Summer Crafting- 9 Beautiful Projects!
Summer is the perfect time to create recycled crafts and crafts based on nature. There are very inexpensive ways to bring color and beauty into your surroundings! Here is a compilation of beautiful, colorful projects featured on the Sitcom.
Many of these fun projects take just pennies to make. Bring a bit of summer inside with some of these fun and easy projects!
DIY Wire Wrapped Tree Suncatcher
This tutorial uses a kit to create a beautiful wire wrapped suncatcher. However, you can create your own with wire and pretty beads! Check out the tutorial for lots of great tips on how to make this unique beauty.
Recycled Magazines
Create colorful paper reed frames by rolling magazine pages! This project is easy enough for the kids to do and makes a fabulous gift while recycling old magazines at the same time!
This tutorial comes with two free patterns to download. While an adult would probably need to cut out the design, children could have fun gluing down the colorful recycled magazine strips! Fun project for an afternoon.
Plastic Spoons
Look closely and you will see tons of plastic spoons! A great conversation piece and relatively easy to put together! Fun tutorial.
Disposable Cookie Sheets
Believe it or not, these pretty tiles are made from a disposable aluminum cookie sheet! Tutorial includes embossing instructions along with 12 free patterns!
Here we take the disposable aluminum cookie sheet embossing to a whole new level! 3D Art! Fun tutorial and free pattern is available with Sitcom subscription.
Toilet Paper Tubes
This may look like wrought iron, but it is in fact toilet paper tubes! This tutorial includes the free patterns to make this set of wall art. A great way to recycle those toilet paper tubes!
Light Bulbs
Made from burnt out light bulbs, these pretty suncatchers totally brighten up a window!
Rocks
And finally, I added my small touch to nature by painting some found river rock in beautiful paisleys! This project is fun to do and adds lots of color to your rock gardens and potted plants!
See something you love? Go grab some supplies and create your own personal sunshine!
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Love all your great items and ideas! I hope to try some of them. You seem to enjoy life and people! You are certainly creative and talented! Thank you for sharing them with me and others. Are you enjoying living in your RV? My husband and I have considered doing that at some point.
Well, thanks again and I look forward to getting your blog!
These are all so adorable! Thanks for sharing at the #HomeMattersParty!
I also wanted to say…and forgot….was that you have a very inventive mind. I appreciate that in a fellow artist.
The Fish is beautiful but those edges look sharp enough to cut someone. Perhaps the acrylic/ polyurethane coating fixes that….if that is indeed used on this project.
Very cool collection of ideas! Love the mosaics. Visiting from Show + Tell party.
Awesome tutorial! You did an amazing job on these! Thanks for the step by step instructions and great pictures as well! These are beautiful. Thanks for sharing your talent and the free pattern downloads which I printed already and your designs are great and my style so I think I might pick a couple to use as inspiration in another project I’m working on using the Tim Holtz paper mosaic kit I just bought and you just gave me inspiration! I Want to use your design to create a “faux” mosaic table top for my tabletop redo for my pool area! Thanks again, fantastic! Now I can’t wait to get started!!! Hehe