Adults & Crafts Review – Wood Burning 3-Pack Kit – September 2017

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Adults & Crafts delivers customized DIY craft kits to your door each month. Boxes will include everything you need to go from zero to crafting hero—materials, instructions, and (most) tools you need to complete any one of their unique projects.

 Disclosure: This complimentary box was received for review purposes. All opinions are my own, and no compensation was received.

Adults & Crafts ships via USPS, FedEx or UPS depending on what they are sending that month and your location. My box shipped via USPS Priority Mail.

This month’s project was Wood Burning 3-Pack Kit. Adults & Crafts had a somewhat similar kit back in October 2016, but they have done some revamping to the subscription, and the kits are now bigger now.

Instructions

The box included full instructions, with labeled steps and pictures.

Materials
Materials included were:

• Wood Burning Tool
• Carving Block
• Three Natural Wood Coasters
• Recipe Box
• Designs
• Transfer Paper
• Memo Pins
• Practice Wood
• Foam Brush
• Gloss Finish

Additional supplies needed were: Electrical outlet, scissors, pen/pencil, and tape.

The box included a few designs to give you ideas of what to do for your project, but you were also free to branch out on your own.  I opted to print a few Halloween designs to use for myself.

The Project

Coasters

For the coasters, I opted for a simple pumpkin design.  I did all three with the same design to keep things simple.

Tracing the designs on is the easy part of wood burning ;).

My coasters didn’t turn out perfect, but they did get better the more I did ;).  I quickly learned that it’s easier to turn the coasters than it is to turn the wood burning tool.

Carving Block

I got a little ambitious and decided to go for a Trick or Treat Halloween design for the carving block.  I should have known this was above my skill set with all those curves, but I went for it anyway!

The webs weren’t too hard!  I do have a lot of pencil lines to clean up, but I will get that figured out.

This was difficult!  All things considered, though I am pretty happy with it.  Plus, my 9-year-old was impressed by it!

Recipe Box
I am still deciding what to do with my recipe box, so I haven’t gotten started on that one yet.  I want “Recipe” in a cool, but not super hard to burn font, so I need to keep looking.

All Finished

Not too bad!  I am going to clean them up a little more (get the pencil lines off) and then apply the gloss finish.

Final Thoughts
I had a great time with this month’s Adults & Crafts!  I may not be an expert wood burner (or even close), but I had a great time being crafty and learned a little too.

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