Tuesday, February 12, 2013

February Newsletter!

It's almost Valentine's Day! It's so fun to surprise our loved ones with a little gift from the heart. I'm super excited about Valentine's Day this year, and super excited to share all of our news with you! Here are our upcoming classes and a sweet DIY for you. Happy Valentine's Day!
February 21st: Mixed Media Collage Class! (Techniques for acrylic paint and paper on canvas) Mid-Plains Community College Class, 6-9pm $45. For more info, please contact Mid-Plains at 402-376-8033 or email simsc@mpcc.edu
February 26th: 6-10 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm (last Tuesday of every month except on holidays)


February 28th: 4-5 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm (last Thursday of every month except on holidays)
March 16th: Fabric Flower Class! Learn how to make various kinds of fabric flowers that can be used as craft embellishments or as hair and fashion accessories. $30.00, All materials provided (Fabric, buttons, sewing scissors, fabric glue, needle and thread). 2:00-4:00pm

Our DIY this month is on how to make simple coffee filter flowers that have a very vintage romantic look. We bought two sizes of coffee filters, a small and a large. We boiled some water and added instant coffee. We soaked some of the filters in that, wrung them out and laid them out flat to dry. Then we boiled more water and added red food coloring to soak them in. We put quite a bit in, and of course the more red food coloring the darker pink they will be. It's also fun to mix the coffee and food coloring together for some lighter dirtier pinks. We had about 4 different colors all together. Next we simply glued them together in the middle. We did 3 layers for each flower. Smaller ones in front and crinkled up by loosely folding them in half twice before gluing the bottom of that to the middle of your other layers. They can be great for wall or table decorations, or to glue all around a wreath. Simple, but sweet. :)

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