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Giveaway-Crafting With Nature: Grow or Gather Your Own Supplies for Simple Handmade Crafts, Gifts & Recipes

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Giveaway: Crafting With Nature: Grow or Gather Your Own Supplies for Simple Handmade Crafts, Gifts & Recipes

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Amy Renea

Leave a comment in today’s post by April 14, 2016 and you are in the running for this beautiful comprehensive and inspiring book on how to cultivate and craft with natural elements. My favorites are the crafts with Lamb’s Ear leaves and acorn caps!

Open to U. S. Residents only please.

From the publisher:

“Fuse 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.”

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Comments

  1. Awesome I’ve never thought about using things that I grow to use in my crafts. Sure hope I win yet if I don’t I’m going to buy this book. Just as soon as I get enough money to buy it. Thanks for the chance to win the book and have a blessed day.

  2. Love to recycle things and make things for my gardens. Appreciate the change to win.
    Thank You!

  5. Love nature crafts. This book would be awesome to win! Thanks for the chance to win.

  6. Oh! I’ve got a lot of lamb’s ear. I would love a chance to try to reproduce crafts with that.

  17. My Granddaughter and I love crafting and this book would pave the way for a new crafting addiction. If I’m not the lucky winner I’ll shoot for Mothers Day!!!

  18. This is just exactly the book I need!
    I live right on a small park, and have been thinking about to what uses I could
    put these lovely things from nature. Thank you for this giveaway. My fingers
    and toes are crossed for good luck.

  20. Thank you for your many giveaways! This one is ‘right up my alley!’ I’ve collected so many things from outdoors and have made the usual center pieces and wreaths. Those are boring me now…if I only had this book to reference from!

  22. Acorn caps? I have lots of those!!! Looks like a fabulous book loaded with great inspiration!

  23. what an interesting book, lots of neat ideas“`a book my daughter would love.

  24. I have quite a collection of “stuff” from the great outdoors that I need a little coaching on what to do with them – this book would be perfect!!

  27. I can already tell this book would just feed my crafting spirit! 🙂 Looks utterly delightful. Thanks for the giveaway & happy nature crafting to all!

  28. I would love to win this book. I am a Bible School Craft teacher and am always looking for new ideas.

  32. I love using nature to make crafts. Pinecone angels are such a big hit when teaching crafts at the senior citizen center. Thanks for the chance to win.

  33. What a fun book, I love the clothes pin dolls with the acorn cap hats. Can’t wait to see what other great ideas it holds.

  37. THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME A CHANCE TO WIN THIS WONDERFUL BOOK.
    I HAVE CRAFTED WITH A FEW ITEMS FROM NATURE BUT THIS WOULD ADD TO MY CREATIVE JUICES TO MAKE SOME DIFFERENT ITEMS.

  41. We recycle everything at our twice weekly tiny tots STEAM read aloud story time, and I host a monthly adult class recycling trash into art. This book would be a fabulous addition to our public library collection. Mahalo for the op to win.

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