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When we were kids we were always encouraged to make handmade gifts for our near and dear ones. With the festival season around, I thought of this quick and easy photo frame craft project. Kids can make this project themselves or with some supervision and it can be a great gift for family or friends. Following supplies are needed for the project : - Unfinished wooden photo-frame (easily available in craft stores) - Felt ( red , orange and green) - Acrylic paint (yellow) - Varnish - Paintbrush - Embroidery thread(yellow, green) and needle - Glue and Scissors I painted the unfinished wooden photo frame with yellow acrylic paint. After the paint dried, I applied a coat of varnish to give it a finished look. You can use the color of your choice or if you want you may even use a plain finished photoframe and embellish it using the felt flowers. For the flowers I used red and orange felt and arranged them as shown in the picture. I also cut leaves using green felt.The felt I have used in th...

Last night when I was back from shopping and was unlocking my front door it looked plain. That inspired this Snowman Christmas wreath. Luckily I had the plain Christmas wreath from my last visit to Michaels. This Snowman wreath is result of the supplies I already at home. Thanks to my various projects earlier. Supplies you need -Christmas Wreath (not decorated) -Wired Ribbon or Bow -Wire -Snowman toy -Christmas Ornaments Gold color -Berry bunches -Garland -Silver The bow is made by making loops of the wired ribbon holding it between your thumb and index finger and then winding a wire at center. Cut the ends as shown in the pictures. The ornaments and the berries are joined together using wire and then tied on the wreath. Snowman is also fixed using wire. Pierce two holes about 1 inch apart at the base and pass wire through it. Use the wire ends to tie them to the wreath. The beautiful Snowman Christmas is ready to be hung. Tip: You can decorate your wreath with pine cones, different...

This simple christmas wreath is easy to make too. You can use this for your christmas decoration in multiple ways. As a Christmas wreath on your front door or to make your existing decoration extra special. I have used this as a decorative base to my wedding ring holder. You can use this as decorating any ceramic piece of art, eg a ceramic fairy. Supplies you need: Chrismas wreath (readymade basic) Double crepe paper - Red Pollens Floral Wire- 12 pieces of 2 inches Scissors Glue Plain green christmas wreath is available in craft stores in various sizes. For making this Bouganvillea wreath you will need 12 bouganvillea flowers. You can increase the number of flowers if your wreath is bigger. For making one Bouganvillea crepe flower you need to cut 3 petals from red double crepe paper. Use the template in 100% size. As explained in detail in some previous posts attach pollen to the floral wire. Now using your thumb curve the cut petals outside. As shown in picture attach 3 petals aroun...

Today was like one of those days when I end up making a quick and cute craft with my daughter with no previous plan. In fact I must say she was the one who inspired me for this craft. She has a Hello Kitty purse and said draw Kitty cat. She was not impressed by my drawing of it on Doodle Pro. She then said make Kitty cat. Just like a flash I got an idea of creating a Refrigerator Magnet of Kitty cat inspired from the cute face of famous Hello Kitty series. This is how I made this craft with my 23 month old daughter. Supplies you will need : - Air dry clay white -Acrylic Paint: Red, White, Yellow and Black -Painting bush -Craft Glue -Magnetic strip -Craft knife or Scissors I used one pack of Crayola Model Magic Single packs . Just follow the illustrations to make this project. It is that simple. Detailed step wise instructions to make Kitty cat craft :Just in case you need them. Use the existing width of the clay pack (roughly 1 ½”) cut a length of about 1”. Use the existing thicknes...

I love making clay flowers. This flower arrangement is one of my favorites. It has just one rose but its simplicity is what appeals to me. The colors red and white remind me of the festivity of Christmas and Snow in winter season. Following supplies are needed for the project : - Air dry clay - Red, White and Green( I used Deco brand colored clay for red rose. You can add color to white air dry clay to get the colored clay) - Floral Wire and Wire cutter - Red Pollens - Floral tape - Pointed clay tool or a bamboo skewer or a toothpick (for white flowers) - Acrylic or any water based paint (to color the clay) - Scissors - Flower vase Refer our previous posts on clay flowers for instructions to make clay roses, cherry blossoms and the fillers. The only difference between the white flowers and the cherry blossoms illustrated in previous post is that I have not cut notches in the petals. Make sufficient number of white flowers to surround the rose in the center. I ended up making 16 of ...

Like many of you I have already set up the Christmas tree and the lights are already twinkling. Every year I decorate the tree in my own way. Yes, you guessed it right - most of my ornaments are handmade. This year I made one with my daughter. She was more excited about this quick and easy Christmas photo ornament. Excited because it was her photo that I was about to put. The photograph we chose is the one where she is mere 6 months old and giving that perfect smile. I suggest you let your child pick their favorites if they are old enough to do so. Let me walk you through this project quickly. Supplies you will need: - Card stock white - Child's photo - Scissors - Glue - Paper Quilling strips : white and red - Glitter - Ribbon : Golden color - Paper quilling tool or barbecue stick This is a very easy project.Cut the photo into a 2" diameter circle and the outer card stock into 2 pieces of 2.5" diameter circle. The lace is glued using all purpose glue. As it is a circle, m...

This is one of the simplest and cutest craft I made. Simplest because I keep making roses. Once you get a hang of it they are not as difficult as they seem to be. And this is something I made very quickly,without much thought and my hubby loved it. This is one of his favorite ones. This festive craft is perfect for Christmas as I have used the famous green Christmas bushes,silver basket brings the festivity and red roses add the love. Supplies needed : - Basket preferably silver - Styrofoam -green - Double crepe Paper -Red - Green Christmas Bushes - Glue - Floral wire - Floral tape - Scissors Prepare the basket by cutting the Styrofoam equal to the size of the basket base. Make sure that it is little lower than the top of the basket base. Fix the Styrofoam inside the basket. You might want to use glue to make it more secure. Make five roses as shown in the earlier post of Paper Flower Arrangement . Keep the stem half inch longer than the depth of the basket so that the flower is little...

This one is a very personal project. I wanted to add a personal touch to the favors for friends at my baby shower. I decorated these favor boxes using paper quilling and border punches. The baby rattle was made using paper quilling. Once I figured out the design for the rattle making multiple ones was not that hard. The first one took quite some time to complete. I also added jingle bells to the rattle for added interest. The blue lace on top and bottom was made using card stock and Martha Stewart's half daisy edger punch . You can use pink/blue theme for rattles too. I only used blue lace pattern in the boxes for unifying the box decoration with the theme color. Following is another picture of the favor boxes with kids favors at the baby shower venue. My friends loved them and so do I :). I have kept one for myself too as a souvenir of the special day.