Kawaii Shrink Art

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!

Materials: coloring pencils, x-thin black sharpies, scissors, key-rings, hole puncher, metal jump hoop, key-ring and Shrink Art (or Shrinky Dinky, found at you local craft store).
Instructions:
① Draw your image on the rough side of your Shrink Art piece. if it's the clear stuff, place your favorite image underneath and trace it!
② Trace the outline with a black sharpie.
③ Cut your shape out and punch a hole. *Don't forget this step. It'll be impossible to do once it's shrunken and thicker.
④ Bake at 325°F for 2 minutes, until completely shrunken and FLAT
⑤ String it onto a key-ring, earrings, a necklace, whatever you like!
Watching it Shrink!
Tracing onto the Shrink Art plastic
All shrunken and adorable!!!

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Unicorn Dreamcatchers

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!

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Bear Valentine with Pocket

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!!

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Simple Heart Wreath


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

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Hello Winter free printable



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!

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Happy New Year Banner!

Hi there! We are having a few friends over for new year's eve tonight and I thought that I would play around my my Cricut and make a banner. I usually make little triangle pennant banners, so I thought I'd try something new, something I could only do with the Cricut... so I decided to make some detailed cursive words, after getting some inspiration from Pinterest. I used the "Babette" cricut font for the words and "Padigton regular" for the numbers.

Loved how it turned out!

My Cricut in action!
Made two copies of the words, so that I could sandwich
 the string in-between the 2 layers.
Gluing my string with Tacky glue
So pretty over the Mantle and fireplace!

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Craft Room Reorganization!

Hi there! I've been having fun reorganizing my craft room and searching Pinterest for some inspiration! You see, my AMAZING husband bought me a Cricut Maker for Christmas and I have to find a way to hang all my accessories, because my crafting is about to reach a new level!
 I found this sweet video by Sea Lemon that really sold me on the Ikea Skadis Pegboard system. Then my husband helped me put it up... and voilà! A space to hang all my new crafting tools!
Jeremy putting up the boards!
Loving the little shelves for my jars
The little clips and "paper holder" are great!
What a perfect set-up!

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