It's An Earth Day Birthday Artterro Canvas Book Kit Giveaway!

With today being both Earth Day and my birthday, how about we celebrate with a crafty giveaway AND a discount offer from an eco-friendly craft source?

Artterro makes Eco Art Kits for adults & kits who love crafts.  These sets provide natural and recycled materials, in 100% recycled packaging.  They make it easy to create Earth-friendly, high quality projects in favorite crafting mediums like paper, fabric, felting, jewelry & book making.

Today Artterro is relaunching their ready-to-craft kits with a brand new look, extra materials and bonus projects in every set so they're even MORE enjoyable and sustainable. And one Sew Can Do reader will win one of these brand new sets: a Canvas Book Kit! 

The Canvas Book Kit gives you all the goodies needed to make a beautiful fabric book: 

- Blank 6"x8"cotton canvas book
- Batik and solid-color cotton fabrics
- Fun, colorful ribbons
- Artist-quality acrylic paint and brush
- Glass and wood beads & sequins
- Craft thread, needles, threader
- Plus tips and ideas to get you started

It can be used to make a Storybook, Journal, Baby Book, Scrapbook, or anything else you can imagine, and there are plenty of materials to use on other projects too.

It also includes two bonus projects to turn the packaging into things like a birdhouse, mailbox or frame for art.

Last year my kids and I tried Artterro for the first time and we did a little review of our experience. 

We'd gotten the wool felt bug kit and they'd had a lot of fun making some little critters. Even with 3 kids crafting, we still had lots of supplies left over to make other crafts too.

There are kits for every type of crafter, and you don't need to have any special skills to use them, so they're great projects for beginners or to try out something new without having to run around gathering up supplies.  Just open the box and start crafting!

As a special for Sew Can Do readers, Artterro is offering you a 20% off at their online store through May 1st, 2014.  Just use code: SEW20.

       

Now how about a chance to win an Artterro Canvas Book Kit?

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DIY Treasure Stones Tutorial

Today I thought I'd share a really fun & easy craft for the kids : Treasure Stones.  Who doesn't like digging for treasure?  It's also very eco-friendly since it's all natural ingredients and using old coffee grounds that would normally get tossed out. 

1 cup used coffee grounds
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1/4 cup sand
3/4 cup water
Stuff to dig up (toys, faux jewels, coins, etc.)

Mix dry ingredients, then add water 1/4 cup at a time until a dough-like consistency.

Form into balls and make a hole.  Insert a treasure and add a little more stone mix to close hole.

Put on cookie sheet.  Dry 2-3 days or, if impatient (like me), put in oven on 150 degrees for 15-20 min.

Once hard, stones are ready to be cracked open by your little treasure seekers using chisels, hammers or other digging gear.

Eureka - We've found a diamond (and don't I wish it were real)!

Thrifty, easy & fun - what could be better?!?



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Earth Day Birthday & Getting The Kids Green

Happy Earth Day everyone!  This day is twice as fun for me since our family loves trying to be "green"  (hence the eco-friendly store owning thing) and because it's on my birthday, so it's a very festive day all around.  As a result, this week's homeschool plans have been pretty fun.

The history of how Earth Day began is pretty interesting, so I have some books on that, ideas for eco-kid's crafts & stuff kids can do to be green.  I got the My Bag & Me board book last year and it is ideal for getting kids into saving the planet at a young age.  It even comes with a cute little bag they can use.  Unfortunately my kids always pick items that are way too large for said bag, so....

Using stuff from my stash & scrap bin, I had the guys pick out doodads to help make their very own reusable shopping bags.  Twill fabric is nice and strong & cut up bits of scraps and some patches add the eco-flair.  They already tell the checkout person we brought bags when we're shopping, but now they can tote these around themselves (and maybe get trained to carry stuff to & from the car for Mom.....).

We planted organic seeds for our herb & veggie garden in the backyard and started getting our scraps out to the compost bin.

I also grabbed these fun activities for the kids to do.  There are a lot of great Earth Day activities at Enchanted Learning. This site makes it so easy to throw together a theme filled week in minutes, it's one of my favorites for our school materials.  The cute activity book is a free download from the EPA that you can find here.  The Green Living section in the left column of my blog has loads of links to good, green stuff.  Have a great day celebrating the planet!