Make a Washi Tape Rainbow

Two easy ways to make a washi tape rainbow

It’s National Craft Month (though, honestly, who really needs a special month to think about crafting?) and a bunch of bloggers are joining forces to share colorful, creative crafts that will get you inspired, too. This week’s theme is all about colorful crafts, and I thought about the fantastic colorful rolls of tape we inherited […]

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Make Tissue Paper Flowers

Make tissue paper flowers to brighten your day

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 cutouts of stems and a […]

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An Artistic Do-Over

Fix a mistake in a project with an artistic do-over

Remember that strange little bird from yesterday? It didn’t turn out the way I wanted. Though I wanted to totally go with the flow on this project, that felt like a mistake, and I didn’t want to keep it. When you make a mistake or want to start over on a slow art project, you […]

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Draw with Paint Pens

Add some personality to your slow art project by drawing with paint pens.

We’ve covered our slow art canvases with paint, paper, more paint and fabric, and now it’s time to draw. I had some paint pens I’d purchased for a long-ago project that I decided to use to draw with paint pens on my canvas. Admittedly, my canvas was a little busy for a drawing, and my […]

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Playing with Fabric Scraps

Add fabric on top of the paint on your canvas

Once I had all my paint down I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to do next with my slow art project. I started thinking about fabric scraps or more paper to give it a collage look. I went through my fabric drawer, where all the little random bits end up, and found a couple […]

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