stir stick, so I used a… stick. From the yard. And it sure didn’t work very well!

Second mistake: no primer.

Or maybe that should have been the FIRST first mistake. I shoulda primed this baby. Covering brown with unstirred appletini is no picnic.

Third mistake: letting my 5 year-old help paint.

This was technically a mistake because it didn’t make the paint job look any better. Drips, slops, and patches. However, in retrospect, I believe this was the best mistake I made because it made my son happy, and that was about the only good thing to come out of this sad project.

So, after several coats of paint, by my son, and by me, the coverage still wasn’t pretty. I KNEW I should have used spray paint. What was I thinking trying to use regular paint?

Fourth mistake: leaving the rack outside for a few days weeks before I got around to finishing it

Well, I never really got around to finishing it. I left it outside, and the boys left it alone for a day. Or two. And then the magazine rack became the best playtoy ever! It was dragged around the yard, filled with gravel, and sat on by dirty little buns.

After a couple weeks, I finally admitted that I wasn’t going to finish this guy.

By the time I admitted defeat, this sad magazine rack became super sad. Dirty, dusty, chipped, and paint peeling.

I never really liked it in the first place.