This week has been a big week for crafting, as the weather hasn’t been all that great. We had an afternoon with one of my daughters friends and she loves to do arts and crafts. So I managed to teach two 6 year olds to finger knit! I keep finding little strings of knitting all round the house now. We also had a go at some French knitting, but that was a bit awkward for them to hold, so I ended up doing most of that one.
Anyway, we also have my husbands birthday coming up very soon and we had to do some serious making this week in preparation! Out came the making box and the kitchen table was soon lost under piles of paper, funky foam, feathers and glitter!
This first creation is a desert island jigsaw for her friend to do. The pieces are all leaves for a palm tree in the centre of the desert island. She drew all the palm leaves and then very carefully cut them out. I really like the little boat sailing into the picture, but I’m not quite sure what the tulip is doing in the sea!
Her next creation is a rather fantastic card / picture for her Dad’s birthday next week. She used loads of different ideas, and spent a lot of time using stencils and cutting out the birds, leaves and heart. She also made her own envelope for a little letter! I was pretty impressed with all the ideas she had and her attention to detail. It’s such a jolly little picture with all the birds singing and a smiley sunshine – apparently the leaves have been blown off the tree and are slowing drifting to the ground.
Next she wanted to have a go at some decoupage! Typically she couldn’t choose something simple for her first attempt. No sign of any die-cut sheets here! She found a set of Scooby Doo images we bought her quite a while ago and had a good effort cutting out each image, then ‘pinching’ my 3d foam tape to layer them up!
What was great about this was that her friend saw one of the images she had created and she had to explain how she had done it for her!
Later this week we had a really bad weather day, so we got out the hama beads and while I was finishing off some projects, she set to work on some new creations for me to iron! This one took some time! She wanted to make some bunting, and then decided to add in a magician, complete with magic hat, wand and rabbit, We also have the sun, moon and a magic star sparkle. To complete the scene we have the always required dragonfly and some minecraft slime!!! This was a completely single-handed creation and took the best part of an afternoon. I love the imagination that’s gone into this and how she thought about all the little details with the stripes on the hat for the ribbon and the wand has white tips too. Brilliant!
It’s such a shame the scene is so long as it was quite hard to get a good picture of. Here’s some of the smaller creations she also made. The seahorse is a template provided, but the butterfly is her own work, using a heart shaped board.
I’m waiting for some more creepy crawlies to find their way into the makes over the rest of the holidays, as she’s taken a real love to snails in the garden! Eugh!
Happy crafting
x
