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Category Archives: Spring

Flowers from Foil

29-Apr-09

The stiff, self-supporting sheet aluminum used in foil pans and pie plates can be cut and shaped into intricate flower-like parts. By following these patterns and instructions, you can transform foil into dazzling floral arrangements. Three 8-inch-diameter aluminum pans will yield the twelve flowers shown in the bouquet above. Copper foil can also be used [...]

Bringing In The May – Tissue Paper Flowers

28-Apr-09

The translucency of tissue paper can give flowers a luminous quality, yet the paper has sufficient body to be folded for making large flowers. Craft or hardware stores stock the following materials that you will need: a selection of colorful tissue paper sheets 10-by-15 inches one dozen No. 16 stem wires 20 inches long green [...]

It’s Spring! – free graphics, coloring pages and printable Easter Games

20-Mar-09

Finally – the First Day of Spring! If you’re looking for graphics for your blog or webpage; if you’d like to print some cards, coloring pages or Easter games (all free!) check out Clip Art ‘n Crafts Spring Collection – You’ll find it Here Enjoy the Day and the Season! …for now the winter is [...]

The Thursday Thirteen – Welcome Spring!

19-Mar-09

Thirteen Tips to Welcome Spring and Invite Her Indoors! 1. Open the Windows! Even if it’s still a bit chilly, opening the windows for just ten or fifteen minutes will fill the room with fresh spring air and banish winter doldrums. 2. Buy a new house plant. Fresh flowers are nice, but they don’t last [...]

Welcome Spring with a Pussywillow Notecard

17-Mar-09

Large fluffy pussy willows make fine pussy cats if they are pressed very lightly and glued to paper. To make a pussy willow note card, paint a scene with a fence or the branch of a tree upon which the cats can sit. Place the pussy willows in place. Mark this place, then paint the [...]

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