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January 15, 2012

Grandma's Garden- Crayon Art

It's hard to find a good present for our grandma (actually, she's my mom, but Anya's grandma).
"I have everything," she says always.
Ok, we will not buy a present, we will make it!
My mom has a beautiful garden in Russia. She grows everything there: potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, cabbage, apples, strawberries, black and red currants, gooseberries... and it's not all. Her favorites are flowers. Her garden is full of flowers.

My mom's birthday is in February. No flowers yet :) Well, we will give her a garden of flowers made of...crayons!
To make a piece of art, we used canvas (12"x12"), crayons  (we used 3 boxes to pick only greens), artificial flowers, glue gun and hair drier.
Glue crayons to the edge of canvas with a glue gun.
Turn canvas upside down so crayons are pointing down.




Using hair drier on a low heat, start melting crayons..
This job is a little messy, do not forget to put (news)paper around. 
Glue flowers.
Grandma's Garden is pretty!
Today I made a little different picture- Fire of Love.

29 comments:

Vikulya said...

Wow! Super! I like it so much!!!!!!!!

GalaFilc said...

Nice pictures!!!! Interesting proces!

Irina said...

Super idea! My son will be happy do it!

lanadearg said...

Wow! I like this tutorial!

MamaTita said...

Albina! It is wonderful picture and wonderful gift for mum!
Thank you!

Arctida said...

Great tutorial and the end result is so pretty! Thank you for sharing it :)

ksenchik30 said...

what a great idea!! Your pictures are beautiful.

Luxury by Vera said...

WOW! Great idea!!!

Panda8ngel said...

OMG...that is so creative!! I love it...who would of even think of such a thing but an amazing mind like yours. :)Was it easy?

Svetlana said...

Great idea! Stolen:)

JillHolly said...

How clever is this!!

amlai said...

Great idea! I must doing this. Thank you :)

Anonymous said...

that is SOOO cool:) thx

Rutvika said...

Super cool!! I am going to make one of these over the weekend...

Merry said...

I so love this idea....discovered this post through pinterest.

Anesha said...

Wow this is wonderful!!

Anonymous said...

Awesome

Anonymous said...

Love it!
Would this work if I took crayon labels off or would colors all mix together?

Lula Lola said...

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InteriorGroupie said...

Looks great! I love the unique take on crayon art - will be featuring your flower version on my blog on Friday! (sourced, of course :))

Pooja said...

wow..i love your glue gun..can you please tell me how did u decorate it??

Anonymous said...

Cute craft idea. I would like to use it with my after school kiddos--sourced of course.

Waseem said...

Interesting process....How did you decorate it.

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we are bound together said...

What a neat idea! There are so many things you can do with that!

Jen said...

How did you do the fire of love if you don't mind me asking. I noticed there aren't any crayons left on the canvas.

Mylene said...

Love the beautiful gift you made for your mother/grandmother. Thanks for sharing how you did it.

Anonymous said...

My kids made this for Grandmas birthday. Looks great! Thanks so much!!

A.L. Designs Jewelry said...

Lovely and very interesting technique!!!

Leleka said...

Adorável!! Parabéns!! Abraços do Brasil