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It’s time to announce our winner of last week’s Free Stuff Friday! Congratulations to… Cath! Enjoy  your kids craft clay prize pack!

We’re giving you hours of entertainment with 11 ounces of polymer clay, a primary pack of EZ Shape Modeling Clay, Neon HandiTAK that doesn’t dry out and sticks to anything, a Clay Text Embossing Set to imprint words and symbols on your clay creations, and a Zoo Growth Chart with an animal themed chart and a keespake clay kit to preserve your growing child’s handprint!

The winning answer to “What is your favorite Board or Card Game?” is…

“I love playing Scrabble with my son.”

Every Friday we’ll post a giveaway on Think Crafts and all you have to do is comment on the blog post answering the question of the week.  Check back on Friday for your chance to win!!

We’re all excited it’s Friday for a lot of reasons, one is that it’s time to give away another fabulous prize!

Enter today to win a  kids craft clay prize pack! We’re giving you hours of entertainment with 11 ounces of polymer clay, a primary pack of EZ Shape Modeling Clay, Neon HandiTAK that doesn’t dry out and sticks to anything, a Clay Text Embossing Set to imprint words and symbols on your clay creations, and a Zoo Growth Chart with an animal themed chart and a keespake clay kit to preserve your growing child’s handprint!

Every Friday we’ll post a giveaway on Think Crafts and all you have to do is comment on the blog post answering the question of the week. We’ll pick the winners and contact them via email. Deadline is midnight tonight and the winner will be announced Monday. One entry per person please.

Question of the week: What is your favorite Board or Card Game?

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By Craft Trends Contributor, Gillian from the blog Dried Figs and Wooden Spools. Check out our Craft Trends board on Pinterest!

This may be aging myself, but I went to college right at the beginning of the Fimo/modeling clay craze. Everywhere you looked someone was making something out of that stuff. Layered beads, talismans, disk pendants, key chains. It was hot. And I’ve always lied it, probably in part because it reminds me of those days. But also because of it’s infinite uses and applications. Lately I’ve been really digging textured clay. I love the idea of cutting buttons or beads or little pieces of pottery out of clay that has been stamped or rolled into interesting textures. And the best part is that you need very little by way of special equipment to carry it out. Roll a pinecone over the surface or press leaves or flowers into freshly rolled clay, anything with texture is fair game! Need some more ideas? Check out these projects we’ve rounded up!

Clay Art – Urban Comfort

These bowls and plates are simply stunning. I can hardly get over how beautiful they are. I’d love to make a collection of little bowls for my hose similar to these, using items for nature to do my stamping and then forming simple shapes for jewelry dishes or catch-alls. Beautiful!

DIY: Salt Dough Eggs – Design Mom

I know that Easter is long gone but I’m still loving these egg ornaments! They would make such  a fun spring project to do with the little ones and you could use forks and knives or simple stamps to emboss them before baking and painting them. Can’t you just imagine a tree outside decorated with them for spring?

Hello, Plum Magnets! – Design Sponge

These magnets’ bright candy colors and deep embossing attracted me from the moment I saw them. You could make them for different family members and use initialed magnets to display special notes and artwork on your fridge. I think they would also be fun as buttons (you could poke holes in them or add a shank to the back before the clay dries). Colorful, cute and functional! I love it!

Have you done any embossed or textured clay projects lately? Send us a photo and we’ll add it to our pinboard! Find these and lots of other project ideas on our Craft Trends Pinboard!

By Crafts-a lot Contributor, Mable who is an avid reader of craft blogs & magazines and is always looking to improve her crafting skills. Join Mable on Facebook to socialize and share with other crafters!

Spring is in the air and Easter is just around the corner! From outdoor crafts to Easter Eggs to decor, we’ve had a lot of fun coming up with new projects to welcome the wonderful, colorful spring season. We’re looking back on our favorite springtime projects at Think Crafts, and can’t wait to make them again this year!

Birdie Buffet

In 2010, we welcomed the chirping birds to our backyards with these adorable recycled bird feeders.

Seed Bombs

Last year, we brought flower “bombs” to vacant lots and gardens with clay seed bombs.

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It’s the best day of the week again! Not only do you have the whole weekend to look forward to, but you’ll also have a chance to win a fun prize to fulfill crafty wishes you didn’t even know you had! Test out your mixed-media crafting with the Art-C Mixed Media Art Prize Package!

This prize package includes two fine sponge dabbers, 8 glitter mist sprayers that can be used to add a glittery sheen to any surface, and lightweight air drying modelling clay! Use these materials for collages, 3D wall art, or any number of other imaginative projects.

Every Friday we’ll post a giveaway on Think Crafts and all you have to do is comment on the blog post answering the question of the week. We’ll pick the winners and contact them via email. Deadline is midnight tonight and the winner will be announced Monday. One entry per person please.

Question of the week:  What are your New Year’s Resolutions?

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By Craft Trends Contributor, Gillian from the blog Dried Figs and Wooden Spools. Check out our Craft Trends board on Pinterest!

Capturing your child’s thumbprint, whether in paint, clay or marker, is both a great way to keep a precious moment in their life as well as a great crafting technique. Thumbprints in crafts have long been a fun way to play with mediums for kids (and adults for that matter, the kids can’t have all the fun!) and there are so many possibilities for ways to use them these days.

(Fancy Frugal Life: Click Image for Source)

These thumbprint turkeys are just adorable and such a cute addition to the holiday table. My daughter has been making them for our family and I know I’ll be tucking them away in a few weeks in the keep forever file because I do so love them. I’m sure you will to and what a fun rainy day activity for the whole family!

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Here’s another take on the same craft, but instead of plates, use mugs! Just imagine drinking your morning coffee from these cute thankful mugs, what a great way to start your day! I bet the grandparents would love a pair as well (hint hint! The holidays are coming!)

(Alisa Burke: Click Image for Source)

These jellyfish are built around kids finger and thumbprints and wow, are they beautiful. I’m amazed by their elegance, and by the way they combine something simple, like a fingerprint, with the beauty of a great watercolor painting. I love them! I want them! Really, I want one.

And while we’re talking about wanting, I want a gift with a tag like that. I mean, how cute is this little owl? Adorable! And so simple. I mean, you could thumbprint up a couple of dozen tags so you have them standing by through the year! Love love love!

Have you done any thumbprint related crafts lately? Check out the how-to’s on these and others by popping over to your craft trends pinboards!

We have a winner, and that lucky winner is…Ren!  Congratulations Ren you have won this Clay pack from Martha Stewart Crafts!

Ren’s winning answer to ”What food item did you over indulge in yesterday?” was…

Sweet potatoes topped with real maple syrup and gooey melted marshmallows.

Congratulations, and we hope you enjoy you prize!  ps.  Those sweet potatoes sound divine.

Every Friday we’ll post a giveaway on Think Crafts and all you have to do is comment on the blog post answering the question of the week.  Check back on Friday for your chance to win!!