Our Craft was Featured!

We are so happy that we found a new place to share our Crafts and that is in the nature of FamilyCrafts.About.com. I have been an avid reader of About.com and i am so fluttered that they published our Art. We've been doing this art making project for years now and i guess it's about time to showcase it to others.
The craft that was published is our Shamrock Potato Stamp Art. We submitted it to their site but we're not hoping that it will be approved. We're just trying out...and then a day after the submission.... I got a mail stating that our craft is published on their site. That makes my heart jumping.We're planning to submit more art projects soon. Oh they also have this weekly and monthly craft challenge and we're going to participate here soon.. Yipee! You should join us too.

Shamrock Potato Stamp Art

Saint Patrick's Day isn't over yet here in our Blog and in fact, we have 2 more Saint Patrick Day related projects to do. Today, Milzon will show you how to make a simple yet fun Shamrock Potato Stamp Art.

To start we need a potato(uncooked), white bond paper, water color or poster paint and a kitchen knife.

Cut the potato into half. (don't let the kids do this). The bigger the potato the better.

Draw the Shamrock on top of it.

Then start carving.

Now it's your kids' turn.

Spread the water color on the carved part

Then stamp it on the paper.

(milzon busy stamping)

Stamp as many shamrock leaves as you want. You can also use other colors if you wish to.

Tadah! our Shamrock Potato Stamp Art

Potato Stamp Art

Hi there guys, we will be sharing another artwork. This time we'll be making "Potato Stamp Art"
Here are the materials we need:
Potato
Water Color
Knife
Bond Paper

Actually you can use potatoes of any size and any variety. With a little creativity, the lowly spud can be used to make decorative prints that can adorn personalized gift cards or decorative gift wrappers.

Get a potato and cut it into half ( with pencil or any pointed material like a small knife), outline your design into the raw surface. You can start of with some simple designs like a star, a fish or even a clover leaf.

Now using that small knife, cut around the outline of the design to a depth of 1/4 inch and then cut the background of the shape it self.
Here, i make a clover shape potato stamp.

Tadah! we used Star and clover shape!
For colors, you can use water colors , which you can mix with a little water. Just dip or spread the color with brush and apply it to a suitable surface.
Tadah! here's the work of my brother!

So cool!

and here's mine...errrr okay my bro's work is much better.