Crafts: Spring
- Crafts for Kids, Crafts: Painting, Crafts: Painting and Drawing, Crafts: Spring, Holiday: Tu B'Shevat Crafts
A Fun Craft For Tu B’shevat: Paint Blooming Trees With Q-Tips
The Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shevat, which is the new year for the trees, is on Sunday night, so now is the time to whip up some crafts to celebrate! Ah yes, and in case you are not familiar with this lovely holiday, which marks the cycle for fruit bearing trees, then you might be interested to know that it includes a Seder, which like Passover, includes four cups of wine! Of course one does not have to drink four cups of wine (while one does for Passover) as that might be a bit much, but rather the seder includes red and white wine and mixtures of the two. Okay,…
- Art Education for Kids, Crafts: Painting, Crafts: Painting and Drawing, Crafts: Spring, DIY Wrapping Paper, Gift Wrapping, Holiday: Shavuot
Lovely DIY Wrapping Paper From A Painting Exercise!
With gift giving season approaching quickly, now is a great time to make some DIY wrapping paper, and even better, to practice your painting skills in the process! I have at long last set aside some time to follow my dreams of painting, and while the jury is still out regarding whether this is something that I’ll truly want to devote my time to, I now have some great looking wrapping paper that is so fun to look at! Painting loosely, which is the direction I’d like to take, since that is the style that speaks to me (fortunately) isn’t nearly as easy as it looks, and so practicing on…
- Crafts: Spring, Crafts: Summer, Crafts: Teacher Appreciation Gifts, Holiday: Shavuot, Home Decorating, Recycled Cans Crafts, Recycled Tin Can Craft
DIY Tin Can Pots Ten Ways: A Round up
Tonight is the beginning of the very festive (around our neck of the woods) holiday called Lag B’Omer, though for the moment (a quiet moment before all the guests, action, etc.) I am dreaming about making a festive tin can garden for the next big Jewish holiday, Shavuot! Tin cans of all sizes can be up-cycled to make the most adorable or fashionable tin can garden or centerpiece. Check out the ideas I’ve assembled for you here thanks to a bunch of talented folks, and don’t dream, collect those tin cans and enjoy!
- Crafts: Painting, Crafts: Painting and Drawing, Crafts: Rope, Crafts: Spring, Crafts: Watercolors, Holiday: Shavuot, Holiday: Tu B'Shevat Crafts
Watercolor One Stroke Leaves On Branches
With just a few very simpe techniques under your belt the mystery of painting simple and beautiful watercolor illustrations becomes so much clearer! I’ll admit, learning how to paint leaves with just one stroke was a new one for me, and I am in love with this technique! Yesterday I shared with you my fern leaf watercolors, and today we’re going for a denser bush/tree look by painting leaves on delicate branches. So get out those round watercolor brushes and some watercolor paper, or at the least round brushes and paint of any kind, and lets get started!
- Crafts: Painting, Crafts: Painting and Drawing, Crafts: Spring, Crafts: Watercolors, Holiday: Pesach/Passover, Watercolors
How To Paint Red Poppies With Watercolors
After the holiday rush I decided that it was truly time to start dedicating some time to learning some new artsy skills, which really doesn’t have to take a whole lot of time or money courtesy of skillshare, which I am happy to say is truly an amazing site with sooooo many great things to learn. I totally recommend it, and when you click HERE, you can get 3 months for 99cents, really folks, don’t miss out on this one. (Or click on the ad below for a free month, but I’d go with the 99 cents.) Given my wide range of interests I had a hard time figuring out where…
- Baby Gifts and Decor, Baby Shower Ideas, Bat and Bar Mitzvah Decorations, Birthday Decorations, Crafts for Mom, Crafts: Felt, Crafts: Flowers, Crafts: Spring, Crafts:Flowers, Holiday: Shavuot, Wedding Decorations
Square Wreath With Felt Flowers Is Sweet Anytime!
The Jewish holiday of Shavuout starts tonight, and our door is decorated with this sweet little square wreath adorned with felt flowers! (A little disclaimer: door wreaths are decidedly un-Jewish if you delve into their origin, and I generally try not to use the word wreath, but for the sake of folks finding this post, well I just couldn't think of another word that would suffice.) Round floral wreaths are a symbol of military funerals and memorial day, so I went with a fun variation of a square wreath which actually reminds me of a trellis, perfect! This project came about as I had a bunch of felt chrysanthemum flowers…
