Crafts and DIY

Do you love Crafts and other things DIY?

Good. Then you’ve come to the right place. Kim & Ink started this website because crafting is part of our DNA.

The first DIYing I did was papering my room in blue and white when I was in high school. A few years later I purchased a beautiful voile print and matching solid polyester, then designed and sewed a bed skirt and curtains and quilted the bedspread and pillow shams. It was beautiful, although I have no idea if it was the latest style. We only had the department store’s catalog for our style guide in those days!

But this isn’t a blog post. So, read the posts in this category to discover the evolution of Kim & Ink and the Crafts and DIYs we can’t help but share.

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A Watercolor Floral Birthday Card DIY That Anyone Can Make

Need a calming hobby? This watercolor floral birthday card is a DIY anyone can make. Follow the no-stress steps to a beautiful finish!   In these past posts, we have a beginner’s Watercolor Pencil Hydrangea Tutorial and Fall Tree Painting. This Tutorial shows how to paint a watercolor background, which we’ll go over again in…

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How to Paint Hydrangea: Beginner Watercolor Pencils Tutorial

How to Paint Hydrangea: An Experiment With Watercolor Pencils. This is a Pre-Beginner Level Watercolor Painting Tutorial with next-to-professional results.   My very first experiments with watercolor painting were with watercolor pencils. They seemed a safer alternative than pot of paint with the potential to drip and slide all over the paper. Well, as time…