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I’ve always wanted to travel around the world, but let’s face it…for many of us that just isn’t possible. Instead, we can sit down and watch movies and read books to escape to another place. Well, you can also escape to another place with this …
Every year I sit down and make up a wide variety of different Christmas ornaments. I like to make handcrafted holiday ornaments and then attach them to my packages and gift bags. They make for a little extra-gift and they are something that the gift …
During the holiday season I enjoy getting crafty. I will sit down and make a few holiday gifts and I enjoy making my own Christmas greeting cards. I’ve been crafting since I was 14 years old and over the past 30+ years, I’ve gotten even better at it.
If you’ve always wanted to make your own Holiday & Christmas Greeting Cards, but didn’t know where to start, I’ve got a great book & craft kit to tell you about today. It’s one of the easiest ways you can make your own holiday greeting cards this year!
Title: Very Merry Coloring
ISBN-10: 1-4405-9848-7
Publisher: Adams Media
Very Merry Coloring – Celebrate the Season with 20 Tear-Out Coloring Cards is a super cool craft book and kit! Get cozy with your colored pencils & Very Merry Coloring!
Inside this book you’ll find 20 tear-out cards featuring intricate holiday illustrations, from snowy village scenes to festively trimmed trees. Color them in, tear them out and hang them as decorations, use them as personalized gift tags or send them out to family & friends. It’s a unique way to share the joy of coloring and to a unique way to come up with your own creative greeting cards!
Each of the designs is printed on it’s own page and printed onto heavy-weight cardstock. This means that you can easily use these as package tags, holiday decorations, holiday postcards or attach them onto the front of blank cardstock greeting cards to come up with your own cards! You can find packages of 25 or 50 blank cardstock greeting cards at your local craft supply store. Once your design has been colored, trim it to fit onto the blank card front and attach it by using glue dots or a glue stick. Then write your message inside and you’re done!
I love the variety of different holiday designs you get with this one. You’ll find classic Christmas, Whimsical, Vintage and Modern designs all mixed together. Every one of these designs are beautiful and would make a great holiday greeting card.
When I do paper projects like this and/or projects from adult coloring books, I like to use my Smart Color Art – Gel Ink Pens in pretty metallic and glitter colors. You can read all about these coloring pens in another post that I wrote. I highly recommend them!
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If you’ve been reading this blog, you’ll already know that I love to craft. I enjoy scrapbooking, cardmaking, paper crafts, crochet, cross stitching, modeling clay, jewelry making and all sorts of other things. Matter of fact, I often share various craft projects that I’ve made …
Adult coloring books are all of the rage these days, but what do you do with all of those beautiful pages that you colored? Well, if your a crafter, you can cut them down-to-size and use them on your scrapbooking pages, on your handmade greeting …
We travel a lot and most of the destinations we visit are on the Atlantic coast. On top of that, I’m an extensive shell collector and have amassed quite the collection over the past 30 years.
On a recent trip down to the beach house we made out like bandits collecting all kinds of different shells that had washed up onto the beach. I got over 50 nice sized conch & whelk shells, olive shells, clam shells, moon shells and many others! I came home with 2 large bags and one large box full of seashells! With that said, it’s important that you ONLY collect shells that have been abandoned by the previous occupant. You never want to “kill” an animal to just get their shell. That’s wrong, so please ONLY collect empty shells!
We had several large surf clam shells and most of them I break up and put into my flower beds or drill holes into them for stringing into wind chimes and other things. I had several large ones leftover and we decided to turn them into little trinket dishes. I did this particular project with my 6 1/2 year old little grand daughter. Due to the type of glue used…adult supervision is definitely needed. Hot glue and general all-purpose glue didn’t work for us.
You can use these as trinket dishes, soap dishes, burn little tea light candles in them…all kinds of little things! My mother has a little bit of natural sand in her’s and has air plants in them. Super cute!
Seashell Clam Shell Trinket Dish
E6000 Glue Adhesive
1 Bag Faux Sea Glass
Large Clam Shells (cleaned)
I bought my bag of the faux sea glass gems at my local dollar store for $1.00 and got about 40 of them in the bag. They were mixed colors of green, blue, aqua and clear.
Lay down some waxed paper onto your working surface. Make sure you use large clam shells that have been washed and are thoroughly dry. Make sure you remove any crusty stuff from them.
The E6000 adhesive glue is very strong and you only need a little bit. Please handle it with care when working with it. It’s a strong adhesive that will get those glass jewels to stick onto the bottom of your clam shell forever!!!
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Lay the clam shell on a flat surface and balance it on 2 of the faux sea glass stones so that it doesn’t tip. Take a marker and mark a dot on the bottom of the shell where the sea glass stones will go. Each shell will need to be balanced and the faux sea glass stones will be positioned slightly different.
Flip the shell upside down and add a pea-sized dot of glue onto the marked spot. Push the faux sea glass stone into the glue. Repeat for the second stone. Let the shell sit like this for about 5 minutes. Flip it over onto the flat surface and make sure the balance has been retained. If so, let it sit for several hours to finish drying. If not, slightly re-position the stones so that the clam shell doesn’t tilt.
Once it has completely dried…it’s done! I left mine in it’s natural form (I like natural and nature) but you could certainly spray it with a high-gloss, clear finish sealer if desired.
This week’s installment of “Crafting with Kids” is a project that is geared towards the older kids, teens and adults. I would say that children ages 6 and up could make these with adult supervision. My 6 1/2 year old grand daughter and I made …
If you’ve been following this blog for the past 6 months or so…you’ll already know that many of the writers here on the blog love the adult coloring book trend. While I didn’t jump on the trend myself right away…I did jump on it recently …