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craftgrrlThese are so fun and inexpensive too. And maybe you might just consider a few of these ideas!
Take an ice-cream cone template, find one with cut out ice-cream shapes, take pictures of your kids, and your kid’s friends, or any picture that will fit in the ice-cream scoop part of the picture cut to fit paste on and laminate with clear contact paper.
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If you wanted to make Christmas ornaments, find Christmas icons, like sancta, a wreath, a bell, a dove, ect ect. Print out put onto cardstock color then laminate with contact paper, and these are so fun to do. I would recommend also surfing the web for pintables, and craft sites and suggestions, those sites can take you a long long way, on the road to creativity. I go to http://www.dltk-kids.com to search their archives for crafts to do. I especially love their fun foam penguins. I love their harvest angel’s as well, and I shrink them down to size and make them Christmas ornaments, I just leave out the pumpkin, they also have a angel specifically for Christmas.
If you have cable look for the show Creative Juice, it’s an awesome show for creative idea’s or go to DIYnetwork.com and look under crafts, then the show Creative Juice, you can find all their projects that they did on the show on the website.
Michaels has 40 percent off coupons all the time, and I like to get their hard bound artist journals, medium size or large, and you can glue a picture onto the front that you have printed and colored, and then with packing tape from the dollar store, or contact paper cover the image to keep it from getting messed up. I made a book of Hello Kitty pictures, dragons, and other images for a now X, and I put a nice little heart print out I found on the inside, and I dedicated the book to him.
Also there are those clear glass gems you put in fake flower arrangement vases, they make awesome crafts too. I get the jumbo kind, and I cut pretty designs like from clothes out of magazines and paste the pictures onto the backs of the gems with a little Fabric tack glue, and then glue them to paper plates, the non glossy cheapie kind and cut them out. You can also paint on them, I’ve done that with puff paint and regular paint, but if you do that I recommend, using a paint meant for glass. You can also turn them into magnets, or get the kids, if there's any girls to get some headbands, they come like 3 for 2 .37 at Wal-Mart, * the dollar store is also our friend, I’ve picked up tons of cute crafts, and scrap book papers at the dollar store* and get a hot glue gun, and glue those gems they just created onto their head-band. Hey, they don’t even have to be for kids, their so fun and funky, why not wear them yourself!!! Pony beads go great with headbands, so does puff paint. If you use plastic get Goop 6000, because hot glue will melt the plastic.
Iron on’s are fun too, I glue them onto the head-band, press and there you have it. One cuter than original head-band. Sequins and pom poms, and those glitter gems, try anything.
The hardware store, unbelievably enough, has some craft potential too. Go to the nuts and bolts isle, and find some small medium or large washers, for a few cents each, the large ones I wanted were 37 cents, cut out cute scrap booking paper you found, or you can print paper, but it needs to be an ink jet, so copy at Kinko’s if you don’t have ink jet, and paste onto the washer, then using Diamond Glaze thoroughly cover the paper and then string some cord through, and poof, you have a pendant. One tip though, the washers will have a smooth-ish edge and a rough edge, put the smooth edge to the skin.
I also enjoy finding soap molds and candy making molds, and finding the craft plaster of Paris, and mixing up those up, and then painting the ones that come out. Much cheaper, than buying pre made limited shapes from the store. Make sure your water is ice cold, it slows down the set up process, and so you can mix and stir better. Pour slowly and mix slowly so you do not form air bubbles. Then when they’ve set up, takes about 30 minutes, pop them out by pounding on the back of the molds. Make sure you have something soft under the mold to catch the falling piece. Paint then spray with a sealer!
Take an ice-cream cone template, find one with cut out ice-cream shapes, take pictures of your kids, and your kid’s friends, or any picture that will fit in the ice-cream scoop part of the picture cut to fit paste on and laminate with clear contact paper.
t
If you wanted to make Christmas ornaments, find Christmas icons, like sancta, a wreath, a bell, a dove, ect ect. Print out put onto cardstock color then laminate with contact paper, and these are so fun to do. I would recommend also surfing the web for pintables, and craft sites and suggestions, those sites can take you a long long way, on the road to creativity. I go to http://www.dltk-kids.com to search their archives for crafts to do. I especially love their fun foam penguins. I love their harvest angel’s as well, and I shrink them down to size and make them Christmas ornaments, I just leave out the pumpkin, they also have a angel specifically for Christmas.
If you have cable look for the show Creative Juice, it’s an awesome show for creative idea’s or go to DIYnetwork.com and look under crafts, then the show Creative Juice, you can find all their projects that they did on the show on the website.
Michaels has 40 percent off coupons all the time, and I like to get their hard bound artist journals, medium size or large, and you can glue a picture onto the front that you have printed and colored, and then with packing tape from the dollar store, or contact paper cover the image to keep it from getting messed up. I made a book of Hello Kitty pictures, dragons, and other images for a now X, and I put a nice little heart print out I found on the inside, and I dedicated the book to him.
Also there are those clear glass gems you put in fake flower arrangement vases, they make awesome crafts too. I get the jumbo kind, and I cut pretty designs like from clothes out of magazines and paste the pictures onto the backs of the gems with a little Fabric tack glue, and then glue them to paper plates, the non glossy cheapie kind and cut them out. You can also paint on them, I’ve done that with puff paint and regular paint, but if you do that I recommend, using a paint meant for glass. You can also turn them into magnets, or get the kids, if there's any girls to get some headbands, they come like 3 for 2 .37 at Wal-Mart, * the dollar store is also our friend, I’ve picked up tons of cute crafts, and scrap book papers at the dollar store* and get a hot glue gun, and glue those gems they just created onto their head-band. Hey, they don’t even have to be for kids, their so fun and funky, why not wear them yourself!!! Pony beads go great with headbands, so does puff paint. If you use plastic get Goop 6000, because hot glue will melt the plastic.
Iron on’s are fun too, I glue them onto the head-band, press and there you have it. One cuter than original head-band. Sequins and pom poms, and those glitter gems, try anything.
The hardware store, unbelievably enough, has some craft potential too. Go to the nuts and bolts isle, and find some small medium or large washers, for a few cents each, the large ones I wanted were 37 cents, cut out cute scrap booking paper you found, or you can print paper, but it needs to be an ink jet, so copy at Kinko’s if you don’t have ink jet, and paste onto the washer, then using Diamond Glaze thoroughly cover the paper and then string some cord through, and poof, you have a pendant. One tip though, the washers will have a smooth-ish edge and a rough edge, put the smooth edge to the skin.
I also enjoy finding soap molds and candy making molds, and finding the craft plaster of Paris, and mixing up those up, and then painting the ones that come out. Much cheaper, than buying pre made limited shapes from the store. Make sure your water is ice cold, it slows down the set up process, and so you can mix and stir better. Pour slowly and mix slowly so you do not form air bubbles. Then when they’ve set up, takes about 30 minutes, pop them out by pounding on the back of the molds. Make sure you have something soft under the mold to catch the falling piece. Paint then spray with a sealer!
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