What better way to pass the time on a less-than-idyllic spring day than by keeping your hands busy with THREE new craft books that go on sale today? We just can’t help ourselves. So let us help you draw, color, or cut & paste your way through the day…and maybe add a little decorative style to your home while you’re at it!

First up: Create Your Own Collage: Cut, Color, and Paste Your Way to Fabulous Artworks and More by Lizzie Lees is packed with both colorful patterned pages and black and white printed pages that can be cut out, colored in, or customized and embellished, as well as pages full of stickers: everything you need to create your own collage masterpieces.

There’s loads of ideas for getting the most out of the book, from making beautiful bird collages (like the one above!), to charming cityscape or nautical collages, to designs that can be used to create cards for your family and friends. Plus, some pages are perforated so they can be cut out, or folded and glued. There’s even two 4-page double-sided fold-out spreads inside for you to customize and display, so your home, office, or locker will be the envy of all!

If drawing is more your jam, then you’ll want to pick up Draw People in 15 Minutes by Jake Spicer. By the time you finish this book you’ll have all the skills and the confidence you need to sketch people on the move or on the couch.

Professional art instructor Jake Spicer takes you through every aspect of drawing from life, from sketching bodies in a busy public space to drawing a model from real life or a photograph. Carefully crafted exercises break down the drawing process into easily digestible parts, while step-by-step tutorials demonstrate how you can create a full-length portrait in just 15 minutes. With advice on everything from materials to use to how to get a person’s proportions right, including how to draw hands, feet, and fabric, this is the complete course for anyone who’s ever wanted to draw people. Suitable for all ages and skill levels, this follow up to Spicer’s Draw Faces in 15 Minutes is a step-by-step, learn-as-you-go book that encourages you to progress at your own pace. Beautifully illustrated, easy-to-follow chapters make it simple for anyone to create an amazing full-length portrait.

And last but (never) least, we have an exquisite new addition to your collection of adult coloring books: Pippa’s Magical Garden: A Coloring Book Adventure Filled with Fantastical Animals and Enchanting Gardens by Pippa Rossi is filled with magical creatures and wonderful plants for people of all ages to color.

Enter through the castle gate and be swept away into a world filled with magical creatures and wonderful gardens. Be inspired by blossoming flowers and fantastical pumpkins and other vegetables. Encounter curious insects and beautiful birds, and visit the lake to catch a glimpse of the fish. The garden is filled with many other animals too: there are hedgehogs, chickens, lobsters, dragonflies, grasshoppers, frogs, pigeons, and a rooster. Team up with the stork and find the frog; meet the butterflies and all the other creatures, great and small, right out of the fairy tales of Pippa’s garden.

In the summer Pippa lives near her garden and lake. She works in the flower garden, vegetable garden, and the orchard, and she makes boat trips on the lake, which she reaches by walking down the steps from her living room.

The garden provides the flowers for the many bouquets that can be found in the artist’s rooms. Inside this book, complex flowers and plants are waiting to be filled with an abundance of colors.

Just as Pippa herself finds peace and tranquility in this paradise, you too will find stress relief and tranquility in Pippa’s Magical Garden. Better get your colored pencils, gel pens, or watercolors ready!

Get your hands on one of these beauties asap!

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Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Books-a-Million
Indiebound
Walmart

Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Books-a-Million
Indiebound
Walmart