Denim Basket: Sewn and Fabric Painted

When school's out, it's perfect time for craft camp! Children and parents will enjoy the creative 40 projects in the Craft Camp book published by Lark. The projects include simple beading, sewing, felting, bookmaking and so much more. The book has ideas on how we can create colourful piñatas, eco-friendly mobiles, upcycled necklaces, hats, T-shirts, and many more projects. Children from 6 to 12 will find inspiring ideas in this book. We like the inspiring photographs that were useful when we were trying the projects. I would have preferred if there were more illustrations to accompany the written steps to make it clearer.

Recycling a Bottle with Glass Stain

When I do crafts, I enjoy recycling materials that I find around our home. Prior to this project, I haven't used glass paint so I was excited to see how the transformation of a frappuccino bottle into a decorative vase will turn out. I used a beautiful, pink Transparent Glass Stain for this project and really enjoyed the ease of using it.

Engaging Craft Books

While at home for the summer holidays, it is fun to engage our children with crafts. My children and I checked out three new creative books that have lots of ideas on how we can use things from around our home.

Decorative Vase Using DecoArt Glass Paint Marker

I love using DecoArt Glass Paint Markers. With some imagination these smooth flowing, quality fine-tip markers can be used for a variety of things. It is easy to use the markers to personalize gifts,  decorate, and create unique pieces of art. The markers have a glossy finish and it is available in 14 vibrant colours. I tried the Black, Fuchsia, Brown, Green, Gold, Silver, and Turquoise. It is simple to use the markers, all we have to do is shake it up, remove the cap, and initially press down on the tip for the ink to flow to the tip before decorating.

Embroidery using the Doodle Stitching Transfer Pack

Using colourful thread to embellish clothing, household items, and art is lots of fun. As a child and teenager, I enjoyed learning the basic embroidery techniques. I think it is a fun way to add unique touches to our belongings such as pillowcases and napkins.

Coloring is Not Just for Kids! Grown-Ups Get Out Your Crayon

Like Play-Doh, ball pits, and hopscotch, coloring is an activity we tend to associate with children, but it can be an incredibly beneficial activity for adults. Four new activity books from Skyhorse Publishing will allow parents to join their children during playtime. This will allow us to temporarily put aside our worries and reignite our imagination.

Making Stickers with Washi Tape

We made our own stickers using Washi Tape. It is simple to make these stickers, and cut out any shape you wish and paste it. We tried a few simple shapes using scissors, if you have a puncher or design cutters you can try using that as well.

Enjoy the Sunshine with these Outdoor Crayola Products

Crayola has a great assortment of outdoor products to get children's creative juices flowing in the great outdoors. My children love drawing and colouring on the sidewalk with these bright and bold sidewalk chalk. They love the assortment of the new special effects chalks such as neon, sparkle, and tie-dye.

DohVinci Eggs

My children enjoy using DohVinci to decorate. They decorated eggshells with DohVinci. It is a wonderful activity to do during spring and talk about nature, birds, different types of eggs, and more. To do this fun project we used...

Express Yourself By Winning Scotch Expressions Prize Pack

Scotch Brand’s Expressions Tapes are a fun, affordable tool to help add bright and glam colours to our home, and event décor. Expressions Tapes offer us creative, and easy ways to decorate our home whether it is used to create DIY centrepieces for a party, to add colour to glasses or planters, to do crafting with our children, or to update plain walls with a splash of colour. These Spring Planters are an awesome idea from Scotch to add some creative fun in our home. To make these, you will need... 

Win and Explore Crayola Colour Alive

Crayola has launched an exciting new virtual colouring experience called Colour Alive, which allows children to bring their colouring creations to life and interact with them using a smartphone or tablet. Like a classic colouring page, Colour Alive starts on paper, where children can let their imaginations run wild, and customize characters with their own colours and patterns, then merge them with special colour effects on compatible iOS, Android, and Windows devices. 

Quilled Wall Art on Canvas

I love doing quilling projects. I made a fun wall art project on a canvas board by using a few different steps and techniques. This type of art is an easy way to add colour to any space in our home.

French Bakery Inspired Design

I used a kitchen cloth with a red border, which I purchased from my local fabric store to do this fun and quick project. Painting this kitchen cloth and giving it a French Flair was easy because of the French Bakery Stencil I used. This cloth looks like it is from a bakery, and it is wonderful for my food photography. To do this project I used...

Quilled Folder Cover

It is fun and easy to dress up a file folder cover with some simple quilling techniques, and Washi tape. This will add a personal touch and brighten up the folder. 

To do this I used...

Washi tape

Construction paper for the background

Quilling paper

Quilling tool

Glue

Baby Play for Everyday Making Finger Puppets

Baby Play for Everyday is a book with 365 activities that we can do with children during their first year. This book will keep the babies and us entertained, while encouraging the child's development. There are indoor play, outdoor play, craft and messy play, music and more. The book suggests activities that we can do using everyday objects and our imagination without buying expensive toys.

Decorating a Jar with Collage Clay and Collage Drizzle paint

I decorated this vintage Bernardin jar using Mod Podge Collage Clay and the Peel and Stick Stencil.

To do this project I used...
Vintage Bernardin jar
Mod Podge Collage Clay
Collage Drizzle paint
Mod Podge Peel and Stick Dot Pattern Stencil

Squeegee or something to apply the paste with

Knitting Needle Holder

I made this knitting needle holder to keep my knitting needles and other knitting tools organized, so I can easily find what I am looking for. This allows me to store all my knitting tools in one place without it taking up lots of space. 

Reindeer Treat Bag and Giveaway

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My children and I enjoy doing crafts any time we get a chance to. With the holidays around the corner, we decided to make this cute Reindeer Treat bag by following the instructions on Dollar Tree's Value Seekers Club website. These treat bags are a wonderful, easy to do craft with children. My children enjoyed adding their special touch when decorating the bag, and filling it up with all types of goodies to give to their friends.

Cupcakes Made With Felt

These felt cupcakes look good enough to eat :) I made these following the instructions from the Made by Me book. It would be neat to make these cupcakes, and give as a toy for children to play with, or use it as a pin cushion, or make mini ones to wear as a brooch.  To make a cupcake you will need...

Eiffel Tower Paris Inspired Card

To make this card with a Paris Eiffel Tower 3D Mod Melt, I painted the card with a landscape and then placed the Mod Melt.