Crafts: Drawing

  • Quick Front Door Decor Craft For Lag B’Omer

    Quick Front Door Decor Craft For Lag B’Omer

    If you’ve been paying attention, you may remember the ten plagues Passover cards I made a month plus ago? The art was mounted on gold cardboard that was actually some metallic gold cardbaord dessert platters left at my front door. And of course, after I cut out the flat middle I just had to save…

  • DIY Bonfire Cake Toppers For Lag B’Omer!

    DIY Bonfire Cake Toppers For Lag B’Omer!

    Today is Lag B’Omer, so yes, sharing this a bit on the late side, but you could still make a cake to enjoy in a pinch. Just gather around the family, together with some simple supplies and draw some beautiful flames! It is true, these flames were placed in the middle of a bundt cake,…

  • Logs Craft Using Recycled Aluminum Foil Boxes!

    Logs Craft Using Recycled Aluminum Foil Boxes!

    For the first time ever, I decided to try and make some logs from recycled aluminum foil boxes, and I just LOVE the results, especially after drawing wood grain patterns on a large number of tubes of all sizes. There is something about the square edges that just really lends the boxes to being covered…

  • Ten Plagues Passover Card Craft

    Ten Plagues Passover Card Craft

    With the Passover seder and the wonderful week-long holiday of Passover quickly approaching, now is a great time to get out a craft to keep the kids busy, and help them create something fun for the Passover seder, or to decorate your home. Introducing Ten Plagues Cards that you can use in so many ways!…

  • Egg Carton Animal Portrait Craft

    Egg Carton Animal Portrait Craft

    With Purim in less than a week, now is time to get crafting friends, and I’ve started with making egg carton animal portraits that are mini works of art that will also be gift tags for my mishloach manot! The four here were the first 4 of a group that is now 21 strong, so…

  • Cute And Simple DIY Fruit Themed Party Garland

    Cute And Simple DIY Fruit Themed Party Garland

    Todah is Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year for fruit bearing trees, so what better time than to whip up an adorable and simple fruity garland that you can use year round? The key is to keep the fruit quite tiny, so that no matter what the age, as long as the shape is recognizable,…

  • Watercolor Butterfly Cut-Outs For Collage, Art Journaling And Crafting

    Watercolor Butterfly Cut-Outs For Collage, Art Journaling And Crafting

    Now is a great time to paint loose watercolor butterflies and then add details with a fine line pen and some paint pens, and voila, some really great looking butterflies to use in so many ways are born! They’d be great as cake toppers, gift tags, collage elements, or as a wall hanging or mobile,…

  • End Of Summer Thank You Card With Hand Lettering

    They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, which is sometimes true, and so I’m very happy to report once again, that my daughter also loves creativity and does hand lettering effortlessly! And while this card looks like brush markers, whoops, I forgot that on the trip we only had watercolors, so this…

  • DIY Giant Cardboard Shark Craft For Kids

    DIY Giant Cardboard Shark Craft For Kids

    Summer is the perfect time to delve into large scale crafts that kids can use to decorate a space, use as backdrops for a summer skit, or for creative play. While this is not my idea nor my photos, the photos are by Ron Lach, I just love this idea and all the creativity that…

  • DIY Rustic Wooden Wedding Sign

    DIY Rustic Wooden Wedding Sign

    When my dear nephew Rafi asked me to make a rustic welcome sign for his wedding in Israel (because the bride was dreaming of one) my first reaction was, hmmm, never done that maybe I’ll just do it on the computer and make a mounted print? Except given the rustic wedding venue that might totally…

  • DIY Seven Species Garland

    DIY Seven Species Garland

    As you can well guess I have so many Succah decorations from previous years that I still love, so spending time making new ones is certainly not a priority! Of course when one of my sons requested that I create the “seven species” as part of my Daily Object series (read about that here) in…

  • How To Start A Daily Art Practice (That Sticks!)

    How To Start A Daily Art Practice (That Sticks!)

    Ever heard of a daily art practice? Wondering why you should consider one? Wondering if you can actually do it? A little voice is telling you that you should do it? Okay, so lets take a look at all these questions! I have now had enough experience over the last year with my “daily object”…