This craft is NOT something you would do with kids due to the tools you are using to design your wooden box.

What you will need:

• A wooden box of your liking
• A pencil
• A wood burner

You can find a wooden box all around at any store. I picked one from Michael’s Arts and Craft Store. I picked a small little box to hold earrings in my purse because I’m really good at losing them.

Finding a wood burner is really easy, you can find them at Michael’s Arts and Craft Store as well, they range from 12.99-16.99.

So what you wanna do is sketch out the design you would like to put on your box, unless you’re super talented and have the ability to free hand it! I do not have that talent so I sketched out what I wanted to do. I also advice sketching out what you would like to do first because the wood burner does get extremely hot and if it gets too hot you’ll have to stop what you’re doing and come back to it when it’s cooled down a bit.

To start, plug in your wood burner and let it heat up. When you think it’s hot enough take a scrap piece of wood and test it to see if it has the ability to burn the wood yet. When using this tool you are literally burning wood into the design you are achieving.

When you go to use the wood burner you want to hold the point of your tool on the wood and let it burn the wood and slowly move it across the surface into your design. It is a slow process but it will come naturally to you. The harder you press and the slower you go, the thicker the line will be.

With the wood burner you can buy different tips so that you can create the look you want. The tips range from a sharper tip to a more round, bigger tip.

When you’re done you will have a really awesome and natural looking box.

You can also use a wood burner to create signs. My boyfriend made really awesome signs for his sisters wedding over the summer and was able to do so from using a wider and rounder tip with the wood burner. So have fun with this!

Here’s the finished product:

Remember to be safe and don’t burn yourself!

I loved doing this craft! It was tons of fun and it’s super easy and creative.

What you’ll need:

• A camera
• Window mat
• Poster-board
• Paper
• Plastic slip
• Double sided tape

1.With your camera go out and take pictures of things that make letters! Whatever you can find that looks like a letter just take a picture of it. The more variety the better!

2.When you get all the letters of the alphabet or the letters you need for whatever word you’re making go get your pictures developed!

3. Tape the paper color of your choice to the poster-board and then tape your letters down onto the paper into the word you are creating.

4. Then put your frame on top, again using the tape.

5. After you’ve secured everything together, place your masterpiece into a plastic slip to protect it and then mount it!

This craft is great for decorating a room or giving a gift to a friend!

With crepe paper you have the ability to make really pretty butterflies and flowers. Once you have created them you can attach them to string to hang across your wall or even a mobile to hang over something.

The materials you will need are:

• Crepe paper
• String/flower wire
• Scissors
• Acrylic paint
• paint brushes
• permanent markers
• Stapler

Steps for butterfly:

1. Cut out the butterflies from the crepe paper. You might want to practice on regular paper first. What you will be cutting is a diamond top connected to a circle so that when you fold it in half it looks like a butterfly.
2. After you fold you will have to scrunch the circle to the point where the diamond and circle meet to get the bottom wing look you want. Then fold in the point of the diamond at the top toward the center where you scrunched the bottom of the wings.
3. Secure the center of the butterfly with string or wire.
4. Smooth out the paper to perfect the butterfly image you are trying to get.
5. Now you can decorate your butterfly however you would like.
6. Let them dry!

Flower steps:

1. Lay out your paper
2. Fold your paper in half in a hot dog style.
3. Keep folding until you get a very skinny long folded paper
4. Fold it in half so that the top and bottom end meet and its length is in half.
5. Staple the paper together about half an inch from the bottom
6. Starting from the top to the bottom fan out your paper to form a flowered look
7. Adjust the petals by pulling them outward from each other
8. You can add some color to them if you would like with the markers and paint or leave them be.

Once you have created your flowers and butterflies you can attach them you string to string across your room or to hang them in a window.

This craft looks really pretty in the end once you attach them all together. A little girl I babysat had a decoration like this in her room and I always loved how cute it looked!

This is a super fun craft for absolutely any one! Painting a pillow is a great way to decorate your room, make something for a friend, a grandparent, aunt, uncle, or anyone. With this craft you can really range how you are decorating the pillow. You could make it decorate to use as a throw decorative pillow in the living room!

This craft could be pretty messy depending on who you’re doing it with. Just for safe measure I would place newspaper on the table if you’re doing it inside.

What you will need varies! You can either use a plain pillow with the color of your choosing or you could also use just a regular pillow case. It is all to your discretion.

