Beads Beads Beads
Share Oh, and the things you can do … with beads. And I’m referring to those beads that are iron-able and shape-able into pretty much any thing you fancy, called perler beads. Creations Made with Perle Beads After you’ve made Zhu zhu pet food [...]
Tassels, Fun Handmade Home Accessories
Share : shabby chic tassels like these are handmade home accents that transform a house. This tassel is 100% recycled, and made of remnants of a sheer curtain & a shirt sleeve; a tiny bit of pre-used ribbon; and a broken bead spacer for the top. The white ribbon from which the tassel hangs [...]
Great Deals, Great XMAS Gifts (upto 40% off)
Share I’ll resume regular ‘how-to make contemporary things’ – articles tomorrow, but today, I want to give you the heads-up on some too-good-to-miss deals. I scoured around for the best XMAS gifts and ‘need now’ creative ideas, and here are my Top 5 for today. Cyber Monday on Amazon is actually all week and has [...]
Tribal Jewelry: Get Creative with Bungy Cord
Share Oh, we all crave creativity. But sometimes copycat-designs are ‘just the thing’ to shave off time of making something ‘unique’. Here’s a novel idea that looks so ‘belonging’, that could be made with recycled items. I’d long to make it one day: a tribal necklace a la designer Proenza Schouler’s Resort Collection [...]
How-to Make a Luu Chan Wrap Bracelet
Share Even if you’re not clicked-into the Los Angeles celebrity-scene, you might have seen these little wrap bracelets. They are THE RAGE in Hollywood. If you’d buy Luu Chan’s, you’ll realize that what once was a tribal friendship bracelet, has transformed into a pricey heirloom. That’s what happens when you add diamonds and precious stones. [...]
Back-to-School with Easy-to-Make Friendship Gifts
Share Time to celebrate going Back-to-School with flirty gifts that create smiles on the first day of school and help continue friendships. Fun Fashion Friendship Gifts that are Easy to Make Sure, there is the good-old classic friendship bracelet (click link to learn how to make it). But let’s go beyond the simple ‘threaded [...]
Fabulous Glamorous Fabric Beads
Share Here’s the tutorial for this easy to make beads, these fabulous, glamorous beads are made with fabric strips wrapped around simple cotton balls. Stitch the fabric down and embellish with contrast-colored shiny glass seed beads in a free –form pattern. As simple as that. Don’t they look glorious? source photo & original design: Alma [...]
DIY Bejeweled Bookmark
Share Step-by-Step Instructions 1. Collect materials: string, or strip of leather, or yarn or jewerly wire coverd in fabric,….. ~ or equivalent.. + pretty beads + tools to attach beads. 2. String them together, creating a long beaded jewel for the book bottom end, and a tiny beaded end-jewel to be topping out of the [...]
Art & Creativity :: Linky Party
Share Doing anything creative? Show us: it’s Linky Party-time. My contribution to the linky party is today’s Jewelry Repair Workshop. Please do link up your contributions below. Jewelry Repair Workshop – Lessons From Day 1 Today was Day #1 of the “jewelry repair workshop’” that has been desperately needed in our home. I repaired [...]
Every Creative Girl’s Dream
Share This guy just has to be every creative girl’s dream: tall and good looking, organized, and best of all: he helps you find stuff as he remembers where you’ve put your things…!! May I introduce you to: … … Mr. ‘Craftbox’ ! This wonderful guy (.. ahem, Craft Storage Furniture) may perhaps be [...]
Build Your Own Birdhouse
Share This adorable birdhouse is the culmination of a few different craft techniques: creating floral wall art from toilet paper rolls, making a beaded accent charm, and painting, stenciling and decorating a birdhouse. What makes this wall decoration work is repetition of color, shape and pattern. The How-to How to Make [...]
How to Make a Bead Necklace
Share This tutorial features the necklace-making basics. You can find the basic beading instructions on how to make a necklace in this video.
Bead Embroidery Earrings
Share Fancy these earrings !!! I mean, fancy making these !!! When I see jewelry like this I completely presume that they are ‘not make-able’ by me. Yet, as designer Sherry Serafini promises, I can do it too!Amazing. Arizona Sunset Earrings Those who sign up for our newsletter (see sign-up on the top [...]
Native American Kid Craft :: Story Necklace
Share One of the many rich crafts produced within the Native American culture is a "fetish," or story necklace. A story necklace designed to illustrate history, legends and moral stories with carved creatures representing elements of nature, animals, spirit protectors or ancestors. Each animal has a symbolic as well as a literal meaning. The characteristics [...]
Flower Clay Bead Earrings
Share The tutorial about fruit-shaped clay beads left something out about our craft making adventures of that day. Today I want to share what did not show but made: LOVELY flower-shaped clay beads. They are so sweet, they look like candy. I’ve made them into peaceful earrings by adding a few other charms as well. [...]
