Chinatown Remixed 2013

Yesterday, I participated in an awesome arts festival... Chinatown Remixed! It was sunny, warm and beautiful! What a great day! A whole bunch of people participated in making some recycled crafts with me! who knew recycling could be so fun!?
My Mother Nature/Dame Nature costume!
Fake flowers everywhere I go!
Just outside Raw Sugar Café! I of course
brought some colorful bunting!

Some serious crafting!
My set-up!




 little girl working hard!
No age restrictions for crafting!
I had more adults than kids! Awesome! everyone was in the
 spirit!
first crafter of the day: my friend Benjamin!
So proud of his creation! Hooray!







Check out some adorable toilet paper roll crafts! I ♡ recycling!
Adorable owl... what a hoot! Check out the instructions.
Butterfly!
Adorable.
Pine cone critters: some kids looooved the googly eyes!
Favorite creation of the day! Unicorn cyclops!

Pine cone critters!

I recently went on a nature walk and gathered a whole bunch of pine cones and thought... Crafts! I love using found objects and natural materials! Wanna make some? Come see me at Raw Sugar Café this Saturday or follow these instructions!

Materials:
   ❧ pine cones
   ❧ felt & pipe cleaners
   ❧ googly eyes
   ❧ glue

Instructions Glue eyes on bottom of pine cone. Cut ears out of felt and paste on. Add a pipe cleaner and bend into desired shape...voilà!

Pine cones... FREE! Just look fat the bottom of pine trees!
Some abstract creatures made by little kids! GOOGLY EYES!
Adorable, quick and easy!

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Toilet-paper Roll Owl

Adorable! What a hoot (HAH!)!

Hi there! Don't know what to do with all those empty toilet paper rolls?! Why not reuse them and transform ten into little night owls! It's so simple!

All so different! made by young and old! 



Materials
  ♻ Toilet paper rolls
  ♻ Paint & paintbrush
  ♻ Black permanent marker (sharpie)

Instructions
Simply paint and draw a cute owl face, wings and designs with a black marker!



So many toilet paper rolls! Can't wait for them to be tiny owls!

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Eco-friendly crafts @ChinatownRemixed

Hi there! I'm getting ready for ChinatownRemixed, a big art festival coming up this Saturday, May 18th in Ottawa's Chinatown! I'll be dressed up as Dame Nature, showing how easy it is to recycle and have fun! I'll have my own little crafting station inviting everyone to make some Eco-friendly crafts from recycled materials and found objects! Who knew recycling could be so fun!?

   On the menu:
      ♻ Toilet paper owls
      ♻ Pine cone critters
      ♻ Tree branch mobiles

Hope to see you there! xo

So many toilet paper rolls to paint! These crafts will be ADORABLE!

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DIY Chevron cards

What a lovely Mother's Day Sunday! I was finishing up my cards for my grandma and mom and was so pleased with them I thought I'd post them here! I found the idea on a blog named BeanBugCrafts and they even provide a step by step tutorial for it! I absolutely LOVE the mix of paper and fabric (and even sewing!). I also got my stampin' on! Yeah!

Materials
  ♥ colored cardstock
  ♥ scissors
  ♥ glue
  ♥ scrap fabric
  ♥ black stamp pad & letterd
  ♥ sewing machine

Playing around with stamps! Took a couple tries!
Chevron stripes! So fun and easy!
Making some lovely fabric rosettes!
Check out this easy tutorial! 
Crafting table!
Made one for Grandma too!

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Fold Up Paper Boxes

So we were looking for a fun way to wrap up our Mother's Day Shrink Art Pendants and we came up with these cute fold-up boxes (inspired from this blog post) cut-out from white cardstock and decorated with imagination...and lotsa color!

Materials
  ✂ cardstock
  ✂ scissors
  ✂ hole punch
  ✂ coloring pencils or markers
  ✂ hole punch
  ✂ ribbon
We made our own template with little hearts, but you can
print one from the web.... there are soooo many different
 ones out there like this one or this one!
Decorate them however you like!
All wrapped up with a cute ribbon! Adorable!
So many tiny presents!

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Shrink Art Pendants

Hi there! Mothers is coming up and the kids have been busy bees rehearsing for their Mother's day tea/concert (cute!!) and making adorable crafts. Here is the beautiful pendants they will be offering Mom. They are basically a beautiful drawing shrunken down into a hard plastic disc. So so adorable. And easy! All you need to do is pop it in the oven at 325F for 30 seconds! Wanna make your own Shrink art pendant necklace?

Here's what you need:
   ❀ Shrink art
   ❀ wood coloring pencils
   ❀ scissors
   ❀ hole puncher
   ❀ small metal jewelry rings

Color with wooden coloring pencils and don't forget
to punch your hole before you pop it in the oven!
Abstract art! Perfect for young ones.
Flower fever! Moms will LOVE it!

Wanna see last year's Shrink art Father's Day gifts? Shrink art Hand keychains! Oh and look at this fun page I found: elaborate Shrink art necklaces on Etsy... so pretty!

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