Arts & Crafts

Good day!

Today I'm sharing a layout that I created of my

Granddaughter and her love for  "Arts & Crafts"
When I ask her what she wants to do, she often says

"G-Ma can I do arts and crafts"
you never know what we'll get up to, but it's

always fun.

I love the picture of her flower painting on the right hand

page.  Click on the picture to enlarge it and 

you can read the little story about it.

 She was so confident when she finished it and

it was just perfect.

We had so much fun with all of these little projects.

I had to include a couple minions too,

so I created them with my 
Silhouette Studio Designer program and cut them

on my Silhouette Cameo.
The caterpillar was a real simple one to make,

it's just circles welded together and cut on my

Silhouette.  You could easily just punch circles and

glue them together if you don't have a Silhouette or other

cutter.

I had a lot of fun making this layout and hope you

enjoy seeing it too.

Thanks for stopping by to see what I've been up to.

Come again soon.

Until then,

get crafty with a kid.

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

 

Creating with Marie

Hello crafters!

Of course I'm a big supporter of arts and crafts 

for children.  This little one is my granddaughter, Marie

and at this writing she is 2 yrs and 4 months old,

but she is already very crafty.
Last week I was lucky enough to have her 

to myself for the whole day.

I wanted to do a project with her,

so I cut an egg carton in half and pulled out

the paints.
She was happy to be able to paint and do crafts

with G-Ma.

I covered her tray and a plate with plastic wrap,

this sure helps with the clean up.
She got to choose the colors and chose

a light and dark blue and black.

Then she got to work making her 

caterpillar.

She took it very seriously and wanted

to do a nice job, which of course she did

and got high praise from G-Ma.

Spreading the paint over the entire plate

was also very nicely done.

A little bit of paint on the face never hurt either.

After her nap, she picked some eyes from my stash and

we glued them on and drew a smile with a crayon together.

We talked about the fact that a caterpillar makes it's own 

house, called a chrysalis and grows into a beautiful

butterfly.

She was very excited to show Mommy and Daddy

what we made together.

Maybe next time we'll make some butterflies. 

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you'll come again

soon.  Until then,

craft with a child.

 

Disney Themed Home Sweet Home Sign

Hello everyone!

As I promised in my last post, today I'm showing you 
the other gift we made as a shower gift for Kelsey Ann.
Sara came up with the idea and we ran with it.
Kelsie, Sara and I divided up the Mickey heads and each
painted 4 of them.
This post has a lot of pictures, so you can see all the

different designs we painted.
Sara used her Cricut to cut the words from Vinyl and applied

it to the frame.

Jaryd got in on the process and helped with the 

application.

He also attached the magnet to the sign

as well as the backs of the Mickey Heads.

These pictures are in no particular order,

although we did do a loose monthly

theme on them.

Brian's (the groom) favorite team (by Sara)

Snow White (Kristie)

St. Patrick's Day (Kristie)

From Coco (Kelsie)

Olaf from Frozen (Kristie)

Little Mermaid (Kelsie)

Pride (Sara)

From Up (Kelsie)

Hamilton (Sara)

Christmas (Kelsie)

Wall E (Sara)

Finally, this is for October the month they are getting 

married.  I did the Mickey hands with wedding rings.

All the heads together in a monthly order,

although they can be used whenever they 

choose.  Most of them are pretty generic

as to what month they can be displayed.

Some of the pieces were done free hand and 

some we used stencils to guide us,

but all in all, I think they all turned out very

cute.

On the back of the sign Sara added this
little "trademark"

Kelsey Ann loved this gift.

She loves hand made gifts and we loved making this

for them.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit and I hope you have enjoyed

your time here and were inspired in some way.

Come again soon,

until then,

have a swell day!

 

Flower paintings

Welcome to Kristie Kreates!

I've been playing around with watercolors

lately and combining it with doodling.

Here are a couple pieces I've done.

Not great art, but I had fun doing them

and I'm slowly getting better, I think.

Water colors and fine liner pens

Again water colors and fine liner

pens.  Not exactly what I wanted 

this to look like, but it's coming along.

I just need to practice and play more.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I appreciate you're spending time with me.

I hope you are finding time to do something

creative during this stressful time.

Until next time;

Do something relaxing!

Poppies in watercolors

Hello and welcome to my blog.

I hope you are doing well today.

Today I'm showing you a painting of 

poppies that I did.

This is the first time I've painted something

that I actually designed and drew myself.

I sketched the poppies lightly with pencil

then painted them with Arteza watercolors.

I'm pleased with the way it turned out, 

don't think it's too bad for a first attempt at

something like this.

I definitely need more practice, but I'm sure

I'll get better as time goes on.

Thanks for coming by today.

Come again soon, until then:

Challenge your creativity!

Playing With Watercolors

Hello crafty people!

I have always loved watercolors and recently decided 

that I was going to play with watercolors more.

Here are a couple pieces that I did recently.

This isn't the best painting ever, but I like how it turned 

out.  I think for someone that doesn't have a lot

of experience with painting, it isn't too bad at all.

One thing I've read and seen in a lot of videos

is to practice, practice practice.

That's what I was doing with this piece.

Doing the same thing over and over certainly

helps you become more comfortable with the

brushes and paints and how they work for you.

I just started painting these leaves and continued 

until I covered the paper.

They may not be the best paintings ever, but they are

getting me used to the supplies and you know what

they say, practice makes perfect.

I'm not ever expecting to be perfect, but 

better will be good.

Thanks for coming and spending a little time with me.

Wishing you a happy and healthy day.

Molly

Hello blog friends!

I can't believe I forgot to write up this post.

This is one of the gifts I gave my husband for Christmas.

It's a painting of our dog Molly.
Depending on how you look at it, you may 

say that I cheated a little bit when I did this painting.

But either way, I love how it turned out.

First I found a picture of Molly that I liked and printed it

on "canvas paper"

I have had my canvas paper a long time and never used it,

but I know you can purchase it at Michael's.

At my store it is in the aisle with the canvases.

You simply put it through your printer like you would

a piece of paper.

I changed my picture to black and white before 

printing it.

I started by painting Molly, BUT I should have painted 

the background first, because it was difficult to paint

around her "edges"  and had to do a lot of touching

up.

I also printed a couple pictures on regular card stock

as guides, so I could see the coloring and shading.

These are the paints I used to paint Molly.

I don't know if you have discovered 

Glad Press'n Seal

but it is great in the craft room.

I spread a piece of it onto my work surface as 

a pallet.

I put the paints directly onto the Press'n Seal 

covered surface and it works great.

It's easy to mix colors,

and clean up is simple, just pick it up and

throw it away.

Now back to my painting.

Here is Molly when I had finished painting her,

and still had to do the background.

And here is the final painting with the background 

finished.
It's not perfect, but I don't think it's bad for a first

try.
No, I could have never done this without the printed

version to paint onto, but that's okay,

 my hubby loved it anyway.

I'd like to try painting some other pictures

using this technique.

Possibly my children.

I really enjoyed it.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll think

about trying something a little different.

Come again soon.

Until then,

Happy Crafting!