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Cut Paper Valentines
Another Valentine inspired craft, this time using cut paper to showcase pieces of children’s artwork. I love cut paper projects, so much so that I have been considering getting a digital paper cutter, as yet I haven’t done so as they are relatively expensive and I’m not sure yet whether I’d use it enough to [...]
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Incey Winsey Spider…..
It’s half-term and with the kids being off school, time for blog writing is in short supply, so as it’s almost Halloween, it seemed like an opportune moment for a quick post to show off my hand-painted children’s spider T-shirts. I’ve been spending quite a bit of time making them recently to fulfill a little [...]
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Seasonal Confetti Shakers
I have to confess, that I wasn’t sure what to call these – they’re not quite sun-catchers, and not really snow-globes, so I decided on Confetti Shakers in the absence of any other ideas. These were born when I accidentally discovered, in one of those ‘Eureka’ moments that you have now and then, that the [...]
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Valentine Heart Canvas
This canvas was created mainly as an excuse to experiment with acrylic string gel medium. I saw the following video on YouTube, and was inspired to try it out for myself. String gel is basically an acrylic painting medium that makes your paint more ‘stringy’ or stretchy, allowing you effectively to ‘draw’ directly with the [...]
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Valentine Heart Canvas
This canvas was created mainly as an excuse to experiment with acrylic string gel medium. I saw the following video on YouTube, and was inspired to try it out for myself. String gel is basically an acrylic painting medium that makes your paint more ‘stringy’ or stretchy, allowing you effectively to ‘draw’ directly with the [...]
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Another Valentine inspired craft, this time using cut paper to showcase pieces of children’s artwork. I love cut paper projects, so much so that I have been considering getting a digital paper cutter, as yet I haven’t done so as they are relatively expensive and I’m not sure yet whether I’d use it enough to [...]
Pin ItTissue Paper Valentines
Sometimes the old favourites are the best. This project uses a familiar, one might even say classic, technique of children’s artwork, to create something that looks a lot more sophisticated. I actually made these cards (along with a whole bunch of others) a month or two ago, but decided to hold them back because they [...]
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One of the Christmas gifts I made this year, to go alongside a set of Artwork Jotters, were these artwork covered pencils. I was quite pleased with the result, which looked I thought fairly professional, so thought I would share them with you. If at all possible, these are best created using plain wooden pencils [...]
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I hope everyone had a good Christmas – ours was pretty peaceful and relaxing which was rather nice, giving me lots of opportunity to reflect and make plans which I always like to do. I don’t really go in for making new year’s resolutions, though some major de-cluttering will be on the agenda for this [...]
A Christmas Gift for You
A last minute Christmas post before I sign off for the holiday, and I still haven’t wrapped the presents! Back in June when I took part in Mommy Labs’ Forest Fiesta Blog-hop, I promised to put up some scanner art trees to embellish. Unfortunately I never got round to it, so my Christmas gift is [...]
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One of the nicest, and simplest gifts to give, at any time of year, but especially at Christmas, are homemade sweet treats, whether they be chocolates, sweets or cookies. They’re also something that children can easily help to create. While I wouldn’t describe myself as a great cook, I do have a very sweet tooth, [...]
Pin ItThumbprint Gift Tags
More arty preparations for Christmas, this time in the form of simple gift-tags made with finger or thumbprints. I love finger and thumbprint art much more than that using hand and footprints, which (with some notable exceptions) I often think can look rather contrived. In contrast I love the simplicity of finger and thumbprint artwork, [...]
Pin ItMini-Masterpieces – December Link-up
Christmas is coming, and it’s time for December’s Mini-Masterpieces link-up. I’m sure many of you have already been getting into the Christmas spirit with lots of seasonal creative projects already, so don’t be shy – link-them up and inspire us all! I’ll be sharing some of our projects over the next week or two – [...]
Snow Paper
Christmas is such a wonderful time for making things and my head has been buzzing with ideas for projects recently – I just wish we had the time to do them all, but it’s also the busiest time of year for Artful Kids, with lots of orders to fulfil, so time is frustratingly in shorter [...]
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