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Cut Paper to Put Over a Painting {Craft Challenge, Day 73}

Sarah White March 13, 2016 Painting / Paper Crafts and DrawingLeave a comment

Today’s challenge was inspired in part by the paper cutting book I was reading and in part by a super simple Valentine’s card I once made with a drawing of the girl’s. It’s easy to cut paper in simple shapes — or even not-so-simple shapes — and use the cutout …

Draw Shadow Flowers {Craft Challenge, Day 68}

Sarah White March 8, 2016 Paper Crafts and DrawingLeave a comment

I really hate that I’m not good at drawing. Today’s challenge was meant to be drawing flowers, but I just could not get it even close to right. Laughably bad. And while I don’t have time to learn to draw right now, I would really love to, so I hope …

Make Tissue Paper Flowers

Sarah White March 7, 2016 Paper Crafts and DrawingLeave a comment

Here’s another creative idea that was inspired by a book, though the book version is immensely more detailed and cuter. The inspiring project is the Cut Tissue Paper Greeting Card by Cynthia Shaffer in the book Beautiful Paper Cutting. Hers really is beautiful, with pretty layers of flowers and cardstock …

Crocheted Flower Hair Clips

Sarah White February 2, 2016 Crochet2 Comments

There’s always an Iron Craft Challenge around Valentine’s Day to make something involving hearts and/or flowers. Last year I made these adorable crocheted hearts and a little felt envelope to put them in. They have been a huge hit and were perfect when the girl transitioned to kindergarten this year. …

In Which I Pretend to Know How to Crochet {Iron Craft}

Sarah White March 25, 2014 Crafts / Iron Craft / Yarn CraftLeave a comment

This week’s Iron Craft challenge was to make something with string. Since knitting is my job, I usually try not to knit for these challenges, because I want them to be fun and to be something different from what I usually craft. I’d been reading the super fun book Arne …