CricutMaker,

Ornaments Christmas Cards

08:29 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Good morning!
First day of winter break strated with some crafting. Used my Cricut Maker to create some beautiful Christmas cards with the sweet scrapbooking paper I found at Michaels a couple weeks ago. For those of you that have a cricut subscription: the project is called Ornaments and Branches Christmas Card. Check it out!

Tuened out so lovely!

School/kids crafts

Gingerbread House Lantern

16:19 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

DIY cards,

Easy Xmas Bear Cards

16:03 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi there!

What a crazy busy year with our new house and mega renos. Finally settling down and getting back to my crafts. Here are some fun cards I made for my students this year, a little different then last year's polar bear xmas xcards.

DIY crafts

Easter Mantel

13:36 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

If you'd like to make a little garland too, it's so simple! You'll need thread, glue and egg cut-out! That's it!

Bunny print we found at Homesense.

Bunny from Crate and Barrel (last season)

DIY crafts,

Kawaii Shrink Art

06:32 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hey again! I had a pretty fun time organizing crafts for my coworker's very crafty daughter's birthday party. She had her birthday party yesterday and wanted some crafts that weren't too "childish". We made some sweet Unicorn Dreamcatchers but I wanted another project they could do afterwards that didn't involve as many materials, so I went to my go-to Shrink Art that kids ALWAYS love. I get the clear stuff from DeSerres and sand it a little to be able to use colouring pencils on them. The kids LOVED this project. I found a bunch of Kawaii (cute japanese) images on-line and then they trace it onto their piece of Shrink Art! We had everything from kawaii cupcakes, pandas, unicorns, you name it! Just search ________ Kawaii on-line and you'll find adorable images. Then, we added a little metal jump hoop and a key-ring and turned them into keychains after! Hooray!

DIY crafts,

Unicorn Dreamcatchers

06:19 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hey ya'll! I had a pretty fun fun time organizing some crafts for my coworker's very crafty daughter. She had her birthday party yesterday and wanted some crafts that weren't too "childish". So I went to my go-to Shrink Art that kids ALWAYS love. I get mine from DeSerres and sand it a little to be able to use colouring pencils on them. I also wanted to find a special project that would take a while to make and that I can't do with a large number of student in a classroom (a little guilty pleasure). After some research of Pinterest, I found some Unicorn Dreamcatchers. I was a bit reluctant since it is a traditional aboriginal craft, but I made sure to tell the kids the background info on it and told them it wasn't a real one.

They turned out so great!


       Materials
       ♥ 6" metal rings
      ♥ yarn
      ♥ waxed string
      ♥ white glitter felt
      ♥ glitter poster board
      ♥ beads
      ♥ scissors
      ♥ glue gun
      ♥ embellishments (paper flowers, foam shapes, etc.)


Instructions
There is a great little video at the bottom of this post from Hello Wonderful,

1. Wrap yarn around the metal hoop, covering it entirely. Add some hot glue to secure.
2. Tie the waxed string to the top of the hoop and cross over to make a star-like pattern. Add beads.
3. Cut out ears from the white felt and inner ear with pink paper.
4. Cut out a horn from glitter paper.
5. Cut your yarn that will hang at the bottom. Mine was about 1m/36"
6. Secure at the bottom with a cow hitch knot.
7. Decorate with embellishments: flowers, jewels, whatever you want!

CricutMaker,

Bear Valentine with Pocket

14:07 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi there! I've been having fun crafting up some valentines for my students. Our class animal is the bear and the kids LOVE our little bear puppet so much! So when I found this template while browsing Pinterest, I knew this was perfect, I just had to turn it into a black bear to match our puppet, Frimousse. I played around with my Cricut and voilà! So cute! My student are gonna love it!

All the pieces before I assemble!

18! One for every student!

Found little notebook and fun pencils

The little pocket in so perfect!!

CricutMaker,

Simple Heart Wreath

12:44 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi there! With Valentines day around the corner, I wanted to make a simple paper wreath to hang in my classroom to go with my Paper heart garlands. I found this easy Scrapbook paper heart wreath through Pinterest and thought it would be so easy to with my Cricut maker, although it can totally be done with tracing & cutting!

Here's what you'll need:

♥ scrapbook paper in a variety of prints
♥ Cricut or cutting machine
♥ heart template (if you don’t have a cutting machine)
♥ scissors
♥ marker
♥ glue
♥ ribbon
♥ cardboard or foam core

Instructions:
All the instructions are on this Blog Post by Typically Simple!

Loving all the colours!

My paper heart garland

CricutMaker,

Hello Winter free printable

06:47 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi there! Happy New Year! We just took down our Christmas decorations, but I still wanted to keep a bit of a winter vibe in the living room, without being too festive (check out the little igloo that was given to me!!). Well, on my Pinterest hunt for the perfect print today, I found this sweet Hello Winter print, but it's also a cutting file for the Cricut! Awesome! And it's free! Here's the link! This blogger has so many pretty files! For this project, I simply printed the image on cardstock with my inkjet printer. Happy crafting!

Loving these free JPG+SVG files from Design by Winther!