Craft Ideas Photography Shack Guide
Craft Ideas To Create Your Art
By Sylvia Adolvana
When the weather outside gets frightful, you can keep
busy with some fun arts and crafts for kids. Kids crafts
are surprisingly easy and inexpensive and it’s
a great way to encourage youngsters to be creative.
As a bonus, you can keep their craft projects as treasured
mementos for years to come.
Christmas cards don’t have to be just for Christmas.
They are so beautiful that they can be used for a variety
of art and craft pieces. Collect cards that have beautiful
winter scenes on them and turn them into scented sachets
that are decorative enough for any room.
Making Scented Sachets
To make the sachets, simply glue the bottom and side
edges of the card together and then slip a small amount
of potpourri or cotton balls dampened with your favorite
scent into the space. Use a hole punch to make two holes
on the top edge, through which you can thread a pretty
ribbon before tying a bow. Leftover or recycled ribbon
from Christmas is ideal. If you leave a loop in the
ribbon, the sachets can be hung on door handles, coat
hooks or hangers.
Old greeting cards, ornaments and even buttons can
really come in handy. Collect small glass jars or buy
some cheap candle votive jars. Cut out pretty scenes,
flowers, or shapes like stars and squiggles, and glue
them to the jar.
Personalized Candle Holders
You can even collect letters to spell out your name.
Gold, silver and sparkly/glittery objects look especially
beautiful when the candlelight shines through the jar.
Simply glue the cutouts to the jars and you’ll have
beautiful, personalized candle holders for your home.
If you love the beauty of stained glass windows, then
you can review your options and get the same look at
home in no time with glass paint motifs. You’ll
need paints specifically made for craft ideas involving
glass, a glass paint outliner in black, a stable acetate
sheet and a template.
Making The Templates
You can make templates yourself out of cardboard. Candlesticks,
religious icons like crosses, and butterflies are all
popular choices but you can make whatever interests
you. Start by laying the acetate foil over the pattern.
Trace the design onto the foil using the outliner paint.
Once the paint is dry, you can paint inside the lines
either in one solid color or a variety of colors. Once
the colors dry, cut the motif out and fasten it to the
window with scotch tape with the painted side facing
out.
Keeping The Family Busy During School Breaks
Crafts for kids are a fun and inexpensive way to keep
the family busy during school breaks. However, make
sure that you use non toxic paints and markers that
are washable, and always do the cutting yourself. If
you’re looking for craft ideas, then hit the bookstore
for some great craft books or go online.
You can find great projects and patterns on the web
that you can simply print out. Most importantly, have
a great time getting crafty with your kids.
About the Author:
Sylvia Adolvana is an author of articles on crafts, digital photography and software including
Red Eye in Portraits,
Adobe Upgrade,
Photo Albums,
Photo Enhancement,
Small Digital Cameras,
Create DVDs,
DVD Burner Software,
Family Web Site,
Bridal Portraits,
Wedding Photos,
Wedding Announcements.
Keep a lookout for more articles coming soon.
More Crafts Ideas....
You have probably heard the statement that the most
heartfelt gifts are those created by your own hand.
Parents know this. They look forward to those scribbles
from their toddlers. It is a sign that someone took
the time out of their day to do something for you. You
were in their thoughts.
If you want to give a more personal gift to someone
you love, doing a craft may be the best idea. Most crafts
are surprisingly easy and there are tons of reliable
sources to find all the projects that you could possibly
want.
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