You will also need:

• Paint brushes
• Fabric paint
• Paint stamps (optional)

If you’re using colored pillows or pillowcases lighter colors may be more easy to use if you’re picking dark colors but if you are using a dark pillow or pillow case light colored paint would look pretty rad on it!

Once you’ve gather your materials start the creativity!

My friend made me this canvas monogram for me! I am currently working on one of my own for a friend but it is not finished and it’s a surprise so I am not posting pictures of it or the process because I don’t want to give it away in case she checks my posts out ^-^ sorry!

This craft is a bit messy so you will want to put down newspaper so you don’t make a mess on anything important!

What you will need for this project:

• Canvas (size of your choice!)
• Ruler and a pencil (a graphite pencil will be easiest to use but a regular pencil is doable)
• Paint colors of your choice
• Big paint brush to fill the canvas and small paint brush
• Your item choice to attach to your canvas to hang it

First you will paint your canvas the color you want your background to be of your chevron. Do not forget to paint the sides of your canvas as well. If it is being hung you will see the edges and if they are not painted it will look a bit odd!

After you paint your canvas wait for it to dry. It all depends on how much paint you used for the dry time. Once your paint is completely dry take your ruler and pencil and start making your lines for the chevron pattern. Be absolutely sure the paint is dry because if you start to draw the lines and the paint is not dry it will take the paint off. While you are making your lines also make sure you are making the lines very faint, you only need the lines as your guide to paint the pattern so if they’re too dark they’ll show and that’s not really the look you want.

When your lines are finished take the color of your choice and a thin paint brush and go over your penciled lines with that color. After you have outlined the lines with paint, fill them in! Just be careful and stay in the lines. Once you have finished your pattern wait for it to completely dry again.

When your paint is dry take your pencil and make whatever shape your prefer as long as the monogram fits in the center. Paint in whatever you’ve picked and once that has dried add the monogram in whatever style you like, whether it is cursive or print.

Once everything is dry take the item you have decided to use to hang your canvas and attach it! Once you have done that you are all ready to give your gift to a friend or style up your room!

You don’t have to make a shape as it is in the picture, it’s just the way my friend did it and I like how professional it looks in the end. There is tons of creativity you can put into this so I hope you have fun with it! I’ve seen people put their home state in the center or sorority letters, so have fun with it!

Hope you have a lot of fun with this!

Since I  have joined a sorority and I’ve started to learn the importance of crafts and the tools that come with them. The sorority sisters are always talking about the things they have made and flashing pictures of their gorgeous Lilly Pulitzer printed paddles and letters at me. The first thing that comes out of my mouth is how on earth did you paint that?! I have been answered with a laugh, a look like I am an alien, or a mischievous smile and the word Mod Podge.

So I am pretty new and clueless with some of these crafting terms and tools but I have learned that Mode Podge will probably be my best friend due to my lack of ability to draw or paint.

Mod Podge is extremely convenient  and versatile. It is a clear adhesive that can be used to glue something down in a scrapbook or glue something down and then put the Mod Podge over it as a sealant. It can be used with paper, fabric, or whatever you need really, to just about any surface. There is even different types for the look you are going for! There is a glitter one!!!! (Eek!!!!) Click here to see!

Here’s a website that can answer any questions on this wonderful crafting tool!

I hope to show you my Mod Podge abilities in the near future (:

Pumpkin season is here and pumpkin carving season is right around the corner! I don’t know about y’all but pumpkin carving grosses me out! I don’t wanna see what my guts look like and I’m not too thrilled about pumpkin guts either! Not to mention decorating pumpkins doesn’t have to be cutting them all up and ripping out their insides. I’ve got some fun and creative alternatives for you!

1. The first picture is my favorite pumpkin decorating alternative!

What you’ll need

• Hairdryer
• Glue/hot glue gun
• Crayons
• Pumpkin

What you do is secure the crayons on the top of the pumpkin with the got glue gun. After that you take the hairdryer and melt the crayons onto your pumpkin getting a colorful crayon melt design on your pumpkin! If you’re feeling super creative you could get cutouts of shapes and secure them to your pumpkin before you melt the crayons and then meth them. After everything has dried and settled you remove the cutout and there’s a clean space from the crayon melt that makes a cool picture!

2. Who says Christmas lights are only for Christmas?

For this alternative option all you need is a string of Christmas lights and a pumpkin of your choice! You can do this with the white lights or the colored lights. All you do is wrap the lights around your pumpkins like in the picture above! The ending result is your not so traditional light up pumpkins on the front porch!

