Best Christmas Crafts to Make With Friends
Crafting is such a good idea for so many reasons. I love to make things with my hands that can be used for decorations as well as practical uses. While crafting alone is relaxing and enjoyable– crafting with friends can be super awesome fun. Recently two of my all time crafting besties came to my studio for a week or so and we made ALL the things. I am excited the Christmas Crafts to Make With Friends that we created during that time together.
Best Christmas Crafts to Make With Friends – Products and Projects
Okay friends, let’s break it down. Here are the TEN different companies that we chose to partner with along with the products and glimpses of the projects.
Kunin Felt Christmas Craft
We all three love Kunin Felt. Beth and I have been working with the Kunin Felt Dream Team for many years. For this Craft-A-Thon project, we all created adorable Gingerbread banners that can be used for holiday decorations. They are also adorable to use to embellish a gift or a bucket of cookies. Grab the gingerbread cookie recipe here on my blog.
Hop over to Creatively Beth for the directions to make the banners.
Eclectic Products Christmas Craft
E-6000 makes the most amazing adhesive, Extreme Tack! We used it and made a huge batch of scrappy tags to add to gifts. This was such a super fun project to do together. It would be an awesome party craft for sure. Get all of the details and make a batch of your own.
ColorShot Christmas Craft
We received six cans of ColorShot spray paint and had a really fun time experimenting with it. The colors are so vibrant and beautiful. The project we created is this darling winter rainbow row of houses with bottle brush trees. Learn about this project and this awesome paint so you can make things.
Beacon Adhesives Christmas Craft
Gem-Tac is an incredible glue for adhering small items like gems, beads and charms to surfaces. We each made a different ornament with the Gem-Tac while sipping on hot cocoa and reminiscing our trip to Universal Studios in November. We travel together for fun too! Pop over to the article with all of the details about this fabulous adhesive and these ornaments.
Unicorn Spit Christmas Craft
Did you know that Unicorn Spit Stain can be diluted and put in a spray bottle to decorate paper. We tried it and loved it. When the paper dried, we made poppers to fill with holiday goodies. These gifties are such a fun way to spread holiday cheer. You can get all the deets about this fun project from Lindsay over on Artsy Fartsy Mama!
Christmas Paper Crafts with Therm-O-Web
All three of us had so much fun using the products that I created for Therm-O-Web. It is so fun to see how our different styles come out when working with the same products. Hop over to the post all about these crafts to get more information!
Christmas Craft Ideas with Hemptique Hemp Cord
We LOVED sitting down around the craft table and making these adorable decorations and wrapping ideas with hemp cord from Hemptique. Grab the details for the ornament and links to the other projects.
Hand Stitched Gingerbread Houses with Anchor® Embroidery Floss Spools
Of all the products we used in this round, we fell head over heels with the spools of embroidery floss. We all created patterns and made hand stitched gingerbread ornaments with some embroidery and lots of love. It is truly so delightful to see our personalities come out in our different works using the same products.
Resin Christmas Crafting with ETI
This was my first time working with FastCast from ETI and I LOVE it. It was practically magical to watch it tranform from clear liquid to white resin. Get all the details to use it yourself and make your own resin crafts.
Snow Globe Ornaments with Fairfield World
Use Glasslets from Fairfield World to make darling snow globes. Get all the deets from Beth over on her blog.
About Team Creative Crafts
Beth, Lindsay and I operate at Team Creative Crafts. While we all run our own small businesses and have our own blogs — we also collectively do many campaigns and collaborations together. I have found that this team supports me in so many ways. Teamwork can be far more rewarding than working alone. Lindsay blogs over at Artsy Fartsy Mama. Beth blogs over on Creatively Beth.
Here are some of the ways we work together:
Weekly Linky Parties
Each week Team Creative Crafts launches a new Linkly Party. It is a place on all three of our blogs where others can share their ideas and projects. We gather our favorite projects from the submissions and feature them the following week in the next Linky Party. This is a great way to connect with other creative bloggers. It gives them a platform to spread their creativity so we love it!
Monthly Themed Collaborations
Each month we sponsor a themed collaboration with a minimum of 12 other bloggers. This gives the three of us as well as all the others the opportunity to create content that is relevant and trendy for our audiences in a batch of ideas. Offering selections of ideas based on a theme is supportive to our readers when they are looking for making things based on a theme for a holiday, celebration or seasonal decor.
Craft-A-Thons
Several times a year we get together and hold Craft-A-Thons which gives us the opportunity to share our creativity, laughter and stories in person. These days are worth their weight in gold (or better yet — craft supplies) because we truly have so much fun together. We choose our favorite companies that we work with and take this opportunity to feature a product of their choice. It gives us a time to mastermind, brainstorm and play together. To be totally honest, they are some of my favorite weeks of the year.
Cheers to Crafting with Friends!
Laura