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These crocheted valentines are cute and fun to make, plus a new way to use crochet!


What YOu Need:

# 1 ball Rowan 4 ply cotton in Orchid
# 1 ball Rowan 4 ply cotton in Bloom
# 1 crochet hook, size B
# paper scissors
# 12 pre-cut 3.5-inch x 5-inch cards or card stock in assorted colors.
# 1/8-inch hole punch

Method:

Create a Template


Fold a small piece of scrap paper (I used a paper bag) in half and draw half a heart on the fold. The heart should be about 2-inches tall.


Cut out your template.


Prepare The Card

Fold one of the cards in half width wise and place your template at the top of the fold. Make sure that the template actually goes a little beyond the fold, so you can keep both sides of the card together.



Trace around the template.


Cut out the heart shape.



Using your 1/8th-inch hole punch, punch holes all the way around the front of the heart card. Try to get the holes fairly close to the edge and fairly close together



Crochet the Edge

Working on the outside of the card, pull a loop through a hole with the crochet hook
Crochet with a slip stitch through the holes as shown below.



Stick your hook through the next hole,




pull this yarn loop through the hole



and then pull it through your first loop.



Do this all the way around the front of the card.



When you get back to where you started pull the live loop to the wrong side of the card. Cut your yarn and pull it through the loop. Tape the ends down and you're done!

Materials:

1. Organdi Cloth (Different colours)
2. Green Crape Paper
3. Green Tape
4. Aliminium wire

Method:

1. Firstly select the colour of cloth you want to make flowers then cut the cloth in the size of 7cm x 7cm piece.

2. Now make petals by folding it into four as shown in the picture below.




3. Now roll the three edges of the cloth to make peatl shape as shown.



4. In the same way make 6-7 petals for one Rose, continue the same process for making more flowers.

5. Cover the aluminium wire with green tape.

6. Make leaves using green crape paper.

I hope everyone will try out this beautiful flower making.

Here is a basket full of beautiful roses.

Make the flyaway plant pokes craft and you'll have lively, lovely handmade birds mingling with the real birds that visit your garden.






What You'll Need:
* Craft foam in red and blue
* Scissors
* Low-temperature glue gun
* Glue sticks
* Polyester fiberfill
* Two wood dowels,12 inches each
* Acrylic paint in yellow and white
* Paintbrush
* Black permanent felt-tip marker
* 18-inch lengths plastic-coated wire in 18-gauge blue and 22-gauge red
* Wire cutters

How to make the flyaway plant pokes craft:

Step 1: Download and print the pattern. Use the cardinal pattern to cut out two cardinal bodies and two cardinal wings from red craft foam. Repeat with the bluebird pattern and blue craft foam.




Step 2: Glue the body patterns together, leaving a 1-inch opening in the bottom. Lightly stuff the inside of the foam birds with fiberfill. Poke a dowel inside the opening, and glue closed.




Step 3: Glue the wings to each side of the birds' bodies. Paint the beaks yellow. Use the end of the paintbrush to add white dots on the body and wings of the bluebird.

Paint a group of three small yellow dots on the body and wings of the cardinal. Draw eyes on both birds with a black marker.




Step 4: Bend the plastic-coated wire around each bird's neck into the shape of a bow. Poke the end of the sticks into a plant.

Reminiscent of kindergarten projects, this basket starts out as a quart-size milk container. The waterproof carton is well-suited to be a vase. Water-soaked floral foam makes it easy to poke in an arrangement of -miniature carnations or flowers from your garden.

You will need:

* 1-quart drink carton
* Ruler
* Marker or pen
* Scissors
* Card stock: blue, green, yellow, pink, white
* White glue (or spray glue)
* Fiskars paper crimper
* Large-hole punch

Instructions:

1. Measure and mark 4 inches from the bottom on all sides of the carton; cut off the portion above the line. For the handle, cut a 1/2-inch-wide piece from three sides of the upper part of the carton.

2. Glue blue card stock to the basket, neatly piecing the paper if necessary to cover.

3. Cut a 1/2x10-inch handle from blue card stock and feed it through the paper crimper. Glue the blue crimped paper to the carton handle; trim excess paper. Glue the handle to the basket.

4. For polka dots, punch circles from card stock; glue the dots to the basket.

5. Cut three 3/4x11-inch pieces of green paper and feed them through the paper crimper. From one of the pieces cut a 6-inch length and a 3-inch length. Glue the ends of the 6-inch length together to make a ring. Wrap the 3-inch length around the center of the ring to form a bow. Glue the remaining two 11-inch pieces around the basket; trim excess. Glue the bow in place.

What you'll need:

* Empty toilet-paper tubes
* Ruler
* Pencil
* Kid-friendly scissors
* Bamboo skewers
* Paint
* Paintbrush
* Green card stock
* Glue
* Tissue paper


Instructions for Bright Painted Flowers

.1. Draw a ring 2 inches from the end of the tube. Repeat at other end. From each ring, draw lines every 1/2 inch. Snip along each line to make petals







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2. Fold the petals back to create a flower. Paint the flower and bamboo skewers; let dry. Cut out green leaves and glue to the skewers








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3. Push the skewer through one end of the flower's center until it just touches the other end. Crumple an 8-inch square of tissue paper and glue in the center