Monday 30 April 2018

Join our #funwithfolkit monthly challenges



You may remember my admission once upon a time that I am not very good at painting without a purpose.  It's true, I would love to be one of those people overflowing with creative inspiration and the imagination of a child but sadly, it isn't the case.  That's part of the reason I fell in love with Folk Art because I finally found an art form I could master, designs I could follow step by step.

Personalise anything with You Can Folk It vintage roses and folk art painting

When I sit down to paint these days, I still like to have prompts, ideas of what to create or which colour palette to choose.  That is why we have decided to begin our Monthly challenges to inspire you to have #funwithfolkit Each month we will be providing a simple prompt to inspire your practice or your project, from pattern ideas to colour inspiration they can be interpreted in whichever way your creative mind takes you.

Wake and make - You Can Folk It daisy details, folk art painting and hand lettering

There are no rules when it comes to our monthly challenges.  Each theme can be used to inspire just one practice page or it can influence a few.  You can use it to help create a project, gift or a greetings card.  However you choose to use our theme, please tag us in your posts and use the hashtag #funwithfolkit

Each month, we will share your images across our social media and the most liked posts will be shared on our blog and in our newsletter.

DecoArt American Acrylics, You Can Folk It

So, starting tomorrow and throughout May, our first theme will be beautiful Rainbows.  I picked this one following my recent colour mixing adventures as it is a great opportunity to play with colour if you wanted to take the theme less literally.  We hope this theme makes you smile as much as we do and that you will have some great #funwithfolkit

Here's to a month filled with fun, Folk It, colour and creativity

Happy Folking x

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Friday 6 April 2018

The perfect project for Spring


With Spring in the air, what better time to create something bright, fresh and beautiful.  We recently took a trip to Ikea and bought ourselves a great box, perfect for a spot of gardening.  

Every year around Spring, we get requests on how to paint Daffodils and so they just had to feature along with a few new techniques and flowers to add to your collection.  We hope you enjoy it.  

You can find all you will need for this tutorial here.


If you wish to ensure this project is suitable for outside, once the project is dry, seal with a couple of coats of weather proof varnish.  

We do hope you love this project as much as we do. 





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