3. The third picture is a really fun idea!

What you’ll need:

• Pumpkin
• Glow in the dark puffy paint

This alternative is perfect if you have little kids! They’ll be able to paint their pumpkin with the puffy paint and then see it glow when it dries later on! And what little kid doesn’t love glow in the dark!?

4. This lace pumpkin is the most convenient and easiest alternative!

What you’ll need:

• Lace tights
• A bow

All you do is pull the lace tights over the pumpkin very carefully so you don’t rip the tights. After the tights are on you tie them off and cut off the excess. Then just add a bow! This idea gives you the ability to use different colored tights and bows to make your porch super cute!

All these ideas were easy to find on Pinterest in the “pumpkin decorating” section! I just picked my favorites from the tons of selections that I saw! I’m excited to try the crayon melt but I think I’ll add either glow in the dark puffy paint or just regular glow in the dark paint to it! With these decorating ideas it’s easy to add and alter them!

I hope y’all have some pumpkin fun!

This craft was a lot of fun! I love plants and it dressed my dorm room window up really nice!

What you will need:

• A plant that can survive on bark and has strong roots
• Bark
• Moss
• Fishing line
• A metal hook
• Pliers
• Scissors

I actually did this at the greenhouse at my school! I do not have pictures of the process but it is not very complicated!

We used Orchids the greenhouse had been growing because they actually grow on trees in the rainforest so they were a perfect plant for this!

1. First we took the orchids out of their pots and disrupted their roots and spread them out so they were not tangled with each other. Be gentle so you don’t break your plants roots!
2. Once we disrupted the roots we set the plant aside for a bit. We picked out bark that was the correct size for the plant.
3. After you pick out your bark get the moss! Spread the moss out on the bark! You’ll be placing your plant on top of the moss.
4. Put your plant on top of the moss. You want to make sure the roots of the plant are coming out all around and that they aren’t just sitting under the plant on the bark all bundled up.
5. Once you have gotten the roots all situated take the fishing line and use it to secure the plant and moss to the bark. Make sure you tie it tightly! Cut the extra line off with your scissors
6. Now that your plant is secure you’re gonna want to hang it! So take the pliers and the metal hook and you should be able to push the hook through the bark.

The moss is very important because it traps water and keeps your plant hydrated throughout the day after its morning shower! Place your plant in a nice sunny spot! Eventually you will be able to take the fishing line off your plant because it’s roots will start growing and gripping onto the bark!

This project is a little messy so you’ll definitely want to do it outside! Don’t worry though, when you are finished the ending product is not messy and it looks great in a window!

Hope y’all enjoyed this post! I’d love to see your plants mounted on bark!

Hey everyone! So this Do It Yourself is very easy. It’s a great little thing to do with kids or just for fun.

What you need:

• Ceramic coaster
• Paint pens or permanent markers

So you just need a blank coaster! Any shape, whatever you can find as long as its able to be drawn on! A glossy surface is a bit difficult to work with because the paint from the pens doesn’t soak in as well but it’s definitely doable. You can find blank coasters in any craft store and some stores like Walmart for between $3.00-$5.00! I normally find what I need at Michael’s Arts and Craft Store!

You’ll need some utensils to create your master piece! I used paint pens by Sharpie like this! You can use any brand of paint pens, I just had these on hand!

Now just get decorating! The one I made ended up looking like this! Don’t judge too harshly, my drawing abilities are limited(:

I decorated my coaster with my sorority mascot, a turtle, and our letters! I added some polka dots for color and fun!

What I really like about this craft is that it’s a lot of fun and it’s personal! That makes it great for gifts! Kids are able to draw pictures on the coaster and grandma and grandpa will love them! I even took a writing pen and was able to write on the back of the coaster. The only thing you have to make sure is LET THE PAINT DRY! I accidentally messed up a bit about that, it doesn’t take long but smearing isn’t fun so give it a bit of time!

I hope y’all enjoyed this!

Hello! This page gives 20 fantastic craft ideas that are very affordable! “When’s the last time you had a craft night with your friends? It’s been a while for us, and this list has left us feeling super inspired and excited to have one. So gather up your girlfriends, get some refreshments, and make something fun!”

The craft ideas offered on this page are all doable with about $10. The crafts range from decorating curtains with fabric paint to making your own refrigerator magnets! They’re perfect for doing some fun activities cheap by yourself, with some friends, or kids!

Here’s the link to the website!