Watch free craft tutorials this weekend with Country Living
Get inspired this weekend with a jam-packed free virtual event from our friends at Country Living. On Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th of May, Country Living's Celebrate at Home event will run on their Facebook page.
You can find the fantastic full line up here, but these are two crafty tutorials we're certainly going to be watching!
Craft with Alaina Binks, Home and Craft Editor at Country Living
On Saturday at 3pm, Learn how to make three beautiful at-home crafts using tissue paper in a 30 minute tutorial with Country Living's Homes and Craft Editor Alaina Binks as she talks us through how to make decoupaged vases, paper napkin ‘crackers’ and paper pompoms.
They are all easy makes using tissue paper (tissue paper, decoupage paper and paper napkins) and recycling.
Paper napkin pompoms
Decoupaged vases – with glass jars and bottles (small whisky bottle and tall passata jar)
Paper napkin ‘crackers’ – without the snap, but with treats inside – re-using toilet rolls
The ‘crackers’ are perfect for a birthday dinner at home (or other celebration in isolation) one in each person’s place.
Craft with Chris Myers of The Cozy Club
At 2.30pm on Sunday, founder of The Cozy Club, Chris Myers, will be hosting an at-home spring-inspired craft workshop, showing you a new way to press flowers.
From her own kitchen table, Chris shows us how to transform an old book into a personalised, decorated pressed flower book. Chris uses old French grammar books from her days as a French teacher but any book can be used – the type you’ve read hundreds of times and are ready to take on a new lease of life as part of a craft project. Don’t worry too much about the cover because that will be decorated.
All you need is an old book, some ribbon, some scrap pieces of fabric, baking paper, plain paper, glue, scissors and, most importantly, flowers and petals.
Chris uses blossoms but you can forage for any seasonal flowers or leaves from your garden or daily walks. The result in a charming, personalised pressed flower book where the pages of a novel are intertwined with beautiful, delicate petals – perfect for a meaningful birthday gift or post-lockdown reunion present.
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