How to Make Fruit Shaped Beads
Share Let’s Pretend it’s Spring….. Saturday I bought our first little strawberry seedling. Full of promise. Completely inspired, as we could not wait for it to bloom, we made these adorable strawberry earrings. How to Make Fruit Shaped Beaded Earrings Materials Needed Self-drying clay Round-nosed pliers Acrylic or kids paint (gloss medium [...]
Love is .. Handmade Earrings
Share Love is… a pair of handmade crystal angel earrings for a girlfriend. Materials 2 long metal pins with eye 3 small pastel-colored glass crystals or other beads 2 angel charms 2 earring findings Step-by-step How to Make Angel Earrings 1. Open the loops at the ends [...]
How-to: Handmade Fashion Jewelry
Share Now with your kids at home who want something fun to do, I thought to show our series of handmade jewelry tutorials and ideas. HANDMADE FASHION JEWELRY: BRACELETS & NECKLACES Fine Craft Guild’s Jewelry Directory Ideas & Tutorials [...]
Barbie Just Got a Stylish Jewelry Set
Share … and Bratz too! Yesterday we just spent a lovely afternoon making bracelets. This jewelry set was to accompany a new Barbie to be gifted that just looked ‘too plain’ according to my little friend. This new Barbie to give away to her buddy for her upcoming birthday (see picture) needed a bit of [...]
How To Decoupage Wooden Bangle Bracelets
Share To me this is a great summer craft: making decoupage wooden* bangle bracelets. It’s so easy & fun, and your decoupaged bangles will be ready to wear within a few hours. * Note: I am talking about wooden bangles here. However, let’s use that term liberally. You could use use plastic, paper or [...]
Bead Jewelry: How To Make a Wired Center Bead
Share Over the weekend, I actually set some time aside to zone out, play, learn and make something new. I have made wired beads before for various jewelry pieces, but I never made a largish wire-wrapped center bead. So, I played with some of my beading, wiring jewelry & other craft resources and when I [...]
Art Handbags
Share Coach, Prada or Michael Kors or all other designer tote or handbags: the whole fashion world produces ruffles. Like it or not. Ruffles are HERE! Time for a change?? Yes it is. Personally, I’ve seen enough ruffles for a week or two, and I want to show you today on our Tote Bag Monday [...]
How to Make Pearled Hair Sticks
Share Hair Accessories Always wondered how to…. Get an elegant 1930’s hair do up? Look like a gorgeous Chinese princess? Take your hot hair out of your neck to cool down in summer? Our Australian-based guest writer & handmade jewelry designer from Chinese origin, Deborah Davy (Two Cheeky Monkeys) offers us at Fine Craft [...]
Best DIY & Craft Tutorials
Share I thought to feature my top 10 entries so far in the Fine Craft Guild DIY Craft Tutorial Linky Parties (Craft Party #1, Craft Party #2 and Craft Party #3* 10 Top DIY Craft Tutorials I thought to showcase for you my top 10 favorite DIY & craft tutorials that have been entered [...]
Hello Kitty Handbag: Too Cute!!
Share Today, I want to show you the new Hello Kitty handbag my little niece just receive, which is truly an inspiration for us all. Sure, there are many Hello Kitty Bags around, and some Hello Kitty Handbags are cuter than others, but this one is TRULY SPECIAL. It is PINK, but not only that: [...]
Free & Easy Recycled Sock Craft Idea
Share Just in time for Mother’s Day: recycle your old (baby/toddler) sock into a beauty of a cell phone accessory. Think you can’t do anything with those tiny, holy animals other than making sock monkeys? Well, think again! Besides holding your (mom’s) cell phone, there is a side pocket for a key. Since [...]
Cool Girl Craft: How to Make Elastic Hair Ties
Share What to do on a rainy weekend? ???!!! Oh, it’s easy: bejewel a plain, ordinary hair crunchy* into a work of art. How to Make a Jewel Crunchy/Hair Tie Here is how ~ it’s a simple formula: 1. Find some seed beads. 2. Find some matching colored sequins 3. And some thread [...]
How to Make a Girly Necklace from Magazine Paper Beads
Share Yep. Remember those rolled paper beads? We used to make those beads in first grade. They were excellent for easy necklace as a Mother’s day gift. They still are, but some ‘upgrading’ of this craft has been long overdue. So, here is a BEAUTIFUL necklace made from those magazine paper beads. What’s the difference? [...]
Handmade Hair band with Glitter Beads
Share These hair bands make suitable Christmas presents for quite a wide age group, from todds to girls to teens, tweens and moms. As I needed two gifts, I have two different ones to show here. Aren’t they pretty? They are superfast to make if you have a sewing machine, however, they can easily be [...]
How to Make Jewelry: Dreamcatcher Bracelet with Gemstones
Share How to Make Jewelry: Dreamcatcher Bracelet with Gemstones How to Analyze Jewelry Today, I’m going to give a plug the artist at NatureCharms who has real budding creativity, whose jewelry prices are low to begin with, and who now has a sale on, giving her gorgeous jewelry practically away. Have a look at this [...]
