Tag: watercolor
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Play with Watercolors!
For today’s Creative Play Challenge, we’re going to play with watercolors. One of the things I like most about watercolors is that there is such a low barrier to entry. A child can make fun splotches of color, an artist can paint intricate paintings, and everyone in between can have fun. Our goal this week…
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How to Make Ombre Effect Watercolor Cards
A month or so ago, I asked my readers what kinds of crafts they would like to see more of, and the resounding answer was “letter-writing posts” and “card-making”. This actually made me breathe a sigh of relief because if you had asked for guides on handspinning fibers, I would have been lost. So, thank…
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Make a Watercolor Gift Tag guest post
Today I’m over at CreativeKKids sharing how to make a watercolor gift tag. Inspired by the watercolor flower barrette that I made my daughter for Easter, I decided to try sprucing up a plain gift tag and the results were so pretty. I love how you could use this simple craft as a base to…
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Make a Watercolor Flower Barrette
This watercolor flower barrette makes me so happy. I made it for my daughter after a few failed attempts at making paper flowers. I spent several nap times carefully folding and cutting tissue paper and folding and snipping regular paper only to find that my creations were not exactly centerpiece worthy. I wondered if I…