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Best Craft Supplies & DIY Essentials I Actually Use 🎨✨
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items If I see a plain canvas, window, piece of wood, poster board, coffee filter or random object minding its own business, there’s a pretty good chance I’m going to decorate it. 😂
These are the art and craft supplies I keep reaching for when an innocen...
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✍️ Best Markers, Paint Pens & Drawing Supplies
🎨 Acrylic Paints, Brushes & Painting Essentials
✂️ Best Craft Glue, Adhesives & DIY Tools
✨ Fun Craft Embellishments & Decorating Supplies
✍️ Best Markers, Paint Pens & Drawing Supplies
These babies can turn almost ANYTHING into an art project. Wood? Yep. Glass? Yep. Rocks? Obviously. Random object I found and decided needed flowers all over it? Absolutely. 😂 If you love outlining and adding tiny details, these are dangerous in the...
posca 3M Fine Point Acrylic Paint Markers
An absurd amount of colors without spending fancy-marker money. I use these for signs, lettering, doodling, kids crafts and those projects where apparently I need six slightly different shades of purple.
Super Tips Washable Markers, 150 Count
The black outline is where the magic happens. I swear half my drawings look questionable until I hit them with a thick black outline and suddenly we’re professionals. 😂
Sharpie Permanent Markers, Fine Point, Assorted Colors ...
Same Sharpie goodness, but for all those tiny details where the regular tip suddenly feels approximately the size of a tree trunk.
Sharpie Ultra Fine Tip Permanent Markers, 12 Black
If you like decorating windows, mirrors, chalkboards or signs, GET THESE. Bright colors + temporary art = I can change my mind 37 times without ruining anything.
Shop Chalk Markers
Gold and silver details have saved many projects that needed “something” but I had absolutely no clue what that something was.
Metallic Paint Pens
🎨 Acrylic Paints, Brushes & Painting Essentials
Cheap enough that I don’t feel guilty using half a bottle because apparently the tiny wooden mushroom needed four coats of hot pink. Great basic craft paint for canvas, wood and random DIY projects.
Apple Barrel® Acrylic Paints - Plaid Crafts
When I want a little step up from basic craft paint, I love these. Tons of colors and they’re especially good for signs, wood projects and decorative painting.
FolkArt Paint Website
Beige has enough representation. 😂 Give me the obnoxiously bright pink, orange, yellow and green. These are SO fun for funky canvases, signs and anything that needs immediate happy-brain energy.
Neon Paint | Blacklight Reactive Acrylic Paint
You need tiny brushes, chunky brushes and at least one brush you’re going to absolutely destroy because you forgot to wash it. It’s basically crafting law.
Acrylic Paint Brushes
Not glamorous. Weirdly useful. They’re awesome for backgrounds, Mod Podge, staining, big areas and projects where brush strokes are getting on my nerves.
Foam Brush 1" (10 Pack)
I LOVE having little canvases around because you can make a quick gift without committing to a giant masterpiece. They’re also perfect for experimenting with ridiculous ideas before going big.
Mini Canvas | Small Canvases, Big Creativity
✂️ Best Craft Glue, Adhesives & DIY Tools
The official tool of “I have absolutely no engineering qualifications but I’m pretty sure I can attach this.” 😂 Every craft stash needs one.
Krightlink Mini Hot Glue Gun Kit with 30 Sticks
Not exciting until you need one and discover every glue stick in your house has vanished into the same dimension as missing socks. Buy the multipack.
Elmer's
Glue? Sealer? Finish? Tiny bottle of crafting witchcraft? Yes. I use Mod Podge for collage projects, paper crafts, coffee-filter creations and anything I want stuck down AND protected.
Mod Podge Matte Sealer, Glue & Finish
For those times when hot glue feels excessive but regular glue has decided it doesn’t believe in doing its job.
Glue Dots
Want those satisfying geometric paintings with perfectly separated colors? THIS. Also great for taping off canvas borders and pretending I planned the design instead of making it up as I went.
ScotchBlue Original Multi-Surface Painters Tape 2"
✨ Fun Craft Embellishments & Decorating Supplies
There are very few situations in life that cannot be improved by googly eyes. Frog? Better. Flowerpot? Better. Random rock? Congratulations, he has a personality now.
UPINS 1000 Pcs Black Self-Adhesive Googly Eyes
Kids love them, I love them and apparently everything becomes 72% more cheerful when you glue a fuzzy ball onto it.
Pom Poms: Arts, Crafts & Sewing
Flowers, bugs, little creatures, sculptures, school crafts… these bendy little weirdos have been carrying the children’s craft industry for generations.
Caydo 200PCS Thick Pipe Cleaners, 20 Colors
Sometimes a project needs elegance. Sometimes it needs 46 plastic rhinestones because restraint is boring. ✨
Craft Gems
One roll is never enough because apparently I need florals, rainbows, mushrooms, glitter, stripes AND tiny frogs. Great for journals, borders, cards and decorating random things that didn’t ask for it.
The Washi Tape Shop
If you make signs, bulletin boards, cards or school projects, cardstock is worth buying instead of fighting with floppy construction paper. It instantly makes things look more finished.
Colored Cardstock Paper
These aren’t JUST office supplies. Affirmation walls, kindness projects, little notes, school displays, colorful backgrounds… give me a pack of sticky notes and suddenly I have an entire installation planned. 😂
Post-it® Printed Notes, 3 in x 3 in, Rainbow designs, 2 ...