Craft With Me!

Come and water color with me!  So, I've been watching Andrea.Nelson.art on TikTok forever and she makes everything look so EASY!  Follow her if you get a chance, she does some really fun water colors and has really cute ideas. I decided I was going to paint a bus with water color.  It is not that great but I'm glad it looks like a bus. Supplies: Watercolor Paper Watercolors-I used CTMH Paint Brushes water bottle Paper towels Painters tape to tape off your paper Printer Pencil Okay, here goes nothing!  I have never water colored in my life so I knew this wouldn't be my best work.  I really wanted to try this out.   I covered the edges of my water color paper with painters tape to leave a boarder.  I've seen people do this so I just did it. Spray your water colors with water from your water bottle before you get started so that your paints are ready to use. I printed a pic of a bus.  I then flipped the print over and covered it with p...

  Come Craft Sublimation Keychains and luggage tags with me You can buy the keychain blanks and luggage tags at a lot of different places.  I usually just buy them on Amazon.  This time I used a Cricut Easy Press 2 that I recently purchased.  The 9x9 inch size and now its my favorite tool.  For sublimating small items it makes the process easier.  Your room doesn't get hot by the large press and it heats up fast! I have gone over sublimation in so many of my blogs that I'll highlight instructions. Supplies: Sublimation Key Chains and luggage tags Sublimation paper printed with your images Cricket Easy Press Cricket heat mat or towel folded up for cushion under your item First heat your easy press 2 up to the desired temp and set it to the desired time.  For mine I use 365 degrees F for 80 seconds. Then, tape your paper image to the sublimation item. Cover your heat mat with a piece of copy paper to protect your mat. lay the item and sub image down...

Come and make wax seals with me! So I was on Amazon......Isn't this how it all starts?  Or was in Instagram?  Shoot IDK but I was looking for a new craft and I found some wax seals.  How fun is this?  I make cards so why not make some wax seals to add that extra special touch.   I would just go to amazon and search for a wax seal kit.  That is what I did. The one I got was around 20.00 and came with everything I needed to get started except a lighter to light the tea light!  Amazon link  of the kit I bought. It came with tea lights, wax pellets, markers, the wax stamps, some envelopes, the little scooper spoon thing and holder so I can melt the wax.  It didn't come with the wax seal mat I am using, but I did buy that on amazon as well. Link  of the mat What you are going to need: Tea light Spoon thingymabobber and holder Metallic markers Wax or even crayons, candles, get creative Mat or not (you can just drip the wax on th...

 Come and make UV resin glitter pens with me! A year or so ago, I decided I was going to make resin cups.  I bought a turner and all the supplies then went to work.  It took forever.  Like a week to create a cup and because I had to make everything outside I dealt with resin not curing in cold weather, dust, newspaper sticking to my cup due to wind and you name it!   Per my last blog you saw that I've been playing with UV resin.  It cures in minutes and not days, UV rays from the sun will cure it so you don't want to do the entire process outside which helps so much. Long story short, I love making glitter pens and have even gotten the water slides out.  In this blog I will show you how to make glitter pens the right way AND how to use water slides. Lets get started. Products you need: Ink Joy gel pens-These are refillable and one barrel so you can glitter the entire pen.  They are avail on Amazon, Target, Walmart and prob a few other places....

Make UV resin stuff with me!  Of course once everyone saw what I was doing others wanted to make stuff too! I've had all this resin stuff for over a year.  When I decided to make glitter tumblers, I bought a lot of other resin molds and things so that I could make resin items.  Well, shockingly I never did.  That was a year ago.  Everything turned out really nice! The kits were super inexpensive and came with all kinds of stuff including the light, a small bottle of resin, molds, glitter, and well here it is. Link to UV resin kit  I paid 16.99 plus tax, however, Amazon does change prices from time to time, so check out other listings.  Just make sure its a UV Resin Kit that includes the light and resin if you need it.  There are so many kits avail that you will want all of them. For UV resin you need a UV light to cure the resin.  This set came with one and I pulled out a gel UV light for my nails and that will work too. This is a pic of the ...