About this item
An Inspiring Collection of Handmade Crafts Using Materials from NatureFuse your love for crafting and the outdoors with this incredible compilation of DIY crafts, recipes and gifts made with natural materials you can grow or gather yourself. Gardening and crafting expert Amy Renea takes you on a journey to collect plant materials from the woods, the backyard, the garden and even the pantry, then craft those items into something special yet easy to do. She provides detailed tutorials and recipes for things like making solid perfume, crafting wooden buttons to accent a hat, preparing natural dye for easy paper flowers, canning your own fruit jam, handcrafting wreaths, using seed pods to create beautifully rustic earrings and even making your own coconut oil for lotions or sea salt for hand scrubs! And throughout the book, you'll learn new crafting techniques like wood burning, imprinting leaves onto clay and how to infuse oil with herbs for culinary and cosmetic delights.Each chapter starts with a common plant and a beginner-friendly guide to growing or gathering it, then dives into ideas for what you can make with it. With this book packed full of tutorials, ideas and Amy's lovely photography, you'll be inspired to craft with nature all year long.
About the Author
Amy Renea is the founder and photographer of A Nest for All Seasons, a gardening and DIY craft blog. Her blog was chosen as the reader's choice best gardening blog in the Better Homes & Gardens 2014 Blogger Awards. Her blog has been featured as the best of Houzz in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Amy is also a Crafts Unleashed design team member and has had her work published on Forbes.com, The Daily Muse, Celebrating Everyday Life Magazine and Hobby Farm Home Magazine.
She splits her time between a zone 6 garden in central Pennsylvania and the seaside community of Palmas del Mar, Puerto Rico.
For more details, photos, projects and behind-the-scenes information about the book, visit CraftingWithNature.com.
FAQ about Crafting With Nature http://www.anestforallseasons.com/2016/03/i-want-to-sign-your-book-for-free-of.html
Updates on new events, giveaways and additional resources will be on the new facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CraftingWithNaturebyAmyRenea
You can find Amy's work at Houzz here: http://www.houzz.com/pro/amyrenea/amy-renea
and Crafts Unleashed here: http://www.craftsunleashed.com/author/amy-renea/
