Egg Carton Wreath

Crafts, Green Crafting, Guest Bloggers, Holidays, Home Decor, Kid's Crafts, Spring 8 Comments

By Guest Blogger Jennifer from the blog Brave New Home

Follow along with Jennifer as she embarks on the overwhelming journey of transforming her current house into a dream home. Jennifer hopes to inspire and motivate everyone who reads her blog to create their dream spaces no matter the size or budget.

Recycle Old Egg Cartons to Make a Floral Wreath with Brave New Home - ThinkCrafts.com

When I came across this bright and intriguing wreath on Pinterest, I had to do a double take.  A wreath made of egg cartons?  Genius!  After heading over to the corresponding blogfor directions, I thought, What an easy project and one that my son will enjoy creating, too.  Sound the buzzer.  Wrong!  But in the end, it was such a cute wreath and a present I’m sure oma (grandma) will enjoy : ]

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Retro Fitted Mini Album Layout Parts 1, 2, & 3

Crafts, Guest Bloggers, Holidays, Paper Crafts, Scrapbooking, Techniques and Mediums 6 Comments

By Guest Blogger Kathy Orta from the Blog Paper Phenomenon

Paper Phenomenon is full of in-depth tutorials and kits for your next scrapbooking project. Be sure to check out Kathy’s YouTube channel for step-by-step page making instructions and how-to’s for different scrapbooking tools and attend her scrapbooking classes online at her UStream Channel every Monday at 2 PM Central Time and Friday at 7 PM Central Time!

To celebrate National Scrapbook Day all month long, Kathy will be sharing her tutorial for a Retro Fitted Mini Album Layout every Saturday in May! If you love this layout, be sure to click the links above for even more tutorials and scrapbooking tips and check back next week for parts 4 and 5!

Parts 1 & 2:

Part 3:

Do you have a layout you’d love to share? Enter our Scrapbook Layout Contest and you could win a $150 CreateForLess Gift Card!

Make Your Own File Folders

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By Guest Blogger Kathy Orta from the Blog Paper Phenomenon

Paper Phenomenon is full of in-depth tutorials and kits for your next scrapbooking project. Be sure to check out Kathy’s YouTube channel for step-by-step page making instructions and how-to’s for different scrapbooking tools and attend her scrapbooking classes online at her UStream Channel every Monday at 2 PM Central Time and Friday at 7 PM Central Time!

Envelope Punch Board

The We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board is an amazing product for making perfect envelopes every time, but did you know that you can also use it to create your own file folders? You can easily make this typically boring office supply fit your style with some colorful cardstock!

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“Art Class” 12×12 Scrapbook Page

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By Guest Blogger Kay Williamson of Club Scrap

Learn high quality techniques and unique ways to jazz up your scrapbooks over at the Club Scrap blog, and join the Club Scrap Kit Club for fun themed scrapbooking.

Make a statement by adding minimal color to a scrapbook page

May 4th is National Scrapbooking Day, and before you break out all of your fun embellishments and stickers, consider taking a minimalist approach for a few of your pages. Using the less is more philosophy for this page, I only used color in three areas of this layout – in the title, the photo, and a rubber stamped embellishment. The rest of the page is basically black & white only.

I altered the 5×7 photo in Photoshop leaving only the actual art project color remaining. Then using Club Scrap’s “Color” rubber stamp , I stamped the image on five different cardstock colors and trimmed out the letters within.

Color and Cardstock

After attaching the trimmed out letters with black mini foam squares, I had a fun embellishment that complimented my page well.

3D Color

Using acrylic paint to color the American Crafts Thickers Alpha Stickers was a good finishing touch I think.

So with or without a lot of color on your pages – enjoy National Scrapbooking Day!!

Easy Stained Glass Art

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By Guest Blogger Jackie from the blog Happy Hooligans

Jackie writes about the daily happenings in her small home daycare.  Her blog, Happy Hooligans, is chock full of easy and affordable art, crafts and activities for toddlers and preschoolers.

Stained Glass Kids Craft

You may have seen our Eric Carle Easter Eggs recently, which were inspired by Dilly Dali Art’s Eric Carle post.  Our egg project had us painting on waxed paper for the first time, and it was such a beautiful process, I thought we’d experiment a little more, using that kind of canvas.

I really didn’t have any set project in mind when we started out.  The process just kind of evolved as we were painting.

Gather Your Supplies:

Stained Glass Materials

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Paper Towel Butterflies

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By Guest Blogger Jackie from the blog Happy Hooligans

Jackie writes about the daily happenings in her small home daycare.  Her blog, Happy Hooligans, is chock full of easy and affordable art, crafts and activities for toddlers and preschoolers.

The hooligans were experimenting with food coloring and medicine droppers (or pipettes) today, and we created these simple and sweet paper towel butterflies with the results of their activity.

Paper Towel Butterflies by Guest Blogger Jackie at ThinkCrafts.com

We do this activity at least once every year here our daycare because it’s always popular no matter how old or young the children are.

Materials

What you’ll need:

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Glow-in-the-Dark Jellyfish

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By Guest Blogger Kristin from the blog Craftiments

Though Kristin states that all of the crafts and tutorials in her blog are experiments, she shares beautiful home decor, sewing tutorials,  and fun kid’s crafts on Craftiments.

Glow in the Dark Jellyfish by Guest Blogger Kristin of Craftiments

My girls have been fascinated with jellyfish since seeing hundreds of them washed up onto New Smyrna Beach last summer.  Together we crafted a sting-free variety out of paper bowls, yarn and glow-in-the-dark acrylic paint. Would you like to learn how?

Materials

Directions

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