National Crafting Month coloring for adults

March is National Crafting Month!  How do you plan to celebrate?

One great way to celebrate is to relax with one of the fastest growing crafting trends . . . coloring books for adults.  There are books with images and inspirations, helping you to relax and forget about the stress in your daily life.  (click on any of the images below for more information on the specific book or to purchase the books)









 Some coloring books even come with hidden pictures

 

 Or they include images from our favorite themes, like Doctor Who

 

 Harry Potter

 

 or my personal favorite . . . Disney!

 

So grab your crayons, colored pencils or markers and lets do some coloring!

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Opportunities for Embellishment Inks

Sometimes our crafting projects dont always work out the way we planned.  We can look at these like mistakes and toss out the project to start over or we can look at these as opportunities for embellishment.

Lets take this card for example.  I was inking up this beautiful flower using a stencil and you can see to the far right of the card some of my ink went off of the stencil.

At first I was so upset with myself, and I almost threw the card in the garbage.  But then I had an idea . . . what if inked over this smudge to hide it?

I grabbed some painters tape and ripped it to give an irregular edge to one side of the tape.  I then placed the tape so that the ink smudge was to the right of the tape.

Next, using some of the same inks that I used to create the flower, I inked in the area to the right of the painters tape.

Once I pulled the painters tape away, there was this border to the card.

It is not what I originally had planned for this card, but in the end it did turn out very nice.  If I had not shown you this full blog post you might not have ever known that there was a mistake that I was hiding under that beautiful border.

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