Painting With Water Colors-Tips & Tricks

Painting with water colors can be very tricky sometimes if you are dealing with colors for the first time or you have little knowledge about the colors. This part is challenging for number of people and it’s common. However, following simple steps and little more practice and bring good results. 

To start a painting you need to consider different things:

1. Quality of paper: Water colors painting demands good quality of paper because paper matters a lot in any kind of painting. Poor quality paper can shrink in size when the wet color is used on it. It will not yield good results and can ruin all the hard work done to finish a master piece. Thin paper can always tear apart with the use of much water and can even spread the color all over the paper in excess. On the other hand, choose a paper with hard base, thick in size so that it can absorb the color appropriately without spreading the color or tearing the paper.

2. Brand of color: Watercolors comes in different brands and it’s really important for you to try out best quality if you want to put your best in the art work. The best colors that I use for my paintings are the water colors that come in tubes as these can be squeezed out and mixed with water according to required amount.  

3. Brush sizes and shapes: Brushes are the main part of an excellent painting. Try to use good brushes, those may be little expensive but it’s good to buy outstanding one rather regretting on a cheap quality brush. You don't want to lose the hair of cheap brush on your painting, so go with good brush and also wash it gently after use. Use different sized brushes as it will help you in giving better details in painting. 

4. Test color separately: Before starting your master piece try out the colors on separate piece of paper and practice mixing the colors you want. 

5. Use less water: Water can make your color more transparent and less in the thickness. Water should always be added in limit to get the proper and darker shade. Or if you want lighter shade use less water in that case. 

TIP: If you run out of watercolor try to use your color pencils and dip the color pencil lead in the water and rub to get color out of it. 

DIY Rainbow Loom

 Hello friends, today I want to share some pics of rainbow loom and bracelets made by my 9 years old cousin sister. She bought the rainbow loom set last week from Walmart and is really excited about making different stuff from rubber bands. I hope you guys have also tried making bracelets from my previous tutorial. If not it is the time to start your creativity, use different colors of your choice add hangings or some pearls etc. Check out the previous

tutorial for more information.

How to Make Greeting Card at Home

Greeting cards, Birthday Cards, Valentine Day Cards, and Christmas Cards etc. all these cards are good enough to make someone happy and realise how much you love them and care about them. Cards are all time favourite things that we all might have shared with our dear ones. Especially, I am a huge fan of cards, the cards with little pop-ups, music and some cute little accessories on them make me happy and cheerful. I love to make them by my own using buttons, glitter, ribbons and some colored threads, yarn etc.

Photo Credit: Amy Gizienski

 When I was little I used to make cards for my parents and friends, using water colors, crayons, drawing little cartoons and adding glitter. It gave me a pleasure of sharing with other what I made for them, showing my love and respect. If I compare that old time of my childhood with today's time, there's a huge change in trends, designs and execution of cards. These are coming now in 3d, pop-ups, music, some really cute accessories and things like toys, balloons, candies, earrings etc. attached to them. I also use different things to make birthday cards, sorry cards, thank you cards and many more. The best part is to use a stenciled hole puncher. This gives you a great cut on your paper and you really don't need to follow any complicated methods. All you can do is collect the items you want, choose patterned paper and hole punch in the shape of heart, butterfly, doll or any other vintage design and paste it to the base. Add ribbons, buttons and whatever you wish to add to blow up your creativity. May be use printouts of your favourite cartoons or celebrities, even faces of your friends or family members to surprise them and make them feel wonderful. 

Watch this tutorial and learn how to make greeting card by yourself. Also don’t forget to connect with Arts & Crafts blog through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube because I do post really interesting tutorials on crafts on everyday basics. Don’t miss the most beautiful and wonderful ideas and connect right now! I will come back to post more interesting crafts on this blog. So stay connected and keep on checking the blog.

How to Make DIY Crochet Hair Clips

Hair clips are all time favorite accessories of girls. These clips not only look beautiful but make your hair even more attractive and you look pretty. I have all kinds and colors of clips at my place because I simply use it often. Even hair-clips are best to tie up hair when doing any kind of hairstyle. My mom is very good in making DIY crochet projects for me. She is genius and knows everything about knitting, stitching, crochet and more stuff related to this. Last time she made me pretty crochet flowers and those were so cute. My aunt is also a born artist and she knows a lot about crochet. When I visited her place she gave me a packet of hand crafted crochet hair-clips. I was surprised by the clips she made because those were amazingly beautiful. The real thing is that if you know how to knit or even you don't you can still make it with little practice. So get ready for today's tutorial of crochet clips.

For this tutorial you need:

1. Tic Tac pins or Bobby pins

2. Embroidery thread or wool

3. Scissors

4. Buttons etc.

5. Crochet hook 

6. Yarn needle 

7. Glue gun

First of all you need to make a crochet flower of different colors. Then add something of your choice like buttons, purls etc. Now, simply attach it with the clips using fabric glue or by thread. Make as many crochet flowers as you want and use different designs not only flowers. Check the video tutorial to learn fast.