Personalized Giftset & Pouch

Hi there!I had a fun time sewing a little gift for my Friend yesterday! Ibought her a wonderfully smelling coconut giftset at the body shop, but wasn't crazy about the little pouch it came in, so I thought: why not make her one?! I remembered that she LOVED my kitty cat fabric last time we had craft day together, so i thought: purrrfect! (haha!) So here it is, how to personalize a giftset with some handmade goodness!

Check out the zippered pouch turorial HERE
before (plain)
after (amazing!)
birthday girl looking all happy opening gifts!

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Shining Star

Hi there! I love pre-holiday time for all the fun crafts I get to make. Tonight I hadefun making some paper crafts....beautiful shining stars for my little christmas tree. I made a big guy for the top and little ones too!

What you'll need:
✶ paint (acrylic or watercolor)
✶ glitter glue (or loose glitter)
✶ paintbrush
✶ thick paper
✶ scissors
✶ ruler
✶ pencil
✶ x-acto knife
① paint nice tones of purples and pinks. Let dry
and paint the other side
② Add glitter all over

③ Draw a star. Start with a circle, then draw 4 lines accross,
evenly spaced out. Then, separate each section in half.
Draw the 8 points (see drawing below).
④ go over each line gently with a exacto knife, but
make sure not to go all the way through! Don't put
 too much pressure.
⑤ Fold every crease! Voilà!
I even made little ones with the leftovers and hung them
with thread.
Yours truly with my little tree!

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Easy Paper Snowman

What a busy day! I've been pretty lucky as a supply teacer lately. I usually get booked in advance and teachers usually leave me activities and a plan of the day. However, life happens, and sometimes teachers call me last minute and don't have time to get anything ready. Today was one of those days, so I ended up improvising a lot and came up with this fun little craft for my kindergarten class. We even talked about shapes and sizes (small, medium, big). They practiced their cutting, pasting and drawing too! Woo hoo!

Materials:
construction paper, white paper (with circles), markers, glue, scissors

I drew three circles and photocopied some for every student.

Look a their fancy coats!
My oh my! The class was full of little artists!

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Woof Cards

I wanted to share with you guys my latest fun DIY project... my "Woof Cards". Last summer, I went on a Value Village trip in North Bay with my cousin. There, I found an illustrated guide of all the different dog breeds, and thought CRAFT TIME! It's in black & white and has a nice retro/vintage feel to it, so I decided to use it to make fun cards. I picked up a fun pack of blank patterned cards with enveloppes and voilà! So simple!

Materials
 ❁ blank cards
 ❁ vintage B&W images
 ❁ patterned paper
 ❁ glue
 ❁ scissors

With a tiny fancy hat and hearts!
Pug, bulldog, terrier and rotweiller... ADORABLE!

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DIY Cake Topper


Hello there! Life is so busy right now! However, there's always time to make a friend a cake on their birthday. My friend Lindsay had one request: a white cake with sprinkles. So I thought great! simple and cute, but it's missing a little je ne sais quoi. So after a little pinterest research (it really NEVER fails) I had it! A sparkly cake topper! And since her card was a massive My Little Pony Card (hah!) I figured let's stay in this magical childhood girly theme and put a UNICORN on the cake! Yes!


  What you'll need: 

☆ the outline of your topper
 ☆ sparkly sticker paper
☆ computer printer
☆ 2 sishkabob sticks
☆ scissors

Instructions
①  Find an image you like on the web. It has to be simple, so you can type "outline" or "coloring page" in goolge.  This is what I found for "unicorn coloring page":
② Print your image on the back of your sticker sheet of sparkly paper (on the non-sparkly-side).
③ Cut it out and peel the backing.
④ Place two shishkabob sticks on the sticky side and place another sheet of colorful paper as backing. The shishkabob stickes will be sandwiched between the stciker paper and the regular backing paper. Trim around edges.
⑤ Voilà! Bake a cake and now you're all set!


Here are some yummy cupcakes I made to go a long with my magical cake! Look at the little flags made with washi tape and leftover sparkly sticker paper!


xo Natalie

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Itsy Bitsy Spider

Hi there! I got to work in a junior kindergarten for the past two weeks and we did some pretty cute Fall and Halloween crafts! Here is our fun spider craft!

Materials
 ✂ Black construction paper
 ✂ Orange construction paper
 ✂ Wiggly eyes
 ✂ Glue
 ✂ Scissors 

Simply trace & cute a large circle and glue 8 little strips of paper for legs...or 9 or 15! Hah!) don't forget a smile!


Song: This Itsy-bitsy Spider
The itsy-bitsy spider
Climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain
And washed the spider out
Out came the sun
And dried up all the rain
And the itsy-bitsy spider
Climbed up the spout again

Chanson: L'araignée Tiké 
L’araignée Tiké 
Monte la gouttière 
Tiens, voilà la pluie 
Tiké tombe par terre. 
Mais le soleil a chassé la pluie 
Et l’araignée Tiké remonte la gouttière

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Spooky wreath

Hi there! One of my favourite holidays is fast approaching and to celebrate, I decided to make a spooktacular wreath! Woohoo! Complete with tiny bats and lovely felt flowers! I hope it makes my neighbours smile!

Materials 
  ★ grapevine wreath
  ★ felt
  ★ thread & needle
  ★ buttons
  ★ string
  ★ colored paper
  ★ hot glue gun

Felt flowers! Tutorial here
Getting my craft on!
Voilà!

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