Easy kids school holiday activity

Hello! Felicity here today.

School holidays here in Queensland starts next week. At the beginning of the school holidays I like to create a little list of activities. It helps me be a little prepare when 'boredom' sets in for the little boys.

So I did a little practice run with an activity.

I wrote out my daughters name in big letters on Canson water colour paper. I then ask Mister six if he would like to use watercolours to colour in her name.
Needless to say no hesitation.

I then used a black marker to outline her name.
Looks pretty cute.

Mister six then asks "Mum, what about my name?"
Yep, school holiday craft number 1 in this house!

Water color tags with Felicity

 Hello - Felicity with you here today.

You know when you get new products to play with and you really don't know what to do with them? The starting point for me is always to grab a piece of paper.
When I got the schmicke water colour paints, I grabbed some canson water colour paper pad and a paint brush and just started painting strokes and blending.

I finished up with my paper looking like this.

Now what will I do with it?

if your like me, you just cant throw it in the bin or waste it.
I decided to cut out some cute little tags and and a little stamp image to the corner.

Arent they cute.
There all ready for a little gift or to right a cute little message on.

Fabric painted Calico bags with Felicity

Hello! Felicity here today.

In my studio I have been experimenting with simple ways to use fabric paint. I wanted to create something that was cute and that didn't involve a lot of supplies or a lot of time.
Now having 3 little children to take care of and no spotlight or lincraft in town, I wanted to create something I had stashed away that was collecting dust.

I used 3 supplies
Calico bags
Fabric paint
Stencils.

I decorated, very simple and quickly a few calico bags. I use these bags a lot. There great for when my son wants to give a little 'something' to his mates for a birthday or his school teacher to simple say 'thank you'.

1.First all I did was lay a dottie stencil on the bag.
2.Then I put a small amount of fabric paint on a baby wipe.
3.Then I simply wiped over the stencil with the baby wipe.

I did at first try to use a paint brush and dab it on, but it didn't give me the even layer of paint or affect I wanted as you can see, compared to the other 3 bags.

I think the baby wipe allows the paint to move smoothly because of the little moisture that comes from the baby wipe.

Something so simple, yet effective. Even better the kids can do it too!

Products used: Fabric paint - Oriental blue, Light green, Butter cup

Felicity XO

Fabric painted Notebook covers with Felicity

Hi! Felicity here today.
I have been seeing around the www and Instagram some really super cute beautiful midori fabric notebooks. The fabric covers are so cute.
I decided to make a couple myself to go in my hot pink pocket size midori.
They turned out so pretty.

I simply cut some calico fabric, choose my stencils and put some fabric paint on a baby wipe and wiped over the stencil.
Then I used some strong glue and adhered the calico to scrapbook paper.
Then I cut up some water colour paper  and stable it inside the cover.

Didn't they turn out great. :-)

Products used: Fabric paint - Oriental blue, Light Green, Bengal Pink: Canson Drawing 220 paper and watercolour paper.

XOXO