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BFC 2017 Call for Creativity Award: Liudmila Bouros

Call for Creativity Liudmila, a Moldovan art teacher and artist, facilitated the creation of hundreds of postcards for the project. She even accompanied us to the Basel Postkarten Festival on November 4th. Take a look at the artwork submitted by over 150 children from Moldova, Georgia and Switzerland. Vote for your favourites postcards in our galleries.

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DIY projects for the parents of a toddler

Citrus Peel Garland Cut peels into geometric shapes and string them into a decorative garland when they’re dry! You will need: oranges, a knife to cut the oranges in half (adults only), scissors, baker’s twine, a baking/cookie sheet, hand juicer, spoon. Scrape the orange peels clean with a spoon. Flatten the orange peels out a bit then cut them into …

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Easy Making Paper Beads

Making paper beads is great project for little kids, big kids and adults. They are easy to make and are surprisingly sturdy. And they look just great! It is very creative and nice way to spend the time with your children and occupy them to make things. Traditionally, paper beads are made from scrap paper such as old magazines, or …

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DIY Fabric Postcards

Materials empty boxes fabric scraps glue Tools brush paper plate to hold glue plastic table cloth for mess protection Instructions 1. Pull out your scrap basket and separate all those really small bits from the larger pieces. We will only need the small stuff for this project! 2. Next, place a table protector down. Think plastic table cloth or large …

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An Example of Social Business in Moldova

Art Story shop is launched by an NGO “Beginning of Life”. The main goal is to give a chance to those women who suffered from the justice that they faced in their lives. This social business project helps and supports this category of women. For a lot of them, art is not just a hobby or way of an income …

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Hand-made paper with dried plants

How nice would it be to make own unique paper with special design? Essentials a mould and deckle a thick, clean kitchen sponge sheets of cotton or felt recycled paper scraps (or shavings) a blender dried herbs, flowers, or garden weeds a tub larger than your mould and deckle water Directions 1. Fill your tub about halfway with lukewarm warm …

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Call for Creativity: Hand-made Postcards

BFC is seeking submissions of hand-made postcards to exhibit at the Postcard Festival in Basel in October 2017. Anybody can participate! The card format is 105×148 mm but you are free to choose the subject and techniques. Only new designs which have not been previously exhibited or sold elsewhere, will qualify. We are looking for participants to submit cards with …

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